Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 7 - Hyogoro Grandpa's Identity
Hyogoro's grandfather carried Nagato's body to the room that Serlin and Kuina ordered then poured the young man's body into the mattress that had room room. Nagato's face looked pale and his body looked extremely exhausted.
"Isn't that time Master Pandu also sealed the power of this curse in order not to come out?" Azai whispered softly into Kuina's ear, the girl only shook her head because she did not know about the Ancient Curse.
"They're from the kuromachi clan, aren't they?" sahut Serlin sat stroking Nagato's forehead and Azai explained the situation when he heard their conversation.
Kuina and Serlin were surprised after hearing Azai's explanation explaining about the black book that had the faces of Pandu and Tatsugoro in the hands of a young man named Ohta.
"This book contains the faces of the villains scattered across the Ezzo Continent and is considered to be a danger to the Kai Empire!" Hyogoro's grandfather throws a black book at Azai.
Kuina and Serlin frowned as the person who made Nagato faint was standing before them.
"He's Grandpa Hyogoro, who was eating with me." Azai introduced Grandpa Hyogoro to Kuina and Serlin as they both looked wary.
"Relax, I'm not a suspicious person!" Hyogoro's grandfather raised both his hands when he saw Kuina and Serlin's sharp notch.
"So this is his son Pandu .., but if viewed carefully his handsome face is indeed similar to Pandu." Grandpa Hyogoro smiled looking at Nagato while stroking his chin.
"Whose grandfather? How did you know that Nagato was Guru Pandu's son?!" Kuina felt suspicious of Grandpa Hyogoro as well as Azai and Serlin.
Grandpa Hyogoro smiled wryly while shaking his head he explained that his arrival to this city was only to throw away his sad feelings by drinking wine still unexpectedly he would meet Nagato and the others.
"You could say this grandfather was the father of Tatsugoro ..." Grandfather Hyogoro smiled but his face looked grieved because he had also learned of Tatsugoro's condition just by looking at the three of them.
Azai, Kuina and Serlin are shocked to hear Grandpa Hyogoro's words because it is unexpected that this drunken old grandfather is the father of Tatsugoro.
Then Azai explained about their escape from Azbec to Fusha City and Azai also explained to Grandpa Hyogoro about their plans in the future.
"I was a failed teacher, letting Pandu suffer even I lost that very precious disciple and child to me!" Grandpa Hyogoro looks like he wants to cry but he realizes in front of him there are people who are looking at him, tonight he intends to forget everything by drinking wine but fate says another he was met with four people who have a relationship with Pandu and his son.
Then Grandpa Hyogoro told me a little about his life and regrets during this time, then he offered the three of them to come with him because he thought it was unsafe after Nagato hit one of the members of the Kuromachi Clan.
Grandpa Hyogoro's residence was one of the three hidden forests in Kai Empire named Cakrawyuha Forest so that place was the safest place to hide Nagato's identity.
But Azai, Kuina and Serlin were still hard to believe with a coincidence that came suddenly so that the three of them chose to be more vigilant and rejected Grandpa Hyogoro's invitation.
"You're too alert, just calm down you must have heard the story about this person from your teacher" Hyogoro's grandfather smiled and then scolded Pandu's student who is now a General of the Kai Empire and the man was named Hawk.
The three of them were surprised to hear the name Hawk and now they believe in Grandpa Hyogoro and accept the invitation.
Meanwhile, in a room reserved by members of the Kuromachi Clan, the three of them seemed to not believe that they would be publicly humiliated by a five-year-old young man.
"The boy is really a monster, I don't want to deal with him anymore!" Ohta looked frightened when remembering what had just happened, he did not expect himself to experience such a thing.
"Mr Shin, if I don't hear wrong he calls Pandu Dad, if he's his son then he's ...." The man with the battered face was intent on spreading information about Nagato. While Shin still seemed to tremble when he remembered a figure he had never seen before, the figure was like a reminder to his entire body cell if he intended to injure Nagato then he would regret for the rest of his life, he prefers silence.
"Take, don't you see that figure possessed that kid!" shin's face was so sweaty, with a stammering voice that he intended to tell Take to keep quiet.
"Master Shin, we still have many great and talented young warriors in our stronghold even the Kuromachi Clan has a young genius son of the Clan Leader, so we shouldn't be so surprised by the boy's ability!" take was still able to laugh with his battered face full of wounds while Shin and Ohta who heard his chatter chose to be quiet.
"Take are you still sane?" Shin seemed to not believe in Take and considered him to be insane again due to being humiliated by a five-year-old young man.
Take frowned feeling furious at Shin's words.
"Of course, I'm still sane!" I'll leak the identity of that damn kid at the meeting!" Take looked at Shin sharply
Shin and Ohta wanted to say but it seemed like they could not speak because it was a useless thing.
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In the next room, Azai was still pondering about Nagato's drastically changed attitude, thinking that Nagato's mentality had been shattered and what scared him the most was Nagato's Ancient Curse of the Death God.
"Nagato also did not want to be born with such a curse, if I were in his position I would not want to either ..." Azai muttered a little before falling asleep.
The night wind was blowing quietly and the moon was setting itself to shine the night, fireflies fly when time shows almost midnight then the gusts of night wind make the day change signifying the beginning of a new life.
Kuina woke up, then she looked out the window of the inn room and the girl found the morning sun that began to show itself with a smile of light.
Then Kuina stretched her body after that seeing Serlin who was still asleep hugging Nagato's body tightly.
"This woman?!" Kuina frowned looking at Serlin's sleeping behavior.
Kuina shook Serlin's body quite hard but the girl just muttered softly as she continued to hold Nagato's body which she thought was a bolster.
"Serlin, wake! We're leaving this morning!" Kuina shook Serlin's body but the girl only muttered softly.
"I'm awake .., I swear I'm awake, Kuina."
Serlin muttered softly while hugging Nagato's body.
An annoyed Kuina saw Serlin cover the girl's nose with her finger.
"Hm .. rasain." Kuina smiled evilly looking at Serlin's rebellious face.
"Thu ... uhuk .... Kina ..." Serlin awakens to see Kuina laughing as she wakes him up.
"If I don't use this way, you won't wake up." Kuina laughed looking at Serlin who still looked annoyed with her.
Nagato woke up to hear the two girls in front of him talking, he closed his eyes with his left hand, trying to remember why he was able to fall asleep in this room.
"I intended to take Azai back to the room but in that room they talked about my father and when they intended to teach the man a lesson arrived - suddenly came a brother who hit me." nagato recalled Grandpa Hyogoro's face hitting her heart and making her faint.
"Naagato?" Serlin looked at Nagato who had woken up from his sleep. Then Kuina rushed to the bathroom in the inn room.
Nagato was still a little sleepy then he also went to bathe in the bath but he took his towel left in the next room.
"Well, they're in too much of a hurry!" Serlin stood up then the girl stared at the sky that stretched over the Fusha City from behind the window.
Nagato enters the bathhouse, where Azai and a grandfather hit him last night.
"Son, you've woken up?" Hyogoro's grandfather smiled at Nagato from a distance.
Nagato frowned as he was still a little annoyed with Grandpa Hyogoro who stopped him last night.
"Azai, who's that grandpa?" Nagato soaked while staring at Grandpa Hyogoro.
"Grandfather Hyogoro, he is the father of Tatsugoro." Azai introduces Grandpa Hyogoro to Nagato.
Nagato was surprised to hear that the grandfather in front of him was the father of Tatsugoro and Nagato introduced his name to Grandpa Hyogoro.
"Nagato Kagutsuchi? What a name!" Hyogoro's grandfather stroked his chin then explained to him that he had invited Azai and the others to settle down in the residence that was in the Cakrawyuha Forest for some time. Hyogoro's grandfather also explained to Nagato that the Cakrawyuha Forest had something to do with the Kagutsuchi Clan because the forest had never been found by anyone else.
Even some warriors from the Kagutsuchi Clan did not know much about the Cakrawyuha Forest either.
Nagato smiled at Grandpa Hyogoro for some reason and felt that the grandfather in front of him made him feel calm again.