
The borders of the Yan-Yan Empire - Seignior Ning's subordinate retinue who would later lead the voyage west - announced to Kazuki and Shinjiro that they would set sail at dusk.
The two young men were already preparing to carry out the rumour spread plan before parting from the Yan empire. The two of them went to border areas like Rong Province and and others used teleportation moves in turn because Kazuki's Cakra was still limited after the coma. And Jingyi the bird went out of nowhere.
Apparently Kazuki fainted from inhaling the black smoke emitted by the black demon from within Seizen. The effect lowers the chakra current and its volume and relaxes muscle mass. Kazuki also temporarily had to rely on Shinjiro. But unlike before, the cursory ninja was already reliable this time.
It took several hours to reach the inter-imperial border. All they did when they arrived was to utilize the demon rumors that appeared in the war in Yan empire turned into Kazuki the demon. The Dong Empire already knew the information of Seizen's demonic appearance, they had already fortified their empire in order for the demons that were attacking the next empire not to attack their Empire as well.
And the rumor that said demons roaming the border would be of great help to the Yan Empire from being attacked for a while. Rumors are rumors, before there are facts that prove people will only be worried. So Kazuki had told Princess Yi not to expect much.
"What about sticking flyers will make people believe?" shinjiro asked, they were pasting leaflets containing warnings of demons wandering in the forest that adventurers from the Empire next door often pass.
"Of course, the Yan empire and the Dong empire can both take advantage of the ease with which they are consumed by rumors. I'm experienced" Kazuki rubbed his nose.
"Aw.hahaha. By the way what about your friend you told me about, Kazuki? I'm sure you don't have the heart to leave them" Shinjiro said, turning left to confirm the surroundings.
"It's okay, I don't want them to get dragged into legal trouble for dealing with me ."
"Oh, so yeah. About Seignior Ning right now, why do you trust him, instead of you saying you've been traumatized by being betrayed?" Kazuki scratched his non-itchy head.
"How yes, Seignior Ning was actually .. the right hand of Emperor Gaozo. He believed that I was not the killer of the Emperor because I was close to the deceased and knew who the enemy of the Emperor was. So trusting people with high power and cleverness seems like it will have a good impact in the future."
Kazuki smiled faintly at Shinjiro. "How are you and dad?"
Shinjiro crossed his arms to the chest, "Well, I think, I hope," said Shinjiro. Kazuki patted her shoulder slowly. "Surely they're fine. Let's get this over with."
After putting up a warning along the path Kazuki and Shinjiro split their shadow of a few tasks. One watched the passing adventurers, the second frightened them with mysterious movements, the third emitted a strange sound from within the forest and piled up the corpses of animals at some point making it as if something ferocious was going berserk.
In the first experiment Kazuki exemplifies to Shinjiro and succeeds, they believe a creepy creature inhabits the forest.
In the second experiment, Shinjiro managed to scare the wagon driver who brought some children slaves in it to run away in fear of leaving the wagon just like that. It seemed that the slaves numbering dozens in the wagon would be sold by the driver to the slave market in the southern village. They were immediately confused as to where these little ones were going. Finally, Kazuki's teleportation moves them to a nearby village in secret. The village located in the northeast, the village where he first set foot on this continent, Liu village. The young man took the young children to an orphanage that trained their foster children to work, so that even if there were a lot of caretakers would not mind.
Kazuki went in first and chatted with a friendly woman. He returned in front of the fence where the children were waiting.
"You all live here. I've spoken to the mother of the parlour, they'll give you food and shelter. I can't be here much longer so see you later" said Kazuki, who wore a mask, rubbing their heads one by one, fondly, he remembered himself who also had no parents and was banished to the orphanage.
'I didn't throw them away, I left some money to the mother of the parlour, hopefully fine, ' Kazuki's inner self felt a little guilty.
As she was about to leave, a girl of her thigh height pulled her long scarf. Kazuki was slightly suffocated before finally looking back with a friendly face. "What's the little brother?" kazuki asked, 'You almost knocked me out, boy, ' her inner self didn't reach the heart because of the child's cute face. His cheeks were so full of other captives. He spoke with a small enough volume of voice that Kazuki had to bring his ears closer and squat.
"Sweet brother what's your name, big brother good man, thank you." Kazuki's eyes flickered a few times digesting that simple remark.
'Is that all he wants to say? I thought he would whine after me, Kazuki's inner sighed and smiled widely.
"Father brother! Thank you brother!"
They split up as Kazuki teleported back to the border forest to meet Shinjiro. Arriving there the curusan ninja was busy eating the grilled rabbit they caught. He sat on the empty land between tall trees.
"It's over?" shinjiro asked, but Kazuki just kept quiet and sat next to him by the fireplace.
"Mh?"
"No thanks," Kazuki replied as Shinjiro offered his meat.
"What's wrong, those kids ... they're okay, right?" shinjiro asked curiously while wrapping some half-cooked rabbit meat for him to bring along during the cruise. He kept it inside the dimensional ring that Seignior Ning had given him for free, it seemed that Seignior liked the curated ninja.
"Yes, they're very good .. fine." Shinjiro was stunned for a while when he began to realize the cause of his brother's strange behavior.
Shinjiro hugged the neck of his slightly taller friend, "Hey, it's okay buddy. They will be well looked after by the mother of the orphanage, well cared for and grow up to be good children someday. Anyway, if you want to check their condition, we can do it anytime." Kazuki turned his head while giggling amusedly. "You know," Kazuki said. "Of course, we're spades."
"disgusting."
"Yeee, haha!"
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The port of Cheng, Gu Province, afternoon-Kazuki and Shinjiro were already preparing with the equipment and items they stored inside the dimensional ring, which dimension ring Kazuki belonged to had normal capacity after his already high-level possession was seized by the Empire.
The two of them sat on the dock hanging legs to the sea waiting for the ship belonging to Seignior Ning's men named Bianfu crew (Bats) to come.
Large freight ships were occupying the dock, refilling their supplies, making the Bianfu ship with the head of a bat on its sail have to queue at the back with anchors stuck.
In this port many people besides fishermen come, where most are local traders who buy goods from sea traders to be sold to the market.
Most of the trade traffic here was controlled by the large family of coastal rulers, the Cheng family. Perhaps the name of the port of Cheng was taken from this family name because it was so influential
It was not long before Kazuki and Shinjiro boarded the Bianfu crew ship, slightly smaller in size than the ship that had just sailed. But it looks quite spacious can be boarded a maximum of 15 people because it includes freight ships, the number of Bianfu crew 7 people plus Kazuki and Shinjiro to 9 people.
Deadline
Some pelicans perched on the mast of the ship with two main sailing masts and seven sails, three at the front end, two at the front, and two at the back. Kazuki and Shinjiro stood on the front deck looking at the beautiful sunset view in front. The ship drove slowly to the sun with the captain of the menahkodai ship, Gong Ang Bei.
"Our adventure of defeating the darkness has just begun."