chapter 69: a partner

The full moon was shining brightly on that cold dark night, at the peak of a mountain you could see a humanoid figure that was looking towards the town.

That human figure was holding a long katana in his hand, fresh blood running down the entire sheet of metal until it reached the tip and dripped to the ground where a small pool of blood was being created.

A few meters behind the human were several mutilated bodies of women and men. They were the first victims of this cruel and ruthless assassin.

The assassin, looking towards the small town and seeing that there were still some people standing, made a half-moon smile when his eyes shone dangerously while an immense killing intent emanated from his body.

When he released his thirst for blood, the animals that were near him fled in a hurry, the birds flew as they screeched loudly, frightened by the strange sensation they were feeling at that moment.

With a cruel smile and eyes full of malice, he launched himself from the cliff towards the people closest to his position, with inhuman speed and in the blink of an eye reached the first people who did not know how they died, when they fell to the ground like puppets with their severed string.

From the bodies lying on the ground, little by little, a bloodline was seen that was from where they had been cut. The ground was stained red and the cut people were still with their facial expressions on their faces, not knowing that they were dead.

The assassin did not stop there to look at his work as he went further into the town where after a few minutes the screams and wails of the people.

.....

Yuujiro was lying in his bed when he could hear the commotion that was in the town that night, he slowly approached his window and could see out where the screams came from.

People running and screaming everywhere was what he saw.

"Oh, it's already started… I didn't think that on the first night of being here that assasin would appear in this place." He mumbled to himself.

The townspeople were falling like flies and their silhouette could only be seen when their bodies were split in two both vertically and horizontally, the screaming slowly ceased as the streets and houses were dyed red and an unpleasant smell permeated the air from that place.

Yuujiro who was looking at all of that with a stoic look when he suddenly grabbed a small knife next to him and raised it above his head when a sound of metal colliding with each other could be heard.

tink tink tik.

After the first sound was followed by many more, sparks from the two metals colliding illuminated the dark room when a human figure could be seen who was behind Yuujiro waving his katana with the intention of cutting it.

tink tink tink.

Blow after blow, the two kept clashing their weapons. Yuujiro was calm with one hand in his pocket while with the other he had the small knife with which he deflected his opponent's furious attacks. The assassin was desperate trying to cut him off.

Growling like a wild animal as he made strange noises from his vocals, the assassin was throwing cut after cut trying to break through the defense that Yuujiro had.

His speed was so enormous that it was as if Yuujiro was fighting against five people since the opponent moved so fast that every second the angle by which he tried to hit a cut changed.

After a few seconds of exchanging hundreds of blows in just seconds, the assassin discarded the idea of ​​cutting him when he chose to make a retreat, since he saw that no matter how much he attacked, he could not touch a single hair of his prey.

Breaking the window and jumping through the houses he ran at full speed to get away from that town, leaving behind a cruel slaughter where no one could save himself from his katana except one.

Yuujiro stood at the window looking at the silhouette that was getting smaller as he entered a vast forest in which at the end there were mountains that was the perfect place to hide.

Already giving him an advantage to run, he jumped from the balcony and landed on the ground when his gaze was fixed on the assassin who was lost in the forest, with a smile on his face he took position and propelled himself forward hunting the person who a few seconds ago had tried to kill him.

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The Blue Dragon Mountains.

A few kilometers from the small town that had recently been massacred in its entirety, there was a forest with huge trees where darkness reigned when not even a ray of sunlight came when it was noon due to the extensive branches of the trees that covered all traces of light.

At the end of that forest there is an area that is full of huge mountains where there is an ancient legend that says that at the bottom of it a huge bluish dragon lives.

People from time to time said that if you paid attention you could hear the cry of a dragon crying out to the heavens as if in great suffering.

In the darkness of the forest was Yuujiro running after the assassin with whom he had already exchanged more blows with him at the same time that they ran crossing a great distance as they went deeper and deeper, reducing the distance between them and the mountain.

shu shu shu

The assassin in front of him suddenly swings his katana back as the pressure of that attack turns into sharp winds that cut everything in its path.

Yuujiro waved the small knife in his hand and did a similar technique that neutralized the incoming attack by undoing the wind blades that were targeting him. His attack was stronger since he did not stop there but traveled further until he reached the assassin when at the last moment he dodged him jumping at high altitude.

With the small knife in his hand he waved it up and from his swing came a cutting attack of a crescent moon that cut all the trees around leaving in sight the appearance of the assassin who in all this time had been hidden in the shadows.

She was a small woman with long, dirty black hair cut in two where her cold face with dead eyes, thin nose and soft lips could be seen.

She wore a single black full-body garment similar to a yukata where she left part of her chest exposed, barefoot and she could see a little tired since she was gasping for air.

But that was no excuse for not continuing to attack since as soon as she saw Yuujiro she again growled like a wild animal and brandished her katana down causing the two to clash their weapons again.

Yuujiro was holding the katana with the small knife and was looking at the woman who looked tired with her long hair stuck to her face, with a serious look she began to speak to her.

"There are no useless moves in the attacks and you only make moves to kill, you are used to killing people with a single cut and you have never encountered an opponent who puts up resistance and for that reason you are agitated and tired."

"You understand what I'm talking about ... apparently not."

"I wonder how you have lived until now to have that attitude, everything I can see in front of me is more like a wild animal than a human being, a wild animal that has never known fear."

The woman's hand holding the katana was shaking, not out of fear but because she was trying to push hard, no matter what force she applied she simply couldn't move the body of Yuujiro that was well planted in the I usually.

Realizing that she wasn't going to get anywhere by competing hard with him, she retreated a distance leaping back.

But when she landed on the ground and took a few steps back, she hit something hard that prevented her from backing up and noticed that the man in front of her was no longer there and had disappeared.

Feeling a strange sensation in her body, she slowly turned around when she saw that there was nothing behind, stepping back a few steps and cautiously searching the surroundings she hit a tree.

The woman was now experiencing a new sensation in her body as she did not stop shaking and her clothes began to get wet with sweat.

Yuujiro who was hiding in the shadows, was throwing a killing intent at her combined with Haki to make her feel scared.

After what seemed like minutes of instilling fear in the woman, Yuujiro emerged from the shadows and started walking towards her who was leaning against a tree while her body did not stop shaking.

Standing face to face, Yuujiro knelt and raised the woman's chin with his hand, forcing her to look him in the eye.

Looking carefully into the woman's eyes and after looking at her for a while, she began to speak to her.

"You have good eyes, I like them, they are full of darkness and deaths ... it is rare to find someone like you in this land where people are kind and hold hands as good friends."

"You are alone, and you have no one. Come with me and accompany me on this journey that I am taking where eventually it will become one of a cruel slaughter where many people will perish in my hands."

When Yuujiro finished talking to her, he stood up and started to walk away, leaving the woman sitting, who after a while also got up and began to follow his shadow that vanished in the darkness of the forest.