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Kenzo emerged from the wreck but he showed no signs of injuries. 

The members that had surrounded him instinctively knew that they couldn't take their chances with this man. They didn't know how he survived but they assumed that something had cushioned the impact. 

Kenzo crawled out of the car but a sword descended from above the moment his head popped out. 

The aim was clear, he wished to decapitate him but Kenzo had no intention of dying just yet. 

He tucked his head back into the car and the sword made contact with the ground, missing him.

Kenzo proceeded to lunge out of the car and he was surrounded.

He could tell that these men weren't directly affiliated to the Triad or their fighting stance would be a lot more seasoned.

These men were thugs and were possibly recruited to carry out these minuscule tasks.

"You piece of shit! Who are you!?" A man barked, Kenzo shifted his attention towards him.

He could tell that they were scared but why wouldn't they?

"Where is your boss?" Kenzo asked but a man charged at him with a baseball bat in hand.

Kenzo didn't react to his movement and he managed to land a clean hit to the back of his head.

Everyone looked glad that this hit landed because there was no way that Kenzo would remain standing after taking this hit.

"Wait… What?" The man muttered under his breath because Kenzo didn't bulge an inch.

Kenzo turned around and grabbed the man by the neck, lifting him off the ground.

This man was in no way weak and his body mass would have made it difficult for the average man to accomplish this feat.

Kenzo snapped his neck before tossing his lifeless body into the ground with maximum force.

The moment his body made contact with the ground, his body was like a tomato that had been stepped on.

"H-Hey! Let's get out of here! This fucker is crazy!" A man barked and they all scattered in different directions.

Kenzo was disappointed with this outcome because he couldn't get the information he desired.

And they had wrecked his car so his mode of transportation had been ruined.

"This is just great," Kenzo muttered under his breath but he luckily didn't need to wait for long.

Men covered in unique tattoos with Chinese insignia approached him and Kenzo knew it was in his best interest to cooperate not because he feared death but because he didn't want to scare them off without getting information.

But he noted that his durability had increased, he took a blow to the back of his head and took zero damage.

"You're not with the Yakuza…" A big-bellied man pointed out, he didn't have a shirt on and a tattoo of Buddha was drawn on his stomach with the hands positioned right beneath his nipples like it was holding them up.

"That is correct but I'm here to speak to your boss on behalf of the Yakuza," Kenzo pointed out.

The man noticed the state in which his car was in and wondered if Kenzo was inside when it crashed.

There was no way he could have been or he wouldn't be alive but he was disappointed that they couldn't get rid of him.

"It seems you do know where you are but I'm sorry, you cannot see the boss," The man said, standing at 6' 5 with his weight giving him an added advantage.

"I wasn't asking, we can either do this by force or not," Kenzo muttered but the man couldn't believe his arrogance.

He raised his hand to strike Kenzo but that hand never came down, the man froze before lowering his hand and bowing his head, confusing everyone there.

"I'm sorry sir! Allow me, Qin, to take you to the boss right away!" The man barked and this confused his men.

But the look in his eyes was different, Kenzo was standing right in front of him but it was someone else that he was seeing.

"Qin? What has gotten into you?" A man asked but Qin didn't respond, he was under Kenzo's spell.

Kenzo had simply swapped out the person that stood higher than even Wang with himself, this subtle memory manipulation was enough to prevent this from escalating into a fight.

The people around him soon suffered the same fate as Qin, however this was putting a strain on Kenzo.

He realized that he wasn't invincible and these things had their limits but this couldn't be his limit.

But he didn't mind it because he had crossed the first obstacle and as fate would have it, he was headed right towards Wang.

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Beelithina couldn't believe that something had slipped through and prevented her from contacting Ajuma but this made her worried.

But if something had slipped out then she had to get out of there as soon as possible or at least laid low because this meant that others would have seen the light.

"Shit! I need to get out of here!" She muttered under her breath but just as she was about to leave, she saw a figure approaching the area in the distance.

"I'm too late…!" Beelithina thought to herself but she wasn't a demon accustomed to fighting and she hoped that this interaction wouldn't escalate into that.