32 Blood Shura Steve

While Alden was sitting on his ship, Austin and his men reached the bandit hideout. When they saw all the dead bodies of the bandits with their heads detached from their bodies. They felt fear looking at the blood everywhere. They felt like an Asura came and annihilated these bandits. Then they took all the women and children back to the village to recuperate.

Its been 20 days since Alden completed his first mission. He was sitting on his ship which was flying in the air. He completed all the missions except the last one with the 40 million bounty. His target was a captain of a pirates named "Gray Shark pirates". His name was Smith. And was very cruel. He with his crew destroyed many villages and even killed few marines too.

When he reached nearby location in the sea, Alden used geppo and searched for the pirate ship.

After some time, he saw Gray Shark Pirate's ship. He descended to their ship and pulled out his sword. Smith was reading newspaper, and he was reading an article about a new bounty hunter. He looked at the intruder and newspaper alternately and said with fear in his voice: "A tall 15 years old boy with brown hair, dark gray eyes and a sword with black hilt and black scabbard: 'Blood Shura Steave'."

Alden said with deadpan voice: "Ohh, so they are calling me by that name. I didn't know that. Anyways, lets get it over with."

Alden started using soru and disappeared from their view and heads started rolling on the ship. Blood was everywhere. The pirates who were alive, became ghastly pale by the bloody view. They couldn't do anything except waiting for their death.

In the end when only Captain was alive, Alden stopped killing. He looked at Captain who looked paralyzed due to fear. He walked towards the captain and said: " Did you ever thought about the people you terrorized and killed cruelly. They might also had same fear what you are feeling. Think about what you did in afterlife."

And he cut his head with his sword and stored it.

After that Alden checked the ship for anything of value, but he didn't find anything. So he jumped out of the ship and brought out his own ship and sailed towards Adventurer's Association.

While sitting on a ship, he thought about the missions he completed and how he killed many people. He didn't feel remorse or guilty as he knew that these people deserved to be dead. He used Sword intent many times in actual combat in last few days, but these people were not a challenge at all.

On the way back to Adventurer's association, on the sea Alden saw a person sitting on a raft with a large black sword on his back. When Alden saw him, he got excited. He knew that the time has come. He recognized him even though he looked very young, without mustache and hat. He was going to search for Dracule Mihawk aka Hawkeye after going to Adventurer's Association.

So he used geppo and went towards him. Mihawk also saw him. He was surprised that a 15 years old kid using Geppo and then he saw a sword with black hilt and black scabbard.

When Alden landed on that raft, Mihawk said: "Dracule Mihawk, wielder of Black sword Yoru."

Alden was surprised to hear Mihawk introducing himself.

Alden didn't want to reveal his real name, so he said: " Walter Steve, wielder of Sword of Kusanagi. But now a days people know me as Blood Shura Steve. Right Mr. Hawkeye."

After saying that he drew his sword out of the scabbard and let his sword intent free. Mihawk knew his purpose was a challenge. He was also excited as he also liked to compare with other sword masters.

Alden used observe on him:

"Strength: 621

Agility: 759

Intelligence: 643

Spirit: 690"

Hawkeye's attributes were lower than Alden's but from his sword intent he knew that this person was already at the level of sword master.

Hawkeye could feel that Alden was not at the level of sword master but his sword intent was unusually strong for any person at sword teacher level. (Due to sword soul adding to his sword intent)

But before they started, Alden suggested that they should go on a land so as not to destroy his raft. So they went to the nearby uninhibited island and stood opposite to each other, wielding their swords, they coated them with their own Armament haki. Both had their eyes filled with fighting intent and swords with sword intent.

They started off with normal attacks to measure each other's basics and foundation. Both were equal in their methods.

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