Chapter 20

After finishing my coffee, I called for Nanami and told her to sit on the chair in front of me across the table.

"It's time for me to assign you your first task.", I said to Nanami.

I could see a bit of nervousness on her face which soon enough became normal as if she had made a resolution about something to herself.

I stood up, went to my study table and came back with a piece of paper and a pen. I wrote the required information on the paper while being seated at the dining table and passed it to her while explaining.

"This here is the address of the target and you are supposed to keep track of who enters and leaves the house and stay there for how long. It's a simple reconnaissance mission and shouldn't be much of trouble If you don't do anything too stupid to attract attention."

I continued as Nanami was still reading the contents of the paper.

"The target is a ghoul and I've given the basic information about how he looks, so you won't have much trouble in recognising the target during the mission. You are not to interact or get close to the target and only observe his house from a distance. You'll be observing the target's house till 11 PM every day and report it to me in the morning about your findings. Am I clear?"

Nanami who was still engrossed in the paper finally reacted after I knocked on the table to catch her attention.

"Y-yes", Nanami said.

I observed her face which gave me the assurance that she was indeed clear about her task. I searched the house and got a surgical mask near the first aid kit, I gave it to her and told her not to remove it while outside just in case.

Lastly, I gave her some money and told her to pack some things she'll require while doing the task. After doing all that, Nanami was soon ready and after I advised her to immediately escape instead of fighting if she gets caught, she left to complete her assigned task.

It was around eleven in the morning and I was alone at home since I had no plan to go out, for now, so I decided to play..I mean test my Kagune. I removed my t-shirt and got ready to pull it out. I still felt a bit bad about my coat having two holes on both sides of the shoulders but that's something I'll have to get used to.

I mentally commanded and soon two black knives appeared on both sides of my shoulders and a few droplets of blood splattered on the floor...I sighed thinking I'll have to clean it later. I removed only one knife this time the one on my right shoulder and felt it for a few seconds.

In my former life, I had watched a few tutorials on youtube about Kali Knife fighting techniques when I became a bit interested in knife fighting after watching a movie, I only knew the basic three drill movements, I had thought of buying the full course after practising the basic drill movements for about a year but unfortunately, I died before doing that.

I raised the knife on my right hand behind my head and then practised the basic slashing which I was quite familiar with then I shifted to slashing with backhand and forehand and finally the stabbing practice all for 20 mins each.

Now after doing these sets of exercises again I felt a bit nostalgic. Now after practising to improve my knife flow it was time to practice the aerial manipulation. I threw the knife a bit from my palm and made it stop midair. As I was holding the knife still in the air I started thinking of ways on how to utilize this skill to the fullest.

I thought of making the knife rotate on its horizontal axis, so I ordered it to do so mentally, at first the speed was slow but as I kept on trying to make it rotate the speed of rotation increased gradually and soon enough became fast enough for me to hear the sound of wind passing through it. The exertion was of course high, more so because I was doing this for the first time.

I tried moving the knife while it was rotating and was easily able to do so. When compared to the effort in rotating it, this felt like a breeze. I took a break of an hour to recover stamina after moving around the spinning blade for 15 mins. For two-blade aerial manipulation, my limit was 15 mins, which is what I observed yesterday. It should have been more since I was only using a single knife but the spinning knife stamina consumption negated it.

Before resting, I dissipated the knives, which turned into dark red powders and were carried away by the wind and then later on after the break I removed the knife on my left shoulder this time. I practised with it in my hand but reduced the practice time for the basic drills to 5 mins because this was not my dominant hand.

After the basic drills were over I practised the aerial spinning of the knife and found that the manipulation of both the knives felt exactly the same, it didn't matter which knife I was holding, I had full control over it, that is, unlike how one had more control of their right hand as compared to their left hand for me controlling both the knives felt as if they both were my dominant hands.

I continued doing this training after resting for an hour after each session and before I knew it was already night. I was a bit hungry right now, I guess my Kagune usage makes me more hungry because of its strangeness..

I soon got ready and then went out to hunt for ghouls, I soon found a ghoul devouring a human and this time without waiting for it to finish its meal I attacked. I commanded my Kagune out and while holding one knife in my right hand I ordered the other to slice off the leg of the ghoul.

"THUDD"

The ghoul fell on the ground with one of its legs gone. He looked at me and shouted.

"You piece of shit I don't like getting disturbed during my mealtime!!",

His Kakugan became redder than before and veins could be seen under the skin of his eyes, soon enough a tail like Kagune appeared from his lower back and slammed itself on the ground, creating enough pressure for the ghoul to launch itself towards me at a massive speed.

It would have been a problem for me if this was before I've activated my Kagune but now after the activation of my Kagune all my motor skills have increased by two folds and hence I was easily able to dodge this attack, While dodging this attack I switched the grip of the knife in my right hand to reverse grip with the edge out and placed it in such a manner that it meets the shoulder of the ghoul who was rushing towards me.

"SCREEEEEEECHHHH"

The man's body was sliced off from the left side of his shoulder to the right side of his lower body and he fell lifelessly on the ground a few seconds later when his body lost all the momentum it had gained from that speed jump towards me.

"Well that was easy", I said to myself and then busied myself in eating his Kakuhou and Kagune then later on also ate the leftovers of the human nearby.

I devoured around 3 more ghouls that night and then went back home for my well-deserved rest.