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In a dark room with not even a single ray of light, Yukan sat tied to a chair unable to move.

No matter how much he tried, Yukan was neither able to break through the ropes nor was he able to shout for help.

A dim yellow light lit up right above his head. A small area around him became visible but there was still unending darkness in the room.

A hand grabbed Yukan's foot. He panicked and looked down.

He saw a hand coming out of the floor and slowly, the body started coming out.

At the same time, a familiar voice came to his ears.

"Why didn't you come sooner?"

Yukan ignored the hand grabbing his feet and looked around to see whose voice it was.

The same words were repeated sometimes before, a person emerged from the dark.

It was Tatsuya without any arms or eyes and walked towards Yukan.

Tatsuya stopped at a distance when another voice rang in his ears.

"Will I be the next you fail to protect?"

Yukan recognized this voice at once. He looked a little to his right and saw Kushina.

She stood a lot of distance from Yukan but he was still able to see the blood all over her clothes.

Yukan was now terrified and scared to his ends.

At this moment, Yukan woke up on his bed with an abrupt and sharp movement.

He sighed in relief and kept a hand on his chest to calm down his increased heart rate.

"It was a dream, just a dream," Yukan said and got up from his bed.

He looked outside his tent and saw that it was almost time for the sun to rise, so Yukan started getting ready for training.

Although the first template was completed, he could not stop training regularly.

After two hours of training, a ninja came to Yukan.

"Commander, we have obtained the information regarding the ambush." The ninja said.

"Speak," Yukan spoke in his cold voice.

"It was the Kaguya clan. There have been 11 jonin of the Kaguya clan who have gone missing in the last few days."

"Hmm, I also killed 11. Alright, leave now." Yukan ordered.

He then kept quiet and stopped his training.

"The Kaguya clan, huh?" Yukan said while he went inside his tent.

The Kaguya clan was an important clan of Kirigakure. They were battle-lusted ninjas with an indefinite amount of confidence.

At the same time, they were also very strong and a few of them even had the ability to manipulate their bones.

Kimimaro also belonged to this clan.

"As far as I remember, they were killed off during the time Obito manipulated the Mizukage. Ah, they'll be exterminated sooner now." Yukan said and went in to take a bath.

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A few hours later,

Yukan had ordered a rough set-up of the Kiri camp near them. It was the place where the Kaguya clan was deployed.

He received a rough drawing of the camp.

Yukan sat alone in his tent as he walked around with a cup of alcohol in his hand and looked at the map from time to time.

"So, if I choose this route, I can kill the patriarch first but then the guards in this area would be a problem," Yukan said.

"Ah wait, I have that," Yukan said and took out the mask of Oni from his subspace and put it on his table.

At this moment, a system notification came.

[Last Hidden Quest: Take Revenge for the fallen squad.

Reward: The Body Of Oni

Penalty: Retrieval of The Mask Of Oni]

"A penalty, that is a first. What is this reward by the way?"

[More information available on obtainment]

"We should know what it does by today then," Yukan said with an evil smile on his face.

He chugged the drink in his hands and looked at the map again to make a convenient plan.

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More hours later, at night.

Yukan had informed the vice-commander of the camp, Kajiwara, about his short trip to the Kaguya clan.

He reached the Kaguya clan camp around midnight.

There, he first killed the guards on the night shift outside the Patriarch's tent and created shadow clones.

The shadow clones assumed the positions of the guards to avoid suspicion.

He then went inside and saw that no one was inside.

He felt a strong presence from somewhere around and so, proceeded to sit on the sofa, picked up the alcohol bottle on the table and started drinking it.

"Ah, strong in terms of normal people," Yukan said and continued drinking.

Not much later, a middle-aged man walked inside the tent. He looked at Yukan and was shocked for a second but not scared.

"You aren't scared," Yukan said when he saw the unflinching man.

"Of course, I recognize my guards. The ones outside are fake." The man said as he removed some of the extra pieces of clothing.

"You walked in even after knowing it was a trap? Don't you have any fear?" Yukan put down the empty bottle and started walking while misbalancing a little in between.

"Haha, we of the Kaguya clan fear nothing." The man said and assumed a position to combat.

"We'll see," Yukan said without any expression and stood in front of the man.

The man talked no more and made a bone come out from a place above his wrist. He punched in Yukan's direction.

Yukan turned to the left and simply dodged his attack.

For some time, the Kaguya clan patriarch continued to attack but, he was not able to make any attack land on Yukan.

"Now, my turn," Yukan said coldly, without any feelings.

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