"We meet again, Mutou-san..."
Wu Fengshui looked at Mutou Judai, who was even younger than herself, and unconsciously scratched her face, feeling somewhat constrained.
She still couldn't forget that feeling of powerlessness from last time when her whole body went weak and she could only watch as he looked down at her... Plus this mission was different from the tasks she usually experienced, so Wu Fengshui was still a bit nervous.
On the other hand, Wu Karura beside her brightened up when she saw Mutou Judai, then ran directly in front of him. But before she could speak, Mutou Judai grabbed her head with one hand and pushed her to a relatively distant position.
"Too close... and if you have something to say, say it. But if you start talking nonsense like last time, I'll explain to Patriarch Wu Kure and have him transfer you away—after all, you came here for a mission this time, right? Or is this how the Wu Clan actually treats missions?"
Mmm...
Hearing Mutou Judai say this, Karura blinked, then thought for a moment.
"That's indeed the case... Grandpa also said that maintaining the Wu Clan's contractual spirit is something a patriarch should do... Well then, the matter of us having children can be put aside for now, let's consider the mission first..."
Karura made this decision with great difficulty.
Erina obviously raised an eyebrow after hearing Karura's words.
Mutou Judai noticed this small gesture of hers.
However, Erina didn't throw any tantrums in front of these two outsiders from the Wu Clan, just smiled and glanced at Mutou Judai.
Mutou Judai, who was about to say something, directly stopped talking.
After this, Erina exhaled, adjusted her emotions, and looked at Wu Fengshui and Wu Karura:
"In that case, the guard work is entrusted to you... Although Totsuki has also hired some so-called professionals in this area, this level of professionalism probably isn't sufficient in your eyes."
Erina had no particular issues with Wu Fengshui and Karura, directly entrusting the work to them and having them arrange all the personnel.
And actually, this approach was fine.
Wu Fengshui and Karura—they were truly professional!
Although they came from assassin backgrounds, precisely because they were assassins, they had insights into how to prevent assassins.
Wu Fengshui was skilled in sniping, had excellent grasp of various sniper positions, rearranged sentry post locations, and knew where to hide at close range.
As for Karura—
She came as an independently dispatched guard.
Her appearance alone was sufficiently deceptive.
This deceptiveness even fooled Erina's original guards, making them doubt Karura's combat ability and propose a sparring match—in the end, Karura knocked them all down in just ten seconds!
"Ah well... preserving lives is quite difficult. If I could kill—it would probably take about five seconds~"
Stare—
After saying this, Karura directly focused her gaze on Mutou Judai, constantly blinking.
Uh...
Seeing Karura like this, Mutou Judai had a feeling—this girl's concept of romance might be the same as those primitive people!
Seeing that he was strong, she thought their offspring would definitely be strong, so she confessed to him.
After he didn't agree, she started showing off her muscles in reverse, planning to attract him with this method...
How should he put it.
Mutou Judai felt it was somewhat subtle, and Erina was even amused by it.
"Alright—in that case, the guard work is entrusted to you."
Erina looked at the guards scattered on the ground, then nodded to Wu Fengshui and Karura.
"Judai, let's leave this to them. We should go too."
Erina said this, and Mutou Judai naturally had no objections. He followed beside her, and when Karura saw this situation and wanted to follow, she was held back by Wu Fengshui.
"Karura... you need to read the atmosphere, read the atmosphere!"
Hearing Wu Fengshui say this, Karura blinked.
"I came as a personal bodyguard, right? Of course I should follow when the employer walks away—what about the atmosphere?"
Wu Fengshui looked at Karura blinking at her and sighed helplessly.
She couldn't refute Karura—but she still didn't let her follow!
After all, she was clear about the relationship between Mutou Judai and that Nakiri Erina... Seeing Karura show interest in Mutou Judai twice in front of Erina scared her so much her heart almost jumped out of her mouth!
After all, she had witnessed Mutou Judai's terror!
She felt that if Karura continued like this, she would eventually die at Mutou Judai's hands!
And moreover...
Wu Fengshui looked at Karura, who handled these matters very clumsily, and spoke helplessly while sighing:
"Karura, some things aren't done the way you imagine. Your clumsy method of attracting the opposite sex makes me doubt whether you're really from our Wu Clan!"
"Your clumsy actions are simply insulting our Wu Clan's 1300-year history. What kind of clan do you think our Wu Clan is!"
Karura couldn't understand Wu Fengshui's words at all.
"Aren't we an assassin clan skilled in combat?"
"Well... that's right! But assassins also need those skills to attract the opposite sex! You've been protected too well by the patriarch. If you really want something to happen with that Mutou Judai, listen to me—don't follow now, take it step by step!"
"Mm... okay! I'll listen to you!"
"Erina, about that Karura and me..."
"There's nothing between you, right?"
After Mutou Judai and Erina were alone, he instinctively wanted to explain, but Erina very calmly completed Mutou Judai's sentence, leaving him not knowing what to say for a moment, finally only able to nod.
Seeing Mutou Judai show such a rare expression, Erina laughed softly.
"You don't need to explain to me, Judai—mm... although what I'm saying might have no basis, even though we haven't known each other for long, somehow I feel I understand you better than I understand Hisako..."
When saying such words, Erina's face reddened slightly, then she walked beside Mutou Judai, stealing glances at him with her peripheral vision, then slowly spoke:
"And there's no special relationship between us, is there?"
This...
Hearing Erina say this, Mutou Judai turned his head to look, just in time to see Erina, who had stopped walking, also looking at him—their gazes met directly.
Although Erina didn't speak clearly, her slightly reddened face and the expectation in her eyes seemed to indicate much more.
Seeing Erina like this, Mutou Judai took a deep breath.
Under this moonlight, he felt that saying everything he wanted to say—this might be more difficult and tiring than having another Kengan match with that Wakatsuki Takeshi.
But at least saying something like "The moon is beautiful tonight"...
Mutou Judai pursed his lips, made full psychological preparation, and just as he was about to speak—suddenly a big bald head emerged from the bushes in the courtyard!
Mutou Judai immediately embraced Erina and protected her behind him.
The psychological preparation he had just made—wasted!
Mutou Judai was very angry.
Erina also sighed helplessly after understanding the situation.
The big bald head that suddenly emerged—or rather, the Mercenary King commissioned by Nakiri Azami, Muteba—spoke with a smile on his face:
"Sorry, young man. If possible, I wouldn't want to interrupt you two either—but now that you're alone together and your guards seem to be doing handover work with less attention to this side, there's no better opportunity than now."
Muteba spoke while approaching.
He was preparing.
This was a kidnapping mission, and if possible, he didn't want this to become too troublesome.
He appeared to be apologizing, but actually he was quietly organizing his thoughts.
He thought about what to do if Mutou Judai suddenly shouted, what to do if the opponent delayed for time, how to escape after successfully kidnapping.
But.
The one thing he didn't expect was that after he approached to a certain distance, in his perception, something with extremely high speed directly slapped his face!
The terrifying force pushed his entire body out in one go!
At this moment, he also heard Mutou Judai's cold voice filled with killing intent.
"So... you deliberately did this knowing everything... tch, there's nothing to say to you—I'll kill you!"
In Muteba's perception, he could clearly sense that the individual suspected to be Mutou Judai had once again come in front of him at extremely fast speed!
Although he instinctively defended, that terrifying force still made him involuntarily start retreating!
He felt like he had been hit by a small car!
And judging from perception, this seemed to be just the opponent's very normal punch! Not even the feet which had greater force than hands, or fighting techniques with special force application!
You're telling me this is the world's number one chef!?
That bastard had me kidnap such a monster without explaining clearly beforehand!
If I had known, I would have used tranquilizer guns or poison!
But now...
Muteba saw that the opponent still had no intention of stopping. In his heart, he sent Nakiri Azami's entire family tree to heaven, and paid more attention to Mutou Judai's situation in his perception.
From the force of the opponent's two attacks...
—Things were getting a bit troublesome!