Kairen and Miroku were quietly flirting when a cute little loli pushed open the bamboo door.
"Kairen!"
As soon as Koyuki arrived, she threw herself into Kairen's arms. "Kairen, did you miss me or not?!"
Kairen gently pinched her cheek. "Of course I did. Koyuki is so cute—I think of you day and night!"
"Hehehe…"
Koyuki giggled lightly, then swept a glance at Miroku kneeling next to them, made a funny face saying: Kairen likes me the most.
Miroku immediately understood the rich expression on the girl's face and couldn't help but smile.
"Knock knock knock…"
A knocking sound lightly echoed.
"Come in!"
The butler of the daimyo's mansion entered the room and said sincerely,
"Lord Kairen, Miss Miroku, please move to dine."
"We're coming!"
Kairen carried Koyuki, brought Miroku through the corridor, arrived at a small room, took off his shoes, and entered.
"Please enjoy the meal, honored guests!"
A table full of rich dishes was laid out. The servants prepared bowls and chopsticks. Just as they were about to begin eating, Kairen stopped Miroku and Koyuki.
A faint light passed through Miroku's pale purple pupils, and she instantly understood everything— the food was poisoned.
A harsh glint flashed in Kairen's eyes. So the Fire Daimyo wasn't so honest after all… Because he now had troops, he thought he could rebel?
Kairen swept his eyes across the servants bowing with lowered heads and sighed. "All of you, leave."
At his words, the servants all knelt. "If you three honored guests do not eat, all of us will die!"
"Your life or death has nothing to do with me!"
Kairen picked Koyuki up and walked out of the guest room with Miroku.
Koyuki didn't understand anything, but she knew the food was poisoned.
Koyuki's face showed anger. "Which bad person did it?!"
Miroku stayed silent.
Who else could it be? It was arranged by the Fire Daimyo.
Kairen opened his Byakugan. His vision spread outward—
5 km!10 km!20 km!100 km!!
Finally it covered the entire capital.
Outside, armies stood everywhere, endlessly transporting cold, deadly weapons.
"Hmph!"
Kairen snorted. "They think they can kill me with tools from the cold-weapon era? What a joke!"
Miroku tugged on Kairen's sleeve.
"Run. Once the samurai army surrounds you, you won't be able to escape."
Kairen smiled. "Just a bunch of insignificant trash. If I feel like it, I can overturn the entire royal capital."
Seeing the confidence on Kairen's face, Miroku's worry eased.
The three returned to Kairen's room. Kairen snapped his fingers, and several shadow clones with chef attributes appeared.
Kairen told them, "Cook something delicious, let these two have a treat."
Koyuki hooked her arms around Kairen's neck a bit possessively. "Kairen, I don't want to share you with others. Kairen can only be Koyuki's."
Kairen pinched her little nose. "Alright, alright. I belong only to Koyuki."
"That's more like it!"
Kairen sat down with Koyuki in his arms and continued the earlier chess game.
Koyuki looked bored, and Kairen noticed.
"How about this! I'll summon my two summoned beasts to play with you!"
Kairen thought of Wolon and Fenchu. Since their lord was running around outside, calling out the two strategists to do their duties wasn't excessive.
Kairen bit his finger, blood welling out. He pressed the blood onto the wooden board.
"Summoning Technique!"
…
Konoha Village, Panda Paradise, inside the orphanage classroom.
Wolon, Fenchu, and Jinrei were all sitting properly on their seats, listening to Aristo-Kairen's lecture.
Aristo-Kairen walked to Fenchu's desk and looked at the chubby little panda scribbling on the table with a pen.
"What is 1+1 equal to?"
"Mm~"
Fenchu tilted his bear head, then wrote a crooked number on the paper— a dog-lying-down looking 2.
"Mm~"
Fenchu looked up at Aristo-Kairen, waiting expectantly.
"Correct!" Aristo-Kairen rubbed Fenchu's little panda head and smiled, then suddenly took out a bamboo shoot and gave it to him.
"Mm~ mm~ (｡◝ᴗ◜｡)"
Fenchu received it and happily blew a snot bubble.
Aristo-Kairen then went to Wolon's side.
"Mm~"
Wolon's eyes were full of expectation and greed for bamboo shoots.
"How do you prove that 1+1=2?"
Wolon: "Mm~ (´இ皿இ｀)"
Wolon was completely blank. Aristo-Kairen pinched its little belly.
"You won't get your evening milk bowl."
"Mm~ ◝₍ᴑ̑ДO͝₎◞"
"Poof!"
A soft popping sound rang out. The two chubby pandas turned into white smoke and vanished from the classroom.
In the daimyo's mansion, a puff of white smoke appeared—two black-and-white, round and adorable panda cubs materialized out of thin air.
"Wow! So cute!"
Koyuki instantly fell in love with the two baby pandas and pounced like a rabbit, endlessly rubbing their fluffy fur.
"Mm~"
Kairen smiled, then turned his gaze to Miroku.
Her attention was also fixed on Wolon and Fenchu.
She was clearly tempted to rub them too.
"Don't worry, don't worry, I have another panda!"
"Where?!"
"Hundred Transformations · Little Beast!"
Chakra surged through Kairen's body, and in a blink he transformed into a baby panda, lying flat in Miroku's arms.
Miroku stared blankly at the panda cub in her arms.
She heard the panda speak. "Come play!"
Miroku shot Kairen a glare, her fondness for cute things immediately diminishing.
"You don't like it?!"
"I don't like pervy pandas!"
Miroku suddenly grabbed Kairen by the scruff, slammed him onto the table, and he returned to his original form.