Jaden's perception was formidable.
Putting aside his Observation Haki, which allowed him to dodge bullets at close range, his five senses had been constantly strengthening since he awakened his Onibaku (Ogre Back).
But Jaden could also feel that what was truly being enhanced were not his five senses themselves, but the thing they connected to-his brain!
His brain seemed to be waking up, undergoing some kind of change.
As a result, his brain's processing of visual, auditory, gustatory, tactile, and olfactory input was all enhanced!
And then Jaden also fused with the Pickle template.
Pickle's sense of smell was incredibly powerful.
In Pickle's memories, there were many times he relied on his beast-like sense of smell to hunt or escape.
Unyo Shinomya was no exception.
--- His scent was memorized by Jaden!
Bang!
With the sound of splintering wood, Unyo Shinomya was startled by the huge noise!
His room door had completely flown into his room, scattering wood chips everywhere, and the person who had just kicked his door to pieces was now walking over the debris, directly entering his room.
"It's been a while, I suppose, Unyo Shinomya."
Jaden walked in, his hands still in his pockets, calmly looking at Unyo Shinomya, who was now completely slumped on the bed.
"You...!"
Unyo Shinomya's eyes widened.
As a direct descendant of the Shinomya family, he wasn't that stupid.
Although, until this very moment, Unyo Shinomya had extreme confidence in the Shinomya family's guard force, it was now quite obvious-the Shinomya guard force had failed!
He wouldn't assume Jaden had simply come over for a friendly chat.
He knew Jaden's identity well.
Besides being the world's number one chef, this guy was also Totsuki's representative fighter!
Unyo Shinomya had also watched Jaden's match videos.
The Kengan Annihilation Tournament-although he wasn't present, he had watched all the matches except for the final one against Julius, which seemed to have been cut just after Jaden gained the advantage, before the final blow.
He knew Jaden was strong, but he was certain the other party had accomplices-otherwise, he couldn't have defeated the guard force all by himself!
But leaving that aside...
The opponent was now standing right in front of him.
The guards secretly protecting him were now silent, likely having been dealt with by the opponent... in a one-on-one situation against him, he had absolutely no chance of winning.
So, upon realizing that his life might be in the opponent's hands, Unyo Shinomya panicked for a moment.
Then...
--- He quickly regained his composure.
"Jaden... Since you are here, it seems Totsuki chose the simplest and most direct method to catch us Shinomya off guard..."
In his mind, he had silently confirmed that Totsuki was behind this action!
"The Shinomya family's guard force has probably been dealt with by you... No, even if they haven't, my life is in your hands right now, which is probably a very tragic thing for me."
At this point, Unyo Shinomya looked at Jaden with his small eyes. Under the circumstances, he even started to laugh.
"But even capturing me is useless-we Shinomya are all garbage who have received that kind of messed-up education. Even Kaguya knows that capturing a direct family member is completely useless as leverage. In this Shinomya family... there is no such thing as familial affection!"
"There is only utility, nothing more."
Saying this, Shinomya proactively moved closer to the expressionless Jaden.
"Even if you capture me, you won't be able to threaten my father or my elder brother to help you with anything-conversely, if you eliminate those two stubborn individuals and support me to become the head of the Shinomya family, I can accept being a puppet."
"You, Totsuki, certainly didn't attack us Shinomya just for simple revenge. You must be doing it for profit."
"Without my, my elder brother's, or my father's support, even Kaguya cannot fully control the Shinomya family. At that point, the Shinomya assets might be divided, and Totsuki won't be able to completely swallow it all. So, keeping me is definitely useful; at least I am more..."
Unyo Shinomya's words stopped there.
Before he could even react, he felt something directly grip his neck, preventing him from speaking or breathing-and then his entire body was lifted off the ground.
Ugh...!
Unyo Shinomya's face turned red, veins started bulging on his forehead. He stared wide-eyed, completely unable to understand Jaden.
"Perhaps in your eyes, there is only profit."
Jaden said this, and then he smiled at Unyo Shinomya.
It was an undisguised, unfeigned-a very pure smile!
That smile was so pure that it became terrifying, even gruesome!
"Will the Shinomya family split? Can Totsuki swallow the Shinomya assets?"
"---What does that have to do with me?"
"I wanted to kill you, or rather, you made me feel a killing intent toward you, and that is your cause of death-even without any other reason, you deserve to die, because..."
With this last sentence from Jaden, the force in his hand increased sharply, directly snapping Unyo Shinomya's throat!
Blood even covered his palm, and Jaden tossed Unyo Shinomya onto the ground like a piece of trash. Turning his back, his smile vanished as he gave the 'trash' on the ground a cold glance.
"Because... you are too weak."
Jaden said this, and then slowly walked out.
His sense of smell was very keen.
After killing Unyo Shinomya, he didn't even bother to search for Oko Shinomya-because, besides the guards he had dealt with, the only people left in the residence were some servants he had knocked unconscious.
Oko Shinomya was simply not there!
There was no scent of him, no traces of the scent being cleaned, and even the residual scent had faded to a level he couldn't detect.
Oko Shinomya seemed to be away from home and must have left some time ago-he had dodged a bullet.
As for the Shinomya family's old family head...
Jaden's gaze went up to the top floor.
He didn't smell any living person moving on the top floor, but he did smell some residual, faint woman's scent, as well as... a scent of a corpse, a bit putrid despite having been covered up...
Jaden narrowed his eyes, then headed up the stairs.
He followed the scent and found a secret room on the top floor.
Jaden didn't know how to open the secret room. He stood in front of what looked like the door and punched a massive hole in the wall!
Immediately after... the intense odor rushed out and started irritating Jaden's nose!
In the center of the narrow secret room, a chair was placed, surrounded by putrid blood...
And on the chair-was a corpse that had already started to decompose!
However, the person seemed to have died recently, and the killer seemed to have performed some special treatment to inhibit the decomposition of the body-so it was barely possible to determine the identity of the person through some features.
Jaden had seen the Shinomya family head, Gan'an Shinomya, in newspapers and on the news.
So, he recognized him instantly.
--- This was the corpse of Gan'an Shinomya!
The current head of the Shinomya family, one of the three major domestic conglomerates, the one with the greatest influence in the country, and the one that had been entrenched in this nation for over a thousand years-he had been dead for at least three days without anyone knowing!
Find Advance chapters
And for More Fan fiction
👇
👇
[Support link: pat reon.com/RioRaRyu]
------------
More Bonus Chapters!!!!
Every 250 power stones = Bonus Chapter
Give me more Power Stones
------------