"Whoa! The gains here were enormous! Look at these fishes, a sushi restaurant's dream!"
After going in a straight line, Yoichi harvested his yields and the school of fishes struggled between his nets. Numerous sea bass, eels, Japanese tiger prawns, sardines, and yellowfin tuna were some of the commonly known summer seafood of the Japanese sea.
The ideal situation was to put them all in a fridge but since it was far too many in different sizes and quantities, he had no choice but to put them in his space pouch and separate them away from his valuable tools and other resources.
"Hmmmm! The combination of citrus, salty, and fresh breeze was so exhilarating!"
While landing on his newly discovered island, Yoichi glanced at the coastal ports and people busying themselves on their work. Some of them were curious and scared of his demeanor due to the reports of a man slaughtering civilians near their ports and villages.
"Hello, good sir. I would to ask if there is any other news surrounding these islands of man butchering individuals here."
At that moment, the old sailor flinched and was almost ready for his stance as if genuinely shocked at Yoichi's surprising appearance.
"...Hahaha! You scared me, young kid. I couldn't help it. Yes, there are some reports about that heartless bastard in these islands nearby. May the heavens strike him down with his divine lightning!"
The old sailor cursed at the cruel man with a scowling expression as Yoichi nodded vigorously, agreeing with his statement.
"May I know what are you doing on our shore?"
"Ah, yes... I am hunting this guy for his demonic acts of killing. Do you have any information about him? Or any close friend who knows some news?"
Hearing Yoichi's words, the old sailor sighed in relief as there was no other way to defend against the onslaught of the killing man, and by the look of it, the young man in front of him was strong in his age. He was just another mariner of the sea, living his life, fishing for food and supplies for his family.
"Ooohh! Then you are in the right place! My friend told me the story yesterday but I didn't believe him until the news of the man rang inside my head! According to his story, 5 days ago, 2 men landed on the island. One was a white-dressed man and the other was a purely cloaked individual. As for verifying the news? Hah! Even if I had 3 hearts like a tentacle creature in the deep waters, I would never confront anyone in the middle of the night!" the old mariner summed up his findings of his friend's surprising discovery.
'I don't want to use my Akashic for this but my instincts could be 100% sure it will be Seimei. Hahaha, hiding here and scheming like a rat huh?'
"Thank you for informing me, old sir! Here, sir. Take these fishes I caught on my journey here."
Yoichi gave him enough fish as a way of gratitude, the old man was completely satisfied and glimpsed at Yoichi, who was in the far distance and waving his hands, leaving the old sailor in respect and admiration.
"Found you!"
After scanning the island, Yoichi grinned
Excitement and expectation soared in his aura as if waiting for another pawn of Seimei or another contender of the current era's greatest individual.
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"Shit! Somebody saw us through your barrier! Seimei, let's hurry up!"
In the secluded forest, two men were resting in the abandoned shrine until they felt their dangerous instinct tremble in countless successions and ran away from the house immediately.
Seimei distributed his shikigami around the forest but the person visiting them frequently moved in quick movements as afterimages scattered around the forest like a phantom or a ghost in the morning.
Without a doubt, a strong opponent went into their previous spot and chased them in an instant.
"It's too late, Shin."
Suddenly, Seimei stopped running, aware of the visitor's figure as the grim expression on his face was apparent with his clenched fists and bloodshot eyes.
"Well, well, well... Another pawn in the game, Seimei? As I said, step up and cook. Why would you bring a murderous brute into your fold if you couldn't control it? Might as well commit seppuku, no?"
After hiding in the tree, Yoichi revealed his framework to the two men. His afterimages talked along with his main body mysteriously as if all the clones were true and connected to the main frame.
At that moment, Shin's blood-red eyes gleamed in excitement. This was a delicious meal! He could feel the delicious scent of rich and nutritious energy in Yoichi's blood as if a tonic of longevity!
"HAHAHAHA, Seimei! This is a good feast for my body! Is this Yoichi Murakami? Well then, let me taste your appetizing flesh and organs!"
Shin rushed through without any concern or self-preservation as Seimei backed away from the fight and looked forward to the fight. He knew that Yoichi Murakami was powerful in terms of overall performance but Shin's endurance and mystical recovery might defeat Yoichi's slacking attitude.
"Oh? How...fascinating..."
At this point, Yoichi kicked Shin's face but the blood-red tendrils sprouted in his entire face and entangled Yoichi's foot, wanting to taste his blood and ideally, sever the foot out of Yoichi's limb.
'What the hell is this skin? Is this made out of gold or metallic ore? I can't pierce his flesh with his skin!'
Although the tentacles were tightly intertwined with his foot, the skin was impenetrable even with the thorn-like structures of the tendrils as if an iron-tempered foot against the flesh-eating tendrils. Yoichi's shoe was currently in a tattered state as the tentacles didn't even make a scratch on his glinting skin.
In the awkward position, Yoichi twisted his waist and implanted another deep kick on his face by using his ensnared foot. Shin delightfully embraced the impact and flew off the previous spot, the recovery became slow but he regained his stance and glanced at Yoichi's indifferent attitude.
"Go on, make a move. I will evaluate your dancing performance."
'Let me test his durability, start with fire.'
Yoichi mocked him with his hand gesture saying, 'Come, dog' further angering Shin's mentality as he roared and rushed once more with his tendrils countlessly sprouting out of his body and aiming at Yoichi's odd gestures with his hands.
"Hahaha, what an idiot! Fighting against me in this close distance was a death sentence!"
"Fire Release: Caged Heat Arson Prison!"
Yoichi was ensnared by countless tendrils but his chakra inside circulated and hugged Shin's gruesome body as the intense heat and blaze enclosed both of them. The caster, Yoichi swapped out of the atmospheric pressure and heat compression emanated inside the ninjutsu.
Although his usage of ninjutsu was lethal and not safe in any way or shape, the sizzling fireballs and blazing sphere-enclosed shape were a surprise element against the clueless and idiotic being like Shin.
After a while, a burnt smell of flesh and black smoke permeated the scene as Shin came out of his disheveled state while his horrifying burns were constantly recovering from the damage he sustained against Yoichi's Fire Release.
"Hahahaha, what is it? Shock? Gloomy? I am still alive, bastard! I will never die even if you chop me up into the tiniest bit of your imagination!!!"
'So ninjutsu will never kill him as well as taijutsu and his name is Shin... Jashin? Too forced, no? The only enemy of his immortality is Yin Release and sealing jutsu... Bad luck, I am well-versed in the two...'
Therefore, Shin laughed loudly, arrogant with his disorderly state and his so-called "immortality" while Yoichi nodded in his theory and speculation in his mind, sitting on the branch of a tree.
"Any other weird tricks, mortal? If that was it, then you will leave your life here!" Shin grinned maliciously as his tendrils captured deer and rabbits in the distance, not nearly enough to recover but it would suffice in the fight.
'Let me do the Test of Spirit and Shadow Imitation Combo with my flashbang! 3 in 1 test with a real person!... Well, it's not a person...'
Yoichi threw away his activated flashbang in the air as his hands weaved hand signs. Both he and his spirit child in his body were coordinating with the attacks on Shin's regenerating body.
"Ver.1 Flashbang!"
"Shadow Imitation Technique!"
"Test of Spirit!"
Shin scoffed at the blinding lights, closing his eyes with arrogance until the danger meter in his mind skyrocketed. Before he could run away, a binding was placed on his shadow and Shin struggled intensely with the odd but dangerous trick of his opponent, underestimating Yoichi's capabilities.
'What is happening? What is this fucking shit?!
This is that weird gimmick of this bastard! I can't move!'
"Aaaaarrrggghhh! My hand! My hand!!!"
A soul projection of Shin materialized in front of Yoichi and severed his right hand away from his soul form as a jolting shock coursed through Shin's body, resulting in tremendous pain and out-of-this-world numbness in his right hand.
As for Shin's right hand, it was completely gone through his soul. It will rot forever without having a chance to heal or even lift a finger.
"What did you do?! What did you do?!!! Bastard! I will kill you until this world burns!"
Extreme rage simmered in the atmosphere as Yoichi [Body Flicker] into his back and chopped his head but the automatic defense of the tendrils shot at Yoichi, who grabbed the tendrils and cut them out of Shin's body connection.
Afterward, Yoichi kicked him in the back with his Chakra-Ki infusion and blew up his immortal body into pieces. Currently, the pieces were wriggling and squirming at each other like a form of symbiotic agreement on Shin's body, making his immortality look like a joke in Yoichi's mind.
"Seimei, collect your pal here. It was quite fun having a good training dummy for my techniques, thank you." Yoichi stored the tendril as a genetic piece in a sealed container, the specimen was still creeping back into Shin's body, struggling with the fate inside the enclosed tube.
On the side, Seimei knew Yoichi's indifference and decided to take away Shin's remains along with his soul to revive him for a later date. The process was quite daunting even with his shikigami, Seimei managed to gather 3/4 of Shin's leftovers including his soul. Then, he instantly left without any dialogue since he felt a familiar sacred energy...
"Thank you, benefactor... I have heard of you from my good friend, Ananada. My name is Chaiya. I would like to talk but from the looks of it... I will be having my way to seal this demonic being and his accomplice. Please, take care."
A blue-dressed monk suddenly revealed himself and sealed some of Shin's remnants with his potent sage energy. After that, the monk glanced at Yoichi until he chased Seimei's fleeting figure.
"Wow, what a hit-and-run monk! That sage energy was surely something... Hmmm... Let's head back, it's gonna be afternoon now and I wanted to ask for my family's approval for leaving them. I mean, it's too short to travel for just for couple of hours..."
After grumbling, Yoichi stuffed his boat inside the space pouch and left the desolate scene with a clap, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
After over 6 hours of leaving, the task was complete but his itch for adventuring never faded.