"Phew, when I saw you kill that young lady I thought I wouldn't have been able to get a chance to kill you, luckily you let down your guard at the perfect moment" A voice muttered.
Kicking Gensui's body away from him he blew on his smoking revolver and put it back into his holster, "I've seen you multiple times before kid, every single assassination attempt that was performed was led by the Great Me" He said.
"You see my Cursed technique is 'hide behind' the more the people around the more it gets difficult to find me, and even more if dead bodies surround me...." The man said kicking Gensui even more as if taking out his frustrations.
"And no matter what happened that woman managed to detect me every single time..... I couldn't even get to you because of her protection"
"But now….? Due to you being so far away from her because of your little rabbit hunt with the young team leader...….. I managed to sneak up on you, this time around I'm even sure of killing Yuki now.... After all what kind of master won't let down their guard in grief, leaving me the perfect opportunity to kill her" The man said with a huge smile on his face.
"18 dead bodies... the perfect amount for my Cursed technique to shine through, I just need to gather them..... wait"
"…..!"
The man paused as he felt his Cursed energy increase randomly, one only seen when one 'reveals his hand' that tells another about their Cursed technique.
'Since there shouldn't be anyone other than us here...….'
The man's head instantly turned to look at Gensui however!
*BAAM*
"Uh oh," The man muttered.
"Seriously?" He continued.
"Super seriously," Gensui said with a grin revealing his chest that was covered in some sort of metal.
"So the blood was?" The man asked.
"Super fake" Gensui said with a smile and threw down a few bags of what seemed to be blood.
The man did nothing but silently take off his cowboy hat showing a hole and matching it was another hole behind it, blood marring both the holes.
"Well this can't be good" He muttered.
"Certainly not," Gensui said and he continued with, "Thanks for that whoever you are you unconsciously made me use an ability that I didn't even know I had.... Being able to cast myself in the material of any Gun and Bullet I know of...….. how useful!
Not only that! Because of your little rant, I know that any and all associations will stop now, so I'm satisfied with this encounter"
The man as if not in tune with the world kept on silently looking at his White colored cowboy hat, ruined by the red of his blood, and looked at his white clothes resembling a Sherif would wear that too ruined by blood.
Turning his gaze and silently looking at Gensui I suddenly took out his revolver he aimed to shoot, however!
*BAAM*
"You should have retired when you had the chance old man You're way too slow, I don't even know how you are still standing so I'll give you props for that," Gensui said shooting the Revolver in Man's hand.
The gun flew in the air, doing a couple of flips, and silently landed in the hand of Gensui who immediately shot it, "Bye bye" Gensui said and proceeded to use all the bullets in the chamber and shot at the man, ending the job.
"A 1-inch diameter bullet? Seriously? No wonder he didn't check whether I died, I'll take this as a souvenir" Gensui muttered and walked away from the man.
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Passing by a few people dressed in black, Gensui already knew who they were.
'Actual Windows this time eh?'
They were the clean-up crew who were here to clean up the mess he had made, called by Yuki, after all this wasn't the first time he had seen them.
'A new gun and a new ability, how nice, I'm kind of glad this happened-'
However, he was immediately interrupted as he saw a helicopter hovering above the place where he left Yuki.
"Seriously?" Gensui gawked.
"Super seriously" Yuki replied from behind him aiming to scare him, which didn't work." So how was the overall battle?" Yuki asked mainly looking at the blood practically dripping from me.
"It was easy 18 enemies in total, including the 'Window'" Gensui replied.
"And I suppose there were complications," Yuki said looking at the gun in Gensui's hand.
"Yup, one had a technique that allowed him to thin his presence when he was among people, probably worked better when people with a large amount of Cursed energy were around him, he snuck up on me and shot me in the heart but luckily...." Gensui trailed off and raised his hand.
"…!!" And suddenly his arm gained a coating of metal around it.
"Hm….. Interesting, it's made of the same material as your gun I assume? A good application of your technique, try to find more of it out" Yuki summarized and continued by saying,
"I'm glad you still had some fake blood on you, the strength that Garuda managed to sense of that guy was around Grade 1, guess this proves that even the best of the best can be beaten by a good enough sneak attack"
"Or I am as strong as a Grade 1" Gensui quickly shot back but was quickly laughed off.
"Haha, that's really cute GenChan! A Grade 1 eh? Keep on dreaming these things and someone will put you into an unending one!" Yuki said while laughing.
"So you're saying I'm grade 2 at best?" Gensui asked grumpily.
"You're also 12 years old at best" Yuki teased.
Gensui could only sigh at this.
The strength gained during one's Puberty is not something to joke around, Yuki had theorized that the heightened emotional state, as well as the rapid maturation of the Body, leads to a qualitative and quantitative increase of Cursed energy of anyone, and this increase never goes away and continues to surge until one's prime, the surge is of course not as strong at Puberty.
This is also the reason why there aren't any Jujutsu Kindergartens or Elementary school or Middle schools, simply because it won't help out a person enough, sure early training might help, but it will always be overshadowed by a person's increase in strength in High school aka when their body has matured.
But Gensui despite knowing all of this rebelled against this thesis and countered back with, "I'll become a Special Grade before I graduate Middle school" and considering that he has a mere 3 years left, this was heavily doubtful. [AN- Graduating Middle school, not starting middle school, you graduate at 15 and start at 12].
"So Gensui" Yuki suddenly said as she started climbing the ladder of the helicopter.
Gensui followed suit as he asked, "Yes?"
"Where's the Veil?" Yuki asked.
Gensui suddenly stopped and looked at the climbing figure of his teacher and quickly looked down as he didn't want his eyes to linger on her 'assets'.
'This rope is certainly made of rope' Gensui thought.
"I think that the assassinations will stop since the main leader was killed in action," Gensui said trying to change the subject.
"Is that so? So where's the Veil?" Naturally, he failed.
Gensui started increasingly sweating as he looked up at his teacher who was looking at him like a certain Pirate Empress, sitting on the leg of the helicopter, "Do you want me to drop kick you now or RKO you off the helicopter?" Yuki 'kindly' asked.
This caused Gensui to sweat even more but luckily he was saved as the Helicopter Pilot suddenly yelled out, "Please stop messing around back there we are already a few minutes late!"
Hearing this Yuki simply pouted with a dissatisfied face, "Making those old geezers wait for a few minutes won't hurt" She said.
"You are currently 1 Hour late as it is" The man replied as Sweat started to realize what he was doing.
'Fighting with a Special Grade? ARE YOU STUPID?' The man screamed internally.
"Fine fine..." Yuki relented as she climbed into the Helicopter sitting down on a seat as a sweat-filled Gensui weasled his way in as well and sat unmoving as if he wasn't even there.
"I hope you remember that we have the same home," Yuki said giving him a side eye as even more sweat started to fall from his face.
"Wow look at the scenery," Gensui said with mock excitement as he looked and pointed outside to the mountain where he fought.
Yuki just helplessly smiled at this and leaned into her chair, 'Well we were quite far from civilization as well, slight slip-ups like not putting up a veil is a classic hot-headed mistake.... Not that I won't punish him for it, he's getting his punishment alright! And I even know the best one' thinking as such a scum bag-like smile adorned her face.
Something which didn't go unnoticed by Gensui's eyes, 'Please be thinking about Aoi Todo's training with that smile, please God- wait that's me, please someone sends her to Kyoto after this meeting is over, she already did go to him for a few months every once in a while, what's the problem in now?
And so!
With a praying Gensui and a Scheming Yuki, both went on and approached the location of their meeting...….
[The Zenin Clan Grounds]
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[Power stone for bonus chapter: 123/222]