The sharp tachi sliced effortlessly through the gang enforcer's throat. Before blood could gush out, Uchiha Izumi had already slipped behind him, coming face-to-face with her second enemy.
"Die!"
The second gang enforcer hadn't even noticed that his companion was dead. He saw a blur, and then Uchiha Izumi appeared before him. Instinctively, he swung his blade at her.
"In the name of absolute justice-"
Unfortunately for him, through Uchiha Izumi's Three-Tomoe Sharingan, his movements were all but frozen, barely distinguishable from slow motion. She once again read the crimes in the box above her opponent's head, then followed the standard procedure: control him with genjutsu and slit his throat with one stroke. "I sentence you to death!"
Compared to Juzo Biwa's broad, sweeping attacks, Uchiha Izumi took the extra step of checking her opponents' crimes before killing them. Yet she dispatched the gang enforcers no less efficiently than he did.
"Nice work, meow! Kill every last one of those rotten bastards!"
Kijiro, the only one who hadn't joined the fight, sat on the second-floor warehouse railing and cheered loudly. Although the people actually eating cats were civilians suffering from famine, after following Uchiha Chisen for so many years, Kijiro understood well enough that blame belonged with those responsible.
If these villains hadn't deliberately caused a famine, Water Gull City's civilians wouldn't have been driven to hunt cats and rats to fill their empty stomachs.
"Caught a troublesome little rat-"
But just as the wildly excited Kijiro was itching to join the fray himself, a rather peculiar voice suddenly sounded behind him. "Hmm-if we're holding a funeral, what kind would you prefer?"
"Meowrr!?"
Startled, Kijiro whipped his head around and saw a muscular man with long green hair emerge from the darkness. The two oddly shaped short swords in his