"If that red-clad man hadn't suddenly shown up at the end, I definitely could've taken all those guys—"
Damn, there's more?
"Taken all what? Finish your sentence!"
Uchiha Gin frowned as he waited for the explosive plot. He hated cliffhangers most—every time things reached a crucial scene, it stopped.
"Huh?"
After waiting a long while without getting a response, Uchiha Gin turned to look at Long, who was leaning back tactically beside him. He found that this burly man, built like a bull, had turned pale as gold paper, and his aura had somehow become extremely unstable.
"Are you okay?"
Tsk, tsk, tsk. So this was what they meant by lust being a blade that scraped the bones?
"Hm? This is..."
But he quickly sensed that something was wrong. Why was there a strange chakra inside Manager Long's body? He did not even need to inspect it closely to smell an extremely dangerous aura.
"Wake up, wake up!"
Uchiha Gin gave him a few experimental shoves. After confirming that Manager Long had fallen into a deep coma, he slowly raised his hand, and deep blue light bloomed in his dull dead fish eyes.
"Open!"
As the Mutated Byakugan activated, everything inside Manager Long's body became plainly visible to Uchiha Gin.
"Found it."
A mass of dark red chakra was coiled around the man's heart, greedily devouring Manager Long's abundant Life Energy.
"A Human Bomb?"
Drawing on fragments from his memories, Uchiha Gin quickly identified the true nature of the bizarre chakra. His previously eager expression instantly fell.
"So he wasn't going to meet a rich woman in secret? What a waste of my expectations."
It seemed that Manager Long had encountered an enemy who also possessed the Ketsuryūgan—most likely those Chinoike Clan Members who had fled before.
"Good thing you