The Takahashi Clan

"Get out! You got a death wish?!"

"Do you know who I am?!"

A young man on the bed was jolted awake by the door being kicked open. Seeing a whole crowd of people pour in, he shouted angrily.

"I've heard a bit. But this is the first time we've met..." Souya swept a seemingly casual glance around the room.

The two young women on the bed also showed frightened expressions, hurriedly pulling the blanket up with their pale hands to cover their heads.

The remaining two women, however, were unhurried. Instead, they sat straight up, exposing large swaths of their bodies, and after seeing Souya's handsome face, they even seemed to give him a coy look.

The full curves in front of them trembled lightly as well. They were two rather well-endowed women.

"You know, and you still aren't getting lost?!" The young man reached back, grabbed the pillow behind him, and threw it at Souya, speaking in flustered fury.

The young man's looks were originally decent enough, but his complexion was rather ashen, faintly tinged with blue.

His eyelids were somewhat droopy, his cheeks sunken, and he looked like someone who had overindulged in pleasure. Right now, he looked especially ferocious.

"Young Master Takahashi, is it?"

"Too bad. This isn't your family courtyard! Xin Yin! Cuff him!" Souya said in a heavy voice.

"Yes!"

"You dare?!"

After receiving the order, Xin Yin immediately stepped forward and walked toward the young man on the bed.

But the young man's four guards suddenly blocked Xin Yin's path, and with a metallic clang, they drew their blades in perfect unison.

Xin Yin also drew his short blade and faced them down.

"What? Have you forgotten which country you belong to?"

"Is this how you use the skills you learned from the village?"

"You won't even obey Lord Kazekage's orders?!" A sharp light flashed in Souya's eyes.

"We only obey orders issued by Elder Takahashi!" the middle-aged man leading the other side said without giving an inch.

"Good! Very good!" Souya stopped wasting words and merely gave a flat order. "Xin Yin, take your men and step back!"

Then Souya swung the Gold Rod on his back forward, formed seals with both hands, and shouted in a low voice, "Release!"

The densely packed runes on the surface of the Gold Rod instantly broke apart. As the runes dissipated, great sheets of Gold Sand surged out like a river flood being unleashed.

"Get Young Master Takahashi out of here!" The lead guard's eyes widened. Clearly, this was his first time witnessing Souya's strength.

"Earth Release? Earth Style: Earth Style Wall!"

After forming seals, the lead guard slapped both palms onto the ground. A pitch-black earthen wall instantly rose all the way to the ceiling, separating Souya from the others. The earth wall was extremely thick and solid.

Souya's expression remained unchanged. He pressed his palms together, his hand seals shifting, and a portion of the surging Gold Dust suddenly retracted, condensed, then stretched into a massive golden spear!

The spear tip gleamed with a sharp metallic luster as it thrust straight into the earth wall.

Thud!

After a muffled sound, a large hole was punched through the earth wall. Gold Sand poured through that opening, and in the blink of an eye, the wall collapsed and crumbled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This?! How is that possible?" The lead guard was both shocked and furious. To break through a compacted earth wall in such a short time—clearly, Souya's strength far exceeded his imagination.

The other three guards had only just approached the ornate wooden bed, but the surging Gold Sand naturally would not give them the chance.

The Gold Sand swept in like ocean waves, condensing into arm after arm as they reached out to grab them.

"Ah!"

Only then did the two broad-chested women scream in terror. The training services they had promised most certainly did not include this kind of life-threatening segment.

The three guards hurriedly swung their blades at the Gold Dust. Blades wrapped in Chakra could indeed cut apart the Gold Dust arms, but after they chopped one apart, another had already condensed and reached for them again.

Before anyone realized it, the floor of the room was already covered in a thick layer of Gold Sand.

"Jump out the window! Don't let these damned things grab you!" the guard captain shouted anxiously.

His blade carried dark-brown Chakra, and his strikes were heavy, cleaving the Gold Sand apart and sending it splashing in all directions, carving out one pit after another. But those pits were quickly filled by the surrounding Gold Sand.

By the time they reacted, the room had already turned into a swamp of Gold Sand, its height gradually rising until it reached the level of the bed.

Souya stretched both hands forward, opened them, then clenched them in the air. Large streams of Gold Sand surged up toward them like pythons cast from gold, their thick bodies tightly winding around the guards' legs.

Clang!

The golden pythons' surfaces shimmered with brilliant golden light. When the guards' blades struck them, they rang with the sound of metal on metal, but the golden pythons did not budge.

Only the guard captain's blade managed to cut a gap in one golden python's body, but it still could not change the fact that he was already trapped.

A moment later, every guard had a golden python wrapped tightly around them, and their blades fell to the ground because they could no longer grip them.

"You dare kill us? We're the guard unit directly under Elder Takahashi! Young Master Takahashi is a candidate to inherit the main family! Even if the Kazekage came in person, he would still have to show Elder Takahashi some courtesy!" the guard captain screeched harshly.

"Yes... If Lord Kazekage were here, perhaps there really would be some considerations. Unfortunately... I am not!" Souya swept a cold gaze over them. Young Master Takahashi's body was clearly not as sturdy as those of his guards.

He had already been strangled by the golden python until his eyes were rolling back, more air leaving him than entering...

Souya's right hand opened again, and at last the guard leader knew he had slammed into an iron plate. He had run into a reckless brat who didn't play by the rules. The golden python coiled around him with enough force to crush his bones until they creaked, and streaks of blood seeped from his mouth and nose.

He still wanted to make one last struggle, opening his mouth to shout something.

But in the next instant, a blood-red firework seemed to bloom before his eyes. Along with the blood that sprayed out, his consciousness slowly sank into boundless darkness.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft...

After several sounds of squeezing and bursting, the golden python flowed like liquid, slowly seeping into the floor, surging together with the gold sand before rising into the air.

As Souya's fingers moved, forming hand seals one after another with effortless grace, black patterns like a spiderweb appeared in midair as well.

The black patterns were like a bottomless vortex, swallowing up the surging gold sand.

A moment later, a rod-shaped object with a gleaming golden base and covered in tadpole-like black markings came hurtling through the air toward Souya.

Souya grabbed it in one hand and slung it across his back with a reverse motion.

Inside the room, several bloody, pulped corpses were plastered to the floor, their pairs of eyes nearly squeezed from their sockets, hollow and despairing...

The expensive snow fox fur was now adorned with several vivid, tragic splashes of crimson.

The women, however, were unharmed. They had only been frightened by the brutal scene and had collapsed onto the bed.