Capture

At that moment, the door to the room was pushed open, and an ugly woman, less than 1.3 meters tall, with a demon mask hanging on the side of her face, walked in.

She glanced around the room and whispered, "The heir of the Kozuki Clan is dead? It seems you've completed your mission, Jorogumo."

"It's all thanks to you Hannya, for taking care of the ninjas hiding in the shadows that I was able to succeed so easily."

Jorogumo, holding Momonosuke's head, stood up and asked, "Where's the Ubume?"

Hannya said, "She has been rescued and is waiting outside. We should go; delay might cause complications..."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but recall the time she had sneaked into the backyard.

As a top-tier ninja, she always acts with extreme caution. Before any reconnaissance or assassination, she would always use the ninjutsu technique of "inner awareness" to check the living creatures within the target's range to ensure absolute safety. She originally thought that this infiltration would not cause any major trouble, but when she used the technique, she unexpectedly discovered several extremely powerful auras, one of which was unfathomable. If her ninjutsu of concealing auras had not been practiced to the point of mastery, she would probably have been discovered long ago!

It wasn't until she was far away from that room that she realized her back was covered in cold sweat.

Logically speaking, with Kozuki Oden leading his army into battle and all his experts on the field, there shouldn't be such a powerful figure left in the manor... But the Breath Detection Technique never lies, and the thought of this made her heart tremble with fear.

"You're being far too cautious..."

Jorogumo laughed dismissively, " With Kozuki Oden gone, where are we going to find any worthy enemies? Even if we turn this place upside down, no one can do anything to us."

Hannya frowned. Jorogumo's arrogant and conceited personality was as unpleasant as her beautiful appearance. Upon seeing Jorogumo's lovely face, Hannya's jealousy surged even more, and a hint of resentment flashed in her eyes. "That's why... I hate working with this guy who's good with poison. This damned skin is disgusting... I really want to tear it to shreds!"

She was ugly and short, and usually only dared to show herself in public wearing a demon mask. Although for a ninja, ugliness could prevent her from being distracted by her appearance, and her short stature could help her stealth, as a woman, she could not control her inferiority complex and jealousy. She would often lose control and use the ninja sword she carried to disfigure any beautiful women she saw. Therefore, after joining the Izumo Society, she was given the title of "Hannya" demon in the Night Tales of One Hundred Demons, and became one of the high-ranking officers of the Izumo Society.

"The Jorogumo..."

Just as she was about to issue a warning, her expression suddenly changed drastically as a powerful gust of wind swept in from behind!

"Ninja Art: Substitution Technique!"

She quickly formed a hand seal, and instantly the spot where she stood was filled with smoke, transforming into a log. In the next instant, the log was shattered into countless flying wood chips.

Hannya's figure appeared on the thick trunk of a locust tree in the courtyard. She leaned against the tree with one hand, her body half-lying down, and her usually steady breathing became more disordered than ever before.

Looking down in the pouring moonlight, one could see several figures standing at the doorway. One had golden hair, another was burly, and the Red Nose man in the middle exuded an invisible aura. Using the aura-detecting technique, it was discovered that these were the powerful figures they had sensed earlier!

"These people don't look like they're from Wano Country; they're foreigners. What's their background... and why are they colluding with the Kozuki?!"

A thousand doubts flashed through Hannya's mind.

Suddenly, a card flew towards her like a sharp blade. She quickly jumped down and landed on the ground from a height of six meters.

Boom!!

The locust tree, which would take five people to encircle, was sliced open by the card with a smooth, semi-oblique cut, and the upper half collapsed to the ground.

"Please don't use my tarot cards as hidden weapons," Hawkins said calmly, looking at Buggy.

"Now is not the time to talk about these things..."

Buggy lowered his arm, ignoring Hannya lying on the ground, and looked solemnly at Jorogumo, who was holding Momonosuke head, and demanded, "You killed him?"

"Yes... such a lovely child, only by killing him with my own hands can I feel genuine joy."

Jorogumo gazed at the severed head in her arms, her eyes filled with a deep sense of regret. After licking her blood-stained fingers, she looked up at Buggy and said, "This humble servant has met this sir before, hasn't she?"

"Yes, I've seen him before..."

Buggy narrowed his eyes slightly. "I never imagined that you two petty thieves would break in and even kill Kozuki Momonosuke. It's truly chilling to think about..."

"Don't get entangled with them, let's get out of here quickly!"

Jorogumo was about to reply when she was interrupted by Hannya's telepathic message.

Buggy glanced in the direction of Hannya and ordered, "Hawkins, capture that ugly woman alive."

"Knew."

Hawkins turned and walked towards Hannya, unsheathing his dagger. His expression was calm. "Today shouldn't be your death day."

"A dangerous and powerful opponent..." Hannya thought to himself, immediately forming hand seals, "Ninja Art: Shadow Clone Technique."

White smoke suddenly billowed from her body, and several identical figures darted out from behind her. Each figure held a cold, gleaming weapon and suddenly shot it towards Hawkins.

"Ninjutsu: Multiple Shuriken, Ignite!"

Several shuriken spontaneously combusted in the air, transforming into flaming shuriken wreathed in intense heat!

Hawkins, being a scarecrow, was least adept at dealing with fire. However, he knew that Buggy was behind him, and if he backed down, he would not only lose face, but also the trust placed in him.

Leaving aside the duel between Hawkins and Hannya, Buggy kept approaching Jorogumo, and a faint pressure seemed to emanate from him. Jorogumo felt very uncomfortable. She pulled out her left hand from under her wide sleeve, and her five fingers were so thin that they were just skin and bones, with various wrinkles and blue veins, and her skin was a chilling black.

Instead of retreating, Jorogumo charged forward, her right hand bent into a claw shape, aiming straight for Buggy's chest.

From a young age, she immersed this hand in various venoms, teetering on the brink of death countless times before finally surviving. After that, she possessed a terrifying venom that penetrated deep into her bones. She only used her left hand in battle. Once she scratched a wound, the toxin would quickly enter the heart through the bloodstream. The more violently the poisoned person struggled, the faster they would die!

Because of her beautiful appearance but the fact that she carries a deadly poison, she is known as "Jorogumo" in the Night Tales of One Hundred Demons, and is one of the high-ranking members of the Izumo Society.

The moment Buggy raised her hand to attack, Jorogumo subtly shifted three steps to the right, reached out his right hand to hook her left elbow, and then coiled his arm around her like a snake, his palm gripping her armpit. Leaning forward and bending his arm, he twisted it like a millstone, and the sound of her wrist bones shattering could be clearly heard.

Jorogumo screamed and fainted, her eyes rolling back in her head.

Her left hand possessed a terrifying venom, but her bone marrow was also severely corroded, making it less resilient than a normal person's. It simply couldn't withstand Buggy's strangulation. Besides, assassins never directly confront warriors, let alone someone who wasn't even a skilled assassin.

Hannya heard Jorogumo's scream, her heart skipped a beat. In that moment of distraction, Hawkins had already pressed the dagger against her neck and calmly spoke.

"Don't move, your neck will break."