Finally Meeting Hanzo

Seeing this, the man picked up the weapon placed beside his seat and said, "As long as you and my old partner are here, what else could threaten Rain Ninja Village?" Then he waved his hand. "Tch, seriously, how could I become like this because of a child's remark? Could it be because things have been too busy lately, which is why I am so tense?"

"Zhou Yang, is this thing really delicious?"

"Of course it's delicious, the meat on it is extremely tender!"

"Tender? Meat?" Nan curiously tapped the hard outer shell of the large crab in Zhou Yang's hand. "Don't tell me this hard thing is meat?"

"Pfft!" Seeing Nan's disgusted look, Zhou Yang almost died from her cuteness: No, Sister Nan, your style isn't like this, hurry and get serious, this is your style.

After recovering for a moment, Zhou Yang said, "This is its bone, which is its exoskeleton, and it's used to protect itself."

"Bone? Can bones grow on the outside?" Nan looked doubtfully at the large crab, then at herself, seemingly wondering what it would be like if her own bones grew on the outside.

"Alright, stop looking, we are different species, so our physiological structures are naturally different!" Seeing Nan like this, he knew she had truly never seen a crab, and at the same time, the success probability of his inner plan grew a bit larger.

Since there were no seasonings and no pot large enough, Zhou Yang simply roasted the crab directly over the fire. Anyway, it had a shell on the outside, so even over the fire, as long as he managed the time well, the meat quality wouldn't have any problems.

However, would an otaku like Zhou Yang know how to prepare seafood this way? The answer was of course no.

"Zhou Yang, it smells so good!"

"Of course."

"It smells this good, so it must be cooked, right?"

"Not necessarily, wait a bit longer."

Ten minutes later.

"Zhou Yang, do we still have to wait?"

"Should we flip it over?"

"Eh? Don't you know how to make this thing? Why are you still asking me?"

"Uh haha, uh~ actually this is my first time cooking it this way."

"Ah?"

"You have to believe me, I really know how to cook, it's just that there are no tools here, so~"

Looking at Nan's skeptical gaze, Zhou Yang seemed to want to explain, but in the end it got more and more chaotic, and then a lifeless expression appeared on his face again. Why? Why do I keep losing to the gaze of a child?

"Alright, Zhou Yang, stop playing the fool over there, why don't you hurry and take it down, otherwise our dinner today will probably be a complete wash!"

At this moment, Zhou Yang reacted immediately. That's right, although this crab looks burned, there might still be some unburned parts! Immediately he took the crab down, and then the two of them picked and chose, finally managing to pull out some meat that looked edible.

The greatest stroke of luck was that the two large pincers of this crab had been snapped off by Zhou Yang earlier, so now they could still continue roasting them, except this time Nan refused to listen to a single word he said.

"Wow, such a familiar smell, this smell is a bit like the kind of fish I smelled on the street, but it seems even stronger." Nan seemed to recall the fish aroma from other people's households that she used to smell when she wandered the streets back then. That scent made her somewhat nostalgic. She still remembered how back then, in order to smell that scent, she would purposely run to that family's window at fixed times, for nothing else than to experience this special flavor.

Then she took a bite. "It's this taste, no, it's much stronger." As she chewed, her eyes gradually turned red, but she was strong and would not shed tears so easily.

Seeing Nan sigh a couple of times and then silently eat the crab pincer in her hand, he knew she was thinking of the past again.

A tragic childhood, huh! Zhou Yang sighed inwardly. At the same time, his heart burned with an even more urgent desire for his plan to succeed, because only in this way could they, at the fastest possible speed, secure a relatively comfortable life for himself and Nan.

The following few weeks were spent this way. In the morning, he went to tease the guards out of habit; at noon, he ate mushrooms or food bought previously; in the afternoon, he ate seafood; and at night, he wailed as usual. Of course, apart from accompanying Nan, all this spare time was spent on training himself, so days were quite eventful.

"Zhou Yang, our reserve food has run out, and the money left from before is also dwindling. We must make plans as soon as possible."

"Rest assured, everything is within my plan." After Zhou Yang's confident reply, his eyes looked off in a certain direction, as if he could pierce through heavy obstacles and meet his target.

Salamander Hanzo, you should be unable to sit still anymore!

The next day, Zhou Yang went to the center as usual. This place was both the office of Hanzo and his residence.

"Zhou Yang, you're here again? You really are relentless! I told you, Lord Hanzo will not see you." After Zhou Yang had come quite a few times, the guards on rotation here already recognized him. Everyone knew there was such a persistent child who wanted to see Hanzo, though naturally, they all just assumed he worshiped Hanzo.

Just when the ninja thought Zhou Yang would leave after saying something about the life and death of Rain Ninja Village like he had before, this time Zhou Yang did not say those words.

"Huh? You finally realized that your deceptive words are useless? You really have enough patience, repeating the exact same sentence for so long."

Just then, the door behind the guards suddenly opened. At this moment, a ninja dressed similarly to the guards appeared and said to the guard, "Rain, Lord Hanzo has agreed to meet with him."

"Ah?" The guard was a bit confused. Lord Hanzo actually agreed? But since the boss had spoken, as a lackey he was full of doubts, yet still complied.

Afterwards, the two of them brought Zhou Yang to the central hall.

At this moment, Zhou Yang looked left and right, like a child who had never seen the world. And true, this was indeed his first time seeing such a large residence.

Entering the room, his gaze was attracted like a magnet to the man sitting in the main seat. Although at this moment that man didn't make any movement and could even be mistaken for a corpse, Zhou Yang knew this was his target, Salamander Hanzo, the man known as standing at the pinnacle of the ninja world.

The two beside him bowed on one knee as usual. Only then did the man sitting in the main seat let out a long breath. This breath passed through his mask, producing a series of static-like sizzling sounds, and then grew quiet again.

At this moment when even the drop of a pin could be heard, a huge pressure suddenly surged toward Zhou Yang. He seemed to see a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, seemed to hear the wails of ten thousand ghosts. This special bloody aura actually made him feel a bit nauseous. This was the first time he had ever experienced such a thing; even when killing that ninja, he hadn't had this feeling. But now this sensation had actually appeared, and yet right now he couldn't even manage to bow his head, because he found that he couldn't move.

I thought I wouldn't be afraid! I never expected such an emotion to appear. It seems I haven't grown numb yet! But then again, just how many people has this guy killed for his mere residual bloody aura to cause my body to react like this?