After the lightning vanished, Qian returned to the scorched earth.
Soon, Raiga Kurosuki's corpse appeared before his eyes.
His whole body was charred black as coal, looking even more miserable than the General Captain Qian had killed.
Seeing this, Qian could not help muttering, "I guess this counts as avenging him, right?"
Shaking his head, Qian paid him no more attention and turned to look at Biwa Juzo.
By now, he was dead as well.
However, judging from his position, he must have struggled a bit before dying and run some distance away.
Thinking of the carotid artery he had cut open, Qian could not help admiring his will to survive.
Unfortunately, without enough strength, even the toughest will was useless.
"Hm?"
Suddenly, Qian noticed that something seemed wrong.
"Where are those two blades?"
That was right. The Thunder Blade Kiba that had previously been in Raiga Kurosuki's hands, and Biwa Juzo's Severing Blade: Kubikiribōchō, were both gone.
Qian swept his gaze around, but he did not find even the tiniest fragment.
Originally, before obtaining the Kusanagi Sword, Qian had wanted to use these two ninja blades as a stopgap, especially the Thunder Blade Kiba.
Although it was an unusual pair of twin blades and a Lightning-nature weapon, there would have been no problem with it temporarily serving as his weapon.
He had not expected them both to disappear.
He recalled the information in his memories from his previous life regarding these seven ninja blades.
All of a sudden, Qian remembered that among the second generation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, the owner of the Twin Blades: Hiramekarei—Hozuki Mangetsu—seemed to have a scroll that could summon the seven ninja blades.
As the only genius capable of skillfully using all seven ninja blades, Qian had previously thought that this scroll had