"My name's Kinji Hakari. You can call me Boss Kinji."
Kinji Hakari held Roro Hoshizaki beside him and laughed heartily. "My teacher told me not to kill people if I could help it."
"Now that's boring... Kinji Hakari."
Hajime Kashimo gave the outlaw-looking man before him a disdainful smile. "Hurry up and fight me!"
"Roro, stand back."
The boundless cursed energy within Kinji Hakari began surging higher and higher, bursting apart his black shirt and making Roro Hoshizaki blush beside him.
Hajime Kashimo's eyes grew increasingly excited. He had never expected to encounter such a powerful opponent!
This battle fanatic from four hundred years ago had spent his entire life seeking defeat. That was why he had made a pact with Kenjaku.
Kinji Hakari wasted no more words. In an instant, a heavy punch brimming with cursed energy was right in Hajime Kashimo's face.
Hajime Kashimo's pupils contracted. He hurriedly raised his iron staff to defend himself, but the tremendous impact caught him off guard and drove him hard into the ground.
Dust billowed across the ground from the collision.
Kinji Hakari gave Kashimo no opening. He closed in again with incredible speed, throwing a heavy punch as his stomping feet came down toward Kashimo's head.
Hajime Kashimo barely evaded Kinji Hakari's taijutsu assault. Then he took a closer look-
The man had stomped a deep crater into the ground where Kashimo had just been standing.
He felt something warm beneath his nostrils and touched his upper lip. To his surprise, it was blood!
Hajime Kashimo grinned. Though the man's fierce taijutsu attacks had missed him, his powerful cursed energy had still grazed him hard enough to draw blood.
Kinji Hakari looked at Hajime Kashimo across from him and smiled nonchalantly. "I'm a guy, you know. Why are you still