"Lord Dragon Hashira?!"
Makio froze in place, looking up at the figure on the roof.
At that moment, that figure kept overlapping with the image in her mind.
A moment later, her mouth slowly fell open. "Lord Dragon Hashira is this young?"
Beneath the moon, at the edge of the roof.
Another beauty cried out in surprise. "Huh? Lord Dragon Hashira!!"
Suma blinked, her head still fuzzy.
The person who saved me was Lord Dragon Hashira?!
He's so handsome, and I feel so safe with him!
But then Suma reconsidered. She remembered that Lord Tengen had asked them to help find Lord Dragon Hashira and offer him assistance, hadn't he?
Doesn't that mean I'm just holding him back now...
Panic crossed Suma's face as she stammered, "I'm sorry, Lord Dragon Hashira. I'm not very good at fighting. Just now, I... I let my guard down! I even needed you to save me..."
"It's fine."
Su Chen remained calm, not taking this trivial matter to heart.
The boy's eyes had been fixed on one direction the entire time.
Because that was where the fiercest prey was.
Daki.
And her older brother inside her body, Gyutaro!
"Upper Rank Six, huh," Su Chen murmured.
The story went back a few hours.
From the moment he left Hinatsuru at Kyogoku House, Su Chen had already deduced everything from her letter.
There were only a few words on the paper.
But having awakened heaven-defying comprehension, how could he fail to figure out Hinatsuru's thoughts?
The three female ninjas discovered something unusual in the Entertainment District today, then Upper Rank Six caught them all in one sweep. Su Chen couldn't have been more familiar with this plot...
If Su Chen's guess was right, a day later, they would be picked off one by one, then quietly