Playing Blind

Chapter 8,

I do not own anything pertaining to either Naruto or The Gamer.

《PB》

I didn't spend too much time training the first night that Team Eight, Karin and I all congregated in Nami, instead running a patrol around Tazuna's family home in a randomized pattern to check the peripherals of the outermost points of my sensory range.

Everything was clear from where I sat on the roof of the Ichigeki household, though I had Karin do a few sweeps with her much more potent third eye to double check every few hours while surrounded by a platoon of Shadow Clones, just to be certain.

I can actively sense Hinata staring at me with her Byakugan from a few feet behind me and down about eight feet, which is just the creepiest thing ever due to how unmoving her gaze is.

I don't like it, not one bit.

I have Hinata watching me like a creep, Shino spying on me with his bugs while he rests and Kiba probably listening to my every breath at this very moment, actually. I applaud their caution, but I really wish the brats would get some rest while they can or at least come join me on the roof for a chat. I'd love to pick their brains about a few subjects, but I highly doubt they'd be up for talks about the nature of Chakra or it's nigh unlimited versatility.

Those kids aren't the people they would eventually become and I need to actively remind myself of that.

Haku remained unconscious beside me, two of my chains wrapped firmly around their arms, legs and hands to prevent them from hitting me with any senbon or Hyouton techniques if they somehow magically escaped my chains.

Something nifty about the [Adamantine Sealing Chains] is that once you spend the Chakra to summon them, it no longer costs Chakra to sustain. This means that despite spending a thousand points to bind Haku so thoroughly as to keep them incapacitated, I can keep them there forever with no extra cost.

Hell, I could even use them as a Chakra battery if I was so inclined, once I figure out how to drain Chakra, of course.

If I never dispel my chains and keep, say, thirty active and shrunk down before being wrapped around my waist, arms, legs and torso, all hidden beneath my robes, the only Chakra I have to spend afterwards is the cost of forging new chain lengths to extend their range. This not only saves me an absolute fuckton of Chakra in the future, but it also practically doubles as armor, since the lengths are nigh unbreakable.

I have basically become the Uzumaki version of Doctor Octopus in a way, but better because I don't have a bowl cut and I have more than eight extra limbs now.

I have thirty six.

Plus, it makes my robes look like they have a teal colored underglow, which is pretty rad if Karin isn't just saying that to butter me up.

Beyond finding yet another way to bend the System to benefit me, I used [Psychometry] on Kubikiribocho on a whim and had my brain almost melted when it dumped four different skills worth of information straight into my noggin.

[Silent Killing] started out at level ten, [Kirigakure no Jutsu] started at eight, [Ventriloquism] started at level five and I gained a bonus ten levels to my [Kenjutsu Mastery], all four skills being the most used across all of Kubikiribocho's previous wielders.

Between now knowing how to move like an actual ninja, execute flawless attacks that target the eight vital points and operate in perfect silence thanks to [Silent Killing], being able to blind my opponents to further disadvantage them with [Kirigakure no Jutsu], throw my voice to confuse my opponents and actually wield a blade larger than a dagger, I'm feeling mighty confident in leaning towards a Taijutsu/Kenjutsu/Fuin-Ninjutsu build, so to speak.

It also turns out that the sword is semi-sentient and absolutely despises the Uzumaki clan after the Clan Head at the time killed the blacksmith who forged the Seven Swords of Kirigakure for daring to betray his family.

That's right, the man who forged Kirigakure's most feared weapons was an Uzumaki, and the brother of the man who would be known to history as Ashina Uzumaki. Apparently the man was so upset about his brother being chosen as Clan Head by their father that he was willing to sign away all of the Uzumaki blacksmithing secrets and techniques that he had mastered after failing to kill his brother and being forced into exile.

If you ask me, I'm pretty sure this is not canon, and that I'm not in a canon compliant universe. This is made doubly obvious by the fact that Sarutobi sent Kurenai Yuhi on the famed Nami mission and not Kakashi.

Did Other-Nemui being born in this world cause so many ripples as to only vaguely resemble canon at first until it snowballs into something completely unrecognizable and quite frankly, nightmarish?

Just what other changes have taken place and what changes are happening as we speak that I can't account for?

Well, these questions can't be answered at the moment, yet I can't help but ponder the ramifications of the Nami mission going so far awry as it has so far.

Zabuza is in full health, but lacks his two main weapons and thus won't dare make a move before I do first. Kurenai should be waking up in another few hours, as her body is no longer wounded and a Chakra infusion from myself ensured her coils were topped off.

Team Eight was good as well, health and Chakra wise, though I think all three could do with seeing a Yamanaka that isn't Ino when they get home, just to be safe. They don't have [Gamer's Mind] to basically minimize their chances of developing shell shock like I do.

The timeline has already suffered irreversible damage, as far as I'm concerned, so I may as well kiss most of my canon knowledge goodbye except for the hard facts and rigid cast itself.

This also means that the future is a tossup from this moment on, and any actions that I take will only lead the timeline further astray. Slaughtering Gatou and his men are now my responsibility and not Zabuza's, so that's already one change that's coming to pass. Zabuza and Haku might not die here either, meaning that also changes the timeline even further.

There isn't much more I can immediately predict as far as changes go beyond Konoha now becoming aware of there being two more Uzumaki in the world than they already knew about, unless they somehow knew about Other-Nemui already.

Man, I'm hoping he doesn't have a bad rep with anyone important loyal to any of the big five ninja villages, because I still have no idea who the two people I have negative one thousand reputation with are.

The sound of Team Eight suddenly becoming active beneath me snaps me from my thoughts, and it's only then that I notice I can feel the warmth of the sun on my skin.

It sucks not being able to watch the sun rise in the morning, but I know it's only a matter of time before I get good enough in Fuinjutsu to remove the Juinjutsu sealing my eyes away, especially since that my parties next destination is going to be Uzushiogakure, whether Zabuza and Haku join me or I end up killing both.

Ignoring my current inability to properly praise the sun in all of its incandescent glory, I casually float down to the window leading into the room Team Eight was given as temporary lodgings and tap on the glass gently. I can sense that Hinata was still watching me like a hawk the entire time and this is further proven by the fact that she met me at the window seconds after I knocked on the pane.

I really hope she's already obsessed with Naruto right now, I don't need a stalker who isn't already my apprentice in my life at the moment.

Damn, it's wild I really just wished that on someone else. I really am losing my Humanity here.

"Is everything alright? I thought I heard a commotion down here." I question casually, ignoring the choking noises of Kiba and the confused buzzing coming from Shino behind her, since they probably just noticed I'm standing on the air itself and all.

"Yes… everything is fine," Hinata eventually squeaks in a confused tone, probably wondering how to replicate what she was no doubt seeing with her Byakugan, "Our Sensei is finally waking up, do you think you can… give us a few minutes?"

Ah, right, debriefings and all that fun stuff. I keep forgetting I'm dealing with child soldiers who followed a rigid chain of command here and not chaotic neutral entities who answer to no one like Karin and myself.

Well, Karin answers to me, and is going to answer for her grievous crimes against my clothing and hair soon enough, but that's not the point here.

"That's fine, I'll be downstairs or outside somewhere if you guys need me for anything." I say after offering the shy girl a nod and a jaunty wave before allowing the platform beneath my feet to descent downwards like an elevator.

It didn't take long after touching down on the dew covered lawn to make my way to the back door and into the kitchen, where Karin, Tsunami, Tazuna and Inari were having breakfast.

"Good morning, folks." I greeted the four at once while making my way towards the kitchen to make a small plate of the fish my Shadow Clones had brought back that weren't used as improvised projectile weapons against Zabuza's clones. "Everyone sleep well?"

"We both know I didn't sleep long." Karin grouses loudly while Tazuna and Inari just grunted like zombies.

Tsunami, however, offered a far more pleasant greeting. "I slept wonderfully, thank you. This home hasn't felt this lively in years, or safe."

Ah, my heart.

Ophis bless this woman.

[Blessing Accepted!]

Wait.

What.

I don't notice any immediate changes in the world, but I can't shake the feeling I just fucked up somehow.

Okay, from now on, that name is forboden. No more mentioning the names of higher entities period, as a matter of fact.

Fuck that.

The sound of four sets of feet beating in sync coming down the stairs at once was interesting enough to interrupt my inner mental breakdown after successfully evoking a God that doesn't exist in this dimension, so I come back into the dinning room with two plates and remained by the back door, just in case.

Kurenai's Chakra felt a bit off, but that was likely because it was pinging my third eye as my own still while overlapping her weaker Chakra signature. It was like holding a piece of paper over a bright light, in a way, with Kurenai's naturally produced Chakra being the paper.

The Genin seemed to be resolute, but it was clear that Hinata was suffering from something I will probably later identify as early stalker syndrome. Shino, Kiba and Akamaru, however, seemed to be in pretty decent spirits given the circumstances. I say that because Shino seems to be experiencing an extreme sugar rush off of the Chakra I force fed his bugs through the night, and Kiba because he seems to have gotten over his sexual identity crisis and settled on whatever it is he had in mind.

All in all, it was good to see Team Eight whole and mostly well after encountering an A-lister on a C-Rank mission.

"Good morning, Tazuna and… everyone. I… apologize for my failures from the bottom of my heart, and hope you find it in your heart to forgive me." Kurenai starts off in a somber tone while bowing at the waist in Tazuna's direction, "I promised I would help you free this land, and I am obviously incapable of doing so. If not for the assistance of the pink haired stranger over there, my team and I, and you, would have perished."

Damn, woman, play with the other one for a bit, righty is going numb.

"It's not your fault, Kurenai-san," Tazuna replies after a moment of silence before sighing and shaking his head, ",nothing would have ever made me believe Gatou would hire someone like that to take me down, but I guess I underestimated how far he was willing to go to stop my super bridge project."

I mean, it should have been pretty obvious that the overly rich, little man syndrome having shipping tycoon named Gatou wouldn't want his cash cow to up and flee the ranch, but maybe that's the benefit of metaknowledge or common sense speaking.

Everyone knows that anyone with any meaningful amount of Chakra ends up pretty lacking up stairs after a while.

"Regardless, I swear on my honor as a Shinobi of Konoha to see this mission through, as do my student's. If you will still have us, we promise to see this bridge built and Gatou's stranglehold on Nami ended once and for all." Kurenai finishes with passion in her tone, and I would have clapped for her had my hands not been occupied by two servings of breakfast.

If I didn't know any better, I'd think my Chakra may have given her some kind of hidden Charisma buff or something.

Man, I wonder just what my Chakra does to other people? How do I find this out without human experimentation?

Food for thought later, I suppose. Right now though, Shino and Kurenai are prime candidates to keep an eye out for as far as earlier symptoms go, like increased passion and a sugar-rush like physical energy levels.

"Well luckily for everyone involved, my daughter has a keen eye when it comes to looking for help, isn't that right Tsunami?" Tazuna tries to lighten the mood and shift the conversation away from himself at once.

That was very politician-like, old man. Nice.

"Yes, well, after going into town and finding ten of Gatou's men turned into scarecrows on the side of the road, I thought it would be nice to have someone able to do that and walk away protecting Inari and me while you were still away." Tsunami says after finishing her last bite of fish and standing to take her plate to the kitchen, "It was quite the nice display after what that group did to Ibumi last month."

I can practically feel the venom in her voice wash over me like a wave.

Damn, I don't even know how to address that. What do I even say, if anything?

Nah, it's best not to speak unless spoken to with these folks, just to be sure.

"Speaking of strangers, may I ask the name of the man who saved my life?" Kurenai once more speaks up, though this time her gaze is aimed directly at me.

"Nemui Uzumaki, nice to meet you, miss…?" I trail off, because obviously I technically shouldn't know the names of anyone here besides Karin, Tsunami, Tazuna and Inari quite yet.

"Kurenai Yuhi, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Kurenai nods in my direction before gesturing her head towards the door. "Do you mind if I speak to you, alone?"

Welp, fuck. There goes my plans for breakfast and interrogations, the best part of any morning ritual.

《PB》

The first minute that Kurenai and I stood across from one another with my cute little hostage still bound up in my chains off to the side was filled by tense silence.

Finally, the woman seems to have gathered her nerves enough to say what she means to say.

"My students tell me you drove Zabuza away." Kurenai starts off, deciding to start with the most pressing issue she needs clarity on, "How?"

"It was easy, I stole his weapon, threatened the life of his fake Hunter-nin apprentice to stall for a minute, then offered him a way to get both back without either being hurt any further." I say as if it were the most obvious thing in the world after taking a nibble of the fish Tsunami cooked and swallowing, "there was obviously a lot of violence involved, but you get the idea. I personally think I spooked him."

And I'm being serious, too. Something about me admitting to being an Uzumaki made Zabuza's Chakra go cold like he was just given a death sentence, it was pretty bizarre.

One of us must have traumatized him in his past or something, if I had to hazard a guess.

"I see.." Kurenai says in a tone that makes me believe that she doesn't understand, "and you were somehow able to reattach my arm?"

"That too. My apprentice and I studied under Tsunade for a while, she taught me quite a bit." I say while not outright saying that I only had four days of proper medical training and classroom styled lessons under my belt. "It was much easier than I thought it would be."

Now that part is an outright lie, but I have no tells to indicate I'm actually lying due to having near perfect control of all of my musculature.

[+300 Reputation with Kurenai Yuhi!]

Hell yes.

"I… don't know if I could ever repay you, but I owe you a massive debt for not only saving my team and I, but this mission as well. If we went home now and they heard about what's happened…" Kurenai trails off and then clams up, likely thinking she has ssid far too much.

In a way, she has. Now I can make a deal here using her mission as bait.

It's obvious that this is Kurenai's first big mission leading a Genin team, and a successful A rank under her belt as a rookie Jounin is sure to look good on her resume.

Oh yes, I can work with this.

"Well, your mission is what, to protect Tazuna until he finishes his bridge?" I question while tilting my head slightly, even if I already knew the answer to the question.

"... Yes, that's the gist of it." Kurenai admits after mulling over whether admitting that or not would have consequences, "why do you ask?"

"Well you see, I, too, have a mission, though it's more… violent in nature." I say after deciding the best way to approach my proposal. "Specifically, to kill Gatou, seize his assets, liberate Nami and restore it to glory. I'll obviously do all of the heavy lifting, but I could use some logistical support."

"And who signed off on this mission?" Kurenai questions almost at once, on guard for any sudden hostilities on my part.

"Me, myself and I, obviously. My apprentice thinks it's the right thing to do as well, I guess." I say after shrugging, knowing that she's basically asking if I was loyal to one of the many enemies Konoha has made over the years. "We were on a pilgrimage to Uzushio and this is the first island of three we needed to stop at to reach our destination. Obviously we don't like the look of things here, so we're going to do something about it."

"Wait… Uzushio… where is that, exactly?" Kurenai questions after a moment of silence while bringing a hand up to stroke her chin in confusion, "you said your name was Uzumaki, right? Does that mean you're from a clan or something?"

Oh wow, that's right, I forget most people in Konoha from the most recent generation have been fed horse shit in the academy and beyond. Apparently that extends to the new Jounin as well.

"Yes, the Uzumaki were, are, a clan. We're direct cousin's of the Senju and partially helped found your village. Hell, your Chuunin and Jounin wear our clan symbol on your backs to this very day." I explain with a sigh, knowing that Kurenai is already connecting a few dots in her head. "Why, do you know any other Uzumaki or something?"

"I'm… not at liberty to say." Kurenai finally says in a very deliberate tone, indicating that yes, she does know another Uzumaki.

Obviously, she's thinking about Naruto.

"Ah, I see…" I say, trailing off for a moment before returning the conversation to the previous point before we were sidetracked. "So, about that logistical help?"

And so the conversation continued. It continued for so long, as a matter of fact, that her Genin team and Karin alike came to figure out what was taking so long.

"Ah, you were right, Hinata, there she is!" Kiba calls out loud enough for Kurenai and I to both put a lid on our conversation, since it contains material not quite fit for the ears of Genin, "Hey, Kurenai-Sensei, are you ready for our training or do you need a bit longer?"

"Ah, Kiba, I almost forgot." Kurenai stands and brushes her knees off, both of us having sat down to discuss my plans on raiding Gatou using an extremely thorough search and destroy protocol developed by Konoha. "Yes, we can get to that now, if you'd like. Tazuna-san won't be working on his bridge for at least a few more days, so we have some time to prepare. Did you get what you needed, Nemui-san?"

"Oh yes, I think I know all I need. Thank you for your insight, Kurenai-san." I reply back while rising and brushing the dirt from my knees while lifting Haku from the ground as well with my chains. "If you'll excuse us, my apprentice and I need to have a little chat with our cute little friend here before I get started with my plans."

"Have fun, and let me know if you need any help. We will be keeping an eye on the area here while you finish your business." Kurenai nods in my direction before gesturing for her students to follow her back towards the house, "Now, You three are proficient in Surface Clinging thanks to your clan trai-"

Karin and I remain in the clearing that Kurenai and I once occupied for only a few moments more before we continued on our way.

I had a prisoner to crack.

《PB》

"I'll… never… tell… you!" Haku snarled, panting heavily as they struggled to regain their breath, red in the face and very clearly having a rough time resisting my advanced interrogation techniques.

"Come on, snowball, I've already told you that I'm not trying to kill your master. I promised to find him in two days, but how am I supposed to do that if I don't know where he is?" I ask, holding back for a moment while I wait for my 'guest' to recover a bit more, "look, Gatou is paying you two to kill Tazuna, not guard his life. If you help me by telling me where Gatou likes to hide out, I will personally pay you the amount he was promising, without you having to do a thing but stand by. Isn't that a good deal?"

"... I don't believe you." Haku says more evenly than before, their voice and Chakra wavering in a way that indicated I was starting to get through to them. "Why should I trust that you won't just stab us in the back?"

"Look, sweet cheeks, I want you two to team up with my apprentice and me, alright? Killing you would be counter-productive when you two are much more valuable alive, healthy and happy." I say while twirling the very large feather I had been tickling Haku's feet with savagely for the past half-hour, "Zabuza wants to free Kiri from Yagura, and I find my goals aligning the same way. The enemy of my enemy, you know?"

"... You swear that you won't betray my master and I if I tell you what you want to know?" Haku questions in a small voice while watching the feather I was passing from hand to hand warily, "I don't think I can take much more of that thing."

"Oh darn, and I was just getting warmed up." I sigh while passing Karin back the large feather I had been using as an improvised torture device, "I'm glad you see the light, snowball. Now, where can I find Gatou right about now, and where do most of his men congregate at any one time?"

[+50 Reputation with Haku Yuki!]

I had them eating out of the palm of my hand before long.

《PB》

A few hours after breaking Haku in a way they obviously weren't trained to resist, I found myself standing on the shore of a small bay on the opposite side of Nami, staring out at my target while mentally preparing myself for what I was about to do.

Gatou was not at his main headquarters like Haku had thought they would be. I would know, I personally checked.

When I say personally checked, I mean I had multiple Shadow Clones lock down every entrance and exit out of the rather large building with improvised uses of Mokuton and Haton Chakra manipulation and entered that building with only one intention in mind.

Between light uses of [Shunshin no Jutsu], [Kirigakure no Jutsu] and [Silent Killing], I had very little issue taking down the hundred and sixty three mercenaries and Ronin within the four floored building. Most people were not used to fighting blind, let alone an opponent who was so far out of their league and very much in their element once one of my spare wakizashi's began swinging.

It was unfair, and quite possibly going to keep me up for a few nights, but in the end I walked away taking less than ten thousand points in damage, while not a single soul that wasn't a prostitute walked away. It turns out that I couldn't just kill everyone there like I intended, because I never considered there would be prostitutes and sex slaves involved.

What started out as a massacre that may or may not have been warranted ended up becoming a rescue mission that had been long, long overdue.

So many… I can't…

[Gamer's Mind Active!]

Yes, yes, System, I know.

I know all too well now.

So I walked out of that building with dozens and dozens of people in tow, one million ryo and many interesting documents richer, but hollow.

I knew it would be bad, even tried to wrap my head around it since I planned on taking this nation over as my first step towards surviving the inevitable future.

I couldn't even begin to understand how low Gatou and his men would go. I wish I didn't know now.

I wish people like Gatou, and those one hundred and sixty three dead bandits never existed.

I would have to make my wish come true, personally.

A burst of Chakra lifts me from the shores and I take off toward the yacht that contained the man who was now fated to die by my hands by the Will of the Planet.

I'm not going to keep my System Admin waiting much longer.

《PB》

The front deck of the large sea vessel that hid away my first actual target in this world was empty save a small platoon of guards that were far too drunk to notice my approach, or my blade when I beheaded them all in the span of seconds.

The six thousand experience and another level to my kenjutsu mastery was well worth the effort of killing these scum.

My way into the cabin was blocked by some thug wearing a beanie who probably thought he was hot shit, but he too was rendered a corpse and stuffed into my inventory with little more than a small application of Chakra and a flick of my wrist. His comrade inside, a shirtless man, was balls deep in an unconscious woman and thus was in no position to defend himself when I threw my wakizashi like a projectile, piercing him directly through the forehead.

[-2851 HP!]

The woman didn't wake up, despite the spray of viscera, so I left a Shadow Clone to try and heal her and help her get off the ship while claiming the wannabe Samurai's blade as my own after shoving his corpse and the wakizashi gored through his dome into my personal hammerspace.

It was a rather nice blade as far as stats went, but nothing to write home about. It's history told a story of pillaging, rape and bloodshed, none of which appealed to me in any way, but it did grant a bit of experience towards [Kenjutsu Mastery], as did his dead partners equally as mediocre katana.

[Psychometry] was turning out to be a double edged sword the more I used it. Sure, it granted quite a lot of experience in many different skills, but using it on blades whose users were as disgusting as Waraji and Zori, not even mentioning the hundred and fifty other dead thugs and slavers, it really did something to the mind.

Very unpleasant things, and I've seen far too much now to let this sort of thing continue uncontested. The quest that I couldn't deny wouldn't let me, and my conscience wouldn't either.

I picked apart every single person on that yacht that wasn't there by force, fifty four to be exact, and finally found Gatou hiding away like the rat he was in the lowest, furthest reaches he could run. He was nearly incoherent by the time I had hauled him back up to the deck bound in a few lengths of my thirty four active chains, even more so by the time my Shadow Clones had figured out how to pilot the yacht back towards the bay Tazuna lived by.

The travel time was much longer than it would have been had I just flown back to Tazuna's to offer little Inari the chance to avenge Kaiza, but it gave me ample time to extract all of the information I needed from Gatou to completely take control of his company and assets with little anyone else could do to stop me, if anything.

He kept all of his physical cash and other valuables in a safe on an island not too far off the beaten path for me to stop and verify for myself after once more forcing Gatou to tell me all I needed to know to bypass the security features of his rather large vault of treasure.

I am now around ten million ryo richer now in cash alone, and that's not even counting the jewels, jewelry, bars of gold, crowns, the list goes on.

Gatou had enough in that one vault alone to fund Nami's recovery, and he had told me the location of upwards of six that exist on the different islands that make up the outer archipelago of Nami.

Obviously I'm going to keep about four of them for myself and my allies to use to fund future projects, but I don't mind using a third of Gatou's riches to make Nami thrive.

More than thirty Shadow Clones were deployed to finish snagging up Gatou's valuables before his goons inevitably heard of his soon to be execution by the time the Yacht was coming close enough to the Ichigeki household that it wouldn't be troublesome to keep an eye on it. It didn't take long for the cash to physically start pouring in as my clones returned carrying actual carts full of gold, diamonds and other various goods that I would be needing to kickstart Nami's economy.

It didn't stop there, either. Once my Chakra had recovered from sending out the first wave of clones, I sent out another group of thirty to begin rounding up the citizens of Nami to inform them of the soon to be a public celebration.

Gatou was completely incoherent as I had a single clone inform Karin and the rest that I was successful in capturing Gatou, who led the Ichigeki family to the same spot Kaiza was executed all those years ago.

By the time Team Eight, Karin, our current captive Haku who was bound at the throat by my apprentices chains and the Ichigeki family arrived, close to a hundred residents had formed a large crowd around the tree I had grown to restrain Gatou. My clones had taken to passing out stones to the small children present to throw at the man as a form of petty revenge, and it had gone quite a long way with earning the respect of the parents who understood why I was letting the children go first.

I broke away from beside Gatou while leaving a clone there to keep him healed up to prolong the celebration a bit more to approach Tazuna and his family, who seemed like they had been given the greatest gift in the world if their Chakra signatures meant what I think they meant.

[+500 Reputation with Nami no Kuni!]

[+500 Reputation with Tazuna Ichigeki!]

[+500 Reputation with Tsunami Ichigeki!]

[+500 Reputation with Inari Ichigeki!]

[+200 Reputation with Kurenai Yuhi!]

[+100 Reputation with Karin Uzumaki!]

[Quest Complete!]

[All Your Base Are Belong To Us!]

[Gatou's reign of terror has been brought to an end, and with that, a new day dawns over Nami no Kuni.]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[+1 Deed to Gatou Shipping!]

[+1 Skill Tome: Seal Projection!]

《New Title Acquired: Chishio no Nemui》

《+10% damage towards Human opponent's when equipped with a blade.》

Oh holy damn, System, give a guy a warning before you just load my weird enough vision up with pop ups!

I dismiss the many notifications cluttering my periphery and save figuring that all out later, instead offering Inari my tanto to use to do the honor of putting Gatou down.

I wasn't the only one cheering him on when that blade came down, allowing Kaiza and those who died under Gatou's boot to finally rest in peace now that the ones they left behind were released of their indentured status.

With a few hundred deaths and most of the world ignorant of the coming storm, freedom rang loudly in Nami.