Konoha: The young son-in-law of the Hyuga family

In the lively Sagi Castle,

A fat gray cat was moving around in the bustling crowd of people coming and going very nimbly.

The thoughts in his mind were extremely chaotic, the old cat had no idea what mood he was in now,

He just ran forward instinctively, wanting to get out of here, reach the reassuring young man as soon as possible, and deliver the information entrusted by Hinata Xingcai to him.

"But am I really going to run away like this? After I go home, will Ryosuke and the others accuse me of abandoning my companions?"

"No... I'm focusing on the task, I just obey orders!"

"Excuse, you are an excuse! You are avoiding battle!"

"Joke, I'm an old cat who took a step from the gate of the underworld and then backed away. I have nothing to be afraid of..."

Conversations that seem to be talking to myself seem to be asking and answering in my mind.

After rushing out of the city gate and out of the wilderness, the old cat's heart gradually calmed down after the complicated human voices disappeared.

Does he feel that he is afraid of death?

Of course it's scary, but it's not that scary.

He is mainly chaotic, his heart is very chaotic, and his thoughts are even more chaotic.

Although the red-haired warrior is very strong, even his well-trained and experienced companions were directly controlled in a face-to-face, without even showing any unnecessary movements, and there was no time to convey any effective information .

But... the old cat is actually not afraid.

No matter how strong the opponent is, he is not afraid,

But it's not because he is too arrogant and confident in his own strength, but because he is not afraid of death.

"Isn't the fear and pain of death already commonplace for me?"

Slowly, the old cat's running limbs began to slow down.

The soles of his feet sank deep into the snow, and the cold touch made him feel as if he had returned to being a widowed cat.

It was also this feeling that made the thoughts in his mind more and more clear.

I seemed to have made a wrong decision under the flustered emotions of the first mission.

Such an idea suddenly rose in the old cat's heart.

Some people will feel fear after being close to a death, and will cherish life more,

But if you are close to death again and again, you will only become numb, and you will no longer value life so much, and the old cat happens to be the latter.

In the past, I stepped through the gate of hell with one foot, but was pulled back by a devil fruit, so my life now is completely earned.

Then, during Liangjie's cruel training, he didn't know how many times he felt that he had died,

Every time he is exhausted, even the pain has been almost replaced by fatigue, and he feels that when the soul of the whole person is about to float out of the body, he will be revived again.

Therefore, the old cat has already deeply understood the pain he felt when he died.

And for him who has no goals in life, there is no so-called fear of leaving the world at all.

There is only one cat like him in this world, no relatives, maybe friends, but there are only a few, that is, Ryosuke's family and Hinata Xingcai who just parted, but I don't know if they regard themselves as friends.

So for me, death is just a momentary pain, I close my eyes, and then sleep in a dark place, there is nothing worth nostalgic about.

"Then shall I go back now?"

The old cat did not continue to walk,

He was very hesitant, and it was always difficult to make a choice, just like when he left just now.

Even after realizing that his fear of death was actually not that big, he still panicked.

The old cat panicked because he didn't know how to make a choice, and didn't know what answer to choose.

For the first mission, according to what Hyuga Xingcai taught him along the way,

From a rational point of view, as the only survivor in the team, he should be responsible for passing on the situation here and reporting it to the corresponding person. This is his responsibility and obligation.

But from an emotional point of view, the old cat is not someone who will easily abandon his teammates, at least when he was hunting with other wild cats before, he never abandoned the wounded.

"But if you go back now, it should be too late, right?"

Looking back at the gate of Zuomu City in the distance, the old cat fell into a dilemma between mission and emotion.

When they saw the gate for the first time, they were two people,

At that time, he squatted on Teacher Xingcai's shoulder and went in with her.

But now he was alone.

"Are you alone……"

The old cat's thoughts stopped, without further hesitation, he turned back to the city directly.

In fact, in this world, he still cares about things.

The old cat didn't want to have no one to accompany him or remember him when his life came to an end.

For him, that may be the real death.

And he had already experienced this kind of death once, in that cold cat house.

He doesn't want to experience it a second time now. This may be the thing that Lao Mao fears the most besides Ryosuke's exercise.

The whistling wind whistled in my ears,

The old cat runs very fast, and it is getting faster and faster.

When he left, because of the panic and hesitation in his heart, he didn't know what to do with the team that was left alone, so his speed was not fast.

But when he went back, his goal was very clear, so the speed was not slow.

Although I entered the city alone,

But just like when it ran out just now, because it was a cat, the warriors defending the city did not stop it.

When the noisy human voices returned to his ears, and when the old cat returned to the city and near the East Street, he slowly stopped in his tracks and became extremely cautious.

on the street,

Everything is the same as before he left, nothing has changed.

The flow of people coming and going was the same as ten minutes ago, as if during the time he left, the crowd was not frightened in any way, and there was no movement of fighting.

Since Teacher Xingcai said to check on the situation, of course there is no falsehood,

There are two possibilities in the current situation. One is that she is hiding well and has not been discovered by the other party.

And the other is that she, like the other companions, couldn't even make an unnecessary noise, and was directly captured by the opponent.

Perhaps...the latter is more likely.

With an increasingly heavy heart, the old cat walked slowly towards Dongdajie.

In addition to people from the noble families in the city, East Street also has ordinary people living in the city, so this street is more lively than the original street, but it also makes Lao Mao's heart infinitely more vigilant.

Because even though the flow of people is greater than before, the stability and tranquility of this street remain the same without any change.

Controlling his companion without disturbing the crowd made the old cat's body completely tense, so that he could enter the strongest state at any time to face the enemy.

Is it the middle of the street...

Recalling what Teacher Xingcai told him just now, the range where other people lost contact, the old cat continued to walk, deftly avoiding the trampling of pairs of soles and walking forward.

"Well, in winter, you should still eat hot pot in a warm room."

"Idiot, instead of staying at home alone, you should go out more in winter and use the spirit of the crowd to dissipate the cold, so that you won't be cold."

"False, what popularity, you are all illusory theories."

...

The chaotic and complicated voices were transmitted to the old cat's ears from all directions,

Although this made people unconsciously irritated, he still wanted to extract some useful information from others as much as possible.

But it's almost the end of the street...

The old cat jumped up from the ground and stood along the wall on someone else's house.

From the conversations of pedestrians around, there was no usable information revealed, and even he was about to walk out of the road with the flow of people, but there was still nothing worth paying attention to.

Have they been taken away?

With a sinking heart, the old cat watched every place and corner of the street from a condescending position above the house,

But all the while, he didn't see the figure of the red-haired warrior, let alone the traces of his companions, not even a trace of the battle.

and many more!

But at this moment, the old cat suddenly stopped moving its eyes.

A long distance away from him is a small tea stall set up with a cloth tent at the corner of the street.

At the tea stand, large and small teapots are continuously heated on the electric boiler, and hot air rises from the large and small teapots,

From time to time, passers-by would beg for a few cups of warm tea. They would either hold paper cups and drink while walking, or sit and rest at the few tables at the tea stand.

But what made the old cat stop his eyes was of course not this ordinary tea stand, but the customers at the tea stand.

At this time, two of the only three tables in the tea stand had a few people squatting crookedly, as if they were lying on the table to sleep.

big winter,

It's strange for people to sleep on the tea stand like this.

Although they are all wearing a black coat, they are still quite eye-catching.

But because one of them was still awake in a black coat like them, no passer-by came forward to care about their situation.

At the tea stand, although these people lying on their stomachs were all tightly wrapped in black coats, the old cat still keenly captured some familiar details and saw that they were his companions.

But the more accurate information was because he saw that the man in black who was still awake was the same red-haired warrior he had seen before.

However, his current attire is different from just now, because he bought a black hat on the side of the road to cover up the eye-catching red hair, so the old cat didn't notice him when he came along the way just now.

After all, the old cat is not good at perception techniques, and it can even be said that he has no understanding of them.

"So... what should we do now? Use your smart brain to think about it, you are the smartest cat in the cat clan."

The old cat stared intently at the tea stall, thinking hard about what to do to change the status quo.

At this time, the red-haired warrior was teasing a puppy, which was bought temporarily by the companion who pretended to be a dog walker.

Just now, the old cat was able to recognize the identity of this warrior in such a complicated flow of people, partly because of this little dog.

Wait... puppies?

The old cat was startled, and suddenly looked away.

But just now, relying on the fact that he was a cat, his focused observation caught the attention of the red-haired warrior.

At the moment when he just cast his eyes away, the red-haired warrior has already glanced over,

It just so happened that their eyes intersected.

"Escape... But if you escape, will it be too obvious?"

All of a sudden, the old cat's body froze.

Instinct told him,

He didn't even let go of a puppy, even if it looked like a kitten, he might be exposed and wanted to escape.

But the human nature he possessed after taking it told him that at this time, he should not panic.

However, under the influence of these two emotions, he seemed at a loss.

"Oh, what a fat cat."

Before the old cat's body could make a further decision, a kind voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

Old cat:?

He froze all over, and turned his head to look at the place where the sound was made in a daze.

I don't know when, the red-haired samurai who was leisurely drinking tea in the tea stall one second ago actually went up to the house and came to his side in the next second.

"Little cat, you look familiar."

I saw the red-haired warrior looking at him with a smile, "Is your master the noble lady with heavy makeup?"

While speaking, he actually raised his palm and was about to grab him.

"Danger!"

mind alert,

Almost without hesitation, the old cat's body suddenly changed, turning into a tall and mighty human figure, and punched the red-haired man.

And after entering this anthropomorphic but divine state, the hesitation and hesitation in his heart suddenly seemed to be emptied,

All that was left was a strong will to fight.

"Oh?"

The red hair saw the change of the old cat, and his face was a little surprised.

And he also clearly felt the majestic momentum of this punch.

However, he didn't have any intention of dodging, but he also threw a punch,

On the face of his fist, his bronze-colored complexion was completely covered by a jet-black aura, exuding a dazzling luster under the sun, just like metal iron.

boom!

A huge roar suddenly sounded in Dongdajie.

Below, the bustling flow of people seemed to be frightened by a thunderstorm, and they all instinctively stopped their movements.

Then, they all looked up at the place where the voice came from.

under the warm sun,

A huge cat-faced monster flew upside down,

On the opposite side, a red-haired man in a black coat looked at his fist thoughtfully.

呲味——

The old cat, who was directly blasted away by a huge force, clearly heard the sound of his hand bones cracking,

Afterwards, his back slammed into a high wall, smashing the wall to pieces.

The red-haired warrior's fist was like an egg under his thick casserole-like fist, but with such a punch, he was defeated!

impossible!

The old cat thought that he would lose, but he didn't expect that he would lose so quickly.

Perhaps after the transformation, the divinity in the fruit representing the god of battle is affecting his emotions. At this moment, the old cat has no thoughts of fear at all. Instead, he feels ashamed and unwilling to lose so easily.

The blood rushes to my head,

The sole of its foot stomped on the ground, and the old cat's huge body slammed into the red hair like a hill again.

The red-haired, who was still thinking, frowned when he saw that the cat man had the courage to rush forward.

The next moment, a majestic scolding sound came from his mouth, "Stop!"

An invisible breath centered on the red hair and spread in all directions,

However, this breath was only aimed at the old cat, and the other passers-by around were not affected at all.

Suddenly, the old cat who was still charging forward felt a blow to the head, and his head was a little dizzy, but it was only a little dizzy, and it didn't affect him to continue moving forward at all!