At the port of Kannazuka, Shiki, before the bridge was lowered, directly used the Thunder Sphere to fly onto the ship, and then found the captain to ask about the person who scuttled the ship.
"What happened to the person who scuttled the ship?"
This member of the Kamisato Clan clearly knew Shiki. After bowing, he began to report the situation.
"Reporting, consultant-sama, that prisoner has been taken into custody by us and is now in the brig of this ship."
"Also, please rest assured, we have restrained him very strictly, ensuring he has no means of suicide."
"That's good. Take me to the brig; I want to see him." Shiki nodded with satisfaction.
This "resistance" member must be alive; he was the most important evidence to point out the Kujou Clan!
Following the stairs, Shiki followed the captain to the lowest level's brig area. The prisoner was bound tightly inside, and a rag was stuffed in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide.
"When we caught him, he was about to take poison to commit suicide, but we controlled him, and his poison fangs were also removed."
"During interrogation, he tried to commit suicide several times and kept emphasizing his identity as a resistance member. There was nothing we could do, so we could only temporarily keep him like this."
The captain was also a bit helpless. He had already realized that this person who claimed to be a resistance member was actually a loyal subordinate trained by some force.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have such a strong suicidal tendency and be so unyielding.
"Understood. You go out first. I'll talk to him alone."
The captain hesitated for a moment upon hearing this, but thinking that she was a consultant, he nodded and left the lowest level.
Shiki took out a key to open the cell door, then grabbed a chair, sat down, and said, "Kujou Clan member, right? Let me think, who sent you?"
"That old guy Kujou Takayuki, or Kujou Masahito?"
Although the ship-scuttling culprit kept shaking his head, Shiki still keenly caught his brief moment of Stunned. After all, when someone calls out your true identity with an incredibly certain tone, anyone would react.
"Heh heh, you don't need to shake your head. I understand your master better than you do. Perhaps he has already sent someone to silence you."
Shiki sneered, then looked at the ninja slowly emerging from the shadows.
"Am I right? Kujou Clan's dog?"
Wolf said nothing, merely silently drew his weapon, a kunai.
At the same time, the Cryo element began to condense, and the temperature in the cell instantly dropped.
Shiki glanced at the ship-scuttling culprit behind her, closed the cell door, and then faint golden electrical arcs began to appear on her body.
Towards the assassin sent by the Kujou Clan, Shiki didn't want to say another word. She immediately assumed a standard iaijutsu stance, and as the current surged, her entire being transformed into a bolt of lightning and shot out.
Thunderclap and Flash!
The floor along the way was scorched with a dark black mark. The ninja Wolf's pupils contracted upon seeing this, and then he quickly activated his Vision, his body directly diffusing into a mass of ice crystals on the spot.
While dodging the high-speed iaijutsu, the ice crystals formed by his body also rapidly moved towards the cell. His main goal was to eliminate the ship-scuttling culprit, not this young consultant of the Kamisato Clan.
The iron cell couldn't stop him, because he could use his Vision to transform his entire body into a mass of ice crystals, thereby ignoring physical attacks while crossing some obstacles that ordinary people found difficult to cross.
This was his proud ultimate skill. As long as it was handled properly, even elemental attacks couldn't cause him DMG.
But Shiki wouldn't let him have his way. After realizing the first strike missed, she changed direction, directly spun 180 degrees, and used Thunderclap and Flash: Double Strike to chase back.
Although Shiki didn't cause any substantial impact due to the ice crystallization, it didn't matter. She reached the cell door a step before him, and that was enough.
'Heh, can you hide for a while, can you hide forever?'
An iridescent blue light appeared in her eyes, but it was just elementalizing the body, and your line of death was still flickering!
Shiki took a step forward, and terrifying lightning instantly raged through the ship's cabin. Can you dodge this area-of-effect attack that covers the entire field?
Wolf was forced to reveal his form, and at this moment, Shiki's blade arrived.
Wolf instinctively reached out with his kunai to block, but in the face of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception's power, his kunai was like tofu, neatly sliced in half from the middle.
Pfft!
Shiki cleanly sliced across the line of death. Along with the crisp sound of half a kunai falling to the ground, the ninja Wolf lost his breath and then collapsed heavily onto the ground.
His originally ice-blue Vision lost its color, like an extinguished flame, leaving only a grayish-white.
Picking up the Vision and putting it into her sleeve, Shiki turned and said, "Look, this is the Kujou Clan you served. You risked your life for them, but they want to kill you. Given that, why do you still insist?"
"The Kujou Clan is no longer fit to serve as the Tenryou Commission. Your path is also a dead end, but as long as you are willing to testify for me, I can guarantee you a worry-free life for the rest of your days. How about it?"
"If you agree, nod. I'll give you three days to consider. I'll be back in three days."
After Shiki finished speaking, she lifted the ninja Wolf's corpse and left the scorched lower deck of the ship. The ship-scuttling culprit in the cell, meanwhile, lowered his head thoughtfully.
The Kujou Clan's actions indeed made him question himself. He thought that in his half-life, even if he had no achievements, he had worked hard, but the result was being silenced by his superior.
It's true that he was trained by the Kujou Clan, but that doesn't mean he'll always support them, especially since Kujou Masahito wants to kill him.
Given the current situation, if he hadn't been caught, he would have been silenced, right?
After all, only dead men can keep secrets, can't they?
Thinking of this, a hint of self-mockery appeared in the ship-saboteur's eyes. How ironic, the person who had always served the Kujou Clan was now being hunted by Kujou.
His life had never been valued. Even this mission was only undertaken because the Kujou Clan promised him freedom after its completion.
He had originally been loyal to the Kujou Clan, but now it seemed that agreeing to the other party's terms might not be a bad idea.
At this moment, Shiki returned to the captain's cabin and threw the ninja's body onto the floor.
"This... a ninja? When did he get here?" The captain was somewhat aghast. He didn't ask if she was hurt, after all, her clothes weren't even torn. Wouldn't asking that be purely idiotic?
He was just a little shocked, wondering when this ninja had boarded the ship.
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