Going into the dungeon retty easy. There were some guards stationed outside, but they barely looked at Bke. Perhaps it was his fidenaybe they just didn’t care. In the end, everyone could ehe dungeon, for they khe dahat they were putting themselves in.

  As soon as Bke was inside of the dungeoook out his phone. 5% left otery. Bke didn’t use it except for taking pictures and pying some music. The fact that it was about to die disturbed Bke quite a bit, but there wasn’t really anything that he could about it right now.

  Bke opehe camera and took a picture of lightly lit passage in front of him. Then he bent down and took a few more photos of the lightly blue stones on the walls. Finally putting his phone away and turning it off, Bke ied the crystals, slightly tapping them.

  He felt no chakra anywhere within the dungeon, which made sense. However, Bke still had his chakra inside of him, so he could use everything that he had learned under Nagato’s and Konan’s guidance. Bke flexed his muscles. He had to kill five adventurers. It seemed like a retively low number pared to what the Akatsuki was doing, but Bke k was not going to be easy.

  Once he begun the age, some people would obviously start looking for him, and Bke didn’t want to be hunted down like a madman. He had to be discreet about it. His pn right now was to simply wait he entrance, until a party showed up and ask to join them. In case they disagreed, Bke would just stalk them and try to murder them in an ambush.

  “I am talking about murder so freely.” Bke mumbled. “Did I ge that much?”

  It was weird. Oh, Bke would have already been deemed a criminal, yet here, Bke was simply trying to survive. And survival meaing stronger. He had already checked whether he could open the door back to Naruto, ing to the clusion that he had to finish the mission first.

  It came down to his survival or the death of five adventurers, and Bke would always choose the former. Maybe it was selfish, though Bke never sidered himself some altruistidividual. He would choose himself anytime.

  As Bke waited he entrance, he got a moment of soce to think. He remembered his dad and, to his surprise, the memory didn’t hurt as much as it used to. So much has happened in these few months that Bke buried that memory somewhere deep within himself. Instead only good memories came to his mind, like pying football with his father when he actally slipped o grass.

  His dad had pihe entire way bae.

  A smile surfaced on Bke’s face, until it was repced by a frown as he registered a creature appearing in the er of his vision. Turning sideways, Bke took out his dagger, staring at the little greeure that was slowly cautiously approag him. A goblin. It looked dumb as hell, and it was, in fact, dumb as hell.

  The goblin began to rush forward towards Bke, holding a broken piece of arrow in its hands. Pointing the sharp end, the goblin run towards the huma Bke was staring at it with narrowed eyes. It was really slow. Bke took a step to the side and the goblin tripped on its own foot, falling to the ground aing go of the arrow.

  Bke stared at it from above with a mixture of pity and apprehension. Then Bke brought the dagger down on the creature, killing it immediately. It disappeared as soon as it was dead, leaving behind a small crystal. Bending down, Bke took it, ied it for a few seds and then threw it in his bag.

  Looking around for a moment, Bke pressed his back against the wall. Silently, he extended his hands forward. Closing his eyes, Bke trated and created an ice e near him. After learning that he had Kekkei Genkai, Konan reended learning how to create es out of ice, which proved not that difficult. It was simir to shadow e and required more or less the same amount of chakra.

  But, the ice e was infinitely better, for it had stronger substance behind it. Bke could actually use his ice es for something, instead of just having a shadow that would vanish upon a pebble flying at them.

  The e looked wobbly and had some imperfes.

  However, Bke had decided that waiting at the entrance felt a bit dangerous.

  What if the first adventurer would be some psycho and attack him for no reason?

  Bke was simply paranoid a a bit out of p this pce. Pushing chakra onto his feet, Bke walked up the wall and onto the ceiling. He found a sturdy crystal stig out from the wall, taking a seat on top of it, his feet dangling in the air.

  He felt much safer here. The adventures wouldn’t see him uhey decided to look up and he had a good view of his e, who was leaning against the wall and pig his nose. Bke wao smack his e f to ruin his image, but he abstained foing through the ordeal of going down.

  Bke waited, growing bored. Anoblin tried to approach his e, but Bke threw a shuriken at him, which his e picked up afterwards. tinuing to wait, Bke meditated, rec his chakra. Meditating didn’t actually help him recover his chakra, for it recovered by itself even if he didn’t do anything.

  Bke was about to recite a song in his head and see whenever he gets it word by word when he finally saw a group ehe dungeon. A froeared on his face when he saw the person in the lead, it was the same guy that he had stolen the dagger from, followed by anuy and a girl. One was clearly a tank, whilst the girl robably the mage. The annoying man robably some sort of assassin, sidering that he had a small dagger strapped to his belt. A new o seemed.

  “I am telling you, when I find that fucker I am going to make him—” The annoying man, whom Bke mentally om, was talking loudly, but stopped upon notig Bke’s e leaning against the wall. Tom poi Bke, his face furious. “It is this guy! He stole the dagger from me!”

  Tom rushed towards Bke, closely followed by his two teammates. Bke’s e barely g Tom’s dire, resuming his eye tact with the crystal on the wall. However, the e was disturbed, when his neck suddenly got pressed against the wall by Tom’s elbow.

  “You are so freaking dead! Give it back!” Tom shouted at the man, whilst the two rades behind him stared intensely at Bke. They were both prepared to attack at a moment’s notice. Bke stared at the ongoing se from above, seeing his e giving Tom a bnk stare.

  Suddenly, out of nowhere, the e puom i, making him bend over. His rades immediately reacted. The huge burly man rushed towards Bke’s e with a shield, whilst the woman aimed her hands at him. However, Bke reached out and tore Tom’s dagger from his belt. Before the shield could close on him, Bke’s e dashed to the left.

  Bke, who was standing above pushed some chakra onto his feet, silently strolling to the left by the ceiling. Tom recovered and began to pursue Bke’s e, followed by his rades. Once Bke turhe er, he was surprised to see a dagger stig in the ceiling. It seemed that his e had thrown it up in order to give it to Bke, which brought Bke a smile.

  “A e is the representation of the host.” Bke mumbled quietly, pig up the dagger before pursuing the running adventurers. Bke’s e run without fault, despite his facial defects. The e turned ers, dodged attacks from the goblins and then began to desd towards the lower floors.

  New monsters began to appear in the proximity, featuring kobolds, who literally looked like wild dogs. Bke didn’t feel any danger within the surroundings, so he kept following them, until, finally, Bke’s e was caught. The real Bke looked around. They were pretty far from the entrand he shouldn’t be caught by anyone.

  Bke saw his e getting kicked by Tom, who was shouting loudly with saliva esg his mouth. Tom got even more angry when he realized that his new dagger was nowhere in sight. Grabbing his rade’s shield, Tom hit Bke’s e with its sharp tip. The rades tried to stop him, yet Tom was in a frenzy. He kept f the shield down…when Bke’s e suddenly turned into ice, which shattered against the fury of the man. If Bke thought he had seen anger before, then it was a lie. Tom was red like a tomato and he looked like he was about to rip his own hair out.

  Whilst they were distracted, Bke walked from around the er, slowly making his way towards them, until he was right above them. Then, Bke removed the chakra from his feet, falling on top of the resumably a mage. She didn’t even know what happened before a dagger was stig out from her throat.

  Tom and his rade turned around, their eyes wide, as they stared at the girl, life disappearing in her eyes. Bke stood behind her, staring at the two adventurers with killing i in his eyes. Their fusion promptly turned into anger, as adrenaline rushed into their bodies.

  Before they attacked him, Bke grabbed the dead ushed some chakra into his arms and hurled her towards the men. They could have dodged the flying human, but the tank clearly cared for the woman, so he reached out and caught her mid-air. It was a bad decision.

  The woman’s back was featured with two explosive papers, which ignited as soon as the man caught her. Bke began to run away as an explosion resouhroughout the area. The man who was holding the woman had his head blown off, literally. Tom, oher hand, was hurled back against the wall since he was still holding that shield.

  Smoke rose throughout the area as Bke rushed bato the smoke. He had to finish it quick before either monsters or other adventurers rushed here to check what happened. Holding two of the stolen daggers in each hand, Bke spotted Tom, who was coughing wildly as he held onto his bleeding head.

  Tom saw Bke sprinting towards him, promptly raising the shield. However, Bke saw that Tom had no experieh the shield, for Tom blocked his own vision with it. Taking this opportunity, Bke stopped abruptly a down, stabbing Tom in the foot. Tom shouted at the pai some crity returo his gaze.

  Still not seeing Bke, Tom extended his hand, pushing the shield forward, wanting to trap Bke against the wall. Yet, it was a stupid move. Bke had mock battles every day and the shinobi in Akatsuki were all extremely skilled. Tom, pared to them, was simply a bullhead.

  Bke dodged to the side, seeing Tom’s exposed back. Tightening the grip over his dagger, Bke rushed to stab the man in the back. Yet, out of nowhere, a creature appeared right in front of him, which rushed towards him. Bke reized it to be a kobold. Without halt, Bke dodged its teeth arated its stomach, sliding it through it.

  The moment of disturbance gave Tom some time to recover.

  Bke looked to the sides, seeing no more monsters. Theared at Tom, who was clearly frightened. Bke o finish this quick. Despite his fear, Tom’s face was a snarl. “What the fuck are you doing? My familia is going to find you and kill you if you don’t let me go.”

  Bke strolled towards Tom.

  “Hey, stop! Don’t move!” Tom shouted, his shield straightening. “Is this about the daggers? Listen, I don’t hem anymore! You take them, for all I care! Stop!”

  Bke wasn’t listening as he rushed towards Tom. Instead to stab the man through the cracks, Bke pushed chakra into his right shoulder. Running at full speed, Bke jumped slightly and turned sideways, hitting the shield with his full force. Tom was holding the shield in an incorrect way and the shield pressed him against the wall.

  Tom hit his head on the wall, getting dizzy. Yet, Bke didn’t stop, he kept hitting the shield with his body every few seds. Tom was uo recover, not eve a sed to get an intake of oxygen. His head kept hitting against the cave wall, until Tom was uo hold the shield anymore. He was so dizzy that he didn’t even realize that two daggers were stig out of his throat.

  Tom stared at Bke’s face, aill within his eyes. As Tom fell forward, he spit out the blood, whided on Bke’s face. Bke, bloodied and exhausted, had no energy to even dodge it. It was deserved, anyway. Removing the daggers, Bke looked around at the chaotic se that Bke orchestrated a…empty.

  Bke thought he would feel bad, but he didn’t find a soft spot in his heart for these people. Staring at Tom from above, Bke sidered whether he should hide the bodies. It would take him quite some time to this mess up, and he would probably be spotted by adventurers or monsters by that point. He had to leave them here, and remove any possible evidence about himself. The monsters were hopefully going to take care of them before any adventurers find them.

  For a few more seds, Bke simply stood in a daze, looking at the dead adventurers before he snapped bato reality. Without further ado, Bke gathered his ons and pushed some chakra into his feet, running through the ceiling towards the lower floors.

  -

  Unfortunately for Bke, a pack of adventurers stumbled upohree dead adventurers on the sed floor before the bodies could get eaten by monsters. News about their death spread throughout the city of Orario. Normally, little people cared for suews, for adventurers died in the dungeons all the time. However, this case was different, for the three individuals were promising rookies, yet they died on the sed floor, which is sidered as barely dangerous.

  Upon closer iion, it was an unanimous decision that they were killed by another adventurer. Stab wounds along with high degree burns implied an involvement of a huma no one knew who could have done such a thing. Gossip and specution spread throughout the city, and it began reag ears of people Bke never meant to attract.

  Ais Wallenstein stood on the wall of a castle, overlooking the expanse.

  “A newbie killer?” Ais murmured to herself, an absent look on her face.

  Chapter 10! - what do you think of the story so far?