Chapter 158 - Arrangement (1/2)

”Good morning... panties.”

The guest house was divided in two, fully equipped, vertical sections with Nik taking the lower floor while Shigure silently jumping onto the second floor.

”It's Shigure...”. Shigure spoke with her foot placed on the ceiling while standing upside down, defying the gravity, fortunately, her clothes weren't gravity-defying and her pink kimono rolled down, revealing a white fundoshi digging into her butt akin to a thong while her raven hair followed a similar fashion.

”Pardon me... but from what I can see, those are panties.”

Nik yawned and rubbed his eyes without pointing out the strange behaviour of observing him while literally standing over his head as he slept peacefully.

Speaking of sleep, he slept like a baby. His refreshed body would definitely agree to the statement as Nik slowly and reluctantly, rolled off of the bed and looked into Shigure's eyes.

”I would say that your actions are a breach of my privacy... but considering that I can see your panties, let's call it even?”

Nik questioned while Shigure finally jumped down, her tight and perky bosom beneath her chainmail armor managed to jiggle, attracting Nik's attention, while she thought for a while and spoke.

”Teach me... in return, I will teach you.”

Nik couldn't help but get amused at her words. Shigure was beautiful, no doubt about it, her claim of being the only weaponsmith definitely pointed at her forging abilities. But Nik wasn't interested in that type of skill, at least, not in the near future. So, what could she teach?

”I am listening.” Nik shrugged and Shigure nodded slightly before continuing.

”I will teach you Continuous Focus Breathing... and you teach me what you did.”

Hearing the term— Continuous Focus Breathing— Nik immediately thought of what he is currently trying to achieve and finally felt his interest ignited.

”Continuous Focus Breathing?”

Shigure didn't reply and simply looked at him quietly. Although, Nik was quite curios if Shigure knew about him trying to practice the technique, but at large, he did not care that much. Nik had already grasped the path to achieve the goal, all he needed to do was tread it with a focused determination and not give up midway.

In fact, he had even greater plans with the breathing technique after he achieved Continuous Focus Breathing in one element breathing technique.

And also, there was the fact that he did not know how to teach others on how to directly control the Elemental Hamon.

Shaking his head, Nik finally refused.

”I am sorry. But I doubt that we will have time to train, after all, I am sent here to help.”

”They do not need our help...” Shigure pursued while Nik frowned at her words, once again, he found himself uninformed about many things, but this time around, he had a trusty partner to turn to.

The Kasugai Crow.

Nik still shook his head and refused the offer.

”No thanks, I am not interested in teaching and learning things from a stranger.”

Shigure finally frowned as her lightning-shaped brows rose up by a notch while she seemed to be pondering before nodding and passing by Nik before opening the door of the house and leaving the guest house.

”Alright now... where is the food...”

Nik diverted his attention and started his day by freshening up and then eating what he could cook from the present materials before bringing out his own meat jerky ration and finally, after one round of Focus Breathing Technique and supplementing the body with Hamon Energy, Nik finally set out of the house and once again stood between an unnatural number of shinobis that lived in a somewhat feudal style village.

Observing the beautifully designed houses despite the village's career as shinobis, Nik finally walked to one of the corners of the village, not leaving the boundary though, for he did not know what sort of traps were set around the village and gave a loud shout.

”Crow, get down here!”

His shout brought no small amount of attention towards him and through the use of [Life Vision], he already found himself surrounded by hidden shinobis and kunoichis, but there was no need to grow nervous now while a black shadow shot towards Nik before flapping its wings to slow down and flying around Nik.

”Caw, brat, you called me?”

Nik nodded and finally extended his arm to allow the crow to land and finally spoke up.

”I am assigned to this village as reinforcement, right?”