Yama Reborn-Chapter 386 - 383 [Master]
Chapter 383: Master
BOOM!!
A loud crash sounded, and the burly man from the Blade Knights had already flown out through the wall! The leather armor on his chest was shattered, a section of it caved in!
Inside the house, the man in the jacket was already retreating rapidly. A curved knife was stuck in his shoulder, the blade wedged into his shoulder blade! Blood flowed, already staining half of his clothes red.
The woman, furious, was brandishing a dagger and pressing aggressively forward. The man in the jacket kept dodging, retreating to the corner of the room. Then, he suddenly kicked off the wall with his left foot, his body leaped up, flipped over, and landed behind the woman. He twisted around, the short stick in his hand jabbing into her back.
The woman spat out blood, and as she fell forward, she turned to the side. Her dagger slipped from her hand, shooting towards the man in the jacket’s face.
The man in the jacket swung the short stick to deflect the dagger but was then kicked in the waist by Black Windbreaker, who had come up from behind. He immediately rolled into a ball on the ground.
Black Windbreaker moved to advance, but the short stick flew from the man in the jacket’s hand. As Black Windbreaker saw the short stick reach him, his body suddenly vanished on the spot with a BANG, as if turning into a puff of black smoke. In the next instant, he reappeared beside the man in the jacket, his finger jabbing towards the man’s face.
The man in the jacket slapped the ground with one hand, his body immediately springing up to dodge the attack. While still in mid-air, he lashed out with a side kick, forcing Black Windbreaker to back away.
By this time, the woman had already gotten back to her feet and rushed forward. Her curved knife chopped down on the man in the jacket’s shoulder, and her dagger also shot out. Lacking a suitable weapon, she pulled an arrow with a serrated head from the quiver behind her and thrust it toward the man in the jacket’s thigh, wielding the arrow shaft.
The man in the jacket retreated three steps in succession, holding the remaining short stick in his hand. With an odd angle, he created a flurry of stick shadows. TAP, TAP, TAP! He accurately struck the arrowhead three times with the stick.
The woman, as if electrically shocked, couldn’t hold the arrow shaft steadily and had to let go.
The man in the jacket took the chance to kick the dagger on the ground towards Yu Naitang, who was beside the fire. Then, he twisted back into the fray. A straight punch hit the woman’s shoulder, and he pushed her against the wall. The stick in his other hand came over, pressing hard against her neck.
The woman’s leather mask was knocked off, revealing a gaunt, pale face with a sinister look. The veins on her temples bulged as she struggled fiercely, one hand reaching for the curved knife embedded in the man in the jacket’s shoulder.
A scream of agony tore from the man in the jacket as the woman pulled the curved knife from his shoulder. A gush of blood spurted out. Unable to bear the pain, his body went limp, and he rapidly retreated.
The woman turned and slashed with her knife, barely grazing the man in the jacket’s clothes. If he had retreated half a second slower, his chest would have been slashed open.
"Kill him!"
Black Windbreaker’s voice came from the corner; he had retreated to a corner of the room, his body pressed against the wall.
The man in the jacket’s one arm hung limp. With his other hand, he quickly pressed the short stick against several points on his injured shoulder, and the bleeding immediately slowed considerably.
He was already retreating towards the door when a roar came from behind!
The burly man had charged back, flung open his arms, and grabbed the man in the jacket from behind!
The man in the jacket struggled twice but couldn’t break free. The woman in front of him swung her curved knife, chopping down towards his throat!
The first slice was deflected by the short stick in the man’s hand, but the woman’s knife blade slid along, cutting past the stick and leaving a trail of blood on his arm!
As the second slice came down, the man in the jacket suddenly lifted his left leg and bent it sharply, his toes striking the burly man’s knee three times in a row like lightning!
THUD, THUD, THUD... Three sounds, and the faint crackle of breaking bones was almost audible.
The burly man screamed, unable to stand firm. The man in the jacket seized the moment to squat, dragging the burly man holding him down as well.
And at that moment, the woman’s curved blade struck!
It was a horizontal slash.
The slash initially aimed for the man in the jacket’s throat, but at that moment, as he and the burly man went down together, the blade’s height changed, almost grazing the top of the man in the jacket’s head...
A horrifying, earth-shattering scream!
The burly man’s face was covered in blood, his hands no longer clutching the man in the jacket, as he frantically screamed, clutching his head.
That slash had nearly cut horizontally across both of the burly man’s eyes!
Blinded, the burly man howled twice. Then the man in the jacket sprang up and delivered a palm strike to his throat, immediately silencing him. The burly man clutched his throat and collapsed limply to his knees.
The woman, having wounded her own ally, became frantic. But the man in the jacket had already lunged into her arms. The two wrestled on the ground, rolling for a moment, then the woman let out a muffled groan. Her body twitched twice before going still.
Her arm, twisted back by the man in the jacket, had the curved blade’s edge cutting into her own abdomen!
Blood gushed out, quickly staining the ground red. The man in the jacket, panting with effort, struggled to get up. His body was riddled with wounds, the cut on his shoulder having almost cost him an arm. He staggered, nearly unable to stand.
He turned to glare at Black Windbreaker in the corner.
Black Windbreaker, who clearly had no intention of advancing, said sternly, "You’ll bring trouble upon yourself this way."
"Your abilities aren’t suited for combat," Jacket said. "As long as you don’t hinder me, I won’t kill you."
Jacket shook his head. Just then, a hand reached out to support him.
Yu Naitang had already cut her ropes with the dagger Jacket had kicked to her. She got up and was now steadying him.
Jacket looked down. His eyes, hidden behind the leather mask, glanced at the little girl. "Let’s hurry and go."
"Okay."
Yu Naitang didn’t say anything more. She ran to pick up her little junior brother, placed him in the backpack, and slung it onto her back. Then she went to help her master into the wheelchair and started pushing it.
In the room, the woman lay dead. The burly man was now blind, his throat shattered by Jacket’s palm. He had collapsed on the ground, convulsing, yet not immediately dying.
Black Windbreaker stood silently in the corner, not daring to advance.
As they left the wooden house, CLATTER. By the door, one of the five who had staged the surprise attack that night—the man in the leather jacket whose wrist was injured by a bear trap—accidentally knocked over some firewood that was standing nearby.
Jacket immediately turned his head to look.
"...I don’t want trouble. I didn’t make a move just now," the man in the leather jacket immediately raised his hands, showing he was uninvolved. "I’m just carrying out a commission. Murder has nothing to do with me."
Jacket glanced at the man wordlessly and then nodded, following Yu Naitang, who was pushing the wheelchair out of the cabin.
The van outside was already damaged.
As Yu Naitang pushed the wheelchair out of the woods, Jacket staggered behind. He stripped off his jacket, tore it forcefully, and used the cloth strips to makeshiftly bandage his slashed shoulder.
"Little girl, run east. There’s a car outside the woods," Jacket whispered.
"...Okay!"
When they reached the edge of the woods and saw the pickup truck parked ahead, Yu Naitang immediately went over, opened the door, and seated her master and little junior brother in the back.
At that moment, Black Windbreaker also emerged, hanging back far behind, showing no intention of approaching.
"You won’t be able to escape," Black Windbreaker said coldly.
Jacket looked back. "You intend to stop us?"
"...Our group isn’t the only one hunting. You won’t escape alive," Black Windbreaker took two steps back but continued. "You’ll be caught before dawn. They know we have the target. Someone is already on the way to assist us. You can’t handle so many people.
"You’re seeking your own death!"
Jacket looked at him coldly and shook his head. "You talk too much."
"Don’t listen to him; he’s trying to talk you into surrendering," Yu Naitang spoke rapidly. "He’s in charge of this group. If people escape under his watch, he’s bound to face severe Punishment. He’s trying to persuade you to stay to make up for his failure.
"If we truly escape, even if we’re later caught by others, he’ll still be in trouble."
Black Windbreaker promptly said, "Stop now, and I can find a way to spare your lives. If others catch you, you’re dead for sure!"
Yu Naitang scoffed, "Spare our lives? How? People are already dead."
Black Windbreaker quickly said, "Then kill them all! Kill everyone else, claiming they died in the capture battle..."
Yu Naitang gave Jacket a troubled look.
Jacket shook his head. "Let’s go."
They got into the car, with Jacket taking the driver’s seat, and Yu Naitang sitting in the back holding her little junior brother.
As the pickup drove off, Black Windbreaker stood trembling in place, yelling, "You won’t live to see dawn!!"
In the dark of night, the pickup was speeding down the road, soon reaching a fork.
"Don’t drive out, head back toward the city," Yu Naitang said swiftly from the back. "Heading out, we’re dead for sure. If we head into the city, they might not expect us to dare go back at a time like this."
Jacket, steering with one hand, didn’t speak, just grunted in response.
After changing direction at the fork, the car headed back down the road they had left the city on earlier that day.
The road was dark in the night, but Jacket was obviously very alert, driving without headlights in the darkness.
Listening to Jacket’s increasingly labored breathing, Yu Naitang couldn’t help asking, "...How are you? If you can’t hold on, I can drive."
"...Hmm," Jacket again grunted in response.
"I really want to thank you for today. I know a simple ’thank you’ is too little. I’ll find a way to repay you.
"I didn’t expect you to step in to save us. You are..."
"No need to mention it, kid. I just can’t stand this sort of thing," Jacket whispered softly. "You don’t need to repay me. Once we get to Antwerp, we’ll find a place to settle down, and then I’ll leave."
"This matter will surely bring you a lot of trouble. Maybe we can think of a solution together..."
Jacket didn’t speak, focusing only on the road ahead.
A few minutes later...
SCREECH!
The car suddenly stopped.
Yu Naitang was startled and saw Jacket slumping slowly over, his body leaning on the steering wheel.
"What’s wrong with you? Hey, are you alright?"
Yu Naitang immediately pushed open her car door to get out, then pulled open the driver’s door and saw that the man was unresponsive. After pushing him forcefully, the man slowly stirred.
Yu Naitang quickly dragged him out of the car, laid him flat on the ground, and without hesitation, lifted his mask, revealing short hair with a hint of gray, an ordinary face that was unmistakably that of a middle-aged Asian man.
In the darkness, Yu Naitang couldn’t see very clearly. She absentmindedly tossed the mask aside and tore open the man’s shirt. She saw his shoulder, the flesh torn open, with even the broken bone visible at the cut.
Clenching her teeth, Yu Naitang rummaged through her bag, pulled out some medicine, first injected the man with a syringe, then sprinkled some white powder on the wound, and wrapped it tightly with gauze bandages.
After doing all this, Yu Naitang was out of breath, and her chest ached slightly—Little Candy had also been injured in the night’s consecutive battles.
She managed to hoist the middle-aged man back into the car, securing him with the seat belt.
Yu Naitang climbed back into the driver’s seat, caught her breath, and started the car...
SPUTTER, SPUTTER, SPUTTER...
The engine made a series of noises, like the broken cough of an elderly person.
Yu Naitang’s face changed drastically as she slammed the steering wheel hard. "Don’t give me this now! Damn it!!!"
She tried to start it again!
SPUTTER, SPUTTER, SPUTTER...
Yu Naitang, out of options, punched the steering wheel. The young girl’s composure finally crumbled as she clenched her fists and screamed.
At this moment, the middle-aged man in the passenger seat suddenly moved. His eyelids fluttered a few times before he barely opened his eyes.
With a light sigh, he said in a low voice, "Kid... you... run."
Yu Naitang’s face was covered in tears. "I, I can’t... I can’t carry all of you by myself..."
The middle-aged man shook his head, his breath faint. "No... you, run by yourself...
"There’s no other way. One survivor is better than none."
Yu Naitang stood frozen.
The middle-aged man took a breath, then slowly, bit by bit, turned his head to look at Yu Naitang. "Young girl, so young... you shouldn’t die now.
"Listen to me, run.
"Leave the car here, get off the main road, run into the woods, run into the fields...
"Maybe there’s a way out."
Yu Naitang’s face streamed with tears. "No way, no way, I can’t run... I have to save my little junior brother, my master, and you!"
A glimmer of spirit shone in the middle-aged man’s eyes. His lips slowly curled into a faint smile after a soft sigh.
"Ah... such a good child.
"It wasn’t in vain that I saved you this once.
"Good child, you can’t save so many people... Run. One survivor is better than none.
"They want to capture your little junior brother and your master.
"If they’re captured, they might not die. There will be chances to save them later.
"Run..."
"What about you? You saved me, I can’t..."
"You can’t save me..." The middle-aged man’s lips moved as he looked at the young girl in front of him and smiled. "Go now. It’ll be too late if you don’t.
"If you... want to repay me, do me a favor.
"You help me..."
"Shut up! Stop talking!! I’m not listening!!
"Don’t talk as if you’re giving your last words!!!
"I won’t give up on you all!! I will definitely be able to save you! I’m the smartest genius in the world!! There must be a way!!"
Yu Naitang suddenly snapped, interrupting the middle-aged man. Then she unbuckled her seat belt, jumped out of the car, took out a pistol from her bag, and walked menacingly to the side of the road.
"I’ll wait! If a car comes, I’ll hijack one and take you all!!"
Saying this, she paid no mind to whatever the middle-aged man was saying. Little Candy crouched menacingly by the roadside, eyes wide, staring fiercely into the distance down the road...
Eventually, a car did come.
Far off, down the dark road, a pair of headlights cut through the night’s darkness.
Yu Naitang immediately sprang into action!
Her small figure stood resolutely in the middle of the road, the gun swiftly tucked behind her waist, as she stared intently at the approaching car, flailing her arms, hopping up and down on the spot.
The car approached very fast, but as it reached her, it screeched to a halt!
While waving her arms, Yu Naitang watched the car closely.
At first, she felt relieved.
It was an obvious family car, very old, and seemed to have been driven for many years. The logo was the "Peugeot" from Gaul Country.
Such cars, with their low fuel consumption and compact bodies, are common in Europe.
If it were hunters after her, they certainly wouldn’t be driving this kind of car.
Feeling relieved, Yu Naitang immediately ran toward the car. While running, her hand reached behind to grip the gun, but at the same time, she started calling out in a child’s unique voice, sweet and pleading, "Help! Please help me!! Please, I beg of you, help..."
Suddenly, her mouth snapped shut.
Someone from inside the car stepped out and stood by the vehicle.
Because the headlights were on, this person was silhouetted against them, and Yu Naitang’s vision was too dazzled to see their face clearly.
But instinctively, she felt something was off about the atmosphere.
I don’t care anymore!
When she got within less than ten steps, Yu Naitang had already drawn her pistol, aiming it at the other person and yelling, "Freeze! Don’t move! Raise your hands! Let me see your hands!!"
Sure enough, the person opposite raised their hands... but...
It wasn’t the kind of high raise one does for a Gaulish surrender.
Instead, they spread their arms out to the sides??
Huh??
Something felt off.
Next, she suddenly let out a shriek as the gun in her hand was snatched away by an invisible force and, just like that, landed in the other person’s grasp!
As Yu Naitang was running, she abruptly stopped. Her heart screamed ’Danger!’ She turned to flee, but after only a few steps, the person behind her caught up and scooped her up around the waist!
"Ah!!!"
Yu Naitang struggled fiercely and screamed, and then...
She heard a voice in her ear.
"Stop yelling! Little Candy! It’s me!!
"Don’t be afraid anymore, you don’t have to be scared!!"
Yu Naitang was stunned for a full five seconds, then suddenly turned her head to look at the person’s face.
Then...
"You, you’re my master’s good-for-nothing husband?!
"You? Are you a human or a ghost?!"
Chen Nuo held Yu Naitang tightly but quickly walked towards the car in the distance. "I’m human!
"Alright, stop yelling. I’ve come for you!!
"Where’s Lu Xixi?!
"And where is my child???"
"...You didn’t die?"
"Of course not!"
Yu Naitang’s eyes widened as she stared at Chen Nuo, and suddenly she burst into wails.
She held onto Chen Nuo’s neck tightly, crying loudly, "You you you you... it really is you! It really is you!!
"You’re not dead! You came for us!! You you you you you..."
"Stop yelling." Chen Nuo asked, "Where’s your master?"
"In the car!"
With Yu Naitang in one arm, Chen Nuo quickly ran to the side of the car, instinctively reaching out to pull open the passenger door.
As soon as he opened the door, a sense of danger washed over him from the darkness!
A gust of wind assaulted his face! The person inside the car struck out with a palm towards him.
Chen Nuo reacted swiftly. He sidestepped, moving Yu Naitang (still in his arm) out of harm’s way, while simultaneously his right hand shot out, grabbing the assailant’s wrist in the darkness.
The person’s wrist was seized, and they grunted.
Chen Nuo felt the person’s palm instantly retract and then push forward again.
The force of the palm erupted vigorously.
Internal energy?!
He counteracted with a hook of his hand, diverting the palm carrying the internal energy to the side. With a BANG, the palm hit the car door, shaking the vehicle.
The person inside grunted, changing their palm to a claw, and attempting to hook the back of Chen Nuo’s hand!
Chen Nuo: "..." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
Small capture technique?
He quickly withdrew his hand and then circled to the side, flicking his fingers against the assailant’s elbow.
The person winced from the flick and finally let their hand hang limp.
Just as the person in the car was gritting their teeth, gathering their qi and clenching their other fist, ready to strike,
Chen Nuo called out in the darkness, his voice tinged with exasperation.
"... Master?"
"..." The middle-aged man stopped moving, their voice equally laden with disbelief and awkwardness. "You... Chen Nuo?!"
"... Uh, yes, it’s me, Master."
"......"
