Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 523: Master and Knight

A lively yet deadly midnight.

Atop a tall building, Si Nianhua stood in the shadows behind a neon sign, saying, “Aren't you going to complete your mission yet?”

Ji Guanya stood beside her, sighing, “When I received the mission from Li Changqing before returning, I never expected it to cause such a commotion. I thought I only needed to protect him.”

Si Nianhua pondered and asked, “If this person were just someone who needed protection, wouldn't it be boring? Let's do it. I'll go find the Shadow Agency's secret training ground, and you go find those people at the a02 base. This ruthless person used himself as bait to buy us time for destruction. If the two of us can't complete it, we can go to the Inner World and commit suicide to apologize to our respective bosses.”

Ji Guanya curled his lips, “It's not that strict on our side.”

But having said that, he still turned and left.

The two places Qing Chen asked them to destroy were: one was used by the Shadow Agency to secretly imprison Time Travelers. For example, if Shinguji Maki were captured, she would be held here before brainwashing was completed.

According to estimates, this place holds at least two thousand Time Travelers.

Previously, he and Yi had launched a public opinion campaign online, and now these two thousand witnesses are needed to come forward and speak out.

The other place was where another batch of people who voluntarily swore allegiance were gathered.

According to intelligence, although this group of people hadn't shown their faces, they were undergoing secret training in the intelligence system at a02 base. In another month, they could be transformed into Shadow Agency fighters.

If Qing Chen travels through time again and fights, these people will inevitably participate.

Since it wasn't possible in the Inner World before, then let's kill them in the Outer World.

From beginning to end, Qing Chen knew what he was about to Face^[-], so whether it was killing with a sword or taking apprentices and raising children, some things that should be done must be done.

At this moment, Si Nianhua took out her binoculars and, through the neon sign, saw a young man in a white hunting robe standing on the rooftop of another building hundreds of meters away.

Just as she looked over, the young man seemed to notice something and smiled, turning his head to lightly nod to Si Nianhua.

Si Nianhua's heart skipped a beat!

This sixth sense of feeling a gaze across hundreds of meters is only possible for A-class!

The next moment, Si Nianhua suddenly bent down. She felt a blade slicing past her back.

She no longer hesitated and directly leaped out from the rooftop, not even daring to look back to see who had attacked her from behind!

Too dangerous!

In the distance, Shendai Yunluo saw Si Nianhua jump from the building. Hookshot devices flew out of his sleeves and hooked onto the building.

This young woman swung back onto the stairs and in an instant climbed down like a gecko, her movements extremely light and agile.

Shendai Yunluo smiled, “Interesting. Quite a few helpers… Daybreak greets everyone… quite impressive, it's a pity they're enemies.”

On the rooftop where Si Nianhua was, ats-013 Shikigami, the Horse-Faced Rakshasa, stood at the edge with a nine-ringed dao in hand. The horse-faced human-bodied figure was unusually tall, more than three meters, with bulging muscles.

With each breath, flames erupted from the horse-Face^[-]'s nostrils.

Below the night sky, Si Nianhua, still shocked, pondered: why would such a powerful figure not go down to participate in the hunt for Qing Chen?

Instead, they're watching the excitement in this deserted place?

…

…

In the Dotonbori direction, Qing Chen didn't linger but turned and left.

Shendai Yunwu said in the communication channel, “Follow him. Deploy the teams from the other two directions to surround him. We can't let him leave alive tonight.”

Qing Chen ran south along Dotonbori Avenue, speeding along.

Shendai Yunwu, Shendai Yunye, and Shendai Yunjue followed in a triangle formation.

However, Qing Chen escaped extremely quickly, and they couldn't catch up for a while.

Shendai Yunwu said, “Yunye, Yunjue, you two are fast, flank him from the sides.”

Of the seven Chosen Ones of the Shendai, only four are Yin-Yang Masters: Yunyi, Kongyu, Yunluo, and Yunwu.

The remaining three received another inheritance, “Ittō-ryū”: Yunxiu, Yunye, and Yunjue.

This Ittō-ryū uses the Shendai family's unique Breathing Technique to assist, focusing on swordsmanship.

The most famous are three techniques: the first is the Iaijutsu draw cut, the second is Iai, and the third is Ittō-ryū.

There's no regular blocking training, no techniques, only these three cuts.

Most ordinary Metahumans of the same level can't even block the first move, let alone the Shendai Family's conduct, but their swordsmanship is already accomplished.

Metahumans inheriting “Ittō-ryū” have strong physiques and naturally faster speed than Yin-Yang Masters.

Shendai Yunwu didn't want to use his Yin-Yang Master's trump card yet, so he let Yunye and Yunjue catch up. They only needed to hold Qing Chen back for a minute.

Just one minute, and he could kill the Master of Daybreak!

Shendai Yunjue and Shendai Yunye exchanged glances, jumping onto the low rooftops on either side of the street. They moved nimbly on the roofs, extremely agile.

Their waist-length tachi swayed incessantly in their sheaths.

Qing Chen fled down the long street, his speed so fast that the crowd seemed to be receding behind him.

Everyone thought he was running away; no one knew he was just choosing the best battlefield for himself.

To escape the sniper's range, to shake off those Shadow Agency members who couldn't keep up, and then find a place to kill.

Escape? No need to escape anymore.

Once the sword is drawn, it's time to see blood.

Many people wondered why the Master of Daybreak was going on a killing spree in Osaka, taking revenge for Qing Chen? Solving the problem for Qing Chen?

No one knows.

What Qing Chen is fighting for.

For the sake of success not necessarily being mine?

For the phrase, "It's okay'?

Qing Chen suddenly turned around.

Here.

Now.

The battlefield is left with Qing Chen and the three Chosen Ones, the pursuers behind cannot catch up, and the surrounding forces have not yet arrived.

The neon lights intertwined, the atmosphere heavy.

No one expected Qing Chen to turn around.

Those who saw him turn around also didn't know that they should be feeling fear.

Atop the roof, Shendai Yunye and Shendai Yunjue leaped down. The two used their thumbs to open their scabbards. The bright tachi fell like moonlight, shrouding Qing Chen from above.

The lone boy on the long street, looking at the sky full of sword light, stretched out his hands and flicked his fingers towards the nothingness in front of him!

He flicked the side of the blades!

Shatter!

Two sounds rang out almost simultaneously. Everyone saw that the blades of the two tachi broke.

In the terrified eyes of Shendai Yunjue and Shendai Yunye, Qing Chen, using his Dragon Fish reconstructed finger bones as swords and infused with Knight True Qi, actually shattered their tachi!

Qing Chen's hands were bloody, his skin cracked by the recoil.

But this didn't matter. What mattered was the exquisite skill of his force, the precise calculation of the speed of the blade, and the strength of his body?

Ittō-ryū has been defeated many times, but it has never been so humiliated, having its blade broken by a flick of a finger!

Knight True Qi uses all things as swords.

But few use their own bodies as swords.

“No good!” Shendai Yunjue was panicked; his leap was not exhausted, but his tachi was broken. Wasn't he going to be at the mercy of others?

This Master of Daybreak in front of him, was not a B-class, how could there be such a ferocious B-class?

At that moment, a wooden ship materialized above Shendai Yunwu's head.

The wooden ship was three stories high, like a palace building, brightly lit.

But upon closer inspection, there was a giant scallop under the hull of the ship.

ats-127 Shikigami, Sheng Qi Lou!

As the scallop opened and closed, the buildings and neon lights around the street disappeared, replaced by another scene.

Yunye and Yunjue, who had almost lost their lives, also disappeared in this mirage.

“So it's you,” Qing Chen sneered.

In Luo City, a Shendai Family expert skilled in illusions had appeared, trying to cover the escape of his companions, but his companions were killed by Qing Chen.

However, this Shendai expert skilled in illusions had escaped.

After that, Qing Chen was cautious for a while, fearing that this Shendai expert would retaliate against Daybreak, but he didn't expect the other party to have returned to Japan.

Perfect, let's settle the old and new grudges together.

In this illusory mirage, everything Qing Chen saw was an illusion; even the ground was fake. The ground, which should have been speed bumps, was now flat.

Metahumans fighting in this environment are like being blind.

Shendai Yunwu slowly walked over. He gave Yunye and Yunjue a signal, but they were unaffected.

Qing Chen stood quietly, and in the blink of an eye, a gust of wind attacked from the left, but he couldn't see anything.

He quickly retreated, a cut on his chest, a half-centimeter wound where crimson blood flowed.

Shendai Yunwu sneered. Sure enough, as long as someone can hold this Master of Daybreak, he can easily control him.

However, the moment he laughed, he saw Qing Chen close his eyes.

Qing Chen couldn't see the real environment, but he had memories, unparalleled memories.

He couldn't see the attacking blade, but he could hear the sound.

The next moment, Shendai Yunye swung his knife.

A shocking scene happened. Qing Chen, with his eyes closed, just slightly turned his body to narrowly avoid the blade.

But it didn't end there.

Qing Chen, with his eyes closed, seemed to stand in the darkness. He breathed in this world, and as the blade passed, he struck first with even greater speed.

Between his two fingers, playing cards magically appeared, splitting the arm of the person holding the knife from bottom to top, along the blade.

The gray Joker on the playing card was also dyed red.

Shendai Yunye howled and retreated. His long arm was cleaved in two by the playing cards, his radius and ulna separated like firewood.

Qing Chen didn't chase.

This “cut” was so exquisite that Shendai Yunjue, watching this scene, didn't dare to step forward.

This killer with his eyes closed seemed to ignore the mirage and the darkness, sensing everything in his heart.

Just as Shendai Yunwu was in a panic.

Qing Chen's entire body tilted down, like an arrow leaving a bow.

His legs curled, like a sprinter in a 100-meter race, he launched himself toward Shendai Yunwu.

Shendai Yunwu's Face^[-] was contorted.

From behind him, a slender woman in black emerged from the shadows. Shendai Yunwu's Shadow was like a well, and this woman came out of the well.

ats-046 Shikigami, Shadow Woman, shuttling through the shadows, killing in the night.

Then, a woman in a white kimono, white and clean all over, descended from the sky, as if blown by a blizzard.

ats-089 Shikigami, Snow Woman!

Shendai Yunwu, whether it was real courage or to embolden himself, roared, “Kill!”

Three Shikigami had gathered, but Qing Chen could only hear, not see.

Shendai Yunjue watched silently; Shendai Yunluo also watched silently from the tall building.

The Shadow Woman had drawn a black thorn from the darkness.

There were already thirty-six ice cones floating in front of the Snow Woman.

But Qing Chen didn't stop.

Everyone couldn't understand why he didn't stop.

Shendai Yunluo's Shendai Kongyu calmly said, “What a pity.”

Shendai Yunluo didn't speak.

Qing Chen felt the cold killing intent in front of him. He suddenly remembered what he was fighting for.

For himself.

For Shinguji Maki!

He had come to the killing intent of the Shikigami, but he only uttered, “Kneel!”

The voice was loud and firm!

Deafening!

Shendai Yunluo above the sky frowned, because Qing Chen's voice was like a divine command. He ordered them to kneel, and the Shikigami really knelt!

The Shadow Woman gracefully bowed, the Snow Woman in the sky slowly landed, and even the Sheng Qi Lou extinguished the lights on the wooden ship.

Shendai Yunwu's pupils suddenly constricted. Before he could react, Qing Chen had already brushed past him without lingering, leaving a Joker in his heart.

In this battle, Qing Chen fought for Shinguji Maki.

When Shendai Yunyi called the satellite phone, he only said that the killer could intimidate the Shikigami, but he didn't say who it was.

So Qing Chen just smeared Shinguji Maki's blood on his wrist, making everyone think that the person who could command the gods was him.

Not little Maki.

In this way, all of Shendai's attention would be focused on him, and the little girl could live carefree for a few more years.

No one would remember a worthless little girl, and no one would remember her mother.

This is very dangerous.

But it's okay.

As a master, he should naturally bear all this for his disciple.

Just as Li Shutong once sheltered him from wind and rain.

This is Knight.