Chapter 603

At night, Jino Setsuna, changed into a tight leather suit, came to the headquarters building of Jubando stationed in the Tokyo area, an embassy established on this side of Tokyo by Jubando, which secretly controlled a small country.

This was also why many Onmyodo families, knowing Jubando had returned, did not come knocking or uproot this nail of Jubando.

Inside this building, there were at least two or three hundred Jubando combat personnel; although not all were Jubando sorcerers, a large portion were ordinary hired mercenaries, but all were elites.

Wanting to sneak in here undetected and take someone away single-handedly sounded as difficult as ascending to heaven.

However, this applied only to outsiders; as Jino Setsuna, still an internal person of Jubando, she had no intention of hiding her traces.

With a sword at her waist, she walked straight into the Jubando embassy building.

The Jubando members responsible for alert security saw her and showed no unusual expression, instead respectfully calling out Big Sister.

Apparently, her identity as the eldest daughter of the Jubando head had not been revoked.

"Where is the head now?"

Jino Setsuna stopped a secretary and directly asked about her own father's whereabouts.

"Lord Jino, there is no schedule for going out today."

The one asking was Big Sister, and the secretary did not hesitate before telling her.

"I see."

Jino Setsuna nodded, took out her identity card, and swiped the elevator that could go directly to the top-floor office.

One minute later, with a ding, the elevator doors opened.

Before her eyes was a spacious and luxurious room.

"Are you prepared to bow your head to me?"

The head of Jubando sat behind the office desk, hands crossed and resting on the desk surface, looking somewhat indifferently at the eldest daughter walking out of the elevator and asked.

"No, Father, I am here to challenge you."

Jino Setsuna pressed the hilt of the sword at her waist, a weapon funded by the Isayama Family; she did not choose to secretly take away her younger sister, but chose to face her father directly.

"Challenge me?"

The Jino Family Head furrowed his brow, and his gaze instantly turned cold.

"The position of Jubando Leader should be held by the strongest within Jubando; I believe my strength has already surpassed yours."

Jino Setsuna slowly drew her sword, pointing the tip at the person behind the opposite office desk, and then spoke the following words.

"Father, you are old; it is time to step back to the second line. Please do not occupy the position belonging to young people—my position—and refuse to yield."

"Hah~"

The head of Jubando was somewhat amused to anger by his own daughter's words; he had thought the eldest daughter had returned to submit, but instead heard such rebellious words.

"Big Sister, you have overstepped; the Master is in his prime."

An old butler with white hair and beard walked out from the shadows and directly stood in front of Jino Setsuna.

This person was the butler of the Jino Family, also her father's right-hand man, and when she was young, her skills were personally taught by this old butler.

Jino Setsuna knew the opponent was very strong; even after obtaining the Bodhi Eye, she had no confidence of defeating him, but that was before she received guidance from the White Shadow Ninja.

Moreover, she had taken medicine in the evening, and now her whole body was full of strength; so, even facing her once-powerful teacher, she had absolute confidence.

"Big Sister, then, excuse my rudeness."

The old butler with the aura of a master assumed a combat stance, his gaze cold yet carrying a hint of complexity; the old butler who had watched Jino Setsuna grow up from childhood fell to the ground, instantly defeated by Jino Setsuna, whose physical quality had been enhanced by the Gene Evolution Agent and whose strength had reached the level of a Water Saint Swordsman of the Six-Faced World.

"I have already controlled the depth of the wound. When one gets old, one should properly accept being old; don't, at such an advanced age, still point fingers at young people."

The old butler found it hard to believe, but still covered the wound on his shoulder and retreated to the side. The reason he stepped forward was simply that he did not want to watch the Big Sister, whom he had watched grow up since childhood, continue to anger the Master. But since the power displayed by the Big Sister was truly capable of challenging the Master, it was no longer something this butler should meddle in.

After all, for this butler who had served three generations, it made no difference whoever was the head of the Jino Family; it was merely a change of whom he served.

"Pa~"

The old butler was instantly defeated, and the head of Jubando could not sit still either; he stood up, overturned the chair, and looked somewhat shocked at his eldest daughter opposite.

"Father, please step down."

The head of Jubando fell silent, then a cold smile appeared on his face.

"Setsuna, I don't know how you became so powerful, but if this is the extent of it, wanting me to step down is still far from enough."

The head of Jubando pressed a button on the console beside the office desk; his voice was broadcast throughout the entire Jubando building, issuing a command to all Jubando combat personnel inside.

"Jino Setsuna has rebelled against the organization and intends to murder the leader. Now, all combat personnel, come to the top floor for support. Target: Jino Setsuna. Dead or alive!"

Jino Setsuna also heard it. Her eyes widened, and she questioned her father: "I only want you to step down, yet you want to kill me?"

Although she had almost been killed by an escort mission before, almost being killed and being directly ordered killed were completely different feelings.

"You want to challenge my status and covet my power. Even if you are my daughter, I will kill you without mistake."

The head of Jubando said coldly.

"It will take some time for the combat personnel to come up, and right now there is only this much distance between you and me, Father. Aren't you afraid I might really kill you?"

Jino Setsuna shouted.

In response, the head of Jubando merely gave a cold snort and took out a red crystal.

"Roar!"

The next moment, a huge spirit beast resembling a deep-sea electric eel was summoned by him.

"Black Four-Drive, how is this possible?"

Jino Setsuna recognized the identity of the huge spirit beast; it was the spirit beast worshipped by the Jino Family, only that in the past era when contending with Onmyodo, this spirit beast had fallen into slumber due to damage.

Jino Setsuna's gaze stopped on the red crystal emitting an ominous aura in the opposite man's hand: "This is?"

"The Killing Stone, a demon power crystal that Jubando spent many years finding outside. Using this, years ago I revived the slumbering Black Four-Drive."

"I actually didn't know about this?"

"People always need to keep a trick or two up their sleeve. And I, the head of Jubando, am undoubtedly the strongest existence in Jubando today. Setsuna, my daughter, you have miscalculated..."

The words were not yet finished when Jino Setsuna rushed toward her father.

Crackle—

The next moment, the glass of the top-floor office was shattered, arcs of electricity flickering—this was Black Four's discharge ability, given its electric eel form.

The White Shadow Ninja stood on a building not far away, his pale gold eyes watching the top-floor office gradually dim as electrical shorts took hold.

His master's task was to help Jino Setsuna, but whether that help meant simply handing over the Gene Evolution Agent to end the mission, or helping the girl successfully take her younger sister out, was unclear.

The master said nothing, and it asked nothing.

By day, it had work to do.

And by night, it was free to act as it wished.

Not knowing the mission's boundaries, the White Shadow Ninja followed along.

Just as it hesitated whether to go help, the dim embassy building on top stirred once more.

Bang bang bang—suddenly the sound rang out, and several upper floors seemed to collapse.

"Ah!"

Her body strengthened by the Gene Evolution Agent resisted the paralysis from Black Four's lightning, allowing Jino Setsuna to counterattack.

But the head of the Jubando was extremely cautious; with only a scratched arm, he controlled Black Four to break through the floor and escape his eldest daughter's pursuit.

One fled downward, one gave chase, and soon they ran into Jubando combat personnel coming to support—rat-tat-tat, gunfire erupted.

Jino Setsuna displayed inhuman physical quality, dodging most bullets, using Water God School Swordsmanship to deflect those she couldn't avoid, then closing in on the combat personnel at high speed and severing their hand and foot tendons, continuing to pursue her father.

"What happened?"

In the mid-level residential district, a cute blonde girl holding a large doll opened her room door; her room was extremely soundproof, but the rumbling vibration of the whole building shaking still drove her out to ask what was going on.

"Miss Jingliu the Second, please return to your room. Miss Setsuna the Eldest has betrayed the Organization and wants to assassinate the Head; combat personnel are preparing to go support the Head."

Jino Shizuru's cute little face went blank. Just recently her father had said at the dining table that her sister had abandoned them, and she had been heartbroken, swearing to bear the responsibility of the Jubando's future heir, planning to undergo training in a few days—but how had it now escalated to her sister coming to assassinate their father?

"Is Father all right? Will Sister be all right too?"

Taken back to her room, Jino Shizuru grabbed the maid trying to leave and anxiously asked.

"The Head should be fine. As for Miss Setsuna the Eldest, the Head has already issued a kill-on-sight order."

The maid quickly answered the girl's question, then closed the door and locked it from the outside.

Click-clack…

The doorknob turned; finding the door wouldn't open, the person inside began pounding on the door.

"Let me out quickly. I need to beg Father not to kill Sister…"

The situation was complicated; Jino Shizuru didn't understand what was happening, but she didn't want her own sister killed by her own father.

Of course, she didn't want her father killed by her sister either—only the door before her stopped her steps from going out.

The maid knew the Eldest Miss and Second Miss were close, but she also knew that if she let the Second Miss go disturb the Head now, she would probably die, so she completely ignored the Second Miss's door-pounding behavior inside.

Rat-tat-tat, gunfire continued without cease.

It proved that even a Water Saint Swordsman of the Six-Faced World needed to temporarily avoid the edge when facing a barrage fired by modern large-scale hot weapons.

Even with the powerful regeneration brought by injecting the Black Bullet World's Gene Evolution Agent, Jino Setsuna was no exception.

If it were a street environment, she wouldn't fear the Jubando's ordinary mercenaries, but inside the building there wasn't enough space to maneuver and dodge bullets, so her room to move was compressed bit by bit by the experienced Jubando mercenaries.

If nothing unexpected happened, her attempt this time to seize the Jubando Head's position would be declared a failure because her father simply wouldn't meet her moves and directly ordered her extermination.

"Run away?"

Running away wasn't hard for Jino Setsuna—maybe just taking a few bullets, she could forcefully break through the barrage, smash the window, and escape the building.

But if she escaped, what about her younger sister? That ruthless father probably wouldn't give her another chance to come in here.

If she didn't run, could she withstand the bullets?

The girl looked down at the bullet holes and bloodstains on her body. Although her drugged body had astonishing regeneration, if she were hit by a hail of bullets, she probably would die too.

Just as she hesitated whether to go all out or withdraw first and look for an opportunity, the shooting beside her ear stopped, and at the same time came the thud of bodies hitting the ground.

Jino Setsuna used the reflection of her blade to look at the corridor and saw the Jubando combat personnel on this floor fallen in a heap, while a white figure stood among the fallen group.

"White Shadow Teacher?!"

Her father wanted to kill her, but the ninja spirit teacher who said he wouldn't directly help had come to help her.

At this moment, Jino Setsuna's eyes welled with hot tears.

The White Shadow Ninja nodded at her.

All of this was the master's arrangement!

It didn't hold up a sign to explain anything, just silently turned formless in the corridor lights.

With the White Shadow Ninja's help, the Jubando ordinary combat personnel unit was no longer an obstacle.

All she needed to deal with were the Jubando sorcerers.

And facing a Water Saint Swordsman injected with the Gene Evolution Agent, this world's sorcerers were no match.

Jino Setsuna quickly caught up with the Jubando Head, who had already reached the first floor, inside the embassy building.

Father and daughter met again, and Jino Setsuna's eyes no longer held any extra feelings for her father.

"Black Four, Lightning Strike!"

"Sword Return!" (Broly's modified simplified version of Separating the Sword Realm, mainly used to reflect energy moves like magic, requiring extremely high prediction of energy attacks)

Battle was imminent, and the White Shadow Ninja did not continue to intervene.

"No, I don't want Sister to die, and I don't want Father to have an accident. I must go out…"

Time rewound. Just as Jino Setsuna was charging downstairs, Jino Shizuru, locked in her room, was also trying to find a way out.

And when she poked her head out the window and saw that the windows on the lower floor were open, the girl made a bold decision.

She tied the bedsheets together and threw them out the window. Then, this girl not yet eleven years old, grabbed the bedsheets, overcame the fear caused by the height, and climbed down.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong during this process; she smoothly arrived at the downstairs room through the open window, the door was not locked, and she ran straight out.

As for how to find her sister and father, Jino Shizuru chose to run toward the downstairs where sounds of activity were coming, and when she reached the first-floor embassy hall.

She saw her own sister stepping on their father's chest, raising the long blade in her hand, seemingly preparing to end their father's life...

"Sister."

The descending blade stopped beside the man's neck because of the younger sister's shout.

The blade edge only cut the skin slightly, a little blood seeped out.

"How about it, didn't you want my rights and status, didn't you want the Cursed Seal Way? Kill me, and all of this becomes yours!"

Jino Setsuna looked at the man beneath her feet; her eyes seemed to hold no fear of nearly being killed, but rather an anxious appearance, yet she suddenly realized something.

The young woman took a deep breath, calmed her mindset, looked at the father beneath her feet, and said seriously: "I am different from you; my life will no longer accept your manipulation.

I will take Shizuru away, and as for you, I will not kill you tonight, but if you dare come looking for trouble with me and my sister again, I will kill you — not as the next Cursed Seal Way Head, nor as your daughter, but as Shizuru's older sister."

The Cursed Seal Way Head's eyes suddenly widened, anger surfacing on his face, but he was kicked in the face by Jino Setsuna and sent flying.

The young woman picked up the Killing Stone from the ground, picked up the blade hosting Kuro Shido, and smiled toward her own younger sister's direction: "Shizuru, I've come to take you away."

The girl ran over, but did not throw herself into her sister's arms; instead she looked worriedly toward the direction the man was kicked: "Is Father alright?"

"He's fine, I just beat him up badly."

"Is it because he said you abandoned us, Sister?"

After Jino Shizuru confirmed that Father over there was fine and felt relieved, she couldn't help but ask the sister before her.

Hearing this, Jino Setsuna was first startled, but then nodded: "That's right, he's a liar, a scoundrel, but he can't control us anymore."

"Right, Shizuru, these recent days, have you done anything that made yourself feel sad?"

"Yes, Father deceived me, saying you abandoned us, Sister; that made me very sad."

"Only that?"

"Father also said he would make me shoulder the responsibility of the next Cursed Seal Way Head."

"Did you agree?"

"Sister, did I do something wrong?"

"No, it's just that from now on Shizuru you cannot be the next Cursed Seal Way Head, you can only be Sister's ordinary younger sister — I wonder if you're willing?"

"Willing. Wherever Sister goes, I go; just, in the future, can I still come back to see Father?"

The girl was pulled by the young woman toward the embassy's front gate; when they reached the gate, she looked back at the father who had already climbed up and was wiping blood from his nose and asked.

"If he's willing to still treat us as daughters."

The young woman took the girl and left; the Cursed Seal Way Head watched the two receding backs, his face held no anger, only wooden blankness.

Once, he thought the eldest daughter was an extremely excellent heir, only she had a weakness.

As the Cursed Seal Way Head, he originally wanted to help the eldest daughter eliminate this weakness, but the younger daughter would always smile at him back then.

Subsequent events slipped out of his control step by step; he sometimes regretted that when he first discovered the eldest daughter's weakness, he should have been ruthless and removed her weakness, sometimes telling himself the younger daughter was the backup after the eldest daughter deviated from the perfect heir cultivation plan.

But now, not a single one remains; the younger daughter still let the eldest daughter keep her weakness of humanity, while the eldest daughter — who knows what happened — with one person and one sword, forcibly killed through all of the Cursed Seal Way's forces stationed in Tokyo.

"Master, shall we issue a pursuit mission for the Eldest Daughter and Second Daughter?"

The old butler, whose shoulder had stopped bleeding and been simply bandaged, arrived beside the man at some unknown time, bowing to inquire.

The Cursed Seal Way does not allow traitors.

"Such a mission would only give the Cursed Seal Way one more powerful enemy..."

The eldest daughter's words before leaving were absolutely not bluster; after having some of his thoughts seen through by her, I'm afraid she would kill me and still not let the Cursed Seal Way produce an even stronger Head.

"Then what about the Eldest Daughter and Second Daughter?"

"Cold handling."

He is the Cursed Seal Way Head; his whole life has been bound by the Cursed Seal Way; his thoughts are destined to lean only toward the direction beneficial to the Cursed Seal Way.

And now treating this as if nothing happened has become the optimal handling result.

As for the original plan to counterattack the Onmyodo, the moment the Killing Stone and Kuro Shido were seized by the eldest daughter, it could only be abandoned as a matter of recognizing the situation.