Kaida was shocked to see that they were the same bandits he had entered during his previous mission. Now he was angry with himself; if he had killed them then and there, none of this would have happened.

  "We are going to silently kill these bandits so they won't arm the others and harm the hostages," Yukihiro instructed.

  'Kill… We are going to kill them? 't ture them and bring them back to the vilge for punishment?' Kaida thought, still holding on to the mentality and innoce from his previous life, where he lived in a peaceful world.

  While this was going through his mind, and Yukihiro was making pns to save the captives, Kaida saw something. He looked toward the entrance of the cave and saw a bandit dragging a half-naked girl out of the cave. Her clothes were torn in many pces.

  "Throw her in the hole," the bandit said as he tossed her body aside a baside. Kaida was stunned by what he saw. His anger and hatred grew to an astronomical level because that girl looked like Ayame.

  The anger wasn't just toward the bandit; it was toward himself. If he had killed those monsters before, she wouldn't have had to gh that. And then something inside him broke, like a thin film of gss, shattering his st remnants of innoce. His aversion to killing was almost gone, repced by pure rage.

  His anger grew to su extent that he started feeling pain in his eyes. Drops of blood began to fall from them.

  His already red eyes became even more crimson, and a siomoe emerged in his pupils. Suddenly, the whole world became clearer to him. He could see every little detail now.

  *Sharingan.*

  With the help of his newly awakened Sharingan, Kaida noticed that the girl was still alive. Kaida was about to rush toward the cave when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

  "Kaida, you will put everyone's life in danger if you let yer get the best of you. There are still hostages inside," Yukihiro cautioned.

  Kaida uood what Yukihiro was saying. He took a deep breath and said, "Sensei, I will save everyone. Not a single person will die. I go now?"

  Yukihiro looked into Kaida's eyes for a moment. He could see the boy's anger and the newly awakened Sharingan. He wanted Kaida to stay out of the fight, but he khat stopping him now would be a huge loss for his growth.

  So, he decided to let Kaida go and only help if necessary. After all, Yukihiro was ae Jonin, capable of handling a hundred bandits on his own, but the captives were still a . He decided to trust his student and nodded.

  Without wasting any time, Kaida ran in the opposite dire and created 20 shadow es. Eae used Earth Release: Earth Military Movement Teique a underground, slowly making their way toward the cave.

  Ihe cave, there were three rooms. In the first, they stored the items they had stolen. In the sed, they kept the five women they had captured. I room, 12 bandits were eating and ughing.

  Sinly two bandits were in the sed room, two of Kaida's es emerged from the earth from their blind spots and covered the bandits' mouths while the other two es emerged and sliced their throats.

  The bandits died without anyone knowing how. One of Kaida's es dispersed, reying to him that the hostages were safe. Along with the memory, Kaida felt the weight of having killed two people so easily. It was shogly simple to end a life, but he pushed those thoughts aside, letting his anger guide him once again.

  Meanwhile, outside the cave, Kaida saw two bandits fighting over who would be the first to "enjoy" the girl's body. It became increasingly difficult for Kaida to trol himself. He used Wind Instantaneous Movement Jutsu and appeared right behind one of the bandits, delivering a punch to his head.

  Kaida had been doing physical exercises while carrying a weight of 330 kg for quite some time, but he had never had the ce to test his strength, so even he didn't knoerful he had bee.

  When he punched with full force, the bandit's head exploded, sending brain matter and blood flying in every dire. Some of it even spttered onto Kaida. The other bandit, who had just witnessed his friend's head burst open, was about to shout and attack Kaida when Kaida appeared right in front of him, gripping his neck. With a twist of his hand, he she bandit's neck, letting the lifeless body fall to the ground.

  Kaida then ran toward the girl, took off his jacket, and pced it over Ayame's upper body. Feeling Ayame stir and open her eyes, she saw Kaida's fad a look of relief washed over her.

  "Thank you," she whispered before closing her eyes again.

  Not knowing how to describe his feelings, Kaida simply sat there, holding Ayame in his p. Then, his e emerged from the cave with the remaining five hostages. One of them, an older woman, ran toward Kaida.

  "Ayame, are you alright? Ayame," the woman cried out.

  "She's just unscious. Please take her with you. My e will escort you to a safe location," Kaida said, passing Ayame to one of his es. Five of them then escorted the hostages to Yukihiro's location.

  Hearing the otion outside, a bandit came to check the situation. He was the same one who had thrown Ayame out. Kaida could have easily killed him without giving him a ce to alert his rades, but he was too angry to grant him su easy death.

  The bandit saw that all of the captives were running away with some ninja. Since he couldn't see the faces of the ninjas, he couldn't guess that they were es.

  "e out, you bastards! Some twerp here is trying to be a hero!" the bandit shouted.

  By now, Kaida had dispersed all of his remaining es, except those esc the captives and two others who had transformed into chakra ons—not swords, but tiger-cw-like ons, which Kaida now wore on both hands. He had studied many things in the library, including onry.

  (*Author's Note: Something like Wolverine's adamantium cws.*)

  Hearing the bandit's shouts, the remaining bandits emerged from the cave, each carrying some type of on, from swords to axes. Yukihiro observed this and prepared to assist Kaida if necessary.

  Although Ryota wao help his friend, Yukihiro had assigned him the task of guarding the hostages along with Kaida's es.

  On Kaida's side, one of the bandits, a grunt, decided to hahe kid alone. "Hey, kid, you shouldn't have e here. We were already in a bad mood because of a bitch who kept resisting, and now you've freed the remaining ones.

  We weren't even able to enjoy her before she went nuts and itted suicide. Just you wait—after I deal with you, we'll find the rest of them and f**k them crazy."

  Unaware that each word was sealing his fate, the grunt finished speaking, licked his dagger, and ran toward Kaida.

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  chapter: Blood-bath