@Team Cybele:
#2 crits, so:
Confirm Roll- (1d20+8)[22] - Does not confirm.
Extra damage Roll- (1d10+7)[8]
@Team Maaya:
Pick someone, or I'll pick someone for you. It's a pretty simple request: Tell the NPC, in your own words, what happened during the mission. Feel free to interject your character's thoughts or opinion on what happened.
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Good call on Shundou. Amon managed to get herself 3 whole masteries in oen day for Body Sub, so I'll be able to dodge at a +18 bonus against targets up to level 8 (or level 9 ordinary), isn't that lovely.
Wow, you guys are level 8 now?
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Nope, but attaining masteries increases your effective level when using techniques. Although we may be level 7 by the end of the day with any luck. I'm holding out hope that after this fight if Yousuke somehow wins, it'll just turn out to be some low-intensive mission not related to anything. Like protecting pop stars or something. Otherwise Yousuke will be pretty much defenceless in the sorts of fights we usually get in
If only Yousuke had a constitution of 16, he'd have held out for at least another couple more turns.
I'm surprised actually... I thought she would crack +11 BAB for some reason, but her full attack only had 2 attacks and her attack onus isn't as high as I thought. Maybe she's not nearly so strong as I believed. Though it hardly matters. How many actions points have you got left, Bad? Just go ahead and spent all of them for Chakra is you need to (unless you have some sort of emotional speech in your pocket you've just been waiting to pull out) and I'll do my best to ensure we all get a fresh supply before we get in any more serious fights. Fighting Youmu has to count for some sort of XP, right?
Really, a dramatic moment or some more amazing luck is all that will save Yousuke now. Though I think the sword said it wanted him to pull out EVERYTHING he has; I'm sure that includes his Action Point contingencies
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Assuming she doesn't have DR or some other crap form the sword, Yousuke's dealt 47 damage. I contend that defeating her now is NOT impossible. Also that Naruto isn't intended to be played with low Con or without defensive maneuvres because DAMN that's a lot. Anyway, hold out some hope. You've got 2 action points left and this IS the most dramatic moment in Yousuke's life. Make them count
On the other more depressing hand, Yousuke hasn't landed a blow since she took her turn (i.e. is no longer flat footed and indeed has her speed ranks bonus) so who knows HOW high her defence is. Still, you're a plucky shonen action hero. If you were going to roll over and accept defeat just because you're tired, you wouldn't have gone all out so quickly
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I thought of a cool way to hit her, but it's really risky. Even if you hit with everything you've got, you might not drop her. I predict her HP at anwhere between 60-100, though probably at least 70.
The strategy is just this. Back up enough that she can charge you, draw out all your chakra, ready an action to intercept the charge. I know, the -2 won't do much but... at least you'll have tried.
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Hey, you know DBZ? I always thought it would be funny to figur eout where everyone was in terms of that show's 'power level' thing. The average human is 5, Goku was (apparently) 10 when he's first discovered in the mountains, at the start of Dragonball Z he's at about 300. I guess the 'chakra pool' is as good a metric of any, even if it would never account for the exponential power growth of DBZ. Amon wouldn't be too high overwise, only slightly above the average human due to her chakra and speed - she ain't some loser physical type.
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Could I use Craft (chemistry) to make some sort of forensic solvent for detecting blood?
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How long do you think it would take to make/acquire?
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Bad, if you survive this round, I strongly recommend going for the disarm attempt if you're certain you won't hit her anyway. Don't be afraid to tap your reserve - the fatigue won't set in until after the fight. I'm just thinking if one more hit would suffice if it were strong enough. Also if Yousuke had used one of his masterwork katanas, he'd probably have won, but then that's teh point of the thing isn't it. Let's hope the demon sword sees it that way. let's see, what made it break last time...
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I've spent some time constructing the ultimate Naruto d20 character. I think I have the hang of it now. And I don't mean in terms of 'Madara uchiha's awesome because he has, like, 4 bloodlines and can control the Kyuubi' no, I mean optimally using the mechanics of techniques and teh new balance. Feinting is a big deal, as is defensive maneuvres, and having a REALLY high Con.
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It'd take awhile to make it unless Amon has access to an actual chemical lab. Getting it would just require getting some from Central.
Oh sweet, we may have salvaged a lead then. Even if this 'blood in her personal space' thing really is incidental, Amon at least wants to know where to scrub to have her room not smell like butchered carcass.
I was actually hoping for something a little more capable for gaseous things - i.e. tracing the smell. But i haven't studied forensics yet so I don't know that such a solvent exists. And if it did it would probably be made obsolete by a quick UV scan.
Ooh, can I acquire a UV light?
God that'll be awkward - scanning your own room for bodily substances while a witness observes you
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Feinting isn't really a big deal unless your opponent has high DEX. Defensive maneuvers and high CON are really helpful.
Ah, but that's the thing. Defensive Maneures are really important at some point, as we can all agree. If you feint someone to make them be denied their dex (which mind you might already be as high as, like, 20 or more in some super-ninjas' cases) they shouldn't be able to USE their defensive maneuvres, making them far more vulnerable
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Ah, but that's the thing. Defensive Maneures are really important at some point, as we can all agree. If you feint someone to make them be denied their dex (which mind you might already be as high as, like, 20 or more in some super-ninjas' cases) they shouldn't be able to USE their defensive maneuvres, making them far more vulnerable
Except that feint takes up two rounds to attack, and it's more efficient to make them waste their defensive maneuvers than it is to feint and deny them defensive maneuvers. It's a waste of an action if you don't have the feat that makes feinting a move action, and in that case it's still troublesome to use several of the more dangerous techniques.
Two words: Drunken Fist. Among one or two other things, the stance let's you feint as a move action. Just do that and keep pounding at them and they'll be dead soon.
Yup. I was just going through the rulebook, making a taijutsu character and to my surprise (hardly) found that Rock Lee is in fact the ultimate build of any Naruto character, apparently. All the elements are in place for him to be the main character, honestly.
Although the character I made was more of a party face - and doesn't have a restriction on jutsu, just lacks particular proficiency in anything that isn't punching things.
You'd roll intimdate for interrogation, you think?
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Two words: Drunken Fist. Among one or two other things, the stance let's you feint as a move action. Just do that and keep pounding at them and they'll be dead soon.
Limits you to punching dudes, and subsequently reduces your ability to use a variety of techniques.
On top of that, it can grant your opponent a bonus to hit you(due to using anti-stance techniques) or be broken by your opponent(stunning you, for example).
It's still not that great compared to just plain overloading their defensive maneuvers instead of wasting your full-attack action.
I don't see how. Just feint then use an attack-action technique, seems to fit fine to me. There's no reason the feinting and technique use need be opposite concepts. Though not being one for taijutsu at least with any current character, I wouldn't know I guess.
Plus one opponent could have dozens of defensive maneuvres and when you're fighting in a group, if all you can do is make the enemy waste a few chakra to avoid being hit every round, you're not contributing to the fight.
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I don't see how. Just feint then use an attack-action technique, seems to fit fine to me. There's no reason the feinting and technique use need be opposite concepts. Though not being one for taijutsu at least with any current character, I wouldn't know I guess.
Easy way to beat feints: Shundou 15 feet away after every action. The feinter has to move and feint, or move and attack. If the chose to continue feinting, then they lose action economy to you(in fact, you get literally twice as many actions). If they just attack, then they're on equal footing with you, except that they're unarmed and you're not.
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Plus one opponent could have dozens of defensive maneuvres and when you're fighting in a group, if all you can do is make the enemy waste a few chakra to avoid being hit every round, you're not contributing to the fight.
No matter how many defensive maneuvers you have they all stack for per day uses. And that limit is 5.
The only exceptions are in the case of Gaara's "ultimate defense" and the Gentle Fist Divination Whirl techniques.
No matter how many defensive maneuvers you have they all stack for per day uses. And that limit is 5
Wait, really? Crap, what's the point in investing in things that aren't Body Substitution then? Or Shundou, whatever, point is that makes half the 'dodge' techniques obsolete. Like what's even the point of Speed of Lightning then if I could accomplish almost as much with a level 1 technique?
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You know what would get around that Shundou crap? Stretching your limbs like Luffy. That would be sweet. I wanna play a rubber-person.
Anyway, there's plenty of techniques to restrict movement I'm sur, so Drunken Fist still stands as a cool stance
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Wait, really? Crap, what's the point in investing in things that aren't Body Substitution then? Or Shundou, whatever, point is that makes half the 'dodge' techniques obsolete. Like what's even the point of Speed of Lightning then if I could accomplish almost as much with a level 1 technique?
Flavor. Body Sub or Greater Body Sub are pretty much the staples behind avoiding damage.
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You know what would get around that Shundou crap? Stretching your limbs like Luffy. That would be sweet. I wanna play a rubber-person.
You know what's an interesting character? Not Luffy.
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Anyway, there's plenty of techniques to restrict movement I'm sur, so Drunken Fist still stands as a cool stance
No, actually. The techniques that do reduce movement are either stuns or other insta-lose techniques. Many of those techniques are ninjutsu or genjutsu, which a taijutsu-focused character would likely lack. Finally, Drunken Fist is still inefficient compared to just plain overwhelming their dodge maneuvers.
Luffy as a character held up a lot better before the decided to excise the entire crew of One Piece and just focus entirely on him for TWO YEARS. Luffy never had any internal monologues before this giant War crap that every major shonen anime now seems to have these days, but now he's got all this tragic emo hero stuff going on, wheras in the Golden Era One Piece, he could be mistaken for a quiet warrior-poet since he was quiet enough to understand certain things and loud enough to express himself all over someone's face when it's time to intervene. Also another change that sucks? Gold Roger's eyes aren't supposed to be seen. One Piece is tragically in that zone of anime where the creator has been making it for so long he forgot exactly what made it great in the early days. It wasn't Ace, i assure you, nor was it spending months of manga releases on end watching large scale and boring fights between characters that only existed for about 3 chapters. And it wasn't this Gear Second bullcrap. If Luffy decided he didn't want to be awesome anymore, that's fine, but being the main character means he couldn't just step gracefully out of teh spotlight in favour of, say, Zoro being the captain.
Give Luffy this much though; as a bit of a physics geek, I find his fights endlessly fun to watch in teh early days as he creatively applies his stretching powers - anchoring himself, flinging, bouncing, all good stuff.
Luffy isn't the sort of character you want to be playing in an RP though. if you make a character whose defining properties are awesome, it actually inhibits roleplaying, since you don't want to break their image by going beyond their range. I decided once I wanted to play a badass Zaraki-type in an RP and all i ended up with was spoiling the mood for everyone else. I like to make characters with at LEAST 3 thoughts that'll be in their head and regularly displayed at any given time. People's identities are in a way an amalgamation of all the roles they play in the lives of others, which is why I gave Amon a fairly wide variety of NPCs. Aiko especially is a good element - if Amon didn't have a 'reliable big sister' image to maintain, she wouldn't have much emotional strength or moral conviction.
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And I got off on about 4 tangents and forgot what I was orginally going to bring up. Something about the glass we're looking through and our perceptions I guess
EDIT: Oh wait, I got it. How long would it take Amon to reach her family's holiday house? (and are there any sages closer to there than to here)
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Oh I just realised Youmu really does have DR. Let's see, what was that build again... I think that'll be Tough 5 in there somewhere, plus Samurai X. Damn, my prediction was wrong, her HP could be beyod 100. if just a few of the hits Yousuke's made after his first turn had hit, he might have gotten her though...
Well, Bad, looks like this is your invitation. If you're going to do something dramatic, now's your moment.
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You don't need to work out the Last Night section right now; if it'll make this fight work through its climax fast enough to keep the mood going, I'll wait until a victor is decided if the response would require enough time and thought to disrupt your thoughts. Right now Yousuke seems like he needs the attention
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We can split it. I mean, I kinda stalled it because it somehow got compartmentalized in my mind and ended up in the same class as "homeworks", but if someone started, I can pick it up pretty quickly.
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Here's teh report Amon wrote for the first misison, if you're really interested. It's over 2000 words long. I would recommend NOT following my example, it's not fun. Although funnily, Amon was described as writing this entire report over the course of about a 5 minute train ride. Having an 18 Intelligence and thus being too smart in odd ways for most people to comprehend certainly has its advantages
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Report: Team 5, [date]
The Account of Amon Yamana on the Escape of Yusa of Black Sand
Team 5 acting membership
Cybele of Eurayele - Special Jounin, Sensei
Amon Yamana – Genin of two years, trained medic
Yousuke Konpaku – Genin, newly graduated
Houshi Takeada – Genin, newly graduated
Account
The aim of today’s mission, as it was understood, was the transportation of prisoner Yusa of the Black Sand from Soragakure to the village of sand. We were to be assisted by another team of genin the other village, under the assumed leadership of one Hinami. Yusa was delivered to us near the village gate covered in seals, reported to be part of a Genjutsu with the obvious effect of making her almost vegetative and the reported effects of; not being able to use techniques and not being able to resist an order given to her by a sky-nin. Soldier Pills in hand, we set out immediately to deliver her to the Kage.
Hinami acted extremely and openly hostile to Cybele for reasons she did not fully explain on the trip, almost seeming ready to kill her just for not reacting to her mockery. As acting in this manner may blow her cover if such events were entirely accredited to someone off the books, I believe the source of this grudge may be on the books. She also admitted openly to spending time as a missing-nin and implied the same for Cybele, a factor that weighs heavily into my later threat evaluation.
After some 8 hours of travel, we came to a small town whereupon there is a clear disparity between the perceptions of our respective teams. I suspected genjutsu at first, though considering the techniques I witnessed mere hours ago, such base trickery may not even be necessary. The end result was this; the team of sky-nin, our group, perceived Hinami as stopping immediately at the town and insisting Yusa be brought to the inn to rest, and that her group be the first to take watch, and that we should rotate to take watch the second night. I cannot account for how Cybele-sensei perceived these events, as I kept my knowledge of what I do not know fresh from other accounts, so that our knowledge may be better cross examined. The sand-nin insisted however that the way they perceived the events, Cybele went with Hinami to the inn and insisted instead that we take first watch. That may have been Hinami’s accomplice in disguise, though that that does not fully account for how to our perception the sand-nin were clearly in earshot of Hinami’s insistence to take first watch.
Regardless, the end result was this; our team was left on the road just outside of town, whereupon I as the newest member tried to get better acquainted with my new team, and we all agreed to pair off and train out techniques for the morning. The sand-nin all acted as if off duty too, with Shoin of their team believing he was scheduled to have a training session with Hinami (oddly in the same place and time Yousuke of our team believed he was supposed to have a training session with Cybele, with neither Jounin appearing for later apparent reasons). In other words, Yusa had been taken to the inn and left completely unguarded by at least the genin. We met with the other team quickly enough by sheer coincidence, and after some quick debate over who’s jounin, if any, had turned traitor, we rushed over to the inn, whereupon I rallied the scattered combatants with a use of the Lightning Bolt Technique. I intended merely to use the light and sound to disrupt and draw attention, however whether it is by my technique or not I do not know, but the inn ignited entirely and quite quickly at that. In the ensuing fire, no civilians moved to escape the burning inn nor even scream. My conclusion is they were already killed. [the last statement seems a little shaky in its writing, as if Amon was afraid she was lying]
There was a tremendous explosion that blew one of the inn’s walls apart. From there, there emerged 3 ninja. The first was Yusa, not clearly freed and fully equipped. Second was an unknown ninja, a light skinned and lithe redheaded woman wearing a beautiful dark green qipao embroidered with twin scarlet dragons who answered to the name of Meiling. Hinami was the third. They all wore ninja village headbands with a huge cut through their village symbol. (see threat evaluation and speculation section for further info)
[here Amon draws an incredibly detailed picture of all three enemies. It’s a bit rushed and unpracticed, but it is almost an exact picture of how they looked when they emerged from the building.]
Headbands worn; Yusa, a crossed out Sunagakure band, likely the one Hinami had, crossed out. Hinami, an Iwakagure band, crossed out. Meiling, a Konohagakure band, crossed out
Yusa immediately ran off while Hinami remained, presumably to ensure Cybele was dead, and Meiling remained to guard Hinami. Houshi charged before our backup arrived, signalling the start of combat. I threw a smoke bomb to try and distract the enemy ninja, to better ensure Houshi’s survival, and to allow Cybele the chance she needed if she was still alive and in the shadows.
In the ensuing battle, all six genin and Cybele gathered. Things started to turn in our favour when Cybele used some form of doujutsu to turn Hinami partially to stone, and while Hinami seemed ready to die her partner would not allow her that luxury. In the brawl, Yukiko of the suna-nin fell, almost dying instantly, as she took a pair of incredibly powerful attacks to guard our own team’s Houshi. Meiling took her captive, manipulating her neck to bargain us into allowing the pair of them to escape in exchange for Yukiko’s life. With little time to decide before she bled out, I agreed, healing Yukiko well enough to keep her alive and Cybele seemed to concur as we all allowed the two of them to escape the scene, knowing we could pursue them later.
Cybele managed to find their trail and seemed determined to get herself killed on it. She refused any form of medical treatment, though the reason behind that became clear when I used a medical technique and became infected with her curse; it had detrimental effects on my chakra use, seeming to leech off of it and provide a store of tainted chakra. Cybele later informed me that if I had used that tainted chakra before the spell wore off, I may well have died. Cybele ran off immediately after, telling us she was going to kill the enemy and we were not to follow. She left a scroll in my possession, encoded, which I interpreted to essentially be her last will and testament. For the sake of privacy I shall not recount what was written as they were all personal affairs.
Shoin of the suna-nin returned after 10 minutes with news he had discovered tracks leading out of town, which we used to immediately give chase and track the ninja. We would never catch then weaker than they were at that moment and I was determined to see Cybele-sensei make it out alive and well. We followed the tracks to a cave, where a series of dead bodies lay, in addition to the unconscious bodies of women I assumed to be hostages. The only conscious person remaining was Hinami, who was spiked and left for dead. She told us the bloodbath was Cybele’s doing, but didn’t live long. Cybele had apparently tainted with her curse, similarly to how she had unintentionally cursed me, so when the exhausted Hinami tried to use her chakra, possibly to free herself or just to put herself out of her misery, the curse triggered, killing her instantly. There was a trail of blood leading out of the cave. Following the trail of blood, we found the apparently age-regressed and bloody body of Cybele, tucked away. I nursed her as best I could without the use of medical techniques, applying first aid and resolving to not stray too far before we retrieved her body for pickup.
We forged a plan to follow the tracks of Cybele’s last quarry, the Meiling ninja. However, even though we seemed to luck out, Houshi striking a fantastic blow, Meiling was only using some form of physical clone (without the use of elements – I suspect kage bunshin no jutsu). All signs pointed to her heading North-North East from that location, but we decided not to pursue further; we were only 4 genin gathered there, Sojuro having stayed in town to secure Yukiko. Following her further without the element of surprise, clearly damaged though she was, and even cornering an obvious taijutsu master might well have been fruitless, if not suicidal. Cutting our losses, though fearing the heavy rain may have damaged the trail back to them, we returned to town with the hostages from the cave, Cybele and Hinami’s headband. Once at town, it was clear the suna-nin had decided on returning to their own village to report. They are likely still many miles away from home, but I evaluated splitting up was the best way to make sure at least one village knew of the threat posed that evening.
Medical Report
Cybele has been quite weakened by the use of the soldier pill, her own exhaustion and her serious wounds. I urge for her not to be sent into the field without a day of full rest at the least, an evaluation I give as a qualified medic of Sorakagure. The rest of our team is largely better off, with our wounds healed by my medical techniques and only minor expended chakra in most cases. However, the battle, the curse and healing of most of team has taken its toll on me, and I have little in the way of chakra left until I can rest.
Casualties
A number of apparent mercenaries or militia found in the cave where Hinami lay
The pair of dead (confirmed) bodies left unidentifiable after the fire at the inn
Hinami is decidedly dead from the use of poisoned chakra. You’ll find her bloody headband in my possession at time of writing and her body still in the cave outside of town.
Threat Evaluation and Speculation
[herein lies every speculation Amon made throughout the entire night. For the sake of expediency, it’s summed up in the conclusion below after thousands of words detailing her precise deductions. Assume she argues her points exceedingly well and leads no one to any conclusion other than her own]
From the events of the night, I have concluded there exists and organisation of highly powerful ninja, all missing-nin from their respective villages, most likely rebelling against the established order as evidenced by their headbands. I believe they trying to recover from a time of turmoil to some extent, though it is perfectly possible their latest incarnation is newly forged, depending on information I do not yet have access to. Yusa is most likely a major component of their leadership hierarchy. I believe the entire organisation works on a basis of pairing off depending on complimentary skills, and that one will likely find other pairs of missing nin with crossed out headbands. If they have not yet gathered attention, they soon will; they made little priority of killing witnesses and with their distinct aesthetics I believe they may be trying to send a message of some sort. At this time, I am unable to deduce Cybele’s exact relationship to them, though knowing what Hinami said of her grudge driving her to betray her own Kage to get a chance at Cybele’s head, it’s possible it was entirely a personal affair not worth mentioning. She made no efforts to silence me, so I trust her enough to say she likely is not the remaining operative.
Which brings me to my last item of business. Evaluating all I have, I deduce finally there is one more operative within this city. Call it an instinct as much as it is a strategic evaluation; there likely needed to be one more operative for this whole escape plan to be pulled off as smoothly as it did, possibly relating to the genjutsu seal used on Yusa. Be aware there may be a traitor in your ranks, and use the knowledge I have gathered to best combat their influence. I for one was shocked that such a powerful ninja would be guarded with such a lax force, that a missing-nin would garner such influence to be given optimal conditions for their ‘break out’. And the genjutsu took mere moments to dispel. With all this in mind, I trust the judgement of the elders, that I have laboured my points enough to be most useful in this fight against this new threat both outside and within the village. The higher an authority this news can reach, the better.
Further Speculation
[Various ramblings therein about the possibility of a funinjutsu master and how deep one can go undercover, until Amon at some point literally runs out of paper – leaving just enough room for her signature, which her writing bends uncomfortably around to accommodate.]
-Amon
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This is how Yousuke reported for the second mission:
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Yousuke steps up to speak and stands up stock straight, wearing an impassive expression on his face as he supplies his report with austerity and rigidness, "The team played a part in the removal of both Mara Soushio and Mara Kei, their men could not be convinced to leave and thus they met their end inside their base of operations." To make a point of it, Yousuke holds up the two katanas found in the possession of the two 'gangsters' and continues in his stoic intonation, "I retrieved these blades from their shattered corpses before returning to Soragakure,"
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