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Araki Kazuto lifted the spiked club with one hand, arrogantly swinging his wrist and even smoothing his hair with one hand, taking his style of not fighting properly but just doing fancy things to the extreme.

They looked incredibly arrogant and infuriating, yet this group of foot soldiers was actually no match for them.

Several soldiers were hit by the hammer several times, and some even lost their weapons. However, Arataki Ichito controlled his strength, so they were not seriously injured.

Taking advantage of the moment when Arataki Ichito was showing off, they surrounded him with their spears.

It's unclear whether Jiang Bai and his companions posed no threat to them or had no reason to attack them, but the battle didn't affect them.

"Hmph! Don't even think about running! Lord Kujo is coming soon!"

"Run?" Arataki Ichito stretched his neck and stomped his foot on the ground with such force that cracks spread from his foot outwards.

"You think I made my underlings so devoted to me?!"

"Come on, boss!"

"Defeat them!"

Genta and A-Shou watched their boss display his might, their eyes shining as if they were the ones disciplining the shogunate soldiers, shouting and waving their fists in encouragement.

"Watch closely!" Ichidou grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth.

The spiked club, shimmering with golden rock elemental light, spun around, knocking away the spear. He then flipped backward to gather his strength, slamming the club heavily onto the ground. A shockwave emanated from the club, sending several soldiers who were attacking him flying and crashing to the ground.

Several foot soldiers were temporarily unable to resist and were knocked unconscious.

"Done!" Araki Ichito pretended to brush the dust off his hands, but suddenly his ears twitched and he turned to look at him.

The tall and slender, dashing Kujo Sara appeared with a group of people, blocking her way. Holding a longbow, she looked at Arataki Ichito with a chilling tone:

"Arataki Ichito, this is your final ultimatum: hand over your God's Eye!"

"Wow, one wave after another."

Araki Ichito seemed completely unconcerned, and once again stylishly pulled out a comb to comb his hair and fix his hairstyle.

"Shogun of the Shogunate, are you dreaming? If you want my Eye of God, you'll have to defeat me first!"

He put away the comb, raised the spiked club and pointed it at Kujo Sara, arrogant and domineering.

However, his cool demeanor only lasted three seconds.

"what!"

A scream rang out.

Kujo Sara knocked him down in three moves, burying his head in the ground.

Kujo Sara said nothing, flipped him over with one hand, and directly took the Eye of God from his neck. He didn't spare any attention for Jiang Bai and the other two, and led the soldiers away.

Jiang Bai narrowed his eyes as he watched Kujo Sara's retreating figure.

This general is quite strong; his martial arts skills are far superior to Araki Ichito's.

Araki Kazuto sat up, his fist dangling from the ground, looking disheveled. "Damn it! I've made myself lose face in front of the newbies!"

Looking at him, Jiang Bai's lips twitched.

Why is the first reaction to having the Eye of God stolen that one feels like they've lost face?

Isn't the Eye of God more important?

He pointed at Kujo Sara's retreating figure and threatened, "Kujo Tengu, you just wait!"

Kujo Sara glanced back at him but said nothing.

Jiang Bai asked, "Boss, what do we do now? Should we go and take it back?"

He felt these people were alright; although they might not be the brightest, they were genuinely kind to him, a complete stranger, and he made a point of protecting him...

The importance of the Eye of God is beyond doubt, and he cannot simply sit idly by and watch it be taken away.

Araki Kazuto stood up, dusted himself off, and said, "Hmph, a loss is a loss. Just give it to her! I, Araki Kazuto, can afford to lose."

"You don't want it anymore?" Jiang Bai was somewhat surprised.

Ichidou was quite principled. "Just wait, I'll win back my Eye of God fair and square one day! If I can't beat her in a fight, I'll beat her in sumo wrestling; if I can't beat her in sumo wrestling, I'll beat her in insect fighting; if I can't beat her in insect fighting, I'll beat her in noodle eating. There's bound to be one that I can beat her in!"

Jiang Bai scratched his head, unsure whether he should try to take it back.

"Won't losing the Eye of God have any impact?" He remembered that Ayaka Kamisato had said that a person who loses the Eye of God loses their wish.

"Impact?" Arataki Ichito scratched his head, sensing the effect. "Aside from not being able to use elemental power, there's no other impact, right?"

"All right......"

Since it doesn't have much of an impact, let's just leave it at that for now. Once the Eye Hunt ends, the Eye of God will naturally return to him.

It would be worse if he secretly went to snatch it back for him.

"Let's go, let's keep catching the Hercules!" Arataki Ichito acted as if nothing had happened and continued searching for Hercules.

Seeing him cautiously approach a ghost beetle with his rear end sticking out, even though his God's Eye had just been stolen, Jiang Bai smiled.

This guy is quite interesting, more interesting than everyone else he's met in Inazuma.

Being around someone like that makes Inazuma feel less repressed.

He decided to stop hiding his true nature and let loose, shouting, "Boss, watch this! I've found an even bigger herring beetle!"

He leaped and swiftly caught a large hernia that had just landed on the tree.

"so big!"

Yi Dou came over and exclaimed in surprise at the palm-sized herring in his hand.

"I've never caught such a big herring beetle before!"

"Boss, here you go!" Jiang Bai handed the ghost beetle to him.

"Such a huge Hercules beetle, really for me?" Araki Ichito was somewhat surprised and confirmed it again.

"Okay!" Jiang Bai placed the ghost beetle in his hand.

Arataki Ichito raised the Hercules insect and laughed excitedly, "Hahahaha! With such a big Hercules insect, I'm sure I can go back and slaughter those little brats until they run away in terror!"

Chapter 484 Bird droppings fell into his mouth

"pat-"

A clump of bird droppings fell from the sky and landed squarely in Arataki Ichito's open mouth, which was tilted back to the sky.

Araki Ichito swallowed subconsciously, then smacked his lips in bewilderment, "What's this taste? It's weird."

Jiang Bai took a few steps back with a distorted expression.

"Big...big boss...it's...it's bird poop..." A-Shou stammered, pointing at the bird that had just flown by in the sky.

"what!!!"

Araki Ichidou's scream echoed throughout the forest, startling a flock of birds into flight.

His face turned green, and he leaned against the tree trunk, vomiting violently. The enormous herring took the opportunity to fly away.

"Ah! My scorpion beetle!"

Arataki Ichito, his face pale from vomiting, watched helplessly as his enormous Hercules flew away. He reached out a hand to try and stop it, but the Hercules didn't even turn its head.

Background music played behind him, enveloping him in sorrow; his life was utterly bleak at that moment.

Jiang Bai felt this person was incredibly unlucky. To have something as rare as bird droppings in their mouth happen, and to top it all off, their Divine Eye had just been taken away. He hoped this person wouldn't be so devastated...

"Boss, boss, water!" Yuan Tai handed over the water bottle.

"Oh, oh, oh." Araki Ichito stood up, and the seemingly tangible sad background music abruptly stopped.

He rinsed his mouth with water, and only then did he feel the bird droppings smell fade away.

He gripped the kettle in one hand, large characters like "well" appearing on his forehead, and pointed at the damned bird, cursing:

"Damn those nine tengu, damn those birds! All those feathered, flying creatures are awful! I'm having roasted bird for lunch today!"

"Men, go! Catch all the birds in this forest!"

"Yes, boss!"

Genta and Ashou quickly carried out their boss's instructions, finding the nearest big tree and starting to climb it.

"Boss, have some candy."

Jiang Bai moved away from the pile of vomit and took out a sugar cube made with ten times the sweetness of sweetflowers, trying to comfort his wounded little heart.

Arataki Kazuto glanced at the candy, grabbed two pieces, put them in his mouth, and bit down; the candy quickly melted.

"Ouch~ I feel a bit of a toothache..."

"Never mind, let's catch the bird!"

Araki Ichito stood up, and with a great sense of public decency, covered his vomit with mud, then rubbed his hands together and began climbing the tree to catch birds.

Jiang Bai stood under the tree, shielding his eyes from the sun, and looked up at them as they climbed up to carefully catch birds. They were overjoyed to find a bird's nest, and the sadness he had just felt seemed like an illusion.

He turned to look for the large herring beetle that had just flown away, and noticed that it had landed on a small tree.

Not long after, Araki Ichito, with some withered branches and leaves on his head, jumped down from the tree, carrying a lot of bird eggs in his arms.

"Hahaha! If we can't catch the birds, raiding a few nests of eggs isn't bad either!"

"Hehe, boss, I also found two bird eggs." Yuan Tai proudly pulled out two patterned bird eggs.

"Boss, I didn't catch a bird, but I caught a crystal butterfly!" Ah Shou carefully held up a beautiful purple crystal butterfly.

Araki Kazuto was in a very good mood. "Great, great, a bumper harvest!"

He was about to share his joy with the newlyweds when he looked around and couldn't find anyone. "Where's Jiang Bai?"

"I'm here!" Jiang Bai emerged from a clump of bushes, holding the large herring beetle. "I found the herring beetle that flew away."

"Hahahaha! I'm the luckiest person in the world!"

Araki Ichito laughed smugly, but the next second, he covered his mouth, glanced at the sky with lingering fear, afraid that another dead bird would poop in his mouth.

"Besides the herring beetle, I also caught a big rabbit." Jiang Bai proudly pulled out one hand from behind his back, revealing a large rabbit being held by its ear.

Araki Ichito and his two underlings slurped their saliva.

"Let's go, let's go roast rabbit!"

It's obviously impossible to get full with just one pancake. After a battle that consumed so much energy, we need to replenish our food.

The group arrived at the edge of a wide lake, lit a fire, and began processing rabbit fur. Huanglong Yidou dove into the lake and caught a large fish.

The aroma of fish and rabbit meat put everyone in a good mood. "This should be the best meal we've had in the last few days," they thought.

"Yeah, it would be great if Sister Ren and Ah Huang were here too."

"After we finish eating and go back to the city, I'll really miss them."

As Arataki Ichito peeled a roasted bird egg, he suddenly remembered something and looked at Jiang Bai, "A-Bai, you want that certificate, right? When we get back, I'll have A-Shinobu forge one for you."

"Oh? That's not a good idea."

Jiang Bai realized he had misjudged the situation.

This Ara-ryuka faction, which acts like they're just messing around, is surprisingly audacious, daring to do things like forging certificates.

Araki Ichito didn't seem to care. "It's fine. Nobody knows what the certificate looks like anyway, so we can just make one however we want."

"Actually, it's okay if we don't do it..."

Jiang Bai didn't really need that certificate. He didn't need to do anything with the shogunate, nor did he stay in Inazuma Castle. As long as he wore Inazuma-style clothes and didn't say anything, the soldiers really wouldn't notice him.

Just like how General Kujo didn't even notice him.

"I'll find out when we get back by asking A-Ren. I don't understand these things either."

"Ok."

Jiang Bai felt that this Ah Ren might be the only reliable person in the entire Huanglong Sect.

It was already evening when they returned to Hanamiban. Araki Ichito led a few people straight to the Araki-ha headquarters.

That's right, the Ara-Taki faction does have a base.

Although it's rented and not very big, it's more than enough for several people's daily lives, and there's even a room specifically for working and discussing business.