Chapter 456: Upgrade


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    "Then you should make preparations before you go so that you aren''t caught off guard and take enough dry food that couldst you a week who knows you maybe be stuck in an inhabited ind without any source of food" Kenichi stated


    "Kenichi is right father! Why don''t you contact Saiga the two of you can make a n instead of you just rushing what would more likely be a trap" Shizuha said as she came to talk with Elder Hayato as well.


    Elder understood that Kenichi and Shizuha were doing this for his well being so he nodded is head in eptance.


    After getting geared up, the Elder bade them all farewell as he left. Miu could only look out worriedly when Kenichi put his arms around Miu''s shoulder, drawing her close.


    Despite the Elder leaving, the Elder actually didn''t head towards his destination right away. First, he made a small detour, heading into a nondescript alleyway. After making sure nobody was tracking him or around him, he pulled out a piece of paper, looking at it intently.


    "Let''s see, I need to touch this brick, then this one.," muttered the Elder, following the instructions on the paper. After pressing thest brick, the wall before him began to rumble before shifting back and to the side, revealing a secret passage. The Elder walked into the passageway, letting the wall behind him seal shut.


    This was one of the safehouse that Kenichi and Niijima made in the city. One thing Kenichi likes about Niijima is his over the top preparedness and it helps that Niijima always does what Kenichi asks without much of a question.


    Taking a few steps in, the Elder was in the main room where a device was left standing on a tform with a big red button. The Elder took the device and gently pressed on the red button for 3 seconds, letting go before looking at it in confusion.


    "Is this working?" said the Elder loudly as he began to press the red button again a few more times.


    "Dad, you only needed to press it the first time and wait," voiced Saiga over the device, "That''s a customized radio that connects to one of my personal phones."


    "Ah, good to know," smiled the Elder, "Can I bring this with me so I can remain in contact with you the whole time?"


    "If you can keep it safe somehow," replied Saiga, "I''ll be having an agent on standby with transportation close to wherever you are going so what is this ce!?"


    "ording to this note, it is an ind," stated the Elder.


    "Good. Take themunicator and the fanny bag, make sure you keep that hidden and secure," advised Saiga, "This''ll help you give you the edge you''ll probably need."


    The Elder looked into the fanny pack with his eyebrows raised before seeing just what it was. With that, the Elder managed to hide the fanny pack under his clothes where it didn''t seem obvious, especially with his cape blocking it, before leaving the secret base.


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    Days Later


    Kenichi and Miu rushed over to the Shinpaku Alliance base, getting the message that Shigure had arrived there. The two had to stop when they walked in to see some rather hi-tech stuff conveniently located in Niijima''s throne room, where the Yomi members hadn''t been allowed inside.


    "Niijima... what is this stuff?" asked Kenichi as he pointed to some servers.


    "Spoils of war," replied Niijima, not revealing that he had been the one who ordered the Zanshin Taisha-ryu to raid one of the transports that had been transporting stuff from the Yami base Ryozanpaku had raided to another hidden base, taking advantage of hisck of leash holders.


    "... We really need to keep him on a tighter leash," whispered Kenichi to Miu, who nodded.


    The two of them followed Niijima to where Shigure and Apachai were resting. Thanks to their experience, they didn''t carelessly approach Shigure. One of the Valkyries hadn''t listened to Niijima''s warning about approaching Shigure while she was asleep, and suffered the consequences. Luckily, with Niijima''s funds, he had emergency clothes prepared for all genders.


    "Shigure, is everything ready?" asked Kenichi loudly.


    Shigure responded by suddenly drawing her de, and moving to slice Kenichi''s clothes.


    With his own Katana Kenichi deflects her sword and the duo have a little spar right then and there.


    "Ahhh!" shouted the Valkyries as Shigure was finally sessful in slicing Kenichi''s shirt leaving his upper body naked.


    "Good.... You are improving fast" Shigure said


    "Yes, I can''t believe you are already so good with your sword" Saeko said though the excitement in her eyes clearly showed how much she herself wanted to spar with Kenichi though this time with their swords.


    "Maybe we can sparter, Master said that I need to get used to masters with sword skills, Shigure has been too busy for it" stated Natasha to which Kenichi nodded his head.


    Hearing Natasha the other members of Shinpaku Alliance were once again spurred with fore as they remember that other than Kenichi there was Natasha among them who was a Master ss fighter as well.


    "Can we get on with whatever we are here for I need to get back to my training" Takeda said


    "Yes, My masters finally ame down from the mountain after so much begging so I need to get the most of the situation as well" stated Tsuji


    The other grumbled as well except causing Kenichi to just shake his head at their behaviour while Shigure started passing out her specially made arm guards tomanders of the Shinpaku Alliance.


    Once everyone had them on, Shigure quickly attacked them all, with each one of them instinctively raising their arms to guard. Ukita actually reacted to the shes, unlike the original timeline where he had been totally clueless that Shigure had attacked.


    "What was that for!?" shouted Ukita, unaware of the nod of approval that he got from Kenichi,


    "Wait, look at these armguards!" shouted Takeda in surprise as he nced down towards them.


    "They deflected her sword?" asked Kaname in astonishment.


    "Everyone, take a closer look," said Hibiki as he closely examined the gloves, "It''s not made of cloth, but rather thinly woven fibers of metal."


    Shigure exined that each chain link had been made to the same caliber of a Japanese katana, with special processing to allow her to create such gauntlets. Everyone could see the amount of effort that had gone into these gloves, and quickly bowed to her in thanks. Shigure waved it off, but they could see that she was ecstatic at receiving such praises.


    One weekter


    "So, it begins soon," hummed Kenichi as he swirled a cup of juice in his wine ss. The Elder had been gone for the week, meaning the trap had been set against the Elder.


    "Then it''s time to start tilting the board our way," grinned Kenichi as he dialed a number before it was finally picked up.


    "Who are you and how did you get this number!?" demanded Boris Ivankov.


    "Wow, Boris is that how you greet a friend in Russia and after all the trouble I went through to get your number."