Elevator Dimension Line

"I'm troubling you again. Every time you come, you have to hunt for this old woman. You're a young lady, so please be careful not to get hurt," the old woman said with a smile.

“Hunting is what I’m best at, I won’t get hurt, and I always trouble you when I come here, so it’s only right that I help you with some things,” Hu Yi said.

"You know how to hunt, are you a hunter?" Hoshimi Miyabi asked curiously from the side.

“I’m not a hunter, but everyone from our Wan Valley knows how to hunt. It’s part of our daily training… Hmm, do you want to join me? I can tell you can sit here all night, so you must be quite a character. You can’t fool me on that.” Hu Yi chuckled, as if to say, “I’ve already seen through you.”

The old woman stood by, smiling without saying a word. Although she was a woman, she had seen the world in her youth and knew that many female warriors and ninjas were very powerful. She also knew that the young girl in front of her, who seemed to be from a wealthy family, was skilled in martial arts.

"Okay!" Hoshimi Miya readily agreed. She wasn't stupid; she could naturally see that Hu Yi was different.

Whether a person has martial arts skills or not can be judged at a glance by someone like her who has been practicing for many years.

This girl named Hu Yi did not have the proper and disciplined demeanor of a warrior; instead, she exuded a free and unrestrained spirit.

If we consider martial artists in contemporary society, besides samurai, there is only one other type: ninjas.

The fact that this world is called Koga Ninja Scrolls indicates that it is a world of ninjas, and we can see this in Hu Yi.

The reason why Hoshimi Miya didn't directly ask about ninjas last night was because she had overheard about them by chance in town. However, people didn't seem to have a good impression of these mysterious people who lived in the shadows. Whenever they mentioned them, they would associate them with assassination and death, so they were very wary and cautious.

So Hoshimi Miyabi didn't ask rashly, but the girl in front of her always had a ninja vibe about her, wasn't she the perfect candidate?

Hearing that the other party agreed to hunt with him, Hu Yi was obviously very happy, and when he turned his head again, he revealed a cunning smile like a fox.

After saying goodbye to the old woman, Hu Yi, with a wood-chopping knife tucked into one side of his waist and a cloth bag slung across his shoulder, called to Xing Jianya, and the two of them walked together into the distant mountains and forests.

Hu Yi walked casually beside her on the road, not acting like a girl at all, but more like a wild boy. He would chat with Xing Jianya from time to time, either talking about his past hunting experience or subtly probing Xing Jianya's identity.

As the head of the Sixth Air Defense Section, Hoshimi Miya had seen plenty of Hu Yi's little schemes. In her eyes, Hu Yi really was just a little girl.

She seems to be playing tricks on herself, but she is actually adorably straightforward and innocent. She accidentally reveals her true feelings, yet she thinks she has hidden them very well.

Hoshimi Miyako kept amusingly agreeing with her along the way. It's quite interesting to have such a simple-minded girl as a friend.

"Huh! There's a noise..."

As Hu Yi was talking about hunting wolves with his brother when he was very young, he suddenly stopped, raised his hand to make a shushing gesture, then turned his head to look into the depths beside the forest path, and even tilted his head back to sniff around.

“There’s prey around here…it looks like it just passed by…it smells like deer…” Hu Yi whispered.

"Really? I can't smell it. Are you sure?"

Hoshimi Miya pretended to be serious, but in fact she had already smelled it. She was a fox spirit, and a top-tier existence in the fox clan... a nine-tailed fox! Her sense of smell was incredibly sensitive. If she wanted to, she could even distinguish the residual scent left from several days ago.

“Over there, let’s go over there, you have to follow me,” Hu Yi said.

"I'll try my best!" Hoshimi Miyabi nodded.

Hu Yi then leaped forward, lunging towards a large tree by the roadside, using the trunk for leverage as he plunged into the woods...

Hoshimi Miyabi followed suit with the same move.

The two of them used the tree trunks and branches for leverage, leaping and chasing each other deeper into the forest.

Halfway there, Hu Yi glanced back slightly and kept increasing the pressure on her feet, but no matter how much she increased the pressure, Luke always followed behind her at a leisurely pace.

"He's definitely a master!" Hu Yi thought to himself.

Chirp~~

Two deer calls came from the woods.

Hu Yi and Xing Jianya changed direction and landed on a large tree a moment later.

Not far below, in a small patch of grass in the woods, several deer were leisurely grazing, occasionally looking up warily at their surroundings.

Hu Yi glanced back at Xing Jianya on a nearby tree branch. The latter turned her head to her, indicating that she should do as she pleased.

Hu Yi raised his hand and drew the wood-chopping knife from his waist. The next moment, without hesitation, he swung it down.

The machete whirled past the neck of a fawn and stuck into a dead tree stump.

The fawn let out a cry, a huge gash appeared under its neck, it jumped twice, then collapsed headfirst, its limbs twitching uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, the other fawns chirped and scattered, but Hu Yi showed no intention of chasing them, clearly thinking that taking down one would be enough.

Hu Yi jumped down from the tree branch and came to the fallen fawn. The fawn had already breathed its last, and its blood stained a large area of ​​grass around it.

Hu Yi glanced at the deer, then bent down to pull the wood-chopping knife off the tree stump...

Just then, a whooshing sound came, accompanied by a slight whistling sound.

A spinning sickle shot out from the depths of the forest, heading straight for the bent-over Hu Yi.

Hu Yi reacted quickly. The moment his hand touched the sickle, he pushed off with his feet and darted forward. The sickle, after being shot, spun around and flew back, its path landing precisely where Hoshimi Miya was standing. Clearly, the other party had planned it all out.

Hoshimi Miyabi, however, stood there motionless, seemingly oblivious to everything.

"Watch out, get out of the way!" Hu Yi shouted and pounced.

However, the distance was too far, and it seemed too late.

But then a bright light flashed through the air, and the sickle that had just flown close broke off from the middle of the blade with a clang. The two halves of the sickle flew to the sides, the handle falling into the grass, while the blade stuck into a tree trunk not far away.

"Uh! What was that?" Hu Yi landed next to Xing Jianya in surprise. She hadn't even seen the flash of light clearly.

Hoshimi Miyabi did not answer, but instead looked into the depths of the woods.

A figure dressed in black emerged from the woods.

His hair was messy on his head, and long at the back, resembling a wolf's tail. He was dressed in a standard black ninja outfit.

At this moment, the man walked out, holding a short-handled sickle in one hand and looking slightly surprised.

Iga Ten Ninja - Chikuma Koshiro