154. Aftermath


    <span style="font-weight:400">The next day everything started normal for the people of thend of waves. They woke up early and prepared for the day. However, everything changed once people reached the main square of the vige. On a wooden cross with his limbs tied to it using barbed wire a headless corpse could be seen. Everyone could recognize who the person had been, especially because his head now rested impaled on a wooden spike a meter in front of the body.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Gatoh’s face had frozen in horror when he had been killed. Now, his face could be seen by everyone present as they kept quiet trying to understand what was going on. As the minutes went by more and more people came to see what was going on only to freeze on the spot as well.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Soon enough Tazuna followed by team Yamato came by as well. Unlike the inhabitants of thend of waves, team Yamato’s reaction was different. Yamato alongside Nozomi and Hinata nced subtly towards Tomoka having the exact same thought. Though the reason behind that thought differed greatly.


    <span style="font-weight:400">‘‘‘What the fuck Tomoka’’’ all three of them thought the same thing as the all med the girl that had nothing to do with the murder of Gatoh. She hadn’t sneaked out at night and she hadn’t assaulted the man’s mansion killing everyone inside. She also didn’t sneak into the vige and made this little disy. No matter what anyone said she was innocent that was for sure.


    <span style="font-weight:400">A whileter they left the ce walking towards the almostpleted bridge. A day or two more and the bridge would bepleted. Though as of now it would be a little redundant seeing as the man the cause its necessity had perished under mysterious circumstances.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“So, Tomoka mind exining.” Of course Yamato didn’t have any evidence but his gut told him that the girl was responsible.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Exin what sensei? Oh, you are talking about my hair, right? I thought dyeing it blue would look good.” Of course Tomoka didn’t know what her sensei was talking about after all she waspletely innocent.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Though I had wanted to ask about that as well, that isn’t what I asked just now.” Yamato could feel a headache approaching. Tomoka killing Gatoh could have international consequences. He needed to know if she really did it.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Did you kill Gatoh?” Not wanting to continue with the little farce he decided to ask the question directly.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Kill Gatoh? No, of course not. I just went for a walkst night and it so happens I was ying with a Tachi while I did so. Next thing I know Gatoh also went for a walk and I tripped. My Tachi just so happens to fall in just the right way to cut his head clean off.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Puahaha look at his eyebrow, it''s twitching so much!]


    <span style="font-weight:400">‘Shush Kurama I am trying to keep a straight face here’ Tomoka was trying really hard to notugh. Though she wasn’t the only one, Hinata had to disable some of her tenketsu to force her body to stop shaking from trying so hard not tough. Nozomi for her part was almost vibrating from the exertion of stopping herughter.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Tomoka, do you think this is a joke! Our mission was to protect Tazuna, not get rid of Gatoh. This could have political repercussions in the future.” Yamato didn’t know what to do at the moment. He felt extremely frustrated seeing how nonchnt Tomoka was about her actions.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Rx, I made sure it would be impossible to track it back to me. Not to mention killed everyone there except for a poor bastard that will probably have nightmares for the rest of his life. All he saw was a tall woman with white hair and red-ck armor with a massive tachi cutting people down.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“That is not the point and you know it Tomoka” Yamato’s frustration only increased. Even if the incident couldn’t be tracked back to them it didn’t set a good precedent for the future.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well, if it helps we could say I did it because he represented a hostile force against our client, which is the truth. Also, I found evidence that he was nning to attack us today around mid day anyway.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Hearing that calmed Yamato a bit. At least she had a usible reason for her actions. In truth he knew that thend of waves wouldn’t push the matter much if at all. Gatoh had been a thorn in the side of the people of the nation. If anything, they would be thankful and try to reward them. That however, didn’t mean that Tomoka could go around doing whatever she wanted.


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Fine, I will let this one go. However, I don’t want you to make a habit out of this. Understood?” Seeing Tomoka nod, Yamato rxed. If he knew the kind of chaos she had and would unleash on the world he wouldn’t have believed that nod for even a single second.