" * Huff* * Huff *.....Kendo ain't as easy as I thought it would be. Though I am relatively surprised I could find some real training methods on the internet." Said Joseph before he wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed heavily. He was drenched in sweat and his eyes were closing on their owns, but he continued to swing his sword around like a madman. Repeating the same movements over and over again.

Given that this sword was Joseph's only real weapon he decides to atleast try to get to know some basis on swordsmanship. Given that he was in Japan he found out that Kendo may be a good thing to learn and so he searched some training methods online.

He had been practicing those for the last 6 days and while the results weren't incredible, it was still enough to make him smile. Atleast now he had the confidence he could cut someone other than himself.

" Well.....I guess it's time to stop now. I should just get to sleep and prepare for tomorrow." Admitted Joseph after he felt that his body just couldn't continue. He took a quick shower and threw himself on his bed. Unfortunately, had he stayed awake a bit longer, he would've seen his sword float in the air for a few seconds as a mysterious figure appeared.....This was the second figure that Joseph had seen in his inner world.

" Such a fine sword.....So overkill for a gift to someone still so weak." Said the figure before it drifted to Joseph, it's body floating, and looked at his sleeping form. The figure stayed like that until he woke up, 9 hours later.

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( Some random alley in Tokyo, Nine hours later.)

Agent Toad and the other him arrived in an alley at the back of a bar and all smiled when they saw the group of 20 soldiers equipped with bulletproof vests, Famas assault rifles and way too much ammunitions.

" So, y'all....Ready for some slaughter ?" Asked Toad, the 20 figures nodding at the same time. Toad then looked up and sniffed the air.

" Look like it's time to go. Remember, no mercy, kill everyone. Especially the heir and the Boss. If you see the hired Agent, let me kill him." He hissed as the 20 soldiers took off. The others him all looked at him as he let out a small snort.

" Really hope this is gonna be exciting. I didn't use a massive illusion field to play with some newbies."

And with that, the Toads started to head out for the location of the birthday party, jumping from buildings to buildings.

The location itself was a park. The Oibara family had actually decided to host the birthday party in a park. Apparently the heir of the clan was the nature guy, so it was only normal. The park was clearly huge enough, and yet with how much stuff the clan had prepared, the whole park was packed. There were too many guests, too many things to do and.....Too many ways to randomly assassinate someone in that crowd.

The police was also there, which was barely surprising given what happened the last time at the Kobuchi tower. Thought the officers were pretty lax. It was a known thing that Yakuzas clans always had the police in their pocket, especially since some of them weren't all that harmful to society....However the Oibara were different. The Boss had some connections in the government and so, the clan could do basically anything they wanted. Usually they behaved, unfortunately a birthday party wasn't a place where they were expected to behave.

" COME ON !!! DRINK, DRINK !!" Yelled the heir of the clan, shoving a bottle at a cloaked figure. Said figure had the exact same cloak as Toad, except there wasn't an animal on it. There was only the letter P on the hood.

The figure tried to refuse but the heir continued so they grabbed the bottle, opened it and downed it in one go.

" Oooh ! That's the spirit !" Exclaimed the Heir, a cheery smile on his face. The figure merely nodded and navigated through the crowd before reaching one of the numerous guards.

" Keep your eyes open, they could come at any time. Also don't forget to check if any of the guests has some animal emblem on their clothes. If you do see an anime emblem, call me immediately and tell me which animal it is." Said the figure. The guard nodded and the figure once again passed through the crowd, moving easily as if it was walking through the guests. The figure appeared unaware that a certain person dressed to impress was now eating some sushis at the entrance of the park.

' Damn....The Oibara sure are powerful. I never had more than 10 guests at any of my birthday party. Maybe that's because I am a sociopath ? Or maybe my family just sucks heavily.' Thought Joseph as he continued to eat sushis while eyeing the crowd, looking for any signs of an agent. He couldn't really tell an agent apart from a normal person if they wore normal clothes, but he was still trying. After some time he finally noticed that the security guards were all converging at one point. They were all going for the heir of the Oibara. And there, behind the heir himself was the cloaked figure, looking at the lake in front of it. Most of the guests hadn't noticed it but some bubbles were popping at the surface of the water, as if....

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' Don't fucking tell me.....'

The guests were all laughing, talking to each others happily. The Heir was enjoying himself while the Boss was clearly taking some pleasure out of this as well. But this atmosphere of happiness was ruined in an instant, or rather the fraction of an instant.

Before anyone could anything, something exploded in the lake, numerous figures shot iut from the water while the cloaked figure from before dashed towards them.

Just as Joseph's eyes widened, he saw that the cloaked figure had returned to it's previous position and was now frantically looking everywhere. The guards were reassuring the guests that thus was all part of the event, which was obviously bullshit but it was better to try save the situation before everyone started to act like frightened rats.

' A diversion ? They must be here for the Boss and the Heir. Fighting this agent would be too much of a hassle, I think. That's why they want to get his attention away from the targets.' Thought Joseph. And indeed he was right. Some guards were fast approaching the father and son duo, and they looked like quite bizarre. Eached of the guards moved the same, taking steps at the same time while their arms mived in the same way. They had the same expression of indefference on their faces, and they all had small knives in their hands.

Joseph put a hand on the sheath of his sword and runned his finger along the leather surface, wondering whether he should intervene. To him the best would be to have those two agents fight each other and intervene at the end, thus making it easier for him to kill one of them.

As such, Joseph quickly made up his mind as his eyes glowed red.

" KYAAA !" Suddenly screamed a woman close to the guards. They all turned around and gulped at the same time when they saw the cloaked figure's gaze on them.

' Ha , it worked just fine.' Thought Joseph as he picked a sushi from one of the tables and ate it while giggling to himself. The guards were still going for the targets while the figure was trying to follow after them quickly but without scaring the guests. For some reasons the guests reacted to him but not the guards.

Under Joseph's greatly entertained eyes, the guards all jumped on the Boss, stabbing him to death, his son screaming, while the figure suddenly appeared in front of one them, crouching on the ground before he delivered a shattering uppercut with his....Spiky knuckles ? The heir fell to the ground while the guests screamed and at the same time.

* Bang *

A shot resounded, quickly followed by numerous others. Joseph was greatly taken aback

when he saw that 20 heavily armed individuals had appeared all around the park and were shooting everyone. The guards quickly reacted and went to protect the guests while the figure battled against the fake guards.

Out of all of that, the creepiest thing was most definitely the fact that none of the people outside the park were reacting. Corpses were dropping to the ground, blood staining the trees while screams resounded all around the park but no one saw it.

'Wait, am I dreaming or did that cake move ?' Thought Joseph as he saw the huge birthday cake was now closer to the heir. He quickly understood what was going on, as did the figure and they both leaped towards the cake.

*Rip*

Suddenly the cake was ripped apart and a cream covered Agent Toad appeared, a mini-gun in hands. As the barrel began to rotate, the heir saw his whole life replay before his eyes. Just as the mini-gun started to shoot bullets fast enough to rip a whole body to shred, the heir was pulled on the ground by the figure who got shot in the head.

" Wah...What ?!" Yelled the heir, scared to death with tears flowing on his face as the figure dropped on him, three bullet holes in it's head.

Toad was about to shoot at the heir but instead was shot in the fingers and dropped the mini-gun, hissing in pain.

" I have a gun too, dumbass." Said Joseph, holding a small pistol he stole from one of the guards. Even though he was acting tough, he knew inside that Toad was too powerful for him. This was quickly proved right when Toad drank some liquid from a smal vial which regenerated his fingers. The man then closed his eyes, clasped both his hands and began to chant something.

' Oh shit !' Thought Joseph. His reflexes kicked in and he went for a low sweep with his katana. And yet the blade ended up reaching Toad with frightening speed, cutting both his legs.

" WHAT THE HELL ?!" Screamed all of the fake guards. They all ran at Joseph and he lifted his katana, ready to take them on. They all jumped on him and so Joseph parried the first two punched that were sent his way, he then dodged a bullet being shot at him, before pulling one of the guards in front of him to get stabbed by a small knife for him.

' Ahh, hell I ain't gonna survive long ' Thought the young man. He was about to get stabbed in the back by two fake guards but both were shot in the head. Turning around, Joseph saw that the heir had picked his father's gun and had protected him. Smiling at the slightly older man, Joseph sighed in relief. The heir nodded at him and pointed his gun at the last fake guards. Joseph pointed his katana at Toad and jeered at him.

" Thought you were some powerful Agent, but damn...You weak as hell."

Just as he said that, Joseph dashed towards Toad. The Heir continued to shoot at the fake guards, killing them but not before getting stabbed in the leg, while both men clashed behind him. Toad also had some knives that he kept between his knuckles, like he had claws.

Joseph succeeded in cutting the man's ear, which earned him a little curse. Joseph was about to jeer at Toad again but the man merely laughed.

" Do you know why I am the Toad ? Little hint, Frogs have an interesting way of hunting and not getting hunted." Said the Agent as Joseph gasped.

' P-Poison ?! Damn I can't get hit by that fucker.' Thought Joseph angrily. He then got into a basic Kendo stance and glared at Toad.

" So you have poison ? Big deal ! Only with strength, one can hope to beat a thousand warriors, you will only end up killing thousands slaves if your cunning is your only strength." Said Joseph as Toad deadpanned.

" Some random philosophical quote from an author you must certainly don't even know ?"

" What ? Bite me, I am just a normal teen of this generation, saying some stuff just to appear intelligent without knowing what they mean or where they come from, it's literally a second nature." Answered Joseph, giggling to himself while Toad just huffed in anger.

They both looked at each other, and when another shot was heard in the distance, Toad appeared directly in front of Joseph, ready to cut open his throat. However in that crucial moment another person appeared and grabbed Toad's arm, completely breaking it.

" Y-You're alive ?!"

" YOU..PURPLE ?!