Did I hear that correctly?

As Nayuki gathered her thoughts about who this anonymous man with a kunai symbol engraved on his hand could be, she stopped at the park in Sanshainbarē (Sunshine Valley), because that is where she usually comes up with strategies to complete her missions the fastest. And although there were plenty of kids that could mess up her thought process at any moment, they did not cause her to lose focus at all.

Nayuki: "So, my father was at 'Nom Nom Diners' the day he went missing, and it has something to do with this man that has a kunai engraved on his palm? What the hell am I supposed to do with information like that, it's so little to go off of, and from what I remember, Sohenzu was never involved in a gang, so why would some random guy come looking for father? I doubt he was in debt, but what other reason would you have to kidnap Lord Sohenzu?"

As Nayuki was thinking about what could've been the reason for her father's disappearance, she noticed that this young girl was being bullied by trainees ( those who want to be Samurai or Yakuza), and it seemed as if the teacher was trying to stop that from happening.

Teacher: "Miroka, and King, leave Kurai Yoru alone, you are all teammates, not enemies, so start acting like one, or I will disband this team, and none of you could become samurai-like Lord Sohenzu."

King: "Fine Hikakage, but Kurai started it, she was supposed to take down that bad man at the gateway of Nemonasa, and she didn't, so I and Miroka were just trying to teach her lesson."

Hikakage: "Uggh, you are no samurai at all, you are mooks! When your teammate fails to fulfill their part of the mission, you don't just let them end in failure, you help them so that you all succeed, you guys couldn't even maintain basic knowledge like that from "Haiteku.' I'm very disappointed in all three of you guys, Miroka, you are very talented in nosajeshi, so you should've been leader, Yoru, you are talented in charming your enemies, but that will not do for all of your fights, you must learn to charm your enemy, and attack them when they are at their weakest, and King... you, you are good at long-distance fighting, I see how you throw your kunai's at the pigeons that rest on the bench, even if Miroka and Yoru failed to use their abilities correctly, there's no way that you would've missed a single shot. So why did you miss, why was the enemy not taken down when I arrived at the gateway of Nemonasa? Were you afraid to get hurt King, is that why you failed to throw a Kunai at this man?"

King: "Master Hikakage, I wasn't afraid to throw the kunai at the man, I felt like I had no need to since there was already one in his palm, he looked injured enough, so I thought that we should've left him be. That is why we failed the mission Hikakage, so I shall be removed from the team, not Miroka or Yoru."

Hikakage: "The three of you, will write a page to Lord Sohenzu stating why you are worthy to become either a samurai or Yakuza, and I don't just want you giving bland sentences, you will go in-depth as if this will be the last paper you write, and when you are writing these papers you address yourself by your real names and not the nicknames I gave you, do you understand me?"

They all nod in response to Master Hikakage's words, and as he was going to instruct them on what to do next, Nayuki stops their conversation.

Nayuki: "Hikakage is it? I was wondering if I can ask you a few questions about what you guys were discussing earlier if you don't mind... It's about the man with the kunai on his palm, King mentioned something about that, I need to know if this man was really by the gateway of Nemonasa or not."

Hikakage: "I'm not going to disclose personal information like that to some random chick, so if you can excuse me, I and my pupils have something we have to attend to."

Nayuki: "I'm not just any woman, keep in contact with me Hikakage, Lord of the Day and you won't regret it... your pupils too, if you all decide to keep in contact with me and help me find who I am searching for, I will grant you with your dreams, and that is meeting Lord Sohenzu right?"

Hikakage: "Ho- how do you know that about me, and how do you know that my students wish to see Lord Sohenzu, are you a spy? Are you someone that was working with the guy that we were trying to capture, and you're trying to make it seem like something else, so you can capture my students because they were randomly assigned that mission? I will not let you, lay a FINGER ON THEM, SO BACK OF LADY, or I will have no choice but to pull out my sword on you, and I really don't want to hurt a woman."

Nayuki looks at Hikakage, and begins to laugh so much that even she couldn't be surprised by it, she never laughed with anyone but her father, and as she thought that she began to get red, but ignored it.

Nayuki: "Did I hear that correctly?"

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