Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 602 The Forbidden Path of Curses: The Sister-Obsessed Older Sister Takes Back Her Younger Sister
That evening, Setsuna Imano, dressed in a tight leather outfit, arrived at the headquarters building of the Cursed Forbidden Path in the Tokyo area. It was an embassy in Tokyo, a small country secretly controlled by the Cursed Forbidden Path.

This is why many Yin-Yang Dao families, despite knowing that the Curse-Forbidden Dao has returned, have not bothered to remove this thorn in their side.

Inside this building, there are at least two or three hundred combat personnel from the Forbidden Spell Path stationed there. Although not all of them are sorcerers from the Forbidden Spell Path, a large portion of them are just ordinary mercenaries, but they are all elites.

Infiltrating this place undetected and leaving alone with one person sounds like an impossible task.

However, this only applies to outsiders. As someone who is still an insider of the Curse Forbidden Path, Setsuna Imano has no intention of hiding his whereabouts.

With a sword at his waist, he walked straight into the embassy building of the Cursed Path.

The members of the Cursed Forbidden Path responsible for security did not show any unusual expression when they saw her; instead, they respectfully addressed her as "Young Miss."

Clearly, her status as the eldest daughter of the leader of the Curse Forbidden Path has not yet been revoked.

Where is the Lord now?

Imano Setsuna stopped a secretary and directly asked about his father's whereabouts.

"Lord Imano, I have no plans to go out today."

The person asking was the young lady, and the secretary told her without hesitation.

"I see."

Setsuna nodded, took his ID card, and swiped it to access the elevator that led directly to the top-floor office.

One minute later, with a ding, the elevator doors opened.

The room that comes into view is spacious and luxurious.

"Are you here to bow down to me?"

The leader of the Curse Forbidden Path sat behind his desk, his hands crossed on the table, and looked at his eldest daughter, who was walking out of the elevator, with a somewhat indifferent gaze, and asked.

"No, Father, I've come to challenge you."

Setsuna Kino pressed the hilt of the weapon sponsored by the Isayama family at her waist. Instead of secretly taking her sister away, she chose to confront her father.

"Challenge me?"

The head of the Kino family frowned, and his gaze suddenly turned cold.

"The position of leader of the Forbidden Curse Sect should be held by the strongest person within the sect. I believe my strength has surpassed yours."

Setsuna Imano slowly drew his sword, pointed the tip at the person behind the desk opposite him, and then spoke the rest of his words.

“Father, you are getting old and it’s time for you to step down. Please don’t occupy the position that belongs to the younger generation, and refuse to give it up.”

"Heh~"

The leader of the Curse-Forbidden Path was amused by his daughter's words. He had thought his eldest daughter had returned to apologize, but instead, he heard such disobedient remarks.

“Young Miss, you have overstepped your bounds. Master is in his prime.”

An elderly butler with white hair and beard emerged from the shadows and stood directly in front of Setsuna Imano.

This man was the butler of the Kinno family and her father's right-hand man. Her skills as a child were also taught to her by this old butler.

Setsuna knew her opponent was very strong, and even after acquiring the Bodhi Eye, she wasn't confident she could defeat him. But that was before she received guidance from the White Shadow Ninja.

Moreover, she had taken medication in the evening and was now full of energy, so she had absolute confidence even when facing her former formidable teacher.

"Young Miss, then, please excuse me."

The old butler, exuding an aura of a master, assumed a fighting stance. With a cold yet complex look in his eyes, he charged forward. The old butler, who had watched Setsuna grow up since childhood, collapsed to the ground, instantly defeated by Setsuna, whose physical abilities had been enhanced by a gene evolution drug and whose strength had reached the level of a Water Saint-level swordsman in the Six Dimensions World.

“I have controlled the depth of the wound. When you get old, you should accept your age and not point fingers at young people when you are old.”

The old butler was somewhat incredulous, but he still stepped aside, clutching the wound on his shoulder. The reason he stepped forward was simply because he didn't want to see the young lady, whom he had watched grow up, continue to anger the master. However, the young lady's displayed power was indeed capable of challenging the master, and that was no longer something he, as the butler, should concern himself with.

After all, it makes no difference to him, the butler who has served three generations of the Kinno family, who is the head of the family. It's just that the person he serves has changed.

"Clap~"

The old steward was defeated instantly, and even the leader of the Curse Forbidden Path couldn't sit still any longer. He stood up, overturned his chair, and looked at his eldest daughter opposite him with some shock.

"Father, please abdicate."

The leader of the Curse-Forbidden Path remained silent, then a cold smile appeared on his face.

"Setsuna, I don't know how you became so powerful, but if this is all you've got, it's far from enough to make me step down."

When the leader of the Curse Forbidden Path pressed a button on the control panel next to his desk, his voice resounded throughout the entire Curse Forbidden Path building via broadcast, issuing orders to all the Curse Forbidden Path combat personnel within the building.

"Setsuna Kinno has betrayed the organization and intends to assassinate the leader. All combat personnel are to proceed to the top floor for support. Target: Setsuna Kinno. Death or life is at stake!"

Setsuna Kinno heard this too. Her eyes widened, and she questioned her father, "I only wanted you to abdicate, but you want to kill me?"

Although I almost died from the escort mission before, dying from it and being ordered to kill are completely different feelings.

"If you challenge my position and covet my power, even if you are my daughter, I will kill you without hesitation."

"This is what the leader of the Curse Forbidden Path said coldly."

"It will take some time before the combat troops arrive, and I'm only this close to you now, Father. Aren't you afraid I'll really kill you?"

Setsuna Akeno roared and asked.

In response, the leader of the Curse Forbidden Path simply snorted and took out a red crystal.

"Roar!"

The next moment, he summoned a giant spirit beast that looked exactly like a deep-sea electric eel.

"Black Four Crossbows? How could this be?"

Setsuna recognized the giant spirit beast as the one worshipped by the Kino family. However, it had fallen into a deep slumber due to damage sustained during the conflict with the Yin-Yang Path in the past.

Setsuna's gaze lingered on the red crystal emanating an ominous aura in the hand of the man opposite her: "What is this?"

"The Killing Stone is a crystal of demonic power that the Cursed Path spent many years finding outside. Using this, I revived the dormant Black Four Crossbows years ago."

"I didn't know about this?"

"Everyone always has a backup plan, and I, the leader of the Forbidden Curse Path, am undoubtedly the strongest being in the Forbidden Curse Path right now. In an instant, my daughter, you miscalculated..."

Before he could finish speaking, Setsuna rushed toward his father.

Crackling~

The next instant, the glass of the top-floor office shattered, and bursts of electric arcs flickered. This was the electric discharge ability possessed by the Black Four Crossbows, which resembled an electric eel.

The white-clad ninja stood atop a building not far away, his pale golden eyes fixed on the rooftop office, which was gradually dimming due to an electrical short circuit.

Its master gave it the task of helping Setsuna Imano, but does this help mean that the task ends when it provides the gene evolution potion, or does it mean that it ends when it helps the girl successfully bring her sister out?

The owner didn't say anything, and it didn't ask.

During the day, it has work to do.

At night, it is its free time to roam.

Unaware of the mission's limits, the white-clad ninja followed.

Just as it was hesitating whether to go and help, the embassy building on the top floor, which had dimmed, stirred again.

Suddenly, loud banging sounds rang out, as if the top few floors had collapsed.

"what!"

Strengthened by the gene evolution serum, her body withstood the paralysis caused by the Black Four Crossbows' lightning, allowing Setsuna Imano to launch a counterattack.

However, the leader of the Curse Forbidden Path was extremely cautious. He only suffered a cut on his arm before controlling the Black Four Crossbows to break through the floor and escape his eldest daughter's pursuit.

One fled downwards, and the other gave chase. They soon encountered reinforcements from the Curse Forbidden Path, and the sound of gunfire quickly rang out.

Setsuna Imano displayed superhuman physical abilities, dodging most of the bullets, using the Water God Style swordsmanship to deflect the bullets he couldn't dodge, and quickly approaching the combatants before severing their tendons and ligaments, continuing his pursuit of his father.

"What happened?"

In the mid-level residential area, a cute blonde girl carrying a large doll opened her door. Her room was very soundproof, but the rumbling vibrations that shook the entire building still made her run out to ask what was going on.

"Miss Shizuru, please return to your room. Miss Setsuna has betrayed the organization and is attempting to assassinate the head of the organization. The combat personnel are preparing to go and support the head of the organization."

Shizuru Imano's cute little face went blank. Just a while ago, her father told her at the dinner table that her older sister had abandoned them, and she was heartbroken because of it. She vowed to take on the responsibility of being the future successor of the Cursed Path and that she would go to receive training in a few days. But how did it escalate to the point that her older sister came to assassinate her father?
"Is Father alright? Will my sister be alright too?"

Once back in her room, Shizuru Imano grabbed the maid who was trying to leave and anxiously asked her questions.

"The Master should be fine. As for Miss Setsuna, the Master has already given the order to kill her without mercy."

The maid quickly answered the girl's question, then closed the door and locked it from the outside. "Click-clack..."

The lock was turned, and when the person inside found that the door wouldn't open, they started banging on it.

"Let me out! I need to beg my father not to kill my sister..."

The situation was complicated, and Shizuru Imano didn't understand what was going on, but she didn't want her sister to be killed by her father.

Of course, she didn't want her father to be killed by her sister, but the door in front of her was preventing her from leaving.

The maid knew that the eldest and second young ladies had a good relationship, but she also knew that if she let the second young lady go to the mistress's door and disturb her, she would probably die. Therefore, she completely ignored the second young lady's knocking on the door.

The continuous, relentless sound of gunfire echoed.

As it turns out, even a Water Saint-level swordsman from the Six-Sided World needs to temporarily avoid the onslaught of bullets fired by modern, large-scale firearms.

Even though Setsuna Kino had been injected with the Black Bullet World Gene Evolution Drug, the resulting strong self-healing ability remained the same.

In a street setting, she wouldn't be afraid of ordinary mercenaries from the Cursed Forbidden Path, but inside the building, there wasn't enough space to maneuver and dodge bullets, which gradually compressed her living space as the experienced Cursed Forbidden Path mercenaries began to fight.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, her attempt to seize the position of leader of the Curse Forbidden Path will fail because her father will simply ignore her and issue an order to eliminate her.

"Want to escape?"

Escape wouldn't be difficult for Setsuna Imano; he could probably just take a few bullets and force his way through the barrage of bullets and break through a window to escape the building.

But if he escapes, what will happen to his sister? That heartless father will probably never give him another chance to come back here.

If I don't run away, can I withstand the bullets?
The girl looked down at the bullet holes and bloodstains on her body. Although her body's self-healing ability was amazing after taking the medicine, she would probably be dead if she had been hit by a bunch of bullets.

Just as she was hesitating whether to take a gamble or retreat first and look for another opportunity, the shooting stopped, and at the same time, she heard the thud of a body falling to the ground.

Setsuna used the reflection of his sword to look at the situation in the corridor. He saw that the Cursed Path combatants on this floor were lying on the ground, and a white figure was standing in the middle of the group of people who had fallen.

"Teacher Bai Ying?!"

Her father wanted to kill her, but Shinobi-sensei, who said she wouldn't directly help, ended up helping her instead.

At that moment, Setsuna Kino's eyes welled up with tears.

The white-clad ninja nodded to her.

All of this was arranged by the master!

It didn't hold up a sign to explain anything; it simply vanished silently in the corridor lights.

With the help of the White Shadow Ninja, the ordinary combat members of the Cursed Forbidden Path are no longer an obstacle.

The only people she needed to deal with were the sorcerers of the Forbidden Path.

However, the world's sorcerers are no match for a water-based swordsman injected with a gene-evolution potion.

Setsuna Imano quickly caught up with the head of the Cursed Path, who had already arrived on the first floor, inside the embassy building.

When father and daughter met again, there was no longer any lingering affection in Setsuna's eyes for her father.

"Black Crossbow, Lightning Strike!"

"Sword Return!" (Broly's modified and simplified version, stripped of the sword realm, its main function is to deflect energy attacks such as magic, requiring extremely high predictive ability for energy attacks)
A battle was about to break out, but the white-robed ninja did not intervene further.

. . . .

"No, I don't want my sister to die, and I don't want anything to happen to my father. I have to get out..."

Rewinding to the beginning, just as Setsuna Imano was rushing downstairs to break through the barrier, Shizuru Imano, who was locked in her room, was also trying to find a way out.

When she peeked out the window and saw that the window on the floor below was open, the girl made a bold decision.

She tied a sheet together and threw it out the window. Then, the girl, who was not yet eleven years old, grabbed the sheet and, overcoming her fear of the height, slid down.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong during the process. She successfully made her way to the room downstairs through the open window. The door wasn't locked, so she ran out.

As for how to find her sister and father, Shizuru Imano chose to run downstairs where she heard noises, and when she reached the lobby of the embassy on the first floor...

Then I saw my older sister step on my father's chest, raise the long knife in her hand, seemingly preparing to end his life...

. . . .

"elder sister."

The dagger, which had been swung down, stopped beside the man's neck because of the sister's shout.

The blade only cut a little skin, and a little blood seeped out.

"What, you want my power and status, you want the Forbidden Path of Curses? Kill me, and it will all be yours!"

Setsuna looked at the man at her father's feet. His eyes didn't seem to show the fear of almost being killed, but rather a sense of urgency. Then, she suddenly realized something.

The girl took a deep breath, calmed herself down, looked at her father at her feet, and said seriously, "I am not like you. My life will no longer be controlled by you."

"I will take Shizuru with me, and as for you, I will not kill you tonight. But if you dare to come and cause trouble for me and my sister again, I will kill you, not as the next head of the Cursed Path, your daughter, but as Shizuru's older sister."

The leader of the Curse Forbidden Path suddenly widened his eyes, his face showing anger, but he was kicked in the face by Setsuna Imano and sent flying.

The girl picked up the Sesshō-seki (killing stone) from the ground, picked up the sword that housed the Black Four Crossbows, and smiled in the direction of her younger sister: "Shizuru, I've come to take you away."

The girl ran over, but instead of throwing herself into her sister's arms, she looked worriedly in the direction where the man had been kicked away: "Is Father alright?"

"It's nothing, I just gave him a good beating."

"Is it because he said that you abandoned us, sister?"

After confirming that her father was alright and feeling relieved, Shizuru Imano couldn't help but ask her older sister in front of her.

Upon hearing this, Setsuna Kino was initially taken aback, but then nodded: "That's right, he's a liar and a scoundrel, but he can't control us anymore."

"By the way, Shizuru, have you done anything that made you sad lately?"

“Yes, my father lied to me, saying that my sister had abandoned us, which made me very sad.”

"Is that all?"

“My father also said that I should take on the responsibility of becoming the next leader of the Curse-Binding Path.”

"So, did you agree?"

"Sister, did I do something wrong?"

"No, it's just that Shizuru can't be the next head of the Curse Forbidden Path in the future; she can only be her older sister's ordinary younger sister. I don't know if you're willing to accept that?"

"I'm willing. I'll go wherever my sister goes. But will I be able to come back to see my father in the future?"

The girl was pulled by the teenage girl towards the embassy's main entrance. After reaching the entrance, she looked at her father, who had gotten up and was wiping the blood from his nose, and asked him a question.

"If he's still willing to treat us like his daughters."

The girl left with the girl, and the leader of the Cursed Forbidden Path watched their departing figures with a blank expression, showing no anger.

There was a time when he thought his eldest daughter was an excellent heir, but she had a weakness.

As the head of the Curse Forbidden Path, he originally wanted to help his eldest daughter eliminate this weakness, but unfortunately, his younger daughter would always smile at him at that time.

After that, things gradually slipped out of his control. Sometimes he regretted not being ruthless enough to eliminate his eldest daughter's weakness when he discovered it, and other times he told himself that his youngest daughter was a backup option after his eldest daughter deviated from the plan to cultivate a perfect heir.

But now, none of them are left. The younger daughter still allowed the older daughter to retain her human weaknesses, while something unknown happened to the older daughter, who, with only a sword, managed to shatter all the forces of the Cursed Forbidden Path in Tokyo.

"Master, should we issue a mission to hunt down the eldest and second young ladies?"

The old butler, whose shoulder had been stopped from bleeding and given a simple bandage, appeared beside the man at some point and bowed to inquire.

The Path of Curses forbids traitors.

"Such a mission will only give the Forbidden Path of Curses another powerful enemy..."

The eldest daughter's words before leaving were definitely not a bluff. After the other party saw through some of her thoughts, she was afraid that even if the other party killed her, it would not allow the Curse Forbidden Path to have a stronger leader.

"What about the eldest and second young ladies?"

"Just ignore it."

He was the head of the Curse-Forbidden Path, and his entire life was bound by it. His thoughts were destined to lean towards the direction that benefited the Curse-Forbidden Path.

The best course of action now is to treat this matter as if nothing happened.

As for the original plan to launch a counterattack against the Yin-Yang Path, with the Killing Stone and the Black Four Crossbows now taken by the eldest daughter, they had no choice but to abandon it out of pragmatism.

(End of this chapter)