Ke Xue: I have a knife, and you still dare to fight me?

He performed steadily the next day and slept until noon.

After grabbing a quick bite to eat, Kurokawasaki Tsuki rode off on his little motorcycle. As for his Ford Mustang, he was still trying to get it shipped back; he regretted not buying it in the US in the first place.

Today he's going to select some experimental materials to test his Sharingan.

Soon, he arrived at a nearby pet store, where a pet hospital was located upstairs, and it looked to be quite large.

"Welcome, sir. What can I do for you?" The female shop assistant greeted him warmly.

"I can take a look myself."

"Yes, sir. Please feel free to call me if you need anything."

There are quite a few different kinds of animals here, including cats, dogs, birds, and a few reptiles.

Kurokawasaki first went to check on the birds. There's no better scout than a bird; a normal person can't possibly suspect a bird of spying on them, can they?

However, after looking around, Kurokawa Saki felt that the birds in this store were generally not very intelligent.

Kurokawa stared speechlessly at the bird, wondering how it had managed to hang a chain around its neck with its feet, like a Japanese teru teru bozu (a Japanese doll that resembles a teru bozu). Oh, its feet were still moving; it wasn't dead yet.

Kurokawasaki Tsuki beckoned to the shop assistant and pointed to the bird swinging on the swing.

"What?!" The female shop assistant was shocked. She quickly went up to take it off and then took it away, probably to have it checked.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to bow and thank Kurokawasaki Tsuki.

After observing the birds for a while, I realized that they generally didn't have much potential for cultivation, but they might be good as experimental subjects.

Then I went to see the cat. It was indeed cute, but its eyes were a bit too clear and foolish.

Helpless, I could only place my hopes on the dog.

Kurokawa then noticed that most of the dogs in the shop were Shiba Inus, and there were also two big-eared, quacking beagles. So Kurokawa immediately spotted one of his fellow countrymen lurking among them.

Surprisingly, there was even a Chinese rural dog here, a golden-plated iron dog. Kurokawa squatted down to check on the local. It looked to be only five or six months old and was sleeping soundly.

Seemingly sensing the gaze, the sleeping little mongrel suddenly opened its eyes and stared intently at Kurokawasaki Tsuki. What it saw was quite something.

It was truly a case of two fellow countrymen meeting and tears welling up in their eyes. The little mongrel pawed at the glass beside him, its tail wagging like a propeller, as if begging Kurokawasaki Tsuki to take it away quickly.

Since we've hit it off, there's nothing more to say. Wait for me, fellow villager, I'll take you away right away.

Kurokawa Saki called over a shop assistant, wanting to buy the little mongrel.

"Sir, you have excellent taste. It was only delivered to the store less than two days ago. If it weren't for the slightly high price, it would have been taken away long ago."

Kurokawasaki Tsuki got the price from the shop assistant. For ordinary people, it wasn't just a little expensive, it was outrageously expensive, but for Kurokawasaki Tsuki, it was still acceptable.

Then, Kurokawa Sakizuki, among the less intelligent birds, picked two that didn't seem so silly and took them with her, also buying some snacks and seemingly necessary supplies for the little mongrel.

After leaving his address and contact information, Kurokawa prepared to leave, since he had come by bicycle and it wouldn't be convenient to take it home.

The store clerk said they would deliver the goods to the door before evening.

Before leaving, Kurokawasaki Tsuki teased the little mongrel again, saying, "Soon you'll be free, and you'll be living the high life with me."

The little mongrel's eyes were watery, and Kurokawa felt he saw expectation in the dog's eyes.

Damn it.

Chapter Fourteen: Death Has Arrived

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

In the evening, after seeing off the pet store clerk who had come to deliver the goods, Kurokawa carried the little mongrel to his small courtyard.

The little mongrel kept scratching at the cage.

When Kurokawa opened the cage, the little mongrel ran out immediately, nudging him with its nose as if trying to memorize his scent, while its tail wagged wildly.

"You're really energetic," Kurokawa remarked, looking at the lively little mongrel.

In contrast, the two parrots that were sent with them looked listless.

After getting to know the little mongrel for a while, Kurokawasaki Tsuki began conducting experiments.

Looking into the parrot's small eyes, Kurokawa activated his Sharingan.

Kurokawasaki felt the blood churning within him, and the parrot's eyes also underwent a change, its previously dull gaze turning sharp.

At this moment, the world in Kurokawasaki Tsuki's eyes also changed. His gaze gradually widened, and the whole world turned blood red.

Kurokawa discovered that he could send simple commands to the parrot and also share the parrot's perspective.

However, perhaps because this parrot is not very intelligent, it simply reads some commands and responds randomly.

Of course, Kurokawa has another option, which is to forcibly control its body directly. However, this would turn it into a puppet, and Kurokawa would have to spend his life to maintain it. It can be used as a trump card.

Soon, Kurokawa had mastered it.

Perhaps because it was his first time, the young man was a little reckless and didn't know his own strength, and Kurokawasaki Tsuki felt a bit weak.

After Kurokawa's repeated training, the two parrots were now squatting on the ground, half-dead.

Unfortunately, the intelligence of these two parrots is a big problem. It seems I'll have to be more selective next time.

It was already dark.

"That's enough for today." Kurokawa Saki Tsuki ignored the two parrots and let them leave once they recovered. He had originally planned to release them after the experiment anyway.

At that moment, Kurokawa suddenly noticed that the little mongrel was squatting to one side, tilting its head and looking at him.

When the little dog realized that Kurokawa had finally noticed it, it quickly got up and came closer, nudging him with its nose.

Kurokawa played a couple of rounds of Dota 2.

"It feels almost the same as that of Shinichi Kudo, that's really strange."

The little mongrel dog was enjoying Kurokawa's stroking with a contented look on its face, its eyes closed.

Just as the little dog was enjoying itself, it suddenly felt the petting stop abruptly. Opening its eyes, it found that Kurokawa had already gone back inside.

The little mongrel looked resentfully at Kurokawasaki Tsuki's retreating figure, then jumped up the steps and squatted in front of the door, its little feet nervously rubbing together, hesitating whether it should go inside.

Kurokawa had already entered the kitchen, taken some ingredients from the refrigerator, and started preparing dinner for the evening, while also making sure to cook a portion for the dog.

When he finished cooking and came out, he found that the little mongrel was sitting obediently in front of the gate leading into the courtyard, looking at Kurokawa.

"You won't come in without permission?" Kurokawa couldn't help but marvel at how well-behaved this breed was, so carefully selected by their ancestors, with such a strong sense of boundaries.

Kurokawa held up the dog's food bowl and beckoned to it. The little mongrel tilted its head, as if trying to understand Kurokawa's meaning.

Seeing that it didn't react, Kurokawa waved again. The little dog seemed to understand his meaning, and immediately stood up, wagging its little tail happily. It hopped and skipped into the house, whimpering a few times as if it was cheering to be able to come in, or as if it was complaining that Kurokawa had just left while it was petting it so much.

Kurokawa didn't delve into its meaning, since he couldn't understand dog language anyway.

The little dog squatted in front of Kurokawa, looking up at Kurokawa with its big, dark, bright eyes—or rather, at the rice bowl in his hand.

Because Kurokawa noticed that the dog's head moved the way the bowl in his hand moved.

Kurokawa put down the dog bowl, patted the dog's head, and then the two of them began to enjoy their dinner.

After dinner, he planned to put the doghouse he bought from the pet store in the yard, but suddenly found that the two parrots had not flown away on their own. They found a branch of a potted plant in the yard and squatted there to rest.

"Your intelligence is truly questionable; you wouldn't leave even if we set you free."

Kurokawasaki Tsuki didn't care whether they stayed or left.

.........

As the seasons change, a year passes quickly.

Kurokawa's Sharingan skills were becoming more and more proficient, but he couldn't use it too often. He discovered that this damn eye was completely deducting health points based on a percentage, and no matter how high Kurokawa's physical stats were, he had to use it.

Kurokawasaki Tsuki has given up; the only thing he hasn't really experimented with on humans yet is illusion magic, which he's only used on animals.

Moreover, it is related to the other party's willpower; the stronger the willpower, the greater the consumption.

Kurokawa leaned against the railing of the courtyard balcony, playing with a small wooden stick in his hand.

After playing with it for a while, I casually tossed it forward and saw two parrots rushing toward the stick.

The two parrots even fought over a small stick.

In the end, the slightly larger parrot succeeded in obtaining the small stick.

It held it in its mouth and ran back excitedly.

Kurokawa reached out and took the small wooden stick.

"good."

The parrot opened its mouth, stuck out its tongue, and shook its tail like a dog.

It's not accurate to say it resembles a dog; at this moment, the parrot felt like it was a dog, since Kurokawa's illusion had hit the parrot directly.

The parrot was under the illusion that it was "I am a dog".

After playing with the two parrot dogs for a while, Kurokawa finally dispelled the illusion, leaving the two parrots staring blankly at each other.

Because the scene at home was too bizarre, the little mongrel watched Kurokawa tease the "dog" for a while before choosing to leave this incongruous place.

The little dog would come home on its own, and it would come home on time every night, so Kurokawa didn't have much to worry about. It was usually allowed to roam freely, and for safety reasons, Kurokawa wrote its address and contact information on the back of its collar.

As for its name, Kurokawa admitted that he was terrible at naming things, so he simply called it Big Yellow, and he also asked Big Yellow for its opinion.

If Da Huang had no objection to the name, he was asked to do a backflip. Da Huang didn't move; he just stared blankly at him. Wasn't that a form of tacit agreement?

Now, Big Yellow swaggered out the door, heading to find its new friends in the neighborhood.

The new friend's name seems to be "Big Mac," or at least that's what its family calls it.

And its home also has a little lady who plays with me, which makes me happy just thinking about it.

The more Dahuang thought about it, the more excited he became, and he ran off in a blur.

.........

"Xiao Lan, what do you think of my outfit today? How about we go back and get dressed up a bit more?"

"Oh dear, Sonoko, it's too much trouble to go back again, and besides, you're dressed quite nicely today."

Xiao Lan covered her mouth and smiled.

"It's all your fault, Xiaolan. If you had explained that we were visiting Kurokawa-ge today, I would have made preparations the night before, no, the day before."

"Huh? No, there's no need for such a grand gesture."

Xiaolan's eyes widened, but when she saw Sonoko's shy expression, she realized that her best friend had fallen for a guy again.

Shinichi was speechless, inwardly thinking to himself, "No wonder Kurokawa-san would never be interested in you."

"Sorry, Sonoko, it was just a spur-of-the-moment decision. I was thinking of inviting Kurokawa-san to watch the karate competition the day after tomorrow."

"Speaking of which, I was deeply fascinated when I was a child after listening to Kurokawa talk about his matches. That's why I became interested in martial arts. Unfortunately, I really don't have much talent in kendo."

After Xiaolan finished speaking, she couldn't help but show a regretful expression.

Shinichi immediately came to her side and retorted, "At the very least, Ran, you have a lot of talent in karate, don't you?"

"It's alright, it's alright," Xiaolan waved her hand and said.

“But this seems to be our first official visit to Kurokawa-san.” Shinichi suddenly remembered.

"It really is true, and Kurokawa-san always sends us souvenirs every time he travels..." Xiaolan said, a little embarrassed.

Sonoko popped out from between the two of them and said, "So let's hurry up and go, I can't wait any longer, hahaha."

Hearing Sonoko's strange laughter, Shinichi and Ran both had black lines appearing on their foreheads.

On the way, the three suddenly saw a black mass rushing towards them. When they came to their senses, they only felt a gust of wind brush past them.

"Did a big rat dart past?" The three of them stared at each other, beady eyes.

"It looks like a dog, doesn't it?" Shinichi watched the departing black figure.

Ignore this little incident.

Soon, the group arrived at a grand mansion with a courtyard.

Xiaolan checked the address in her hand and then glanced at the three words "Kurokawa Residence" posted on the courtyard wall. It seemed she had come to the right place.

Xiaolan pressed the doorbell.

Yuanzi hurriedly tidied up her appearance again.