Chapter 190 - Alchemist warriors

Just as Cynthia left, the smile on Itsuk's face disappeared. "How long are you planning on following me?"

Tap! Tap!

Without even turning around, Itsuki could hear the footsteps of multiple people approaching him. Earlier when Itsuki just had entered his restaurant to eat with Cynthia, three other ordinary-looking people also came and sat behind them.

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After living in the forest for more than 4 months, Itsuki had developed a special type of instinct. Just looking at that man's face, Itsuki knew that he was nothing but ordinary. Itsuki had seen those eyes before. It was the eyes that have killed countless beings. It was those eyes that have seen the true cruelty of this world. But surprisingly the Aura around that man was slightly more powerful than the average human.

"Well, Well, we certainly weren't expecting you to notice us." Itsuki turned around only to see a 6 feet tall man with a boy and girl of Cynthia's age standing behind him.

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"Who are you?" Itsuki while sensing how people were present in the area. If in case a fight broke out, Itsuki has to make sure that no one sees his face otherwise things might become a little complicated.

While asking, Itsuki took an extra second to observe the 6 feet tall men's appearance. The man standing in front of Itsuki was a well built man with blue eyes, black spiky hair, and has thin facial hair on his chin and cheeks. He was wearing light-grey work Shirt overalls with a white T-shirt underneath.

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"You can call me Bravo. She is Tokiko Tsumura, one of my subordinates." Tokiko is a fairly short girl with orange eyes and blue shoulder-length hair. Her most distinguishing feature is the horizontal scar running across the bridge of her nose and across her cheeks.

She was wearing the Newton Apple Academy for Girls uniform which is a blue and white sailor outfit with white cross designs and an orange bow. She also wears similarly designed knee-length socks and white shoes.

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"And this is Gouta Nakamura, he is currently learning under me." Gouta is an average-looking man with dark hair. He was 2 inches smaller than Itsuki. Just like Bravo, he was wearing simple black pants and light cyan Shirt.

"Okay, what do you want from me? Why are you people following me?" Itsuki and Cynthia made sure to hide their faces when they were walking in the public. From the fierce Arua coming from this 6 feet tall man name Bravo, it was clear that these three were not his fans. Based on their Aura, it was clear that these three are not Aura users. This leaves only two options.

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'They are either the undercover cops. But I never did anything illegal. I made sure the system keeps my name clean all the time. This means they are related to alchemy.' This was the only logical explanation, that Itsuki can think of. Since he was arrested at the airport, from then Itsuki has told the system to always keep his name clean.

'When I appeared in front of the camera with red on my Shirt, these alchemy-related people must have suspected me. No, they're sure that I have the Kakugane with me. Maybe they came here to take away the Kakugane.'

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Bravo looked around before replying. Seeing the people walking past them, Bravo knew this wasn't a good place to start a secret conversation.

"Let go somewhere quieter. We can talk there." Itsuki nodded and began to follow Bravo. 'If they are planning anything funny, I will cut their bodies in pieces and feed them to wild Pokemon.' Itsuki's eyes flashed in killing intent.

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Everyone walked in silence. There was a strange atmosphere around them. The silence was like the calm before the storm. Bravo and his subordinates were cautious of Itsuki. Everyone was ready to engage in battle if anything out of the line happened. If anyone showed even a little bit of hostility, a fight would start.

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After walking in silence for 10 minutes, everyone stopped in an abandoned park. The whole park was empty except for a few low-level Pokemon who was living there.

"Given how powerful your Aura is, I believe you're an Aura user." Bravo's words completely shocked Itsuki. Itsuki couldn't keep his calm together and ended up showing his shocked face to others' faces.

'How did they know? Maybe these people are from the secret organization.' The more Itsuki thought the more he felt his theory was correct. Other than the member of the secret organization who else could know the method of sensing a person's Aura.

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'Last time I check, the secret organization was able to use Aura to do many things. They had the technology to harvest Aura and use it as an energy source.' Itsuki was sure that these three must have used some device to check his Aura level.

Itsuki quickly took a step back as he was ready to launch his deadliest attacks. After what happened last time, Itsuki wasn't going to let the members of the secret organization leave this easily.

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"Calm down. We're not here to harm you. We're here to ask about the auction that he attended about 3 months ago." Hearing the auction word, Itsuki calmed down a little. But he was still on his guard. Even a slight move from them would be enough to start the engine of slaughter.

"You're telling me that you three are not from the secret organization?"

"Secret what again? I am sorry but I have never heard of any secret shit before. We're here to ask you about the Buso Renkin also called Kakugane by the being related to alchemy."

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"Who exactly are you people?" Itsuki was sure that these three are not from the secret organization. If the secret organization wanted to deal with him, they would have sent powerful Aura Masters. Also from Bravo's words, it was clear that they were here about the Kakugane.

'It looks like I was overreacting. But how did they know that I am an Aura user? I must find my answer later.'

"Mr. Itsuki, have you ever heard of the term Alchemy before?"

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Itsuki nodded and continued to listen. He didn't reveal the fact that he know these things from the homunculus that he killed 3 months ago.

"That makes things easier. You also must have heard of the things that alchemy did, like turning lead into gold or finding the Stone of Knowledge (The Philosophers' Stone), to discover the medium of Eternal Youth and Health, etc." Itsuki nodded his head. Though most people in modern times don't know about the word alchemy, Itsuki was one of those people who was fascinated by the claims of alchemy.

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The term Alchemy is not a name, but it was used as a name at different times in history. Like in the 13th century, when a person wearing a mask claimed to be alchemy. That person claimed that he can transmute metals. Or in the 15 century when another alchemy appeared in the Kanto region claiming to have the power to grant eternal life. In short, Alchemy has appeared in different parts of history causing many myths and tales about Alchemy to spread all over the world.

"Let me tell you this alchemy was real. At a certain point in time, after countless failures, he managed to create two perfect beings. Alchemy created an artificial intelligence that is called a homunculus, a perfect being. Alchemy then created a weapon that has the power to destroy his perfect being, which is the Kakugane."

"We're known as Alchemist warriors"

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