The Mysterious Youth

"Hello junior brother, may I ask you something ?" Xiao Yulong said

He leisurely walked with both his hands behind his back, behind him, his two friends followed him. Xiao Yulong tried his best to appear very confident.

Takao didn't respond which fueled Xiao Yulong's rage even more.

"Are you sure you want to ignore us ?" Xiao Yang said maliciously

"You think you can afford to offend us ?" Xiao Chengzhi said

Xiao Yulong put a benevolent face, he wanted to appear as the good guy. Most of the people here didn't buy it however. Clearly he overestimate his own acting skills.

"Hmph, this kid have no shame."

"Hehe who he think he is fooling ?"

The crowd grew more and more discontent toward Xiao Yulong, this made him grits his teeth in anger. However he tried his best to maintain his smile despite the obvious anger on his face which only attracted even more disdain of the crowd.

Takao stayed silent the whole time, in fact he didn't even look at them the first place.

Xiao Yulong seeing that his strategy wasn't working, forgot all about etiquette.

"Hey you ! You seem to have little ability, how about we spar a little bit ?" Xiao Yulong said while approaching Takao

Takao didn't respond.

"Hey I am talking to you !" Xiao Yulong yelled, he moved his hand with the intention to grab Takao shirt, however something unexpected happened...

"Hssssss !" A snake dashed from Takao sleeve and bite Xiao Yulong on his hand !

"ARGHHHHH !" Xiao Yulong yelled in surprise

The crowd was silent in pure shock, this development was completely unexpected, just prior from this, they were thinking that a good show was coming and while it is still a good show, it's completely unexpected.

"Ah Nagini... look at what you have done..." Takao said in a low voice in 'Parselmouth' of course it was perfectly understandable as this wasn't real Parselmouth.

Despite the fact that Takao spoke in low voice, everyone heard him.

They all shuddered, this junior's voice transmitted a dark and cold feeling.

(+30 Cool Points)

(+10 Hate Points)

"W-what you did to me ?! Why I feel so cold." Xiao Yulong said weakly, his face turned paler and paler quickly.

"You have been poisoned, if you don't consume the antidote in the next five minutes, you will die an horrible death." Takao said apathetically

Xiao Yulong almost fainted, with the help of Xiao Chengzhi and Xiao Yang for support he remained standing.

"Immediately hand over the antidote if you don't want the entire Xiao Clan to pursue you !" Xiao Yang demanded boldly

"Yes ! Don't think that you can hide after poisoning the young master of our prestigious clan !" Xiao Chengzhi added

"Prestigious ? I have never heard of your clan. Your threats are just making your friend death quicker." Takao said

This brought them cold sweats, it seemed that threatening him with their clan power is useless.

"W-what do... you... want..." Xiao Yulong said, his vitality was drained extremely rapidly, his hair already turned grey and his face was covered in wrinkles. Gone was the youthful handsome young man, all was left was an weak and old-looking elder.

"The three of you. Immediately hand over all your possessions. That's the price of your life. If I estimate that they aren't enough, then you can forget about the antidote."

"What ?!" Yelled Xiao Yang and Xiao Chengzhi

Xiao Yulong puked blood hearing Takao's demand. He showed resignation before gesturing to Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang immediately understood the command, he rushed out of the restaurant and came back shortly after.

"Here everything is in the ring." Xiao Yang handed over a silver ring, it must be a spatial ring.

Takao took the ring, then nodded to the snake who spat a little flask.

"Here is the antidote." Takao said

He mysteriously vanished from his place the next instant, leaving behind him a stunned crowd.

'Isn't this... straight robbery ?' That's the thought on everyone's mind.

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'Just as I thought, racketeering is the core of capitalism hehe...' Takao thought while grinning madly, he went back in the forrest and looked at his harvest.

Large amounts of money, medicines and some weapons.

'Hum... Not bad'

'What are you going to do now ?' Asked Koetsu

'Cultivation. I need to at least reach Nascent Soul realm before canon start.' He replied

'Oh... I just remembered something. Show me how much points I got.'

'Cool Points : 350

Hate Points : 60

Love Points : 0'

"Okay show me all the fighting related skills I can afford."

"Ding ! Here is the list :

Renewal Taekwondo : 30 points

Janken : 50 points

Observation Haki : 100 points

Armement Haki : 100 points

Conqueror Haki : 100 points

Hiraishin : 200 points"

'Hum... While I love Jin Mori, I don't see how much stronger Renewal Taekwondo would make me... Janken must be the technique of Gon, I have no use for it. Haki and Hiraishin...'

"I take Hiraishin and Observation Haki." Takao said

'I will come back for Conqueror and Armement when I have enough.'

"Ding ! The skills bought will be implemented in 1...2...3 !"

Takao felt a rush of power coming in his body, the effects weren't bad like those fanfic he read.

'That's fantastic ! I feel like my senses are way sharper than before ! And that's only the basic level of Observation Haki ?! This skill is indeed valuable. I feel like I can materialize my will too, it must be Conqueror Haki.'

"Okay let's start the training camp !" Takao's motivation to be stronger grew even more.