Chapter 6: Casual Shooting

  After being released from the hole by Mei Zhizi, Kawaki still left with his eyes covered and was taken to a secret training base by the other party before he could see an entirely unfamiliar place.

  On a piece of grass as big as half a football field, there are all sorts of facilities for the crows to train, including shooting, weightlifting, boxing, high-altitude climbing, single and double bars, obstacle courses, and more.

  The lawn is surrounded by high walls, and above that are the lonely sun and the white clouds that lazily lie and slowly move. Except for the occasional flying crow, there is nothing else that can casually visit this place.

  When the cavalry arrived, those black-clad men who were each engaged in different training came over like crows sensing death and stood before Mochizuki and his followers, waiting for orders.

  "Everyone, the handsome guy standing next to me is our new deputy captain, Lieutenant Kawachi of the Crow Team. Let's welcome him with warm applause as he joins our special team, just like Japan's Kamikaze Special Attack Force."

  After the crow team members applauded, Kawariki was pushed by Minochi to give a speech. Kawariki walked up in a daze, originally having a belly full of anger, and had no intention of saying those empty words, clichés, and big talk in front of this team of over 30 people, so he shook his head to indicate that he absolutely would not speak.

  "Everyone, what is the responsibility and task of our Crow Team? Although everyone has known more or less since they became a member of the Crow Team. But we still need to reiterate: The responsibility and task of the Crow Team are only four words: Kill people, put people to sleep."

  Kawaki sighed with emotion after hearing these four words: Mei Chizuko's change was so great that it was unimaginable.

  Mieko said, "How can this man kill and sleep? General Itagaki Seishirō and Miss Ume, who participated in the Dai Nihon Fujin Kai's service team to China, are my role models for the Crow Corps. In other words, I want my Imperial Army Crow Corps to be like General Itagaki, killing without blinking an eye, and like Miss Ume, getting the high-ranking officials they need into their beds."

  Kawaki felt like he had swallowed a toad, and his stomach churned with nausea. But Mochizuki added insult to injury: "Of course, everyone in the team knows that Ume is too far away from us, so let's just learn from our own team. Let's see how our team will get Lieutenant Kawaki, also known as White Crow Vice-Captain, into bed tonight."

  The Raven Squad laughed.

  One team member boldly said: "The black team and white team are both tired of eating meat, let him eat vegetarian food instead."

  Mizuko smiled and said: "What does the crow want to do? Let's listen to what our team has to say."

  The young crow said: "Rather than going to great lengths to find Bai's deputy, it would be better to call me. I guarantee that I will arrive as soon as I am called."

  The Raven Squad burst out laughing.

  Mizuko still smiled and said: "You don't understand the next part. Just play with the top part, you've had experience since childhood from your mom, so you have a foundation."

  The crow team was in an uproar.

  Mizuko waved her hand to stop laughing and immediately changed her expression: "Now, the team starts roll call, please Baihechuan Riding Team Deputy return to the team."

  Kawaki was still not in the role, standing there like a wooden chicken. This made Mochizuki very annoyed, and with a swift kick, she flew towards him and shouted fiercely: "Are you deaf? Get back to formation!"

  Boiling with rage and yet unable to vent his anger, he went back to the team, looked up at the sky, gazing at the white clouds above, trying to calm himself down.

  "White Crow!"

  Mizuko started calling out names, but Kawaki didn't respond for a long time.

  "Red Crow!"

  "Arrived!"

  …………

  Mizuko "Crow, green crow, blue crow, gray crow, purple crow... gold crow wood crow water crow fire crow earth crow... place crow chick" went down. After she finished naming all the crows according to color, five elements and age status, she began to arrange training courses, first of which was assassination. She took off her white gloves that formed a huge contrast with her clothes and put them in her pocket, then clapped three times, and two crow team members brought a "live handle" who was tied up with a white towel in his mouth to the training ground and bound him to the parallel bars.

  Kawaki looked at this "living treasure" wearing the Imperial Army officer uniform and was about to ask Yoshiko for an explanation. The other party seemed to have understood his thoughts, and hastily said: "This Imperial Army officer's Chinese level is barely passable, but he can't get past the big boss, so there's no choice but to send him back to Japan."

  "Massacring compatriots, just because your own compatriots haven't passed that bird gate of yours. Aren't you afraid of retribution?" Chuan Qi was momentarily unable to accept this fact, became emotionally agitated, and stared at the wall with a face full of sun flags, feeling uncomfortable in his heart.

  Mizuko patted Kawari's belly, teased him and said: "Compared to this poor officer, our White Team Deputy Kawari Lieutenant is lucky, and unexpectedly passed the boss's test."

  Kawaki finally understood why the officer was killed after hearing her say that. As he mentally cursed the damned mysterious person, Mochi secretly decided to test the cultural person's courage. However, Kawaki firmly refused to do such a cruel and inhumane thing as killing his own comrades.

  Mizuko said: "If our team tells White Team's vice-captain who he is, you must kill him without batting an eye."

  "Who is he?"

  Mizuko said: "Guess what the white team deputy is thinking."

  A person suddenly floated into his mind, but how was this possible? And Yoshiko told him that the Japanese military officer was indeed the one floating in his mind.

  "What's the hurry? Why not let Vice Captain Byakuya demonstrate it to the members, gather some momentum and establish some prestige for the Kuchiki family?" Momo Hinamori said as she pulled out a gun from behind her back and handed it over to Ichigo.

  Before, Kawachi had never been a spy or on the battlefield, but he often saw General Itami killing people in the arena. Itami's movements when killing were as gentle as ballet, and as wild as African native dances, like water, like wind, like thunder and lightning. Everyone who witnessed him killing was convinced by his elegant shooting.

  He had followed the general for so many years, and he had seen pigs run even if he hadn't killed one. So, without hesitation, he snatched the gun from Meizhi's hand, chose a shooting angle and distance that was 90% safe, narrowed his left eye, aimed carefully, and started firing.

  With just a "bang", the cavalryman was killed instantly, his head blown to pieces, and blood rained down like raindrops on the ground.

  While the crows were flapping their wings and croaking "Yo-yo-yo", Kawachi proudly put away his gun, blew out the smoke from the muzzle like General Itagaki, and handed it to Mieko with a flourish as she applauded repeatedly, then turned around and left.

  Mei Zhīzi gazed at his receding back, her eyes like a crystal spring in the icy snow, clear and transparent.