Chapter 20: Chapter 17
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POV Asami Kobayashi
My name is Asami Kobayashi, I am 15 years old. I'm a clanless orphan with a Chunin development threshold, but in a way, I'm a member of a clan and trained in clan techniques. As a child, when I was still living in an orphanage, a few people from Konoha, a Shinobi village, came to me and told me that I had good chakra control and then offered to go with them. For an orphan like me, it was a great chance to become a real Kunoichi, and I didn't hesitate to accept. But afterwards, it was explained to me what kind of Kunoichi I would have to become.
After arriving in Hidden Leaf, I was brought to a group of girls no older than me and told that I would now be living with them. After that, a few more girls were brought to us and when we had accumulated 30 of us, we began our training. Because of our small chakra reserve, but because of our beautiful looks, we were perfect for Honey Kunoichi's job. To be honest, I was very scared of this prospect at first and wanted to refuse, but it was explained to us how important it was for the Village and how strong we could become after training. And so I began my training as a Honey Kunoichi. I was trained in many things, from charming a man of any age, to quickly killing him silently with Senbon.
When I reached the Genin Level, I started doing missions for the good of the village. I only did elimination missions and, after my first kill, I felt elation and bliss. To slowly charm a man with my looks, and right before he gets what he's been wanting for all the time he's been chasing me, to fatally stab him with Senbon and watch him bleed to death as he stares at me in mute shock.... Ahh~, that feels so good. After that, I carried out one mission after another and savoured the look of fear and despair of my victims.
Thus, at the age of fourteen, I obtained the rank of Chunin and the nickname 'Sadist'. I was even listed in the Bingo Book, but there wasn't much information about me because I carried out every murder secretly and unnoticed. Then, I was given a strange assignment, not specific to my profile. This time I wasn't supposed to eliminate the victim, but to bind him to me. I've done that kind of assignment too, but much less often. After I learnt the details of this mission, I was even more surprised. It wasn't an enemy Shinobi or even someone from the nobility. It was a simple Chunin who had the Nine-tailed Demon Fox sealed into him. But he was too young to send a Honey Kunoichi to him. I didn't understand the Hokage-sama's logic, but I figured I could easily bind him to me. I was a Genius at what I did and, over a long period of time, had picked up a ton of skills in charming even such youngsters.
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Officially, in the village, I'm just a regular Chunin and sometimes do the usual missions. This guy, also recently became a Chunin, and Hokage-sama decided to send him on his first mission, with me of course. It was a good opportunity for us to bond, and it made my task easier. When I first saw this... Menma Uzumaki, he seemed like a simpleton to me, with nothing to distinguish him other than his age. He stared at me for a minute and only let go when I introduced myself. Yeah, my looks are hard to resist. I have a beautiful face and a good shape for my age. It's hard not to stare at such beauty. I don't think this mission is going to be very interesting.
We were given a mission to escort two Disciples of some monk who were to take the secret scrolls to another man in Sunagakure. I didn't really listen to the details, I just thought to myself, why did that guy stop looking at me? Of course, he should have felt embarrassed after he realised he was staring at me, but usually even after that, men try to discreetly look at my body even after that. I even wear attractive tight clothes on purpose for such a thing, which emphasises my sexuality. But this guy didn't look at me even after getting the details of the mission and its beginning. What a cheeky bloke! I watched him carefully all the way to Suna, which by the way went smoothly, without incident, I was even surprised, but he only occasionally checked the condition of the customers and mine, but never once looked at me! His expression did not change at all and was very cold and thoughtful. Even at night, he would just leave the clones, of which there were many by the way, and go to sleep. Damn clan boy! I didn't want to be the first to start a conversation, as that would put me beneath him, but he didn't say a word while we were on the road, and limited himself to rare phrases during breaks! I thought it might go on like this, so I decided to start talking....
- Look, how old are you?" I said at one of the stops in the forest before we reached the Sunagakure border.
- "Eight." This guy said and shut up! He didn't even ask my age!
- You look older than your age." I smiled my most attractive smile, which should have made him blush, but no! He didn't even look in my direction!!!-And I'm 15 years old. So I'll be your big sister, Menma-kun~.
- Aha.- That Demon said with a kind of inexplicable sigh. What a freak! Is he bored of talking to me?! I was ready to kill that puppy on the spot, but no. I had to hold on. It's unacceptable for a Honey Kunoichi to give in to anger and fail a mission. I've been in worse situations, so it was easy to hide my rage.
- Listen, Menma-kun, ah..." but he interrupted me and finally spoke up himself.
- Asami-san, let's not waste time on useless conversations during the mission. Get some rest, we'll be moving out in an hour." said that.... this... THAT BASTARD!!! That's it, now I'm not going to feel sorry for this little demon at all! He's going to crawl after me on his knees and beg for a date with him!!!! I'll definitely make him get attached to me and then crush him in the most brutal way possible!!!!
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The day after Naruto's birthday, I was summoned by the Hokage and sent on my first mission as a Chunin, assigning me as Captain on it. I only had one Kunoichi with me and we were to accompany two people. My subordinate's name was Asami Kobayashi, and I didn't like her from the start. She had long purple coloured hair and the same eyes. Her face was beautiful, and her body... not up to Mina's, but very much so. I decided to immediately look at her status and the Reputation Window with her and was disappointed almost as much as I was with Misami...
Name: Asami Kobayashi
Level: 55
Race: Human
Profession: Honey Kunoichi (Chunin)
Title: Sadist
Status: Squeamish
HP: 950/950 HP Recovery: 100 per hour.
Sp: 1020/1020 Sp Recovery: 210 per hour.
Characteristics:
Strength: 154
Speed: 306
Dexterity: 320
Control: 300
Endurance: 160
Perception: 240
Spirit: 190
Intelligence: 273
Peculiarities: none
Reputation Window:
Asami Kobayashi -2000
Yeah, the thing that surprised me the most was that she was a Honey Kunoichi. Was it really Hiruzen who sent her? But why? I can see why, though. Hmm, I didn't look at Misami's status. Maybe she was also Hiruzen's Honey Kunoichi and after failing, Sarutobi decided to change her to this one. She was older than her, by the way, and, due to her older body, also more attractive. My reputation with her is the same as I had with Misami when I met her, but it's going downhill now. I was distracted from my thoughts by the voice of the girl in front of me.
- Hi, my name is Asami Kobayashi. I'll be your mate on this mission. Nice to meet you.
- Ah, yes. My name is Menma Uzumaki. Nice to meet you.
I decided not to bother with her and just complete the mission. After getting the details from Hiruzen, we set off. At the beginning of the journey, I created a couple of dozen clones that constantly scanned the neighbourhood and killed all the hostile and those who were simply bandits. I could feel Asami's gaze on me the whole way, and I didn't understand what was wrong. Kurama kept telling me that she hated me more and more, but I didn't care. She tried to get my attention and acted positively eager to get to know me, but the Reputation Window spoke for itself. I felt pretty much the same way I did when I met Misami, so I talked almost as monotonously.
After a few days of travelling, we reached the borders of Suna and crossed it safely. Well, the Sand was where I wanted to visit as well. As I recall, Sunagakure and I have a good relationship. Gaara, the Jinchuriki of One-Tailed Shukaku, is still there. He's probably about three years old now, like Naruto. I don't remember much about him, but he's a character I remember positively, and it would be nice to see him. We started moving through the desert. I knew the approximate way, and the customers had already gone there many times, so we were not in danger of getting lost. On the way we met some very strong monsters, for which I got a lot of Soul Crystals. Asami didn't participate in the fights because her fighting style is aimed at killing people, not such huge monsters.
Walking through the desert was difficult, but my stamina allowed me to do so, which was not the case with my companions. Because of this, we often took breaks, where I sent clones to scout the immediate area and slay all those who could get Soul Crystals, except for humans, of course. On the second day of our journey in the desert, we came across some strange plants that immersed us in Genjutsu and poisoned us. Kurama took me out of the Genjutsu by sharing his chakra almost immediately, and I freed the others myself. My resistance to poison helped me a lot with the poison from the plants, and Asami drank some kind of antidote and gave it to the customers. She had it, because she specialised in strong poisons, so of course she carried the antidote with her. It was a weak poison, so she had no trouble finding the antidote. After a couple of days, we did make it to the Hidden Village in the Sand and completed our mission. That's when Asami suggested we stay and have some fun here. I was very much in favour, but not for the same reason she was. Sending a clone along with her, I used my Invisibility technique and went in search of Gaara Sandy. He was discovered quickly, thanks to Kurama's sensorics. There were a lot of toys in his room, and someone was keeping an eye on him. It seemed to be his uncle. So far, Gaara didn't seem all that aggressive or upset about the discrimination. His father was alive, but still didn't seem to have warm feelings for him. Gaara himself was almost as cute as Naruto. Yeah, and a guy like that could change so much that he'd see killing as the meaning of life. The stupidity of the people here is amazing. They already have the weakest of the Tails, and they're discriminating against him and actually trying to kill him. And his father is something else. Why can't he forgive his son for his wife's death?! Why did he say that since Gaara couldn't control Tails when he was five years old, he was a failure?! Why not seal him into himself and try to control him? Gaara was compatible, but he was like that too. I'd like to see him if One-Tail was in his body.
- Kurama, how do you deal with Shukaku?" I asked Fox, sinking into my subconscious.
- You can't, that little Raccoon will never negotiate with you," Fox said, suddenly out of his indifferent mood.
- Hmm.
- What did you want him to do?
- I wanted to ask him not to destroy the boy's psyche.
- Heh, good luck to you then. I think his plan was for the boy to go mad and let him out.
- Can you put me in touch with him?
- No. As long as this seal is in place, I won't be able to connect our minds completely, so I can't connect you to him.
- I see. So there's no way for me to do anything for now. Heh, I need to become stronger soon.
After leaving my subconscious, I looked at the child once more and left.
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After deciding to walk around Suna, I realised that our villages are very different from each other. And I don't mean the sand, which is literally everywhere. The houses here weren't particularly rich and looked old. The people were also glum and sad. There were a lot of homeless people and beggars here. It seems that the economic situation of the Sunovians is not good. Was it all because of the lack of food and favourable soil? Despite the vast territories? Heh, and on top of that, Jinchuriki often goes on rampages because when he releases his first Tail, Shukaku breaks free from his shackles. It's not a nice place to live. How do you fix that? I don't know. The only way I can think of is to destroy most of the Sand and turn the desert areas into favourable soil. I wonder if I could do that with the power of a Ten-Tail. If I did that, I would be the saviour of the people here....
I was also interested in puppet techniques. I went to all the shops I was interested in and became fascinated. When I once again entered a Shinobi shop, I was grabbed from behind by someone. Perception immediately made me realise it was Asami. She was glaring at me angrily with her hands on her hips.
- Asami-san, what happened?
- What's wrong? WHAT HAPPENED!!!?!? Why did you send a clone with me and then run away?!
- I wanted to buy you a present," I said with a smile, not knowing what to do. This made her embarrassed and I got 2050 reputation with her. But then she came to her senses again and asked-.
- What gift?
- This one.- I took out a flask with poison, the same flask with antidote and Senbon with Kunayami and Shuriken for poison from my inventory. Of course, I bought all of this for myself because I was very interested in poisons. Many Shinobi in Suna specialised in it, and after that incident with the poisonous plants that attacked with Genjutsu as well, I remembered Sasori and his poisons. Of course, the Auction already had antidotes for many of the poisons here, including Sasori's, but I still wanted to explore the industry. Creating my own poisons and antidotes would be oh so useful, and I wanted to start learning when I returned to Konoha. I had purchased many scrolls on this and bought these poisons and antidotes as well, which I held out to Asami. She looked at the gift first and then at me. She held her gaze on me and seemed to be in disbelief.-This is in honour of our first mission together and my first mission as a Chunin.
- Y-yes, come on. Are you a different person?!
- What?
- You're...no, nothing. Thank you so much Menma-kun.- She smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek and pulled me into a.... hotel?
Upon reaching it, we rented.... two rooms in it and we each went into our own. When I looked at her incomprehensively at the sight of the hotel, she giggled quietly with her hand over her mouth, but after I breathed a sigh of relief when she booked two rooms, Asami looked at me with the same look she'd been giving me the whole way to Suna. Not paying much attention to it, I stomped off to my room and fell asleep.
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Room 25
In a quiet room of a slightly old hotel, a girl was sitting on a bed and staring intently at two flasks and a pile of throwing iron.
- He's been so cold and pissy the whole way, but now he's decided to buy me a gift in honour of our mission together. Was it really that important to him? And why didn't he want to talk to me or try to look at me then? Wait a minute! So he liked me after all? Of course he did! How could he not like me? Maybe he's just shy? Or is he a chowderhead? Or is he trying to play the cold guy role? Yeah, girls like that, but at that age, thinking about it... although I like it too, he was really cute when I caught him and he was trying to give me a present with a nonchalant face. You little bugger! Well, if you want to play like that, fine. I'll play with you, Cold Boy~
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After waking up the next morning, I was fully prepared to move out to head back to Konoha. Asami was already ready as well, and we left Suna together. The clones had already bought everything they needed, so I was quietly leaving her. But calmly we were not allowed to go. On the third day of the journey, having already left the desert, we came across some Nukenin. Judging by the crossed-out tread of the Stone, he was from Willow. He was hiding and not giving away his location, but my perception and Byakugan found him quickly. Without thinking long, I made a danger signal to Asami and replaced myself with the Clone. While the clone followed the same path we were on, I used Invisibility and began to approach the Shinobi. Coming within one metre, I was about to finish him off quickly, but he, sensing something, swung his katana. The good news for me was that he didn't infuse it with chakra and the katana went through me and I chopped his head off in a quick motion. We were in a tree, so he fell to the ground, dropping his head and.... a book of some kind. I climbed down and told Asami that everything was already fine. Walking over to the body, I picked up his book. Looking at it, I recognised what it was. Bingo's book.
- What is it?
- Looks like it's the Hidden Stone's Nukenin. A level A threat.
- And you defeated him so quickly, Menma-kun?
- It was the surprise effect. I was just lucky. After reading what was there, I immediately looked around and saw the same Noukenin running up behind Asami with a stone hand raised to strike. - Watch out! - Having found one Noukenin, I didn't sweep the neighbourhood and missed his perfect clone.
- What?" the next moment he hit Asami and... his fist, as well as his entire body, went through Asami's body and then it dissolved.
- Illusory Clone?!" he shouted and lunged at me.
- Distract him!" came Asami's voice from a distance, as she began to form some seals.
- Earth Element: Mud Wall!" I used my Technique to move away, and for good reason. The Iwagakure guy hit the wall with all his might and destroyed it.
- He saw me and came closer to strike again.
- Earth Element: Strengthening." I used my strengthening to hit him back, using a stream of chakra in my hand to pump as much chakra as it could hold. There was a powerful blow and I felt a sharp pain in my arm.
- Earth Element: Stone Hand! - The next moment I was flying towards the tree behind me, from another blow from this guy who was using the Stone Hand Technique on his other hand. In mid-air, I came to a stop, stabbing the ground with my katana. Spitting out a clot of blood, I quickly folded the seals.
- Lightning Element: Chidori!" Nukenin was already ten metres away from me when he saw me use the technique. He didn't even have time to slow down before I approached him at full speed and wanted to attack him. But the Shinobi was fast too and dodged the attack while trying to attack himself. At one point, I reached him and stabbed him in the stomach with a technique, but he hit me again. After I flew off and slammed my back into a tree, I saw a Shinobi walking towards me. I was about to fold the seals again when suddenly he fell to the ground and started yelling.
- What's wrong with me?! Why is my body melting?! What?! What did you do!!!? Asami came over to me and helped me up.- Are you okay?
- I'm fine, but what's wrong with him?
- Ah, he's under the influence of Genjutsu. Right now he should feel like he's melting like water and lying on the ground with his body slowly sinking into it. He should pass out soon. And because of your technique, he'll be dead within a couple of dozen minutes.
- An illusion, then. I see.
- What I'm more interested in is why there's two of him. After your signal, I switched to an illusionary clone so I didn't get caught in his attack. But I can definitely feel that both his bodies aren't illusions or clones. Are they twins?
- No, he used a technique to split himself in two. Asami stared at me in confusion.
- What's that? He split himself in two?
- No, he split himself in two. Ha-ahh, how to explain it. Anyway, he used Iwagakure's Secret Technique to create a perfect clone, but he used half of his powers to do it. I read about it in the Bingo Book he dropped.
- I see. Then what do we do with them?" she pointed to the two bodies, one of which was still writhing in pain and bleeding.
- Hmm." I thought for a moment and walked over to the book I'd thrown on the ground during the enemy attack. Opening it, I looked through the guy's data again, and at the end I saw what I was looking for. This guy's head was worth 300,000 and his body was worth another 700,000. - Bingo!" I shouted and looked at Asami with a smile.
- She didn't know what I meant at first, but she looked at the book in my hand and sighed. Okay. But we'll split the fee in half." She smiled at me in the same way.
Reputation with Asami Kobayashi +100.
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As I approached Nukenin, who was writhing in pain, I used the Water Bullet Technique and finished the guy off. I then sealed the two bodies in scrolls and put them in my pouch.
- The nearest village where you can turn them in and get a reward is thirty kilometres away," Asami pointed to the west as she watched my manipulations.
- Menma, she's lying," came a voice in my head. Man, I like to say that...But I don't sense any hostile intentions on her part.
- Okay. We'll change the route a bit, but we'll get to Konoha only a few hours later.-if there's no hostile intentions, I don't mind wandering longer.
- It's almost evening, why don't we spend the night in that village?
- I don't mind. She just wanted to sleep in the village, not the forest. Looks like it, she's excited.
By nine o'clock we reached the village. It could hardly be called a village, though. It looked more like a big city. Although, to the locals, it was considered a village. The name of the place was Las Vegas. I wish I could say that, but the name was different. "Lavendo." But to the locals it is the very real Las Vegas. The town was very colourful and vibrant. It seemed like there was some kind of festival or celebration going on.
- Wow! It's beautiful, Menma-kun. Shall we go out today?
- But we still have to turn in the bodies...
- When we do, you can buy me a drink with the proceeds, okay? And, damn it, I've got real Cat in Boots eyes!!!
- All right!
- Menma, you're under an illusion," the fox said, giving me some chakra. And he meant it! After the illusion was cancelled, not only were the cutest eyes I've ever.... ahem. not only were they gone, but I was also attracted to Asami. Is this her technique? How does she affect not only her sight but also her senses like that? Can Genjutsu really make a person feel anything??? Really?! I'll definitely have to check it out!!!
- Thank you, Kurama. But I want to have some fun today." I said in my subconscious and followed Asami, who, with a surprisingly gentle hand, led me in some direction.
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We went to a bar and went into the women's washroom and in one of the stalls Asami let her chakra flow on the handle and opened the door and entered the spacious room. Walking in behind her I saw a white room with a huge table and coffins hanging on the wall.
- Excuse me, is anyone there?" - after Asami's words, footsteps were heard behind the door on the side of the room. After a couple of seconds, an old man with glasses and a white coat came out.
- Yes, come in. What can you offer me?" he got straight to the point.
- The corpse of an A-rank Nukenin using the secret Iwagakure no Sato technique.
- Hmm, interesting. Who's that with you?" he asked with a nod in my direction.
- That's my companion. I'm sorry, it's his first time in a place like this." The old man looked at me closely and continued.
- Are the bodies with you?
- Yes.- I said and unsealed both scrolls on the table.
- Wow, Body Fission Technique. Former Tsuchikage Mu's secret technique. Very interesting. And this guy... He seems to have mastered it well. The bodies are in pretty good condition. I'm willing to pay for them. Wait here." The old man left and came back a few minutes later with several wads of money. "Here, here's the full amount." he pulled the money to Asami and she counted it.
- It's all right. Then we'll go." Asami said and was about to leave when I stopped her.- Excuse me, can I ask for a map of all the places where you can sell the bodies of famous Nukenin?
- Menma-kun?
- Boy, hunting Nukenins in the Bingo Book isn't as easy as you think. This guy is considered one of the weakest. Better grow up a little, enough to kill people like this in seconds.
- You think I'm weak?
- You...- I crushed this guy with YAKI, using 50% of it, but he only interrupted and shook. Then I used 100% of it and he and Asami fell to the ground. ...kha-kha.... p-please.
- Menma-kun... khkha.- after that, I stopped the technique and repeated the question.
- So can you give me a map of all the places where you can sell bodies?
- H-okay, kid....
I was finally given the map, which also showed me how to get to those locations and told me something else important. The way Asami was opening the door wasn't random, as expected. She directed chakra at a certain interval on the handle, which was the password. It wasn't hard to learn how to do the same. Asami wasn't herself after crushing YAKI and remained silent as we left the bar. When we left, I saw the cheerful city again, which radiated life and fun. Looking at Asami, I felt guilty. So even though we split the payment equally.....
- Asami, let's go out tonight and celebrate the completion of our first assignment together. I'll treat. - and use the skill Smile Bisyonen, which, when reactivated on the same person, gives only a temporary effect of +2000 to reputation.
- Mm-hmm. After that, she went back to her old self. trying to seduce me again, yeah. We should at least keep some of the equipment. Why don't we get hotel rooms in advance?
- Okay.-When we found the hotel, we got two rooms, and we each went to our own. For the sake of the occasion, I decided to wear the kimono I'd bought because I was a fan of festivals in Japan and had always wanted to go there. It was black in colour, with the same red highlights as my jacket. After taking off my clothes, I put it and all my gear in my inventory. Then I left the hotel and stood at the entrance, waiting for Asami.
- Did you wait long? When I turned round, I saw a... a dazzling girl in a red kimono. Her hair was loose and looked beautiful. Her face was beautiful to the point of insanity, and the grace of her body would have blown me away if I didn't know her. Yeah, there really are a lot of beautiful women in this world and it's not just the main character's inner circle. I think more than 70% of the women here are as beautiful as the models in my world. So choosing women because of beauty isn't very good here. There's no make-up in this world either, with all the chemistry that the girls of my old world put on. And it's amazing that further Kunoichi who spend a lot of time in the forests, in war and on missions look like they've been watching their looks the whole time. Asami was very beautiful, and I appreciated that perfectly, but I didn't fall for her charms either. Not at all. The fact that I've been staring at her for five minutes isn't because of her beauty. Yes, I'm looking at her status and, of course, the Reputation Window. Speaking of the window.
Reputation Window:
Asami Kobayashi +300
How did this happen? Bisyonen's smile even though it worked the first time and added +2000 to me, but her reputation with me had been dropping the whole time we got to Suna. So she was attracted to something else. But, I don't want to bother right now.
- I just got here myself. Of course the answer is trite, but not in this world.
It seems that some kind of holiday was really celebrated here, as there were posters with some god everywhere. But I didn't go into details. The first thing we did was to visit all the stalls with yummy food. It was delicious and fun to watch them being prepared. Next we visited places with different games, mostly where they threw shurikens at targets....
- I got it!
- Congratulations, girl. Choose your tenth prize.
- How come you aim better than me?
- It's a lot harder to throw senbons than your pile of iron, you know that.
- All right, let's go another round.
- Ten again?
- Yeah. This time I switched on my eyes and covered them with Metamorphism. And ten minutes later, in another stall.
- There! Take your hundredth gift and get the hell out of my place, you bloody Shinobi!!!
- How?! How did you hit 100 out of 100?! These imaginary wood shurikens aren't travelling the right trajectory. I could barely throw ten, and you hit a hundred?!
- I guess learning to throw Senbon will be easy," I grinned.
- Asami turned away from me with a pout, and I walked over to her, wrapping my arms around her waist and heading to the next stall.
- Don't pout, let's move on. There's a lot more fun to be had, especially since I gave you all the toys.
- I don't need that many.
We also fished, but with strange fishing rods without lines. You had to make them with your own chakra. Asami was great at it, and so was I... at first. In the middle I decided to use transformed elemental water chakra, but I used lightning instead. I don't know how that happened, maybe because I couldn't catch any fish? Eventually all the fish got electrocuted and the attraction became dangerous due to the electrified water. I had to pay off the owner and listen to the jeering and loud laughter from Asami.
After that we watched plays performed by the puppeteers. All the stories were very corny and not very interesting, but because of the atmosphere they seemed good and Asami, and I, enjoyed them. We also listened to different artists perform. Some of them sang, some of them danced, and some of them both. But what I liked best was the dancing, which was done by beautiful girls to the music of the drum and other instruments. We ended up walking all evening and night, and went to the hotel under the morning....