Chapter 4: My System Wants Me Dead
Who's there?!
Kinson Wexford?
No, it couldn't be Kinson Wexford.
Kinson Wexford would have struck and slaughtered him already, given his ruthless and bold domineering personality. That immortal master's presence should be a storm, not a whisper.
As for others... the rest of the Payne Clan should be focused on scrambling for the fifty Bone Tempering Pills promised by Kinson Wexford, not stalking after a branch disciple like Lordi Payne.
At first, Lordi Payne wondered if he was just being overly paranoid, but his expression quickly changed.
He realized that the number of unseen gazes fixed on him was increasing.
What had started as one or two faint, almost imperceptible stares had rapidly multiplied into a suffocating presence, as if countless eyes from all directions were silently watching him. The air thickened, pressing against his skin like a tightening noose.
This feeling...
His mind flashed to the byobu screen in Kinson Wexford's room.
He glanced around, eyes darting, but the surrounding stretched empty—nothing but lanterns swaying in the breeze.