Meeting up with Homare, who seemed to have already figured out that it was him, Ken learned some intruiging information. With the children being entirely unwilling to leave, the young Hozuki wondered as to what exactly these people had done to them that brought about this behavior. Whether they were scared for their lives or their parents lives due to threats made or whatever, it was at that point that he remembered how the hunters had spoken about using the children against the hidden mist and the land of water. Perhaps Homare had been wrong, or her genjutsu dispelling had not been strong enough to take down an ability of this level. But whatever the case might have been, there was something very wrong with these children, and the people that caused it had to pay.
"Try to coerce them out of here by force if need be. They need to get back to their family before the people upstairs wake up and try to stop you. I'll move on, those barred doors can't hold me back anyway."
Walking up to the door he deemed to be the most likely to lead them towards the barracks, he more or less just walked into it as he turned into water, slipping through the nooks and cracks until he was entirely through. Even if the men inside were to try and run or get to the kids for leverage or hostages, the spider's wire Homare had used was more than likely enough to keep them from doing so. Getting eyes on the inside of the room, he saw exactly two people right in front of him, backs turned towards the door, as well as one man sitting at a table by himself. He seemed to be eating, musing to himself as he spoke to the men in the room with him.
"After dinner, I would like to have the next target brought in. It is after all quite difficult to warp one's views of the world on an empty stomach."
Following up his statement with a cackling laugh, Ken knew more than enough at this point. This guy was dangerous. But more than that, he seemed more than willing to do what horrible things he did to children, which should have been the line most people would not cross. Using his liquified limbs to wrap a sufficient amount of water around the heads of the men standing by the door, both tried to frantically grab at him to pull themselves free as their airways were obstructed. Effectively causing both to drown, Ken would keep the water from going inside of their bodies, as that would more than likely kill them as their lungs would fill up. But since that was not the case, he waited for the men to almost turn blue before releasing his grip on them.
Dashing along the ground in liquid form, the man that sat in the room was only alerted to Ken's presence the moment the two bodies hit the floor. Had he not felt rushed, he would likely have guided them towards the ground in order to keep the sound to a minimum, though that was a learning point for another time. Rushing forward like a crashing wave, the Hozuki wrapped the man entirely in water. But this time, he would not keep himself from entering into the man's body as he tried to gasp for air. For what the man had done, which was currently still relatively unknown, he wanted this guy to die. Even though he was still quite young, he could tell the difference between people who acted out of a certain need or to survive, and those who were plain evil.
As was the case with the other two, those outside of the room would not hear the man as he was tossing out his death throes, the water muffling any noise he could possible have made as his lungs and organs filled up. Then, after a little while, all movement ceased as there was no longer any spark of life left. With a hard push, Ken made sure to relieve the man of any leftovers of oxygen as he withdrew all of the water from within before dropping the body to the floor like a useless sack of flesh. Leaving the men who were more than likely just ordinary hunters for the clean up team to find and deal with once Homare got the children out. Pushing his liquid body back through the cracks and into the passage where Homare would likely be working to free the children, he manifested himself again.
"It is done. Lets get these kids to safety."
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