[Hōzuki Keneō]

No matter how one looked at it, there was no proper way of going about letting these guys walk for another day or two. They had to be stopped now, and they had to be taken off of the streets, potentially indefinitely, though that was likely off the table for two reasons. One reason being that they would more than likely not sanction him killing a criminal while acting as a Junsa rather than as a shinobi, the other being that one could not hold someone in jail until the end of their days for producing drugs. Perhaps if someone could make the charges stick that the producers would be charged with manslaughters whenever someone died on the street or in the hospital due to their work, they might. But it seemed unlikely.

Having no real way of knowing where the man might have gone next, the only real lead Ken had left was the house he supposedly lived in, the presumed location where the drugs were being manufactured. And now that he finally had his reasonable clause for a home invasion, he would use it with a great deal of pleasure. But he wasn't going to be stupid about it and just kick down the door. No, he had a better idea for it, one that would reveal itself as soon as he got into the street and pulled up to the house in question. Making sure the street itself was nice and quiet, and no one was out during this ungodly hour of the day, he'd rather not stir up trouble in the dead of night if it had a chance of leaking out into the street and injuring innocent bystanders.

[Hōzuki Keneō]

Having made sure that the chances of injuring anyone were at a low point, he used his hydrification technique in order to slip underneath the door before reforming and getting a good look around. The living room was dark, the curtains closed while most of the furniture seemed relatively worn - a certain stench permeating throughout the space that seemed like a mixture of both cigarettes and something else, some sort of chemical. Doing his round around the room while making sure to keep any noise to a minimum, the boy could hear that there was someone inside of the house. Multiple people from the sound of it as they were having a conversation.

Doing his best to figure out where the noise was coming from, his gaze was drawn towards an open door that likely headed down into a basement. It made sense, as most people wouldn't bother doing such a thing in plain sight just in case someone forgot to close the blinds or curtains. Passing by the fuses, Ken made sure to switch off the electricity, causing a darkness to fall over the basement. Liquifying and fitting himself into the cracks shortly after, he watched as someone came up from the basement and went towards the fuses, though they would likely find out too late that the young shinobi had made sure that it wouldn't be easy to switch them back on, putting a senbon into the switch mechanism, requiring a lot of brute force to turn the lever.

[Hōzuki Keneō]

But that would take time, time Ken would use in order to slip down into the basement and get a look at who was in there and what they were doing. Shortly after creeping down the stairs, he could tell that the scent of chemicals was coming from down here as the man he saw was wearing a mask and goggles. Across the basement, he saw a bathtub, some kind of centrifuge and a bunch of other stuff he honestly did not fully understand the use of. But one thing he did know was that it needed to be shut down. Materializing himself behind the masked man, he wrapped his arms around his throat, using one to close his wind pipe and the other to essentially lock his other arm into place. Causing them both to tumble backwards, Ken wasn't all that harmed from having a grown man falling on top of him.

He was going to carry out this attempt at strangulation, only to stop once he was sure the guy was down and would stay down. Taking him a little while before the man's body went limp, Ken had to hurry himself as the man upstairs was likely going to be returning at some point. Once the lights were turned back on, it was only going to be a matter of time, and Ken wished to be ahead of it. Rushing up the stairs, he saw the man ahead of him, holding the senbon he had snuck into the lever to keep it from getting pushed down. In a shock, the man tossed it right into his direction. Out of instinct, Ken just kept moving forward and broke himself down into a mass of water on impact, reforming himself a moment later in order to fight the man head on.

[Hōzuki Keneō]

Starting to throw hands right from the get go, it was clear to see that Ken was the more formidable of the two as the guy had no real combat training that was made apparent at least. As the two were fighting, the man couldn't see that the water underneath him was starting to come together to form a person right behind him. Believing that he was fighting the real Ken, he was in fact trying to manhandle a water clone, and rather unsuccessfully at that. Using the time he had before he was discovered to deliver a powerful blow to the back of the man's skull, his limp body fell forward. Being caught by the water clone that stood in front of him, he dropped the body onto the ground for the time being.

With both of them taken out, Ken and his clone applied handcuffs to both of the perpetrators that matched the descriptions he had been given by the parents living across the street. Rather than dragging the both of them across the village, the better idea seemed to be to tie them to a thick pipe and go to the nearest police station. Because of the body flicker technique and his ability to move up and over walls and roofs with little to no effort at all, getting a bunch of police officers to the house to collect the two men and get them to jail with their 'friend'. Before long, there was an entire team scoping out the house and breaking apart the furniture while documenting and clearing out the basement along with everything else they found. This meant that his job here was done, and he was no longer needed.


[EXIT]