Book I, Chapter 4: "Cluster of Thoughts, Cloud of Questions"
The air was crisp and cold in the mountain with the breath visible in the air. The sun began to rise in the sky, emerging from the large bodies of clouds that covered the gates to heaven. Birds in the forest chirped and flew about nonchalantly and a lone figure approached the gates that secured the village. The man seemed exhausted, his green eyes with no focus and eyelids half-closed, as if he was captured in a cloud of thoughts and his feet mechanically advancing towards the entrance. one would have imagined a zombie upon setting eyes on this man and he seemed like a soulless being that would continue to walk to the end of the world unless someone stopped him.
Kyouraku was thinking. After twenty years he had once again encountered the organization that killed Hisui. Coincidentally or as by fate, it did not matter, because he just couldn't ignore it anymore. As soon as he entered the village, he had research to do, and for the first time in about fifteen years, he was serious, with nothing in his head but the lotus symbol and its significance. He had to find out who these guys were, what they were up to and why they appeared again. After the long years of vacancy, the hedonist would once again return to his ANBU codenmae, Clockwork, to give these motherfuckers a major ass-whooping.
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