(Jubei POV)

'Hmm, there's no one waiting for me on the stairs,' Jubei thought after walking for a few minutes and he paused mid-step, hearing someone chanting. He started walking again, keeping his senses sharp as he reached the top. He saw a large old temple with two Buddhist statues on either side of the tiled road leading up to the entrance. 

'So that's the temple they were supposed to meet Dakuan's contact, huh.' He thought looking bored as he surveyed his surroundings, trying to find where they could attack next.

"Kan ji zai bo sa gyo- jin han-nya ha ra mi ta ji sho- ken go on kai ku- do is-sai ku yaku. Sha ri shi shiki fu I ku- ku- fu I shiki shiki soku ze ku- ku..."

He started walking again towards the front entrance and opened the door. He could hear the chanting more clearly and saw a woman sitting down in front of a big Buddha statue and two candles on either side. He looked up at the ceiling and the walls not finding anything out of the ordinary.

Scratching his head, he let out a sigh as he walked closer to her cautiously, springing the trap. "Are you the one they call, Yui? A frog in a well knows nothing of the sea."

"Soku ze ku— Eh? Hello stranger, yes, it is I, Yui. Nor how high the stars in the sky is."

He said nothing else, walking closer to her before he drew his weapon at her neck, "You can drop the act. I made up that code."

"Haha, well played but not good enough. You have fallen into my trap." She said before jumping at him, skewering herself on his katana causing him to fall on his back with her on top. 

"So heavy, you should go on a diet old woman, shit!" He muttered angrily until he looked up at the ceiling and saw hundreds of snakes slithering around forming into a face.

He struggled harder and he was successful in pushing her off him, but the snakes fell from the ceiling and landed on him. Jubei grunted at the newly added weight, forcing him to lay still even as a few went into his clothes and especially as one wrapped around his crotch with the head poking out of his pants. 

Benisato suddenly appeared standing up from the pile naked with a smirk. She walked closer to him and stopped a few feet away, "Tell me what I want to know and you get to keep your little friend. Or else you can say goodbye to him." She finished her threat by having said snake tightening up before relaxing and lowering its head ready to bite down.

He silently swallowed at that, but other than that, he played it cool, "What do you want to know?"

"Tell me everything. How many people are working with? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Where are they currently?" Benisato questioned Jubei as his new trouser snake slowly tightened up and hissed with its mouth wide open, venom dripping off the fangs. She couldn't help but give him a weird look when her snake felt his dick stiffening up in response.

"O-ok, o-ok, I'll tell you..." Jubei started to say nervously as he tried to think nonsexy thoughts. 'Of course it'll act up since it's been a while for him!' He thought to himself. "Of course, there's a whole army coming. Even if you send all the snakes here for each soldier, you wouldn't have enough, you'll see. They're coming soon."

"You shouldn't lie to me since I have something precious of yours hostage. You wouldn't want to lose it before you get the chance to use it one last time, right?"

"Whoa, easy lady... I'll tell you the truth. There are seven of us. Two of them are hiding somewhere nearby and one is behind you." Jubei said feeling relieved that someone is there to help him. He couldn't help but wonder where were Kuroyuri and Misao. 

Benisato tensed up feeling something sharp on her neck and tried to turn around only to have her arm bent behind her back. She used one of her snakes to stare at her checking how close she was and smiled deviously.

"Get rid of the snakes," Kaguro ordered looking down at Jubei before looking back up. When she didn't, Kagero brought her tanto closer, drawing a small amount of blood, "Get rid of them or my hand will slip."

Benisato frowned, very reluctantly doing as ordered, very slowly as she deployed her secret weapon. Not a second later, a snake that was inside her vagina, slowly slithered out, wet with her juices, and bit Kagero's upper thigh.

"Urgh," She grunted in surprise before looking down and seeing it was a snake biting her. She tightened her hold without making another sound.

"Her sting is the most deadly of all that I gathered here, you'll—" Benisato started to gloat, but she hissed in pain as the tango dug deeper into her skin, drawing more blood. 

"No more surprises, get rid of the snake from your ass too before I cut your throat!" Kagero threatened her, pushing her arm further up on her back.

Benisato didn't say anything as a huge ass snake slithered out surprising them as they stared nonpulsed at the sight. What they didn't see was that Benisato's form deflated slightly and two snakes holding a bag of gunpowder unseen, slowly leaving a trail that leads outside. Pretty soon all the snakes were gone, leaving just those three alone.

Jubei sighed in relief getting up but facing away from them as he readjusted himself. After that, he walked toward them pissed off at that snake woman. 

"Now, it's your turn to answer our questions. Why did you come here? What were you doing these past few days?" Kagero questioned harshly, but Benisato only gave her a dirty look instead. 

"You should answer her before I get my hands on you," Kuroyuri said coming through the front door along with Misao a few steps behind her.

Jubei couldn't help but ask, "Where were you when I was covered in snakes?" He shivered in disgust remembering all those slimy things moving all over him.

"It took a little longer than planned to come up to the temple," Kuroyuri said defending themselves. They were walking without a convenient path and they had their guards up against ambushes.

"So you were all here, thank goodness," Midori said walking through the door causing everyone to stare at us all.

I waved at them in greetings and I couldn't help but notice that Benisato is currently naked. I looked around in confusion wondering why the informant is there dead in a pool of her own blood.

"Now you will tell up everything we want to know!"

"Good, it seems that your all gathered here. It's too bad that information will be useless to you, since you'll be dead pretty soon," Benisato stated calmly.

Kuroyuri stepped closer to her and brought her kunai towards Benisato's eye, "What does that mean?"

"You'll know soon enou— argh. Uwaah! Aaaaahhh!" Benisato stated mysteriously before she was interrupted as she was suddenly electrocuted from the wires around her neck. 

We all jumped back, watching her jerk around as electricity went through her body. It soon ended a few seconds later as she slumped down into a burned husk of a human.

"Well, that happened," Jubei said in a surprise tone. "Why did they kill one of their own?" He asked what everyone was silently thinking.

"A better question is how did she planned on killing us all when we had the upper hand?" Rinko quietly asked herself, before her eyes widen in shock when she heard a sizzling sound... coming from inside the room? Her eyes widen in shock, "Shit! It's a bomb!"

*Bang! Boom!*

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Zakuro was outside the temple with a wide smile on her face as she lit up a nearby fuse. She watched it burn, following its trail leading up to the temple before splitting apart and going in two different directions, but the destination was the same. She frowned when Benisato didn't appear, but shrugged, there was nothing she could do. 

Zakuro waited for a few seconds more before she started laughing as the temple exploded in a large fireball and what was leftover started burning. She soon left not long after, planning on giving the good news to Yurimaru.