"Ah..." rockmanj smiled slightly, then said, almost to himself: "Haven't had to do this in a while...", and to the untrained eye, disappeared! The ninja stuck the ground, causing sparks that also had the unfortunate effect of giving away his position. Then, in a flash, he was again visible, and flying through the air as if struck with incredible force. Nadouku seemed to hear a voice from both the east and west simultaneously : "See, this is nothing...I just regret that it came to this." Suddenly, rockmanj appeared, standing over the fallen miscreant, who was writhing in pain.

Nadouku noticed that something was slightly different about the former rogue..."Ah..your eye!" rockmanj cocked his head slightly, toward the witch. "Yea, its not something I'm exactly proud of ." What he was referring to was his left eye, vastly different from the deep brown eye nestled in the right socket of his face. This particular eye was very odd, as the Iris was not only a bright gold color, but also in the shape of a diamond, and seemed to give off a soft glow in the twilight.

"What in the world....Could that be?" the witch exclaimed. rockmanj seemed to lower his head a bit, as if ashamed; "Yea, it is indeed Shin Shi Gan...the Eyes of God' The witch gasped. "The forbidden magic that allows one to see all this was and will be?" rockmanj replied: "Well, only if you have both of them...but that power isn't meant for any man to have...I should know" Suddenly, he violently kicked the fallen ninja in his ribs "This idiot knows that...I'm sure of it."

He turned toward the witch: "Sorry, I wasn't straight with you before, but I know you could sense the magic within me. What you saw, was a practical application of space-time magic...of something in my past." He pointed to this pirate with his wakazashi, "...And this scum knows...this eye, which is bound to the future...He was sent from one in my past...you could say my other half,"he spoke as his left eye glowed brighter. He covered the eye again. "I trust you can keep this to yourself witch. I stay in this backwards town for a reason; and I definitely don't need anyone knowing that I once studied the arcane."

The witch nodded, then...

/role play