Within the Parasitic Destruction Insect whirlwind, dense spider silk appeared as Otsu prepared to bind Yakushi Nonō and take her back to Danzo.
Yakushi Nonō glanced sideways at the sea surface.
A large sword ca spinning through the air with a whistling sound, crashing into the insect whirlwind.
Otsu quickly turned his head to look in the direction the sword ca from.
The tall figure of Hoshigaki Kisa rose and fell with the waves.
Hoshigaki Kisa said, "Wandering Shrine Maiden, after causing Hōzuki Muragetsu's death, did you think you could return to Konoha?
I need to obtain your corpse to make the Hōzuki clan shut up and stop demanding the Great Sword Sahada from ."
The Great Sword Sahada was embedded in the rock, its bandages unwrapping layer by layer to reveal a blade covered in spikes.
Otsu said, "Yakushi Nonō! You actually brought Kiri-nin to ambush !"
Yakushi Nonō defended herself, "I told you, the Swordsn suffered a disastrous defeat, my situation is very precarious, and I didn't know when Hoshigaki Kisa started tracking ."
Otsu moved.
He rushed swiftly towards the Great Sword Sahada and grabbed its hilt.
Hoshigaki Kisa had been overconfident, carelessly throwing such a precious sword over.
However, spikes suddenly protruded from the hilt, cutting Otsu's hand.
Otsu hastily threw Sahada away; he hadn't expected it to have such an ability.
The Great Sword Sahada swam back to Hoshigaki Kisa's feet.
Hoshigaki Kisa picked up Sahada: "You, a Konoha ANBU, what right do you have to hold the Great Sword Sahada?"
The battle between the two erupted abruptly.
Sahada swung, smashing towards Otsu's head.
Boom!
Otsu instantly burst apart, turning into countless Parasitic Destruction Insects.
"Insect Clone?"
The Parasitic Destruction Insects flew through the air, then gathered again in the distance to form Otsu's upper body.
His lower body was gone, replaced only by increasingly sparse, dwindling, flying Parasitic Destruction Insects.
Abura Ryoma was known as Root's most skilled infiltration ninja; even a gap of a few milliters was enough for his insect clone to infiltrate.
His body could completely transform into insects and reassemble arbitrarily.
Otsu said, "Yakushi Nonō, help deal with Hoshigaki Kisa, then return to the village!"
He wasn't worried about Yakushi Nonō refusing. The Konoha Orphanage was under Lord Danzo's control. If Advisor Danzo got angry, he really would kill all the orphans.
Every year at the end of the year, Danzo allowed Yakushi Nonō to return to the village, to her orphanage.
That was Yakushi Nonō's weakness.
Yakushi Nonō lowered her hand, a Chakra Scalpel forming in her palm.
As soon as she stepped forward, she was sent flying by a sweep of the Great Sword Sahada.
Hoshigaki Kisa ignored the Wandering Shrine Maiden; this woman's combat strength wasn't high. His main enemy was the Abura ANBU.
Crashing onto a rock, Yakushi Nonō deliberately bit her lip, causing blood to trickle from the corner of her mouth.
The rock behind her cracked, but in reality, she was completely unhard.
She had always cultivated an image of being skilled in disguise and infiltration; no one knew her true combat strength.
Seeing that Yakushi Nonō was of little use, Otsu ford hand signs. The Parasitic Destruction Insects beneath him grew increasingly nurous.
"Secret Technique: Insect Tide Prison!"
Countless insects burrowed out from the ground, instantly covering the entire area.
Everything turned pitch black, filled with the sound of insects gnawing.
The insects suddenly took flight, forming dozens of insect pillars, each over a ter thick and more than ten ters high, segnting the battlefield.
Hoshigaki Kisa quickly jumped into the air.
The dozens of surrounding insect pillars instantly transford into insect dragons, lunging at Hoshigaki Kisa from different directions.
Far out at sea, Yōkō was astonished.
Abura Ryoma's strength is truly formidable. The scale of his Parasitic Destruction Insects is imnse, at least four or five tis that of White Goat's.
In mid-air, Hoshigaki Kisa ford hand signs: "Great Exploding Water Collision Wave!"
The nearby sea level instantly dropped. Yōkō quickly subrged deeper, nearly exposed by the changing water level.
Tens-of-ters-high waves directly crashed against the towering cliffs by the shore, and Abura Ryoma's Parasitic Destruction Insects were completely enveloped by the water release.
In terms of jutsu scale, no village could compare to Kirigakure.
The Hiding in Mist Technique could easily cover several kiloters.
Combined Water Release was like a tsunami, endless to the left and right.
Abura Ryoma's Insect Tide Prison covered dozens of ters, already quite exaggerated, but it still paled in comparison to Hoshigaki Kisa's Water Release.
Hoshigaki Kisa stood upon the waves and ford seals again.
The tips of his hair hardened and pierced into the water.
Dense hair, like hundreds of steel wires, ran rampant through the water.
"Hair Needle Seaweed!"
Otsu's body vanished, leaving only a black cloud of insects visible in the water.
Hoshigaki Kisa's hair, like seaweed, instantly filled the tens-of-ters-high waves.
The hair couldn't pierce every single insect, so the Hair Needle Seaweed ford a vortex sphere underwater, enveloping all the insects and instantly collapsing inward, crushing them.
The insects, trapped within the gaps and sphere of hair, were instantly crushed.
Green fluid appeared in the seawater – the burst innards of the crushed Parasitic Destruction Insects.
As the waves subsided, Hoshigaki Kisa released the large sphere of Hair Needle Seaweed, revealing piles upon piles of crushed Parasitic Destruction Insects inside.
He used another Water Release to wash away the insect corpses, but found no human body among them.
Did I actually kill the Abura ANBU or not?
He turned his head and found the Wandering Shrine Maiden was also gone.
After all that effort, he had accomplished nothing – neither killed nor captured anyone.
After Hoshigaki Kisa's Water Release ended, the borrowed seawater quickly returned to the ocean, raising the surrounding sea level significantly.
Hidden in the seawater, Yōkō noticed a dark shadow and followed it.
Otsu had escaped Hoshigaki Kisa's terrifying Water Release Hair Needle Secret Technique.
In preparation for facing the Kiri-nin in the Land of Whirlpools, Otsu had cultivated many Water Louse Insects.
These Water Louse Insects, capable of moving freely in water, ultimately reford his body, allowing him to luckily escape Hoshigaki Kisa's killing move.
The Abura clan's insects were far more powerful than others imagined.
A mass of Water Louse Insects swam rapidly through the water. Only after putting considerable distance between themselves and the battle site did they reform into Otsu's body.
Underwater, Otsu looked up at the sea surface. The moon was scattered by the ripples, creating a shimring effect. Once he surfaced, he could breathe fresh air.
The next instant!
He shuddered violently!
A hand pierced through his back and out of his chest!
This hand crushed his heart before his eyes.
The Parasitic Destruction of Insects nurtured within his heart spilled out with the shattered organ and quickly died.
What Otsu saw was a copper-red arm!
Copper Fox!
How dare he?
How did he instantly appear behind ? Why did I sense nothing?
What ability is this?
Another hand pierced out from his right lung, crushing Otsu's lung.
The Parasitic Destruction Insects nurtured in the lung were squeezed out, dying in the seawater.
A fox mask slowly appeared from behind Otsu's neck.
This move, 'Black Tiger Steals Heart from Behind', even Uchiha Madara couldn't withstand it, let alone you, Abura Ryoma.
Abura Ryoma's insect clone was too powerful; only this cruel and disgusting thod could ensure a certain kill.
Water Body Flicker was Yōkō's ultimate trump card.
Absolute Defense Copper Light was rely his public signboard; Water Body Flicker was his true killing technique.
Here in the vast ocean, the power of Water Body Flicker was infinitely amplified.
Hanzo earned his title of 'Demigod' in Agakure relying on Water Body Flicker; Yōkō in the seawater was equally powerful, god-like.
Root must be gradually weakened.
Given Danzo's character of being cautious with his own safety in major endeavors, he always sends subordinates to test the waters in every conflict. If his subordinates' strength diminishes, Danzo's actions will also be constrained.
Otsu is the second-in-command in Root. With Orochimari obeying orders but not fully submitting, Otsu is effectively Danzo's most capable subordinate. He must die.
After smashing Otsu's head, Yōkō waited for a long ti, but Otsu did not use a clone technique to reform his body. It seed Otsu was truly dead.
Dragging Otsu's corpse into the deep sea and weighing it down with rocks, Yōkō surfaced.
Next, to et the Wandering Shrine Maiden...
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