!!!
The mont that cold voice echoed beside him, Yamanaka Fū's face instantly filled with shock.
The black-cloaked figure his technique had supposedly struck gradually beca distorted and transparent, like an illusion dissolving into mist.
At the sa ti, the surrounding scenery began to blur.
"Puchi!!"
The sharp sound of blood spraying rang out beside his ear.
Yamanaka Fū instinctively clutched at his throat, disbelief flooding his eyes.
Warm blood rapidly spilled through the gaps between his fingers, soaking his palm red.
Within his fading vision, Abura Torune's body had already collapsed powerlessly onto the floor, lifeless blood spreading beneath him.
Could it be...
Everything he had experienced until now had rely been an illusion?
Not far away, Danzo watched his subordinates standing there motionlessly, completely defenseless as Zoro calmly drew his blade and slaughtered them one after another.
A trace of confusion flashed across Danzo's face.
"Genjutsu? You're from the Uchiha Clan?"
His single visible eye narrowed sharply.
Then—
He saw the most horrifying scene of his life.
The black-cloaked figure standing in the distance suddenly erupted with a terrifying aura.
The surrounding air twisted violently beneath the overwhelming pressure.
Purple-black energy continuously surged around Zoro's body like dark flas.
At that mont, the black-robed silhouette wearing the silver-white Asura mask truly resembled a god of death that had crawled out from the underworld itself.
"It's you!!!"
Danzo violently tore away the bandages covering his forehead, revealing the implanted Sharingan hidden beneath.
His pupils contracted violently.
He recognized that aura far too clearly.
This was the Uchiha brat wielding monstrous swordsmanship—the sa child Danzo had wanted dead from the very beginning.
"How did you—"
Danzo wanted to ask how Zoro had dared to invade Root headquarters alone.
But before he could finish speaking—
His expression abruptly changed.
Behind the black-cloaked figure, it seed as though the phantom image of a gigantic eye had appeared.
An invisible pressure instantly swept through the underground hall.
Danzo's mind shook violently.
Could this be...
The legendary Mangekyō Sharingan?!
Two-Sword Style: Iai — Rashōmon!!
Within Zoro's eye sockets, the Mangekyō Sharingan rotated slowly with its complex, ominous patterns.
A black flash suddenly tore through the underground space.
No ordinary vision could fully capture that speed.
The terrifying acceleration produced a violent sonic boom that shattered the ground beneath them and carved a massive trench straight across the hall.
In an instant—
Danzo's head flew cleanly into the air.
Thin streams of bloody tears slowly flowed from the corners of Zoro's eyes.
These eyes had been a "gift" from Danzo himself.
Naturally, Zoro would personally use them to send Danzo into hell and offer his death as tribute to his grandfather's spirit.
"Clack."
Zoro calmly flicked the blood from Shusui's blade before slowly sheathing it back at his waist.
"Evil Uchiha brat... I never imagined you possessed eyes like those."
Danzo's voice suddenly echoed from elsewhere.
His body reappeared several ters away.
At the sa ti, the Sharingan implanted in his eye socket instantly dimd and lost all light.
At this point in ti, the Uchiha Massacre had not yet happened.
Which ant Danzo's arm had not yet been implanted with additional Sharingan.
In other words—
Danzo currently possessed only two lives.
And this...
Was already his last one.
"Summoning Technique!!"
Danzo bit his finger and slamd his palm heavily onto the ground.
He intended to summon Baku and use the disturbance to attract Orochimaru's attention from the nearby laboratory.
That's right.
At this ti, Orochimaru and Danzo were still cooperating in secret.
After Hiruzen had rejected Orochimaru's forbidden research, Danzo had secretly continued supplying him with experintal materials, including Sharingan specins.
In exchange, Orochimaru provided Danzo with research such as Hashirama Senju cell transplantation and the forbidden technique Izanagi.
To prepare for the threat posed by the Nine-Tails, the two had even begun researching Hashirama's cells together in hopes of reviving Wood Release within Konoha.
"Poof!!"
A gigantic summoning beast resembling an elephant instantly appeared beside Danzo.
Under Danzo's command, Baku opened its enormous mouth toward Zoro.
A terrifying suction force exploded outward.
The ground trembled violently.
Stone tiles shattered apart one after another as the beast attempted to forcibly drag Zoro toward its mouth.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!!"
Danzo coordinated perfectly with Baku while rapidly forming hand seals.
Dense streams of compressed wind bullets shot forward like a barrage of machine-gun fire.
Hirasaka!!
Zoro's pupils suddenly widened as the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan activated completely.
His Mangekyō ability—
Was called Hirasaka.
Hirasaka, the Boundary of the Other Shore.
The dividing line between the world of the living and the Land of the Dead.
The road leading directly into the underworld itself.
Wherever the gaze of his Mangekyō reached—
There existed the boundary between life and death.
"Puchi!!"
Under Danzo's stunned gaze, he suddenly felt his body being sliced apart once again.
His vision instantly turned into a world of black and white.
His body convulsed violently, as though countless invisible blades were continuously carving through his flesh.
In rely a single instant—
Terrifying bloodlines burst across his entire body, as though he had been cut thousands upon thousands of tis.
Danzo's eyes widened in disbelief.
Then his body collapsed heavily into a pool of blood.
Even until the mont of death—
Danzo had never imagined he would die in such a bizarre and incomprehensible way.
As the last trace of life faded from Danzo's eyes, Baku also disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Zoro calmly walked toward Danzo's corpse, now covered in countless grueso wounds.
Truthfully, there had never been any need for him to use the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan here.
But perhaps...
Only by personally using these eyes to kill Danzo could the hatred buried within his heart ease even slightly.
His gaze grew colder.
The black-cloaked Zoro slowly turned toward the stone wall behind the elevated platform.
"Co out already. How long are you planning to keep watching?"
"BOOM!!"
The mont Zoro spoke, the stone wall imdiately trembled.
The heavy surface slowly rose upward, revealing a hidden passage concealed behind it.
"Clap... clap... clap..."
Slow, deliberate applause echoed through the deathly silent underground hall.
After the battle, the entire Root headquarters had beco a field of corpses.
Blood stained the floor crimson.
Broken limbs and shattered stone were scattered everywhere.
Amidst the carnage—
Only Zoro remained standing alone.
"As expected of you, Zoro-kun. I've wanted to et you for a very long ti. Though I truly didn't expect our eting would happen under circumstances like these."
A pale man dressed in white robes slowly stepped out from the darkness.
Long black hair.
Pale skin.
Purple markings extending toward the bridge of his nose.
Blue-green magatama earrings swaying gently beside his face.
His entire body radiated a sinister aura like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows.
"Orochimaru."
Zoro calmly looked at him.
"Your eyes seem sowhat different now. I find them... extrely interesting."
Orochimaru licked his lips excitedly, forcibly suppressing the urge to attack imdiately.
Unfortunately—
Zoro had no interest whatsoever in chatting with him.
Without warning, he suddenly drove Enma into the ground.
Powerful Ryuo erupted outward violently.
Massive cracks instantly spread throughout the earth.
Purple slashes exploded in every direction like a raging storm.
The corpses filling the hall were instantly shredded apart beneath the overwhelming attack.
"BOOM!!!"
The entire underground base began shaking violently.
Without the slightest hesitation, Zoro imdiately retreated at high speed and escaped outside.
He had no intention of foolishly remaining behind to exchange words with Orochimaru.
At this point, all traces and evidence had already been completely destroyed.
Naturally, Zoro no longer feared Orochimaru using anything to threaten him.
Outside the Root base, Zoro originally assud Orochimaru would simply be buried beneath the collapsing ruins.
Unexpectedly—
Orochimaru directly summoned Manda.
Looking at the gloomy figure standing atop the gigantic purple serpent, Zoro narrowed his eyes slightly.
Observation Haki spread outward to its limit.
He could clearly sense the intense emotional fluctuations radiating from Orochimaru—
Excitent.
Curiosity.
Greed.
It seed...
Unless he completely beat Orochimaru into submission tonight, that man would never let this matter rest.
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