Chapter 99: Samehada Seems Like A Dog【seeking Subscriptions】
Samehada, which had been snarling ferociously just moments ago as if it were going to drain the opponent dry, was now vomiting because of the opponent’s chakra.
“Did I see that right…” The purple pupils under Ghost Lamp Mangetsu’s white hair trembled slightly.
Samehada was known as a mini Tailed Beast; not only could it absorb others’ chakra, but it could also supply chakra to its owner to stimulate body cell regeneration, thereby healing wounds.
But the scene before them left even Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost, the first owner of the Great Sword Samehada, dumbfounded. He had never seen Samehada get stuffed full before?!
Looking at Samehada in the Water Prison Technique, which had absorbed the dark red chakra only to spit it back out, Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost had a look on his face like he had seen a ghost.
“This guy’s chakra… something’s off!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost stared at that dark red chakra, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
“How does this guy have such terrifying chakra! Could he be a Jinchūriki too?” Ghost Lamp Mangetsu used Body Flicker to arrive beside Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost, holding his Explosive Blade: Foam across his chest, his face full of vigilance and disbelief.
Kirigakure had two Tailed Beasts: the Three-Tails and the Six-Tails. The Six-Tails Jinchūriki Utakata often needed other ninjas to help suppress it because he couldn’t fully control the Tailed Beast yet.
And the Three-Tails Jinchūriki was the Fourth Mizukage Kagura Yagura.
Thus, neither Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost nor Ghost Lamp Mangetsu were strangers to the aura and chakra of Tailed Beasts.
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost vehemently denied. “There’s no intelligence leak about any Jinchūriki from the major ninja villages!”
As the Anbu Captain beside the Mizukage, all intelligence from various villages passed through his hands first, and the Jinchūriki situations in each ninja village were naturally a key focus.
Aside from the suspected replacements of Konoha’s Nine-Tails Jinchūriki and the Sand Ninja’s One-Tails Jinchūriki, the Jinchūriki situations in the other ninja villages were more or less known.
Moreover, Shura had been active since last year, successively attacking Konohagakure and Cloud Village, so he couldn’t possibly be a Jinchūriki from those two villages.
As for Sand Village and Stone Village’s Jinchūriki, that seemed impossible too.
“Damn it, this massive amount of chakra… Samehada actually got stuffed full!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost reached out his hand, calling to Samehada.
This ninja sword had life in it; once it recognized an owner, it could be used like a weapon or thrown out to be used like a Summoned Beast.
But the gesture Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost usually used to call Samehada had no effect this time.
In the Water Prison Technique, Samehada was vomiting dark red chakra nonstop, but it would eat again after vomiting, and vomit again after eating, like it never learned its lesson, continuing to absorb chakra even after stuffing itself full.
At this point, Samehada was bloated to the point of convulsing but still wouldn’t stop, completely ignoring its owner Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost’s calls.
This made Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost’s face extremely ugly.
He was the first owner of the Great Sword Samehada! And now his own ninja sword was ignoring him!
In the Water Prison Technique, Menma was entirely enveloped by dark red chakra emanating from his body, which continuously surged into Samehada’s mouth, filling this creature that lived by sucking enemies’ chakra to the brim.
Finally, Samehada slumped backward with its mouth full of sharp teeth wide open.
Then it suddenly stood up straight, its spines all softening as it rubbed against Menma’s leg like a puppy, tongue lolling out, even its hilt-tail wagging nonstop to express the joy in its heart.
This groveling, fawning appearance left Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost and Ghost Lamp Mangetsu outside the Water Prison Technique utterly shocked!
Since the Second Mizukage ordered the forging of the seven ninja swords, the Great Sword Samehada had never acted like this before.
“You bastard!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. No matter how he shouted, Samehada in the Water Prison Technique remained indifferent, clinging to the enemy inside like a dog.
“Let’s figure out how to take him back first!” Ghost Lamp Mangetsu was pondering how to transport the ‘prisoner’ Shura back to the village for imprisonment.
As for the Great Sword Samehada, once Shura was locked up, wouldn’t Samehada be free to suck this guy’s chakra dry?
“Slurp slurp.” In the Water Prison Technique, Menma, who was squatting and interacting with Samehada, heard the two outside discussing how to imprison and torment him.
“Oh?” Menma stood up, gripping the Decapitating Great Sword in his left hand while reaching with his right to grab Samehada’s tail.
Instantly, the obedient Samehada hardened up, entering combat mode.
“Did I ever say I was going with you?” Menma’s left hand held the Decapitating Great Sword with its chilling gleam, his right the Great Sword Samehada with its immense weight. He raised the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask, and a terrifying pressure assaulted the two like a shockwave.
Even separated by the Water Prison Technique, Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost and Ghost Lamp Mangetsu were intimidated by this powerful pressure.
“Hmph! No matter how strong you are, so what! The Water Prison Technique can’t be broken from the inside!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost gnashed his sharp fangs and roared.
“Then how about this!” As Menma’s words fell, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his left eye under the mask activated, and the seal in his left eye—Kagutsuhi—erupted from the ground like a volcano. A dark red firewall surged up from the ground, enveloping Menma entirely.
Amaterasu spread out, burning onto Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost’s water clone’s hand.
The Water Prison Technique was burned through by this powerful firewall!
Bang!
The water clone burst apart, turning into a puddle of water that splashed onto the ground.
“Oh no!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost retreated in terror, not even having time to worry about Samehada.
Another never-before-seen ninjutsu!
It could destroy the Water Prison Technique from the inside!
“Hiding in Mist Technique!” Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost quickly formed hand seals, making the mist even thicker.
“Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique!” Ghost Lamp Mangetsu also began forming hand seals, a stream of water rising from under his feet and gathering more and more until it surged toward the enemy like a dam bursting!
The massive flood was like water from the heavens, carving a wide corridor through the surrounding forest.
“Come on!” Facing the massive flood, Menma laughed and infused endless Dark Nine-Tails chakra into the Decapitating Great Sword and Samehada in his swinging hands, slashing straight at the oncoming floodwaters.
The two ninja swords were wrapped in dark red chakra. Stimulated by the Dark Nine-Tails chakra, the Great Sword Samehada bit and devoured the floodwaters before it like a rabid dog.
Menma pressed forward, using the Great Sword Samehada in one hand to absorb the floodwaters and carve a gap in the massive deluge, while gripping the Decapitating Great Sword in the other and charging straight at Ghost Lamp Mangetsu.
“What!” With the Great Waterfall Technique broken, the Decapitating Great Sword wrapped in dark red chakra slashed heavily onto Ghost Lamp Mangetsu’s shoulder, where his hands were still forming hand seals.
With a bone-deep wound, Ghost Lamp Mangetsu quickly used the Water Transformation Technique, his entire body turning into a puddle of water.
“And you!” Seeing Ghost Lamp Mangetsu turn to water, the Sharingan under Menma’s mask shifted targets, locking onto the fleeing Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost.
Menma hurled the Decapitating Great Sword from his left hand like a shuriken. The fleeing Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost was hit in the waist and nailed straight to a Big Tree!
Pfft!
Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost coughed up a mouthful of blood from between his fangs, his small eyes wide with shock as he stared at the Decapitating Great Sword in his abdomen.
A few years ago, during the Third Great Ninja War, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen encountered an unremarkable Konoha genin and suffered heavy casualties; Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost had only survived by fleeing in panic.
And now, an even more mysterious enemy had effortlessly crushed the three of them.
‘Heh, there are so many strong practitioners in this world.’ Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost watched the approaching figure, his consciousness swallowed by darkness.
