Chapter 234: A Day Of Thyroid Relief
Fire Dragon Flame Bullet was wrapped in a fierce whirlwind, charging out faster and more ferociously.
The cliff walls on both sides of the gorge became the side walls of a furnace.
The later attack arrived first.
Shiroki’s Wind Fire Combination Ninjutsu collided with Ding and Wu’s Water Wind Combination Ninjutsu in front of Ding and Wu.
From a very distant place, Gencho Uzumaki saw the river illuminated by the firelight through the telescope, glowing like a ribbon of light.
He exclaimed, “The fox’s Fire Release is truly too strong! Even in the Uchiha Clan and Sarutobi Clan, there are few people with such Fire Release proficiency.”
Kaicho Uzumaki said, “It doesn’t seem like a single Fire Release. The river dozens of meters long was illuminated, and the light extended at an extremely fast speed. It’s more like a Combined Ninjutsu of Wind Release and Fire Release.”
Yuka Uzumaki felt happy in her heart; the fox seemed even stronger.
Ding was still maintaining Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, his vision completely obscured by the hurricane water vortex.
He and Wu had been partners for many years, and their Water Wind Combination Ninjutsu had killed countless Root enemies.
However, the intruder’s Fire Release and Wind Release proficiency still surprised him.
Very strong, extremely strong.
He was spitting out the Great Breakthrough hurricane from his mouth when he suddenly felt a chill behind him.
Slightly turning his head, he saw the person wearing the White Demon Mask suddenly appear behind him!
Yoru used Water Clone to suddenly flicker behind Ding and Wu.
He formed a single hand seal and quickly used Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
Water Clone plus single-seal ninjutsu—in this river, it instantly achieved the effect of one person pincering two people from front and back.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that you two are surrounded by me.
At this moment, the Ninja World Half-God Hanzo’s credentials were still rising.
The young Sannin surviving from Hanzo’s hands meant they had something special.
The sea of fire hurricane in front of Ding had not yet dispersed when his back was bombarded by the Fire Dragon.
“No!”
Ding was a Wind Release expert of the Shimura Clan. He still needed to lead Root to suppress Anbu, defeat the lynx, and compete for the next Clan Head position.
How could he die here?
However, the flames came too fast, instantly engulfing him.
His future collapsed in the face of the mysteriously appearing assassin.
The Water Release was burned into steam, the chaotic winds subsided, and the flames extinguished.
Yoru frowned; on the water surface, there was only a charred corpse.
“I didn’t expect Ding to act so tough but die so quickly. Wu, who died silently, has decent Water Release proficiency—not unworthy of a Root Ninja…”
Yoru’s figure also vanished.
Over a hundred meters away, half of Wu’s body was charred as he sneaked underwater.
His eyes were filled with fear. Which Fire Release expert was trying to kill them?
In the next instant, he only felt a pain in the back of his head.
Someone appeared beside him in the water, and a kunai deeply embedded into the back of his brain.
How did he swim over here?
Why could he swim so fast in the water?
Wu’s eyes slowly closed as he sank to the bottom.
Having dealt with the enemies completely, Yoru waved from afar to Yuka Uzumaki and the others.
After bidding farewell to Yuka Uzumaki, Yoru had Stone Panda Hakuji reverse summon him back to the Izakaya Basement.
Another day of great mood and thyroid satisfaction.
Several days later, downstream of the river where the battle once took place.
Root Ninja Prop shouted, “Found them! Lord Danzo!”
The second corpse was fished up and placed in front of Danzo along with the first corpse that had been salvaged earlier.
Four Root Ninjas spent several days and finally found the two corpses.
Prop looked at Danzo staring blankly at the two corpses, feeling uneasy in his heart.
Root was not like Anbu’s cannon fodder; Root had only ten members, the ten most loyal to Lord Danzo… nine now.
Jia didn’t count; Jia was special. Orochimaru and Lord Danzo had a cooperative relationship, so he wasn’t a loyal subordinate.
Among the nine, Yi died in the Land of Whirlpools, and Ding and Wu died here.
Yi, Ding, Wu—these three were top-ranked in Root. Their deaths were a major loss for Root, hard to replace.
Danzo was silent for a long time before asking, “Ji, can you read intelligence from the corpses’ brains?”
Ji said, “Sorry, Lord. One brain was burned through, and the other has a kunai stuck in it. No way.”
The two died horribly.
Like Shimura Tan and Hiruzen Sarutobi, they also fell to a Fire Release expert.
Wu was a Water Release jonin, yet he fell before the assassin’s Fire Release.
Danzo’s gaze lowered, and in the end, he said nothing.
Behind Konoha’s Memorial Monument, two more tombstones quietly appeared.
One of the tombstones had the name Koh Shimura.
Not far from Koh Shimura’s was another Shimura Clan tombstone, Shimura Tan.
A woman with graying hair knelt in front of Koh Shimura’s tombstone and cried for a long time.
She cried until she fainted, woke up, then fainted again.
Until her eyes became completely cloudy, as if blind.
She shakily stood up, stumbling along, occasionally tripping over roadside chairs or stones, groping her way back to the Shimura Clan Compound.
Entering the clan compound, her vision was a blurry mess. Her nearly cry-blinded eyes only saw the brightest spot in the entire compound: Clan Head Danzo Shimura’s residence.
Danzo Shimura saw his sister-in-law walking in with strange steps and immediately noticed something wrong with her eyes.
Her calves were covered in fresh bruises from collisions; no one knew how she made it back.
“Brother Danzo!”
After shouting once, the area around this woman’s eyes instantly turned red—a symptom of wanting to cry but unable to.
“Brother Danzo! Your own brother, my husband, died in Anbu.
My young son Shimura Tan died in the Land of Grass.
My eldest son Koh Shimura died in Root.
How many more people have to die!
How many more from the Shimura Clan have to die!
Why can’t we be like other ninja clans, stopping battles in peacetime and enjoying a little peace?
Brother Danzo, you’re already Anbu Minister, a village high-ranking official. What higher position do you need?
Do you really want to become Hokage?”
“Shut up!” Danzo sternly rebuked.
His Byakugan eyes had very small pupils, staring deathly at the damned woman in front of him.
In the next instant, Danzo conceded.
This was a rare confrontation failure for Danzo.
How could he convince the woman in front of him? What more did she have to lose?
Danzo’s aura weakened considerably: “Don’t talk nonsense, sister-in-law. The Shimura Clan’s sacrifices are all for Konoha.”
“Hahaha! Hahaha! All for Konoha…”
Ji appeared at the right moment and rushed over to support the woman.
Placing his hand on the back of her head, Ji looked at Danzo.
After seeing Danzo nod, Ji applied force with his fingers.
That night, the Shimura Clan gained one more foolish woman—the one who became demented and unable to speak after her two sons died successively.
Danzo spent the entire night restless while looking at scrolls.
He raised his hand, and Ji appeared again.
“Ji, tell Orochimaru that from now on, he must never use Shimura Clan ninjas for experiments again. Even for compatibility with me, never again.”
Half an hour later, Ji returned to Danzo’s study.
“Lord Danzo, Jia says it’s possible, but he needs more test subjects. The prisoners captured in the war are used up.”
Danzo said, “If not enough, capture more. The Land of Fire has plenty of civilians.”
Ji said, “That’s what I said, but Jia says civilians without chakra are worlds apart from ninjas with chakra. Without ninja test subjects, no breakthrough is possible.”
Danzo thought for a moment and said, “Go to the Land of Rain, Land of Waterfalls, and other small countries to capture ninjas. If desperate, rogue ninjas will do.”
After Ji left, Danzo pondered for a long time before heading to the Hokage Building.
