Chapter 257: Became The Very Thing He Hated Most
In a town on the border of the Land of Hot Water.
Fox Squad members appeared one after another with Body Flicker.
In the noble’s mansion, six corpses covered with White Cloth lay there.
The noble’s mother had white hair, and she trembled as she walked toward Yoru supported by servants.
Everyone else was dressed in black robes, only Yoru wore a white robe, clearly standing out.
“Are you Leaf Ninja! Isn’t the Land of Hot Water under your protection! Someone assassinated my son! And my five grandsons too!” The old woman tearfully accused:
“How are you all so useless? Why are you so useless! If I’d known, we would have sided with the Land of Lightning like the Land of Moon!”
Yoru thought to himself, that’s not right, if you sided with the Land of Lightning, then the ones assassinating your son and grandsons would be us.
In the end result, what difference would it make?
Death is the greatest matter, so Yoru didn’t say anything to this noble old woman.
Along the long border of the Land of Hot Water, Cloud Ninja continuously provoked and sabotaged, as Sakumo Hatake commanded 4 Konoha brigades, struggling to respond.
This was a prolonged war of attrition.
In the attrition, both sides would also organize superior forces to surround and attack or ambush, and if they could annihilate an enemy brigade, they would gain a great advantage.
Yoru glanced at the servants kneeling in a circle in the courtyard, signaling Aries to first check them.
Aries took the others to check each one, looking for obvious ninja training traces on the servants.
Commoners in Konoha Village had the opportunity to become ninja.
Commoners in the Land of Fire or other countries lived miserably.
In better places, commoners were tenant farmers; in worse places, like here, there were no commoners, only serfs.
Aries checked a round and found no abnormalities among the servants.
Hanashika finished checking the corpses and said: “Captain, the corpses died no more than three hours ago.”
Hanashika came to report intelligence around the noble’s mansion: “Captain, the assassin fled northeast, there are leaves shattered by Body Flicker Technique there, and footprints far apart.”
Yoru said: “Hanashika, your squad use gliders to rise into the air. Aries, you use Parasitic Insects to collect scents and chase after.”
The subordinates disappeared with Body Flicker.
Yoru said to the noble old woman: “My condolences.”
After speaking, without waiting for the old woman to continue scolding him, he also left with Body Flicker.
After walking more than twenty minutes, he entered the Land of Moon.
The flight speed of gliders in the sky was very fast, much faster than running through the mountains.
In one hour, Hanashika spotted a Cloud Ninja squad through the telescope.
Whether or not it was the murderers who assassinated the noble, this squad would not see tomorrow’s sun.
Hanashika had Yagura return to find the squad, while he continued tracking the Cloud Ninja squad.
His altitude was very high; if the Cloud Ninja didn’t use a telescope, they could only see a black dot on the horizon, like a vulture’s black dot.
The Cloud Ninja squad grew tired from walking and rested on a hillside.
Their assassination was very successful.
A noble of the Land of Hot Water and all his heirs were killed, which would bring quite a bit of trouble to the Land of Hot Water.
As long as there were enough assassinations, the Land of Hot Water would urge Leaf Ninja to seek a decisive battle with Cloud Ninja, and at that time, Cloud Ninja could easily lure the enemy deep and find ambush opportunities.
The Cloud Ninja squad leader sat on the ground, took out a water bottle, and tilted his head to drink.
Suddenly! A whooshing sound came!
This whooshing sound also carried a strange high-frequency sound of water flow.
A water line pierced his water bottle, the water in the bottle exploded, spraying on his face.
Three screams sounded from behind.
The squad leader wiped his face and saw three subordinates behind him standing in a line, their chests pierced by the water line.
“Enemy attack!”
Fox Squad rushed out from the woods.
Each squad had their own combination ninjutsu.
Fire Release plus Wind Release, Water Style plus Lightning Release, instantly suppressing the Cloud Ninja squad from long range.
The Cloud Ninja squad leader was extremely surprised in his heart; why did these people’s ninjutsu all have Special Jonin level?
Yoru slowly walked out from the woods, nodding frequently.
Under his deliberate care, Fox Squad’s casualty rate was low, and many subordinates were growing rapidly.
Fox Squad had bid farewell to ninjutsu poverty; each squad had one offensive and one defensive combined ninjutsu, amplifying the squad’s strength.
Three consecutive rounds of combined ninjutsu swept the hillside with flames and hurricanes, and the ground had water flows and lightning.
Yoru said to Aries beside him: “In the future against Cloud Ninja, use less Water Style and Lightning Release combined ninjutsu.
Cloud Ninja are quite resistant to electricity, Lightning Release isn’t very effective.”
Aries saw the Cloud Ninja quickly shaking off the Lightning Release paralysis and nodded repeatedly.
After the ninjutsu bombardment, over half the Cloud Ninja were dead or wounded; next was taijutsu close combat to harvest the battlefield.
The Cloud Ninja squad leader saw under the White Hood a Fox Mask and shouted in terror: “It’s the Konoha Copper Fox who directly took Third Lord’s strike!”
Cloud Ninja didn’t know Copper Fox’s performance on the Land of Rivers Battlefield, but they knew he had directly withstood the Third Raikage’s Four-Fingered Thrust in Cloud Village and stood up again as if nothing happened.
Such a feat was as absurd as a ghost story.
Third Lord’s strike was enough to pierce a mountain peak, yet it was blocked?
Thus, upon seeing Copper Fox, the Cloud Ninja squad leader knew he was doomed.
Yoru saw the Cloud Ninja squad leader turn and flee, and just as he was about to use Body Flicker Technique, he forcibly suppressed the impulse.
Silent Body Flicker Technique was delegated to the sub-account Shiroki; his main account couldn’t use it.
Yoru raised his hand to form a seal, and a water line instantly shot out, severing the Cloud Ninja squad leader who had jumped mid-air at the waist.
The battle became one-sided, and Fox Squad quickly finished off the Cloud Ninja squad.
Yoru captured a live prisoner and controlled him with the Karma Seal of Retribution.
He said to Aries: “You handle the scene here, I’ll go interrogate this one.”
Yoru took the prisoner and left with Body Flicker.
Arriving in the woods below the hillside, Yoru took out a scroll.
He wrote on the scroll: Return to the Cloud Ninja main camp, set up a code, never leak my information.
Then, Yoru bit his finger and drew a long line over the writing with blood.
“Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal!”
The writing on the scroll, along with Yoru’s blood, turned into a curse mark that climbed onto the Cloud Ninja’s body, entered his mouth, and finally sealed into his brain.
A Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal hexagram curse mark appeared on the prisoner’s tongue.
The Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal was like some kind of prohibition, engraving orders in seal form with extremely strong binding force.
Yoru sighed.
In the end, he had become the very thing he hated most… but Danzo’s strict selections were really useful.
Yoru said: “I’ve engraved a seal on you; when you return to the Cloud Ninja main camp, set up a code for me in the camp.”
Yoru wanted to see Yakushi Nonou and obtain the latest intelligence.
“No! I absolutely won’t set up any code for a Konoha Anbu!”
Yoru raised his hand and activated the Tongue-Cutting Flower Seal.
The Cloud Ninja instantly went numb and convulsed on the ground.
“Complete the mission, and you won’t be tormented. Otherwise, this seal will activate every six hours; look at you, so much pain—even if you’re tough as steel, how many times can you endure?”
Yoru drew the code on the ground: “Remember this code; complete the mission, and you won’t be tormented anymore.”
Yoru left with Body Flicker and didn’t care about this Cloud Ninja anymore.
