Chapter 91: Three Souls
“Purple Cat!”
After hearing Yoru’s shout, Purple Cat knew that the Fox was about to use a desperate tactic.
That tactic carried extremely high risk for both Purple Cat and the Fox; one misstep and it would cost two lives.
Yoru quickly rushed toward the direction indicated by Aries, looking as if he was going to fight Kato Dan to the death.
Purple Cat stared at Yoru’s back, quickly using the Mind Body Switch Technique to send her soul into Yoru’s brain.
Yoru completely gave up resisting, allowing Purple Cat’s soul to enter.
Now, there were two souls in Yoru’s brain.
Purple Cat took over for Yoru, controlling Yoru’s body and charging forward rapidly with the Body Flicker Technique.
Yoru was gambling that Kato Dan, upon seeing him rush toward his hiding spot, would immediately attack him.
Yoru was also gambling that one plus one was greater than two, that the two souls of him and Purple Cat were not inferior to Kato Dan’s.
At a certain step, Yoru’s figure paused.
Purple Cat’s expression behind him instantly turned deathly pale!
The skin on her neck exposed outside the mask had no trace of blood color!
Purple Cat’s soul had just collided with the enemy’s soul!
She instantly lost consciousness.
Before passing out, Purple Cat only hoped she had helped the Fox consume the enemy.
One brain accommodating two souls was already extremely crowded and burdensome; with three souls clashing, everyone’s soul suffered.
This was the first time Kato Dan encountered such a situation: the target’s brain actually had two souls.
Even though Kato Dan’s soul strength was extremely powerful, he didn’t hold an absolute advantage against the two souls of Yoru and Purple Cat.
He had previously scouted that the Fox Anbu’s soul was abnormally powerful and unique, with a soul glow twice as bright as an ordinary person’s.
Yoru’s feeling at this moment was very strange.
After being hit by the Mind Body Switch Technique, Yoru couldn’t feel his body or control it.
Between himself and his body, there was now a massive thick fog—this thick fog was Purple Cat’s soul.
Then, another thick fog brutally squeezed in, breaking up the two-person world of Yoru and Purple Cat.
The three thick fogs entangled and slaughtered each other.
Purple Cat’s soul was the first to suffer heavy damage, consuming a round with Kato Dan’s soul.
Then, Yoru’s soul rushed out and fiercely collided with Kato Dan’s soul.
Yoru’s soul came from a different world, innately different from souls of this world.
You say your forbidden jutsu is stronger than mine, I accept that, but you say your soul is more powerful, I’m extremely unconvinced.
Yoru’s consciousness fiercely crashed into the thick fog representing Kato Dan’s soul.
After two consecutive collisions, Kato Dan’s soul retreated in defeat and disappeared.
Purple Cat’s soul was injured and returned to her own body.
Yoru didn’t have it easy either; his head throbbed with pain.
He immediately stopped in his tracks and turned back to the squad.
Before dying, Aries had only pointed out a direction, not knowing how far it was.
If the distance was dozens of kilometers, by the time they got there, Kato Dan would have already fled or recovered, using forbidden jutsu again to kill Yoru.
His clash with Kato Dan was just to create an opportunity to escape.
Kato Dan, just you wait; next month, it’s do or die between us!
After returning to the squad, Yoru hoisted the unconscious Purple Cat onto his back and said to the others: “Run fast! Leave the Land of Rain! Head toward the Land of Fire!”
Purple Cat on Yoru’s back had slow breathing and limp limbs.
Kato Dan’s Spiritualization Technique could not only control others but also directly strangle an enemy’s soul.
Yoru, walking the steel wire between the Senju Clan and Anbu, had tasted the bitter fruit.
He had prevented Danzo from obtaining the Uzumaki Clan’s Scroll of Seals and prevented Anbu from being controlled by Danzo’s seals.
Unexpectedly, it wasn’t Anbu cleansing him as a traitor, but the Senju Clan’s Kato Dan striking first.
The Senju Clan was close to the truth; they believed the Uzumaki Clan Annihilation, the Nine-Tails transfer on the Night of Sealing, and the Senju Clan’s heavy losses were all good deeds done by Anbu and the high-ranking officials.
The Senju Clan was extremely action-oriented; suspecting Anbu, they moved against Anbu.
At least 20 Anbu had died at Kato Dan’s hands.
Yoru felt like he had lifted a stone only to drop it on his own foot.
I have great merit for the Senju Clan, yet I’m truly a guide party.
Without me, on the night of the Nine-Tails transfer seal, over 900 Senju ninja would have died.
Before dying, Aries told him that the Kiiroinu Captain had begun to suspect him.
Yoru couldn’t go to the Senju Clan to explain, as he couldn’t expose his true identity and stance.
First dodge this wave, completely dispel the Kiiroinu Captain’s suspicions, then find a way to contact the Senju Clan and jump into the gold water.
Or, Yoru suddenly thought, why not kill Kiiroinu… Being my enemy is dangerous; being my superior is even more dangerous.
Yoru suddenly remembered something and left a shadow clone behind.
“I’ll have the shadow clone cover the rear! Keep running!”
After the team members went far, Yoru’s shadow clone arrived beside Aries’s corpse.
With a resolve in his heart, a kunai stabbed into Aries’s head.
The rain kept falling, washing away the bloodstains under Aries’s corpse.
This was a cursed country, a place that kept crying.
He couldn’t let anyone discover intelligence from Aries’s corpse, couldn’t let others know that Aries had told him the Kiiroinu Captain had begun to suspect the Fox.
He could only apologize to Aries’s corpse.
After the shadow clone completed its objective, it disappeared, and the memories surged back into Yoru’s brain; Yoru breathed a sigh of relief.
In front of the Kiiroinu Captain, no amount of caution was excessive.
Women and children could be careless, but Anbu could not.
Upon entering the Land of Fire, Yoru immediately had his subordinate fire a distress signal flare.
Soon, a signal flare of the same color shot up into the sky from a certain direction.
Great, there were other Anbu nearby.
Yoru urgently needed support, urgently needed to find a medical ninja to treat Purple Cat’s soul injury.
Darting through the woods, after bypassing two big trees, he saw three people standing on the tree trunk opposite.
Yoru tensed up; in the middle was Danzo!
They had encountered Danzo who was heading to the front line in the Land of Rain.
Before the mission, the Kiiroinu Captain had said that Danzo might come to the front line.
Danzo stood on the tree trunk, one eye covered with a bandage, the other eye coldly looking at the subordinates: “Who did you encounter? Why are you in such a sorry state?”
After swallowing, Yoru said:
“Lord Danzo, my squad was ordered to investigate the Anbu unexpected death incident. In the southwest part of the Land of Rain, we found the suspected culprit.”
He kept calculating in his mind: could he drive the tiger to devour the wolf?
Yoru began his nine truths and one lie report:
“Lord Danzo, in the Land of Rain, we encountered three Konoha ninja controlled by genjutsu: one jonin, two special jonin. I suspect that genjutsu ninja is the murderer who killed our Anbu.
Only such powerful genjutsu could kill so many of our Anbu ninja.
During our squad’s deep investigation, team members were continuously controlled by the enemy and killed each other.
Yagura Squad Leader, Aries Squad Leader, plus several team members, sacrificed one after another.
I could only determine a rough location of the enemy, unable to get close.”
Yoru deliberately conflated Uchiha Madara and Kato Dan as one person.
He knew Uchiha Madara, he knew Kato Dan; no one in the team knew intelligence on either, and Danzo knew even less.
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