[Hokage] Terukawa

To be honest, the situation in the water is not good at all.

The temperature is very low, and the water...is not very clear, and the overwhelming mud and sand are almost smeared on my face-I know that if I hadn't thrown that detonation amulet just now, maybe the situation would have been much better, but in Before blasting them, no one knows how the battle will develop in the next second. In addition, time is urgent and a quick decision is needed. Naturally, I will do my best to fight for all possible opportunities.

What is this?

I squinted my eyes.

Hey, it looks like a severed hand.The skin was white and swollen, but judging from the uneven fracture and the flesh-pink bone section, it seemed that it had just been broken.

This should be the unlucky one who couldn't be dragged out of the water by me.The detonating talisman... Died under the detonating talisman, this kind of torn apart appearance is really ugly, but it is indeed normal.

...However, if girls see it, the impact will be bad.

I moved my finger, and a tiny stream of water silently mixed into the murky waters.As soon as it left my fingers, it disappeared in a flash, so that people could no longer find its trace, just like a shadow that always easily melts into the night-but I knew it was slightly around the severed hand again. It stopped for a few seconds, and finally rolled it and left together, going to the deep bottom of the water somewhere.

Fortunately, this pool is neither too big nor too deep. Under the carpet-like search of Painted Face and I, a small formation that was already extremely dim broke into our eyes not long after.

【Stop in place】.

I made a gesture towards the painted face, and I lightly stepped on the soft sand at the bottom of Tandi to float up a little, and began to look at the somewhat familiar unlucky thing in front of me.

It is the formation used for sealing, and judging from the pattern of the line separation, it should be a part of a large sealing formation that has not escaped.Right now, this little thing should be just a corner of the whole, one of the divisions that are specifically rooted in this specific position to share the pressure in the middle.

In other words, there is actually nothing in the sealing formation that Hualian and I stepped on, the real big head is not here, whether it is us underwater or Shiori on the ground, they are safe for the time being—— At least the tailed beast we are most worried about is still in a place where we can't reach us - as long as we don't be cheap enough to destroy the chakra flow balance of the entire sealing array.

If you look at it this way, the distribution of those fog ninjas becomes understandable.

They may be trying to hold us back.

I rub my fingers.

Although the overall situation is still not optimistic, it is indeed more relieved than before.

Be optimistic, I think, at least there is still a little preparation time now, right?

【Walk】.

After confirming that the painted face was still following me closely, I made a seal with one hand, and the thick water flowed down to our feet layer by layer, like a powerful hand, with a swift but gentle force. Go to the surface of the water.

"There is indeed a tail beast, but the tail beast is inside, we are still safe now."

I took off the mask and wiped my face vigorously, then shook my hands vigorously to shake the yellowed pool water away from my fingers, and the coarse sand that should have been surging in the pool water was blocked between my face and the palm of my hand At this moment, my skin was scratched a little bit painfully.

"Captain, the bridge of your nose is cut and bleeding," Hualian who had just climbed onto the shore brushed his hair and took a breath, then turned his head and reminded me, "Are you also so cruel to yourself?"

I rolled my eyes: "Just let it go, it's not bad... huh? Why haven't they finished the trial yet?"

It's fine if the interrogation is not over, how can this concealment be done... as if it didn't exist?

Before I could finish these few criticisms in my mind, I heard a horrifying scream from the grass where Shiori and the others were better than nothing to hide in.

Extremely strong resentment, unwillingness, and anger... That cry was so tragic that it almost immediately gave me a chill on my back.Before I had time to think about it, my hands formed a water escape and water prison technique almost subconsciously to tightly wrap the Wuyin girl who had just regained consciousness——

boom!

Hearing a dull explosion, Shiori and the others who were surrounded there were all shaken, and Shiori who was in another center quickly took off his mask, revealing a paper-like white face. Face, and then...then she suddenly lowered her head, began to cough violently, retched, and finally vomited blood again and again, dyeing the land she stepped on into a rich reddish brown.But at this time, in the water prison not far from her, there was no trace of the female ninja captive—not only that—compared with the transparent and colorless water polo, it now looks more like a blood ball with a foul smell. During the turbulence of the water, the snow-white broken bones and pink broken meat appeared from time to time, and they were also dyed into a dark red liquid, which made it vividly countable.

And we also fell into silence at the same time - everyone was in a daze, and shock and bewilderment appeared and changed alternately on everyone's face.No one spoke, Shiori coughed like it was going to burn her entire respiratory tract red, other than that there was only the sound of rain—the background music that everyone has become accustomed to in recent days, everyone can pay attention It, and everyone can ignore him, so for a moment, this bloody and tragic scene turned out to be as absurd as a silent comedy full of black humor.

"She... She blew herself up on the spot? What did you interrogate?" I finally recovered from the strong visual impact, and went to Shiori's side in a stunned moment, and Shiori's team Together with the medical ninjas in the game, they began to form the marks of the medical ninjutsu that they have been familiar with for a long time.

"I don't know, Captain. From the interrogation to the confrontation, they completed it in the spiritual world from the beginning to the end. We couldn't interfere at all, and we didn't dare to intervene indiscriminately. And...and if it weren't for the captain, you reacted quickly. I don’t know how many people in the crowd can survive. Damn it, my mask is blown apart.” Someone swears a few obscenities, and then crawls up from the mud, “Captain, you Let’s take a good look at Captain Jack first, she is in charge of illusion interrogation, she is the closest to that person, and she will suffer the most impact!”

What do you need to say?I secretly gritted my back molars—in fact, with my water layer as a barrier in the front and me and another medical ninja as a nurse guarantee, Shiori’s external and internal injuries basically don’t need to worry. The wound will heal quickly under the concentration of medical resources. Compared with it, what Shiori needs us to worry about is actually her spirit that has just suffered a severe shock-and the fact is true. At this time Shiori The many external and internal injuries on her body were no longer a serious problem, but she still fell into an extremely difficult semi-shock state with a tired consciousness.

...and also the information that she didn't have time to say.

Being half-conscious is the hardest part.

I sighed, and after making sure that the other people in the team were not seriously injured, I asked the people in the Shiori team to help her up, and I used chakra to produce a handful of ice water in my hand, and slowly Slowly awaken Shiori.

Shiori woke up quickly.

She coughed twice at first, so that physiological tears flowed in her eyes, and then took a few mouthfuls of moist air, and finally she began to speak with a pale face and trembling lips—I knew she was already trying her best. He kept his voice steady, but his voice was still dry and hoarse, as if two pieces of sandpaper were rubbing against each other: "You, you... have you gone to rescue the person?"

what?

people?who?

"Huh?" I froze for a moment.

"You didn't go?" Seeing that my reaction was wrong, Shizhi's eyes widened suddenly, and his expression changed immediately.The voice she squeezed out of her throat immediately became sharp and nearly broke: "The people who have entered their encirclement?? Didn't I tell you just now?!"

"No……"

"I know!" Before I could say the second word, Shiori suddenly punched the ground with his fist hard: "It was that Mist ninja who used illusion! I was actually swayed by her with illusion!" —According to... Coyote, she woke up earlier than me, right? What about her? I have something to ask her!"

...What happened in the illusion world of these two people?

For a moment, I was overwhelmed by the huge amount of information contained in her words, and I didn't know what to say, so I had to dodge my body and directly point to the blood cell that was still suspended in mid-air. She looked: "The Mist Ninja blew himself up directly, but... as you can see, it was not very successful."

"...Self-explosion?" Looking at the dazzling blood cells, Shiori's movements obviously froze, and her expression was even blank for a few seconds, "...she died?"

Seeing me nodding, Shiori lowered her head, murmured the phrase "she's dead" back and forth several times in her mouth, and after a few seconds, she seemed to barely come to her senses and asked me softly: "Did anyone get hurt in the blew up?"

"Everyone is fine, you are the one closest to her." I shook my head, and my face finally became completely serious. "How many people did we break in?"

"The information that came out of the trial was that two people broke in, a man and a woman, both young... that's all," she said.

"Two people? Why not three or four?" I was taken aback for a moment, "It's fine if you don't lead a Jōnin team. Isn't Konoha Riko's formal formation supposed to be a group of three?"

"Maybe it's because they were killed in battle? There should be many squads in the village that meet this requirement," Shiori frowned, and she raised her hand to rub her temples, looking uncomfortable, "But is this the point?" ?”

...It seems that it is not a coincidence that there is such a team among the people I know. ?

I was in awe for a second, thinking like this.

Nohara Rin... the merits of the Kannabi Bridge mission are enough for any Chunin to be promoted to a Jōnin, and if two Jōnin are on the same mission, the meaning of the Jōnin leading the team is just icing on the cake , rather than necessary.

It shouldn't be such a coincidence.

"...You are right, the point is that we have to go in now," I turned to look at me and her team members, feeling a thin layer of sweat on my forehead, "you are ready to face the tailed beast Are you mentally prepared?"

They looked at each other, and a few looked at me tentatively, as if they were about to say something.But without waiting for them to speak, I bared my teeth and showed an extremely gentle smile: "It doesn't matter if you are not mentally prepared, nor does Kirigakure who plots against us."

Anyway, Kirigakure would never have imagined that after arranging such a large tailed beast seal, and sending Anbu's dead soldiers to guard it heavily, the initiative to release the tailed beast just happened to be handed over to us. This is simply stupid.

I stood by the pool, compared the terrain to confirm the underwater position of the small circular array, and at the same time formed the opening gesture of Water Escape and Water Dragon Bullet in my hand——

What if the two Konoha ninjas who broke in a long time ago are not far from the real location of the sealed three tails?Will the three tails be released directly...will it overturn the car directly?

But Mitsuo has not been released by Kirigakure so far, which means that Kirigakure's plan has not come true—at least not yet, right?

Before pinching the two fingers that formed the last seal, I had gone through all the processes and logic in my mind.

Nothing too big to miss, is there?

Yes.

Then the rest is all up to you.Take a good look and hide a little bit, and hope for good luck, it is best not to die.

I have to break the seal one step ahead of Kirigakure...or release the three tails.

I pinch two fingers together.

A jet of water burst out of the pool in front of me, and the faint faucet rushed very high, so high that I can be sure that even people a few kilometers away can see this huge water dragon very clearly .

Then it slammed back into the pool hard, hard, and the white water splashed in all directions due to the large streams of water hitting each other released a muffled sound like thunder-if I heard correctly, among them There was also a crisp but weird "pop" sound, which sounded like the liquid tension on the surface of the bubble was finally out of balance, so the whole bubble could no longer bear any force. It was blown to pieces in the humid air, and even a trace of it disappeared.

The small circular array shattered.

I blinked my eyes in the splashing water, and heard a series of eight explosions amid the roar of the falling water—oh, there it was again, it was nine.

Immediately following the last explosion, there was an extremely long, deep and penetrating roar.

I couldn't help but let out a sigh in my heart.

It turns out that Mio Isofu's cry is so ugly.