[Naruto + Curse] Magician's Guide to Reemployment

The knife was borrowed by Longdao from the couple at the hotel before leaving. It is said that it was given by his friend a few years ago. However, neither husband nor wife had any systematic training in swordsmanship. Let alone using this knife to defend themselves, I am afraid they are not even good at chopping firewood.

Although it has been sharpened, there is no inscription on the blade, and the material used is nothing more than mediocre metal. Being able to persist to this point in actual combat was beyond Cage Island's expectations. As a result, the scene fell into crisis in an instant - after enduring many slashes and impacts, the katana was finally broken in the middle when Minagawa's kunai was held on Cage Island - the broken blade bounced up into the air under the force, dragging a path Sleek cold light. The murderous kunai broke through the defense line and struck a few inches from Cageshima's chest in an instant. The worried exclamations of her companions did not fall into her ears at this time.

In the flash of lightning, the time within Minagawa's perception seemed to be lengthened vertically. Those cold blue eyes were so peaceful that a chilling chill crawled up his back, and his hair stood on end instantly - even so, under the exaggeration of this emotion, Minagawa could only feel the moonlight falling in her pupils. Like a sharp knife being drawn out of its sheath. The dull shock of the sharp weapon squeezing open the flesh crawled along the wooden handle of the carved kunai, making him laugh nervously. When Minagawa reacted, the other half of the blade that was supposed to be broken had already penetrated his left chest: at the moment when the sword broke, Gongjima held the first half of the flying sword without hesitation. The edge of the blade sank into her palm, and as she tightened her grip, it was embedded deep enough to the bone. The blood staining Minagawa's front was not sure whether it belonged more to Minagawa or to Gōjima. The remaining half of the broken blade in the girl's left hand was thrust into his arm with brute force. A steady stream of dark liquid spread out over a short period of time.

The girl seemed to feel no pain at all, and her palm against the cross section of the blade was still pressing down endlessly. If it were moved down even half a minute, it would really become the scythe of the God of Death, crushing Minagawa's violently beating heart. Their eyes met in the air. After the brief moment of shock disappeared, Minagawa waved his fist towards that face.

Qingshui's action to stop Inoue caused an extremely violent shock. The trust in Cage Island and the eagerness to get the other party out of the crisis are at odds with each other. He had to do something, but he didn't have the courage to look away from the two people in the stalemate right now. He was afraid that if he was distracted for a moment, he would be unable to stop Minagawa from killing Cage Island.

"Twenty-three meters. Izumi said that the limit range of that guy's ninjutsu is a radius of 23 meters centered on him." Qingshui tried his best to calm down his brain, "As long as we don't get close to this range, we won't affected. In other words, we must support Quan outside this range."

"But Koizumi doesn't seem to be affected. Maybe that guy's ability has failed?" Inoue was a little anxious.

"No, that's not right." If that man's ninjutsu (or something else) had lost its effect on all individuals due to some relationship, then he would not have shown such an expression of disbelief at that time. He was briefly surprised. This caused serious flaws behind the scenes. And so far, he has never attacked two teenagers outside this presumed range. Qing Shui's brain was working rapidly, and he suddenly thought of a subtle possibility, "Adaptability... maybe adaptability! Izumi has adapted to the effects of his ninjutsu in a short period of time, and this should be an extremely rare situation. It was only out of fear that the man showed such flaws."

If the effect of his ninjutsu is indeed the one that was applied to Shimizu before, then Cage Island's adaptability comes from his high threshold ability to withstand pain. This is undoubtedly an astonishing conjecture. If the conjecture comes true, it will be even more shocking. But this conjecture alone is not enough to support their reinforcement of Cage Island.

As this conjecture appeared in Qing Shui's mind, his thoughts finally got rid of the anxious blankness, and more clues gradually reappeared in his memory quickly and clearly. He raised his head suddenly, suddenly enlightened.

"It's ninjutsu!"

……

That punch landed on the bridge of Long Dao's nose. Minagawa followed closely, and this time, the situation clearly turned to his side. At this moment, an idea that gave full play to his own bad taste popped into Minagawa's mind. He stood up and gave a sinister, gentle smile.

"Let's play a game." He said this, and like magic, he conjured a six-shooter revolver out of thin air. He hooked the bottom plate and let the gun spin in a circle on his fingertips, then handed it to the girl who was covered with bruises head down. . That ethereal fake smile crept onto his face again, "There are six injections in this gun, only one of which is an antidote that can restore injuries and offset the poison, and the other five are poisons with different compositions. Plus Go up to the brown-haired boy over there who has been cared for by my technique. There are three participants in total. For the sake of fairness, I will leave the choice to you. The rule is that you must use up these injections on the three of us." , he took a step back, leaving enough room for Cage Island to stand up, and added unhurriedly, "By the way, although the ingredients of the poison are different, the antidote can indeed offset any of them. But it’s just any kind. Which injection is the antidote depends on the luck of the three of us."

"Wait a minute, Izumi, the technique on my body has disappeared!" Qingshui instinctively noticed the omissions in the other party's remarks, and subconsciously retorted, "This is a lie!" He vaguely had the prototype of a hypothesis about Minagawa's technique, Therefore, determining whether Shimizu himself is included in the category of "participant" may be a crucial part.

But Minagawa didn't show the slightest panic because of his words. Instead, he raised the corners of his lips inexplicably: "That's not necessarily the case." His hand holding the gun/handle casually remained firmly in mid-air without taking it back. Meaning to go. The man turned his gloomy black eyes, full of ironic crude hypocrisy, to his opponent not far in front of his toes - the latter curled up on the abdomen that had been hit so many times by him, and the expression on his face was... The shadow of the broken hair made it difficult to see clearly - this made him feel frustrated for no reason. But he didn't intend to waste the opportunity for entertainment. He said seductively, "Come on, the right to choose is yours."

The dark left wheel slipped down Minagawa's fingertips, spun twice in the air and was firmly caught by the other hand.

Warm heat flowed out continuously from Lengdao's nasal cavity, occupying the passage that originally belonged to the air. The tepid liquid flowed along the raised peaks of her lips, into the space between her lips and teeth, and then dripped along her chin into the grass. Longdao coughed twice, tilted his head and spat out the blood foam stuck in his throat. Then she raised her blood-stained right hand and used the heel of her palm to wipe away the obstructing blood flow - although this action had little effect, and even spread the red color to one cheek, making it look a bit embarrassing and gorgeous.

Longdao didn't seem to hear Qingshui's words, and she didn't make any response to it. On the other hand, although she was slow, she still stood up firmly - using her hand that was stained beyond recognition by blood, she calmly took the trigger.

At the same time as this action happened, an almost undetectable cold smile appeared on the corner of Minagawa's mouth.

Qing Shui's guess was not wrong. The rules of the technique he announced are mixed in truth and falsehood, and the consequences of violating the rules...

Cage Island pulled the trigger.

"The storm is coming."

For a while, the wind outside the house almost disappeared. From time to time, the woman's worried eyes pierced into the growing night outside the window. At this time, her husband, who had fallen into silence since the young ninja left, finally made a little noise. He walked to the window and looked out through the gap between his window and the roof of the building across the street. After a while, I made this judgment. The woman's hands were clasped together, and their anxiety caused them to repeat frequent and monotonous movements, entangled with each other, like a pair of lovers rubbing each other's ears, or enemies strangling each other's necks.

At this moment, a rustling knock sounded from the door of the store. A strong light of hope flashed deep in the woman's eyes.

"Could it be them?" Her eyes silently asked her husband.

The warm yellow light in the room fell generously to the floor the moment the wooden door was opened. However, the people standing outside the hotel were not the couple who were anxious and worried at the moment. The tall man with conspicuous silver hair showed a friendly smile, which made his languid expression suddenly more approachable: "I'm sorry, is there any room available in the store? The weather tonight is really not suitable for traveling."

……

After settling down the three little cubs from Class 7, it was already raining heavily outside. The rain was like numb feet, and it was not noticeable in the night, but the sound was continuous. Kakashi thoughtfully booked a separate room for Sakura, the only girl in Class 7, while he packed up his belongings and wandered to the corridor on the second floor. The silver-haired young man stopped at the window at the end of the corridor, looking into the wet night with his dark eyes.

He was still thinking about something. The sound of creaking footsteps hovered downstairs separated by wooden floors. Although the owner of the footsteps tried his best to restrain himself, he still revealed an anxiety that was even worse than before.

The rumble of thunder rolled closer from the dark clouds.

The sudden downpour fell to the ground and accumulated in gurgling streams. Naruto and Sasuke's room had gradually become quiet. At this moment, a wave of hesitant footsteps came from behind him.

Through the reflection on the glass window, Kakashi saw the owner of the hotel walking forward with a pale face. He probably overcame huge psychological difficulties, and his voice was a bit dry.

A bolt of white lightning pierced the night sky.

The heavy rain that had not fallen at that time was still hiding in the clouds, gathering strength. Before they decided to fall from the sky, the dull rolling thunder struck first.

At the same time, six gunshots/shots were fired in quick succession.

The shock turned Minagawa's cold smile into twisted fear. The pitch-black gun turned in a circle in Cage Island's hand, and fell straight into the grass like a wounded bird. From the first time the girl stood up from the grass, she never showed any sign of pain or distress.

Of those six gunshots, half of them were aimed at Minagawa, and the other half were aimed at Gōjima himself.

She lowered her shoulders, showing a slightly tired look, and reluctantly opened her mouth before her blond colleague could lose his breath: "Before coming, I asked the residents in the town for rumors about you. From this, For the time being, it is inferred that the scope of your field is about 23 meters, and the spell is most likely about rules and fairness. Through the semi-open field, you exchange the mandatory rules you set within a certain range. In other words, as long as you are in You can't break the rules if you are within twenty-three meters nearby. But this is only within your territory.

"At the same time, in order to prevent the people you dragged into the domain from escaping again, you probably set the rule that 'once you enter, you cannot voluntarily exit before the spell is lifted.' As for 'fairness', it is just my guess. You I did tell you part of the rules, but the other part is probably just a lie. According to my guess, if I don’t divide all the six injections equally, I will be judged to have violated the rules.”

The hot pain spread from Minagawa's internal organs like fire. It was neuropathic pain, swimming and twitching deep in his skin. Cold sweat soaked his clothes, and the man gasped violently, and the words came out from clenched teeth: "It's just a guess... You don't seem to have considered the possibility of a wrong bet at all."

The girl stood there calmly, and answered slowly after hearing the words, looking a little confused as to why the other party reacted like this, as if this was a matter of course in her eyes: "Then I lost.

"Furthermore, although it is not sure whether your spell is related to pain or poison, and whether the so-called antidote actually exists. But as long as 50%, you can ensure that even if the antidote exists, and good luck favors you, , will not effectively offset the toxins in your body. Therefore, if you now try to expose the spell in exchange for an increase in the spell, the torture inflicted on both of us will increase equally."

Minagawa's eyes were like two sharp knives, shooting towards the opposite cage island. There was still a huge question hanging over his head at this moment. The girl's choice of words was "equal pain," which shows that she was not entirely unaffected. Since she wasn't immune to his spell, why didn't she seem to be immobilized by it?

Perhaps seeing his doubts, Longdao moved his eyes and answered briefly in a tone of great difficulty: "Should we say that we are destined for each other, or...we are incompatible?"

"...I can finish you right here. You don't look like you have much energy left." Minagawa hissed at the threat.

"But you seem to have difficulty moving. We can compare, or meet again in the Sixth Path of the Underworld." The blue-eyed girl did not mean to be intimidated at all. She was serious, Minagawa realized. The creepiness that he had ignored before climbed up his spine again.

"Koizumi, what are you talking about?" Inoue nervously took another step towards the confrontation between the two of them. But he was soon grabbed by the arm. Qing Shui had now returned to a calm state and reminded him categorically: "Wait a minute, Huoquan's plan will fail if you go there now."

Once Inoue steps into Minagawa's realm, the original balance will be disrupted, and Cageshima, as the decision-maker, will bear this mistake. The confrontation she worked so hard to create would be in vain.

Gongjima relaxed his shoulders, and his eyes that had just moved away from Minagawa fell back, wary of his sudden attack. She exposed Minagawa's last lie with a statement, but in reality it was more like telling her companions.

"You can't use ninjutsu now."

She seemed a little tired of the lengthy narrative. Now there are only two options before Minagawa: insist on not releasing the spell, and race to see which of them will fall first as Gagejima said; or immediately release the spell, turn around and run away. After the release field is deployed, his spells and ninjutsu will enter a frozen state, entering a "hiatus period" where it is difficult to use the spells. Not to mention re-expanding the field of birth, even a simple reversal of spells cannot be done.

The other two teenagers in Class 9 also realized the same thing. When Minagawa looked up, he caught a glimpse of their shockingly bright eyes - at this moment, the identities of hunter and prey were reversed.

At this time, Minagawa still did not give up the idea of ​​taking away the child from the village. The dense clouds gathered together and turned into thick cumulonimbus clouds. First one drop, then two...then huge raindrops fell from the clouds, crackling in the forest.

Another bolt of lightning pierced the night sky.

The pale light and shadow flashed across the face of the girl opposite him, making the pair of cold irises burn like a will-o'-the-wisp, and there was no mercy in it. She asked, "Do you think I contacted the other jounin before I came?"

The rain falls like the river and the sea. In just a moment, the water curtain formed an airtight wall.

In the end, Minagawa failed to take the child away and fled. Cage Island's bluff intimidation finally had its effect. Perhaps because he failed to see through her lies or because he was unwilling to take risks, the viper-like man no longer wanted to fight and disappeared into the shadowy forest.

Inoue failed to catch up with the man. The second before Minagawa's figure jumped out of sight, and just as the blond boy was about to pass by Gongjima, the girl who had her back straight just now suddenly fell forward without any warning. Inoue hurriedly turned around and stretched out his arms to support Dian Hong who suddenly fell to the ground.

The moonlight was mostly diluted by the rain, and it had no power when it fell on several exhausted young ninjas. The rain was so heavy it almost looked like an inverted ocean. The two teenagers were suddenly startled by Lungdao's coma. They had never encountered such a critical situation before, and they hurriedly called out Lungdao's name. The latter still barely retains a glimmer of consciousness, but has little energy to speak. The heavy rain soaked the three people's clothes completely in an instant, and the close-fitting fabrics were cold and stuck to the bodies. The thermal insulation effect was completely lost, but in the end, a dull heat arose.

There was another dull thunder.

The wet clothes stuck together, and liquid warmed by body temperature flowed from Rongjima's sleeves to Inoue's wrist. It was unclear whether it was blood or rain.

"Hurry up, we have to get back to the hotel quickly!" Amidst the noisy sound of water, the voice of Qingshui came vaguely. Inoue finally recovered from his shock and moved cautiously. That was the first time the young ninja realized what the profession of ninja would bring, and he was uneasy about the thought that his companions might die.

The rain is getting heavier.

At this time, the boy who had been unconscious finally woke up. He seemed to realize that he had been saved. He was in shock, but gradually calmed down. Inoue carried the unconscious Cage Island on his back, and Qing Shui carried the boy they rescued on his back. The two of them hurried on in the heavy rain, hoping to bring the injured Dianhong to seek medical treatment as early as possible.

The rain was pouring continuously, and several people were as wet as if they had just been fished out of the water. The cold stagnant water swam through the toe-less shoes, like a relocated pond that could soon be home to a few lively fish.

A thick blanket of silence fell on the two teenagers in Class 9. Compared with the rain that almost made people drown, this silence was more suffocating than the airtight rain curtain. Qing Shui looked at the blond-haired boy carrying the cage island from the corner of his eyes - the rain-soaked broken hair lay softly on the boy's forehead, and the unbearable water droplets slid from the ends of his hair onto his face, melting into the cold rain curtain . The corners of his mouth drooped patiently - heavy worry enveloped Qing Shui's heart.

Just as they approached the edge of the woods, a strange rustling sound emerged from the constant sound of rain. Different from the rain hitting the leaves, it was something else like the sound of footsteps. Submerged in the pouring rain, a party that could not distinguish between friend and foe was approaching them at high speed. When their ears caught such a sound, both Inoue and Qingshui showed expressions of preparedness for battle.