Chapter 80 Mirror Flowers and Moon in the Water
Standing on the river bank at that moment, Hanzo couldn't help but feel a sense of "the boundless fallen leaves rustle down, and the endless river rolls on."
Desolate and dreary...
Suddenly, the many experiences I have had in my life flashed before my eyes like a kaleidoscope.
the pain of having a poison sac implanted in one’s body when one was young;
The ambition he made in his youth after witnessing the Rain Country weeping in war;
There were endless fighting and struggling in the Second Ninja World War, first fighting against Ōnoki, then fighting against Chiyo of Sunagakure, and finally fighting against the Three Ninjas of Konoha, one battle after another.
At that time, his prestige and fame were increasing at the speed of light, but his inner fatigue was also accumulating.
So much so that when the war finally ended, he had completely forgotten his previous beliefs and persistence, and only endless fatigue remained in his heart.
What started it? I can no longer hear the cry of the Rain Country.
He only cares whether the name of the demigod is still being praised, and he only wants to continue playing music and dancing every day.
Looking down, the water under his feet reflected his true face that he had not seen for a long time under the mask.
He looked old and haggard, with no light in his eyes.
At that moment, Hanzo suddenly lost all strength to resist.
He was still a little unwilling to give up, so he asked for the last time, "Qinghe, when did you start to dislike me? Were all those letters you wrote last year just to deceive me?"
Shiba Kiyokawa, the outstanding boy from the Land of Rain, had briefly become the pride of his heart last year.
But at this moment, facing his last pleading gaze, the words that Shiba Qinghe said were still cold.
"When did you develop the illusion that I had admired you?"
"what?"
"You know what? Last year, our Akatsuki organization went to the Land of Grass. There, even those two-faced Grass Ninjas who were used to being fence-sitters in the ninja world would loudly sneer at the demigods of the Land of Rain for having lost their ambition.
Hanzo, even the most despicable group of grass ninjas next door know how you have fallen over the years. Why do you still think I will have illusions about you now? "
The bland rhetorical question, like a sharp kunai, pierced deeply into Hanzo's heart.
He was speechless and could only smile bitterly.
After a while, Hanzo raised his hands and silently took off his shirt piece by piece, then bent his knees and knelt slowly and heavily in the mud on the river bank.
"Can you give me a knife?" he suddenly asked.
Shiba Kiyokawa guessed something and reached out to stop the alert Nagato and the grounded Konan.
Then Shiba Kiyokawa cut the chain at the end of the sickle and threw Hanzo's short-handled sickle back to him.
Xiaonan immediately took a defensive stance.
But Shiba Kiyokawa could see that Hanzo had completely lost the will to fight.
The opponent took the sickle and did not fight back. Instead, he turned the blade around and pointed it at his own abdomen.
This scene is unexpectedly quite similar to the original.
At this moment, with all hope lost, Hanzo finally chose to commit seppuku, just like in the original novel, to retain his last bit of dignity and end his life.
"Do you need me to stand behind you as your kaishakunin?" Shiba Kiyokawa asked calmly.
"No, my hands are steady," Hanzo replied calmly.
The next moment, the blade of the sickle cut open the entire abdominal cavity without hesitation, almost cutting him in half.
The ninja's hands were indeed fast and steady, without even a trace of trembling.
At that moment, Kakuzu, Konan and Nagato, who witnessed this scene, couldn't help but feel sad.
Even though they were enemies, they couldn't help but feel sad for the fall of this demigod of the ninja world.
Except——Shiba Kiyokawa!
Shiba Kiyokawa was the only one present who remained expressionless. He waited for one second, two seconds, and three seconds!
It wasn't until three seconds later that Shiba Kiyokawa asked, "Xiaoyu, are you sure he's dead?"
"My perception didn't give me any warning, meow~ Is he really dead, meow~"
After receiving a positive answer, Shiba Kiyokawa immediately took action, and his eagerness immediately stunned Nagato and Konan. "Xiaoyu, spread out the scroll! Help me set up the formation! Quick! Prepare to seal!"
Xiaonan asked in a daze, "Qinghe, what are you doing?"
Shiba Qinghe answered without even turning his head, "Of course it's to seal the source of the poison! This old guy is full of poison! If we don't deal with it quickly, the Rain Country might be covered in corpses!"
Nagato was puzzled, "Didn't you seal his poison sac when you fought just now?"
As a result, Shiba Kiyokawa's casual answer almost burned out Nagato's CPU on the spot.
"Of course I lied to him."
"……Clam?"
"You can seal an organ in a living person's stomach alone, and you can make him fight for such a long time without him noticing. Have you ever seen such a powerful sealing technique?"
"Ah this..." Nagato stammered, unable to speak for a moment.
Xiaonan reacted faster and said, "So you actually used illusion to interfere with his perception, making him think that his poison sac was sealed?"
Zhiba Qinghe nodded, and then said, "That's right, come and help, this time we really have to seal this poison sac!"
Konan and Nagato looked at each other, still feeling a little dazed as they walked forward.
Just now, when they saw Shiba Kiyokawa's calm and confident look, they all thought that he had really completed the final kill against Hanzo!
But who could have imagined that this was another ingenious scam?
The illusion, or to be more precise, the illusion in Shiba Kiyokawa's hands, is truly terrifying!
Even she and Nagato, the two people around her, did not notice the flaws in Shiba Kiyokawa's acting.
Just like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, it is hard to distinguish the real from the fake!
In the end, even the demigod whose name resounded throughout the ninja world and who had dominated the Rain Country for twenty years was deceived by him and committed suicide.
Can anyone else do it?
At this moment, Kakuzu, who was a few steps behind, flickered his eyes several times, but in the end he did not dare to make any unnecessary movements. He just obediently took the two masked monsters to guard the surroundings.
Now Kakuzu has guessed that he was probably deceived before.
However, after witnessing the end of Hanzo of the Salamander, he could no longer think of escaping even though he knew he was being deceived.
He really had no confidence that he could escape the scheme of the young man in front of him.
Moreover, he had a vague premonition: as long as the young man named Shiba Kiyokawa did not die, he might become a legend comparable to the God of Ninja in the future!
After working for several minutes, Shiba Kiyokawa, Konan and Nagato finally managed to completely seal this huge source of pollution and clean up the surrounding poison.
After the end, they looked at the river surface in front of them without any obstacles, and for a moment they couldn't help but feel extremely proud!
Next, the road ahead will be smooth!
It seems that they are only one step away from unifying the entire Rain Kingdom!
But at this moment, the sound of birds suddenly came from the sky.
When everyone turned around, they saw several birds diving down at a very fast speed. They had no time to brake and crashed straight into their arms.
"Is this... Hydrangea's spiritual beast? Why is it here in such a hurry?"
Xiaonan recognized the birds.
Then they noticed: all the birds had letters tied to their legs.
Hydrangea is using the psychic bird as a carrier pigeon.
But why did he suddenly come here so urgently? Could it be some urgent news?
With doubts, several people took down the rolled-up letter paper from the bird's legs.
Then the next moment, the three of them changed color.
Nagato was the first to break down, yelling, "I want to go back!"
There was only one line of small words on the letter:
The base was attacked!
(End of this chapter)
