Chapter 539: The Death of Kisame
Ino spat a corrosive acid mist at Kisame. This was the Boil Release she had recently unlocked with points, and through hard training with shadow clones, she had brought it to Lv. 3.
The seemingly innocuous acid mist completely enveloped Kisame.
With just a slight contact, he felt a burning pain on his shoulders and arms.
He touched his shoulder and found a sticky liquid covering his steel-hard skin. The corrosive liquid was continuously eating away at his skin and muscles.
It's acid?!
Kisame's knowledge was only average, but he was aware of the several powerful Kekkei Genkai from his own village, the Hidden Mist.
Why does this look so much like the Mist's Boil Release? Is Mei Terumi here? Or am I in some strange genjutsu again?
"You can die now!" Ino waved her hand, and a large amount of acid mist closed in on Kisame from all directions.
Kisame's ninjutsu could absorb chakra, but as a ninja who relied on hand seals, he had no time to perform them now.
He could only resort to the crudest method: relying on his merged body with Samehada to forcibly absorb the Boil Release chakra.
He opened most of the chakra points in his body.
At the critical moment, Samehada stopped him. Facing the Boil Release, Samehada extended its head from Kisame's shoulder, opened its bloody maw, and desperately swallowed the surrounding acid mist.
It was disgusting!
If Ino's previous Water Release chakra had been a gourmet meal for Samehada, the current Boil Release was junk food—the worst kind.
It swallowed with great difficulty, but for the sake of its brother-in-arms, Kisame, it did its best to absorb the surging acid mist.
"What are you doing?" The sightless Kisame could also feel some of Samehada's emotions. The searing heat and stuffiness from the Boil Release chakra were also affecting him.
Samehada didn't want to involve him. It immediately broke their merged state. Due to "indigestion," the reverted Samehada was limp. The barbs that had once stood on end were now all drooping. Its bloody maw had lost its previous intimidating power. At this moment, it looked like a salted fish washed ashore.
Kisame and Samehada separated. He reverted from his half-fishman form back to his shirtless human appearance.
As a ninja from the Mist's "Bloody Mist" era, all surviving Mist ninja possessed astonishing intuition—an instinct honed through life-and-death battles. Those without this ability were all dead.
Kisame's brain hadn't analyzed any information, but his body had already reacted.
He took a dive into the water and summoned a shark to act as his eyes and ears.
Ino did not rashly give chase. Instead, she sensed the situation on the Third Tsuchikage's side. She found that Kurotsuchi had arrived on the battlefield, but her strength was no match for the Second Tsuchikage and Second Mizukage. The help she provided was very limited. The few elite Stone ninja she had brought with her were already lying in pools of their own blood.
Ten dead and two seriously injured. The casualty rate was acceptable. Not too many, not too few. Just right.
This battle could now end!
Ino let out a soft cry, rapidly absorbing the surrounding natural energy to create senjutsu chakra and enter Sage Mode.
Then, she slammed her hands on the ground. "Sage Art: Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"
Countless rice-sized plant seeds took root and sprouted in that instant.
The accumulated water, rocks, and mud were all pushed aside. At this moment, the only protagonists were these vibrant plants.
Kisame, who had always been eager for battle, had not fled after entering the water. Instead, he had quietly snuck back to launch a surprise attack.
The Deep Forest Emergence immediately exposed his position.
Countless plants that had been dormant deep underground were awakened. They grew rapidly, expanding in size, and finally formed a lush, underground forest.
Ino's control over Wood Release was becoming more and more proficient. The pollen secreted by the Deep Forest Emergence no longer flew about randomly but was concentrated on Kisame.
Samehada sensed its master's danger. Ignoring the fact that it had not yet converted a large portion of the Boil Release chakra in its body, it leaped into his hand to fight alongside him.
Kisame continuously swung Samehada, hacking at the vines. Regardless of whether this ninja sword's prototype was a small fish that followed the Three-Tails, in the face of Wood Release, Samehada's chakra-absorbing properties were not enough.
Kisame roared again and again as Samehada tore apart the swarming vines, branches, and weeds.
His strength was immense, his stamina abundant. He could swing the massive Samehada for another day without tiring, but he couldn't block the pollen.
The pollen that entered his body through his respiratory tract, spurred on by the senjutsu chakra, quickly began to destroy his bodily functions.
Kisame coughed violently, as if he were about to cough up his lungs.
He felt his body temperature rising rapidly. His muscles ached and grew increasingly weak.
"Despicable!" Kisame felt that if she had kicked him to death, he would have acknowledged her strength. But what was this dirty trick? His lungs had inhaled a large amount of pollen, and in less than half a minute, his body temperature had risen to a terrifying degree.
His consciousness grew increasingly fuzzy. After forcefully cutting through two more vines, he failed to notice what was underfoot. His feet had been tightly bound by weeds.
"You should've worn a mask! Scared now, huh? Hmph!" Ino was quite pleased with herself for taking out Kisame in one move after entering Sage Mode.
Kisame was like a cornered beast. Veins bulged on his forehead, his muscles swelled, and he continued to mechanically hack at the vines.
One after another, plants pierced his body. His muscles were torn, and his white bones pierced through his skin. The plants at his feet were stained red with his blood, yet he still did not give up resisting, continuing to hack futilely with Samehada.
"Surrender. Itachi was a Konoha ninja from beginning to end. There's no point in you being my enemy," Ino began to try and persuade him.
She could never understand why Kisame had mercilessly killed his female comrade back then. From the start, she had always known he was not a good person, but she felt it was a bit of a waste for him to die just like this.
Kisame acted as if he hadn't heard her, continuing to muddle-headedly try to carve a path through the countless plants.
"The Northern Dipper decrees death, the Southern Dipper decrees life. You wear the ring of the Southern Star, do you really want to die so badly?" Ino's voice reached his ear, making him slightly more lucid.
His voice was particularly hoarse. "A false, false world... die! Die..."
Ino pondered for a moment, then nodded lightly. "Alright, I understand."
She clenched her right hand into a fist, and more plants pierced through Kisame's body.
The Mist rogue-nin murmured his last words, "...body..."
"Don't worry, that guy won't find your body."
"...Thank you... Itachi-san, I'm coming..." Kisame Hoshigaki released his grip on Samehada and breathed his last.
Ino's Deep Forest Emergence had already connected to the underground river. She now tossed Kisame's body into it, and it was quickly carried away by the current into the sea.
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