What is a Hokage?
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, would answer with a load of nonsense related to the Will of Fire.
In Jingu Akira's view, the one with the biggest fist is the Hokage!
Right now, Orochimaru wanted to commit insubordination.
As the newly minted Fourth Hokage, he naturally had to help the other party re-learn why he was the Hokage, and not him.
Sukunahikona!
Jingu Akira's left eye twitched, and his body once again shrank to a size invisible to the naked eye.
Orochimaru's expression remained unchanged as he continued to summon his snakes.
No matter how much the Fourth Hokage shrank himself, he would eventually have to land.
As long as this entire area was submerged in snakes, the other party would eventually reveal himself.
Orochimaru's plan was sound.
But the next instant.
As if the sky were falling.
An enormous black cube suddenly descended from the heavens, about to crush him who was directly below.
Orochimaru, who was maintaining the Ten Thousand Snakes Formation, was unwilling to retreat.
BOOM!
A giant snake from Ryuchi Cave erupted from the ground nearby, fiercely ramming into the black cube.
The result...
It didn't even hold it back for a breath.
The giant snake's scales burst upon contact, a gruesome sight.
Seeing the black cube about to land completely.
Orochimaru could only stop his jutsu and quickly retreat backward.
BANG!
The earth was smashed into a giant crater, and the snakes within the area were instantly crushed into a bloody pulp.
This was only the beginning.
In the time that followed, one black cube after another, sometimes appearing alone, sometimes in groups, continuously fell from the sky.
Orochimaru tried every method he could think of, but he couldn't knock these black cubes away and could only keep dodging.
What made him deeply uneasy was that these black cubes that suddenly fell from the sky seemed to have an ability to block perception.
He could only observe what he could see in front of him.
And the Fourth Hokage had not been seen for a long time.
Orochimaru's expression was exceptionally grim. He had just brushed past a black cube.
Suddenly!
Jingu Akira appeared behind him, a black rod in his hand piercing straight through him.
Orochimaru was once again severely injured.
The Fourth Hokage appeared too quickly!
Even if his mind was on guard, his body couldn't keep up.
Knowing that there was only one outcome if this continued, Orochimaru quickly opened his mouth wide.
Only this time, what he spat out was not himself, but a large, white-scaled snake.
The moment the latter landed, it transformed into thousands of small snakes that scattered in all directions.
Jingu Akira tossed aside the shed skin of Orochimaru in front of him and swept his left eye.
Hundreds of black rods shot out from Daikokuten, like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, pinning the scattered white-scaled snakes to the ground one by one.
As far as his gaze reached, all the white-scaled snakes in his line of sight were quickly killed.
Jingu Akira did not let his guard down. His azure-blue right eye once again transformed into the Byakugan.
The fifty-kilometer radius around him instantly turned into a world of black and white, everything entering his sight.
He skipped over the approaching team of the Third Hokage.
A corner of Jingu Akira's mouth curled up.
"As expected of Orochimaru, you're quite good at hiding."
A few of the white-scaled snakes had actually survived his previous covering attack and had quietly escaped some distance.
If it were anyone else, they might have actually let him slip away.
But under the Byakugan, everything was transparent.
Jingu Akira reached out a hand, and several black rods stuck in the ground flew to him, shrinking to a size difficult to see with the naked eye, and shot rapidly towards the fish that had escaped the net.
Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!
No matter where those white-scaled snakes hid, they could not escape the fate of being pierced.
Except for the last one.
Orochimaru's pale upper body stretched out from the snake's body, narrowly avoiding the black rod.
But the next instant, he was met with several black rods descending from the sky, piercing through various parts of his body and pinning him firmly to the ground.
"Something's not right."
Orochimaru, with little chakra left, looked up at the sky and muttered.
"What's not right?"
Jingu Akira arrived at his side and asked curiously.
Orochimaru turned his head to look at the Fourth Hokage.
For some reason, this very familiar person now looked somewhat strange... no, he looked somewhat familiar again.
Orochimaru shook his head with a self-deprecating laugh, but still answered:
"The Fourth Hokage's strength... the intelligence gap is too perfect. I should have investigated earlier. Was I delayed too long by my experiments?"
"I see."
Jingu Akira understood.
Shinjutsu: Omnipotence could change everyone's perception, and even if they saw something that didn't fit their cognition, their brains would self-correct.
But if it happened too many times, some people would eventually become suspicious of the abnormalities and contradictions in their lives.
For example, a highly intelligent, observant, and exceptionally rational scientist.
Also, the Otsutsuki clan should be unaffected by Shinjutsu: Omnipotence.
Orochimaru, as the most talented scientist in the ninja world at present, had noticed a trace of strangeness.
But clearly, it had not yet reached the point of doubting his memories, of doubting the world.
Jingu Akira flipped his right hand, and a brand new black rod appeared in his palm.
He looked at Orochimaru.
This man who, just a moment ago, was his superior, who had taught him much, and had also learned a lot of modern biological knowledge from him.
He had received his protection.
But at the same time, he had been constantly enduring immense pressure from him.
No normal person would be willing to spend a long time with a cold-blooded white snake.
Jingu Akira had initially offered to follow Orochimaru as a rogue ninja.
This was because he knew that if he didn't say it first, he, who knew too many secrets, would very likely be silenced by Orochimaru.
No matter how well he pretended, Orochimaru, a master of manipulating people's hearts, always knew that he could never be absolutely loyal to him.
Fortunately, all of that was in the past.
Now, he was the Fourth Hokage of Konoha!
Wielding the most powerful force in the ninja world, he no longer had to worry about this or that.
Finally!
He could finally enjoy the life of a Hokage!
This was his wish.
It was precisely because of this that Shinjutsu: Omnipotence first awakened in him.
"It's over, Orochimaru."
Jingu Akira looked down at Orochimaru, who no longer possessed his former terrifying presence.
"In the name of the Fourth Hokage!"
"Konoha rogue ninja Orochimaru, I sentence you to death!"
As his voice fell.
Jingu Akira raised the black rod high, and with a flick of his wrist, under Orochimaru's deep gaze, he stabbed down like lightning, accurately piercing through the center of his brow.
A soft "puchi" sound.
The black rod emerged from the back of Orochimaru's head, bringing with it a string of dark red blood beads.
The blood beads drew an arc in the air before finally splashing onto the ground.
In Jingu Akira's perception, the Orochimaru before him was completely silent.
His presence was no longer within a fifty-kilometer radius.
"If I remember correctly, your Living Corpse Reincarnation jutsu is still some time away from completion, right?"
As Orochimaru's former assistant, Jingu Akira had the right to speak on this matter.
Therefore.
The Konoha rogue ninja, Orochimaru, was officially removed from the list.
At this moment, a gentle breeze blew by.
Jingu Akira smiled lightly. With a sweep of his left eye, all the black rods and black cubes on the scene returned to Daikokuten, and his dark golden left eye turned back to azure blue.
Soon, a series of sounds of something cutting through the air arrived.
"Third Hokage."
Jingu Akira turned and smiled as he greeted the hastily arriving Hiruzen Sarutobi.
As the corner of his clothing fluttered, a Konoha leaf quietly drifted down.
It covered Orochimaru's unclosed eyes.