Chapter 50: Senior Danzo, Why Don't You Think About Self-Mutilation?
Danzo hadn't yet made his choice—when Su Li, who'd been watching the entire scene with mild amusement, suddenly spoke.
"Why, Danzo-senpai? Planning to use Kotoamatsukami?"
"You even know about that?!"
Danzo's face twisted, his expression turning even uglier.
Su Li chuckled. "What, did you really think I'd come to deal with you without being fully prepared?Actually, one of the main reasons I came was precisely because of Kotoamatsukami."
"...I see."
At those words, Danzo's tense features gradually relaxed, a strange calm settling over him.He had already guessed his fate.
If Su Li knew not only about the existence of Kotoamatsukami but also understood what it could do—then that meant one thing.
Su Li wasn't afraid of it.
So why bother wasting the effort to test it?Instead, Danzo decided to destroy the eye.If he couldn't use it, then at least he could make sure it didn't fall into enemy hands.
His mind made up, the old war hawk—now over fifty—gritted his teeth, reached for his right eye socket, and—gouged it out.
He crushed the Kotoamatsukami eye in his hand with all his strength.
But just as he did—
BOOM!
A gunshot echoed.A strange, rippling force—like time itself—washed over him.
And the next thing he knew...
The Kotoamatsukami eye was back in its socket.Perfectly intact.
Su Li lowered his weapon with a smile.Behind him, a massive, ghostly clock shimmered into existence.
"Tch, that's not okay, Danzo-senpai," Su Li said cheerfully."Why don't you think twice about self-mutilation?"
Keke Emperor – Fourth Bullet!The power to rewind time on a target.
Danzo had just torn his own eye out,and Su Li had graciously rewound his body to the moment before it happened.
No wounds. No missing eye.Only the memory of that pain—clear, vivid, and unforgettable.
"..."
Danzo's jaw trembled with rage.
He wanted to scream, to curse, but the words caught in his throat.This bastard had watched him gouge his own eye out—and then rewound time just to make him feel that agony for nothing!
He could have stopped him at any moment.He chose not to.
Just to watch.
Then reset him.
Would he make him dig it out again?
Su Li had no heart.
With the power to manipulate time itself, even Danzo's final ace—the Reverse Four Symbols Seal—was useless.
He couldn't win.He couldn't escape.
Despair sank its claws into him.
A flicker of gold flashed behind him—
SHUNK!
A kunai, engraved with the Flying Thunder God seal, pierced straight through Danzo's heart.
"Lord Danzo," Minato's calm voice came from behind him,"I'm disappointed in you."
He slowly withdrew the blade.
Danzo's eyes were filled with rage, regret, and bitterness—and then, finally, emptiness.
He fell to the ground.
Su Li walked over and crouched beside the fallen elder.Without hesitation, he reached forward and plucked out Danzo's right eye—the Kotoamatsukami Sharingan.
He placed it into a vial filled with nutrient fluid, sealing it carefully.
Then he gave a small, almost sincere sigh.
"Senior Danzo," he said softly, "try being a good person in your next life."
"..."
The only thing Danzo could still move was his remaining eye—and it glared at Su Li, bloodshot and burning with hatred.
And then—
He died.
A pitiful, humiliating death.Without even a sliver of resistance left.
Against Su Li's Fourth Bullet,even if Danzo had managed to activate the Four Symbols Seal,it would've changed nothing.
Su Li took out a sealing scroll and stored Danzo's corpse inside.
Just killing him wasn't enough.
He would expose all of Danzo's crimes—every vile, disgusting thing he'd ever done—so that the world would curse his name for a thousand years.
Still, Su Li decided not to reveal the truth about Itachi just yet.
After all, Itachi's reputation was... complicated.Some loved him, some hated him.That wasn't Su Li's concern.
Itachi hadn't harmed his people, so whether to forgive or condemn him—that was Sasuke's choice.
Su Li didn't care, and he didn't need to.
He even made sure Minato and Kushina understood not to mention Itachi's truth for now.
At the moment, Sasuke's top priority wasn't revenge against his brother—but returning to the past to change history.
Once that was done,he could deal with Itachi however he pleased.
Kill him, spare him—whatever he chose,Su Li would respect it.
As long as Sasuke kept working for him,helping him gather the remaining Bullets—everything else was just noise.
And so, with Danzo's death,Root fell under Su Li's control without resistance.
By the next morning,under his quiet orders,Danzo's darkest secrets were spreading through the ninja world like wildfire.