"Lord Danzo is willing."
Akihara Kagura glanced at Shimura Danzo on the stretcher, looked at the wound on Danzo's chest, and nodded in satisfaction: "Fortunately, Lord Danzo's wound hasn't healed, so we can directly transplant Hashirama Cells to make his life force stronger..."
"..."
Orochimaru didn't think Shimura Danzo would voluntarily sacrifice himself.
After all, when Shimura Danzo saw Akihara Kagura, he immediately began cursing, looking as if he wanted to tear Akihara Kagura into pieces!
"Bastard!"
"You scoundrel!"
"I must kill you!"
"Akihara Kagura, you wicked brat harming Konoha!"
As Shimura Danzo continued to curse, he saw Orochimaru standing beside Akihara Kagura, and his face immediately turned grim: "Orochimaru, are you in on this too?"
"..."
Orochimaru shook his head with a complex expression.
Because even Orochimaru did not expect that Akihara Kagura, in preparation for the Reanimation Jutsu to resurrect Sarutobi Hiruzen, had chosen Shimura Danzo as the sacrifice!
This guy...
What exactly did he think of their alliance?
But...
Thinking about it carefully...
There is a strange sense of destiny in this kind of matter!
Shimura Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen have been both old friends and rivals for many years; their bond has lasted for almost seventy years and even in death, they can't be separated...
Is this what bonds are?
"Too noisy."
Akihara Kagura dug his ears and ordered, "Place Lord Danzo in front of the Third Hokage so these old friends can see each other one last time! Perhaps this is their final meeting, whether in life or death..."
"!!!"
Shimura Danzo suddenly saw Sarutobi Hiruzen's body lying on the ground. His insults caught in his throat, and his eyes showed a hint of grief.
"Old Monkey, this is my fault!"
Shimura Danzo lowered his head, staring at Sarutobi Hiruzen's corpse, his eyes still mixed with hatred: "If I hadn't greedily let the wolf in, bringing Akihara Kagura into Konoha, none of this would have happened..."
"Lord Danzo, please be at peace."
Akihara Kagura stood beside Shimura Danzo, kindly advising him: "Let's refrain from saying things that bring unrest. Surely, even the Third Hokage wouldn't want to hear such words upon his return!"
"..."
Orochimaru touched his own nose.
"..."
Shimura Danzo glared hatefully at Akihara Kagura.
Is this bastard even speaking like a human?
Who would be happy to be reanimated as a controlled puppet!
Moreover...
This bastard actually told him to be at peace!
"Please, Lord Danzo, mourn for yourself."
Akihara Kagura even kindly patted Shimura Danzo's shoulder and continued: "Because Lord Danzo will soon become the sacrifice, replacing the Third Hokage in death..."
"Ha? Mourn for myself?"
Shimura Danzo laughed in extreme anger.
The one about to kill him, asking him to mourn for himself!
This evil brat turning him into a sacrifice, and still told him to mourn!
"The only one who can mourn for Lord Danzo is himself, isn't it?"
Akihara Kagura took a glance at Orochimaru, then surveyed the Root Ninjas around: "Since aside from Lord Danzo himself, it seems no one in Konoha, or the entire Ninja World, would be saddened by Lord Danzo's death?"
"..."
Everyone present remained silent.
Even Orochimaru's expression was somewhat peculiar.
Akihara Kagura was right, aside from Shimura Danzo himself, neither Konoha nor the entire Ninja World, it seems, anyone would feel sorrow for Shimura Danzo's death.
"..."
Shimura Danzo's anger and hatred stalled.
These truths...
Are admittedly too painful to hear.
The Root Ninjas quickly moved Shimura Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen's positions, allowing Shimura Danzo to see Sarutobi Hiruzen's corpse before his impending death.
That scene...
Felt eerily harmonious.
Orochimaru frowned, looking at the living Shimura Danzo and the dead Sarutobi Hiruzen, then thought of the soon-to-die Shimura Danzo and the soon-to-be-reanimated Sarutobi Hiruzen, finding it fitting somehow as if it were only natural that such things happen.
"Shall we begin?"
Akihara Kagura received the Hashirama Cells, took a look at Shimura Danzo's unhealed chest, and directly injected the Hashirama Cells into his wound.
"Using Hashirama Cells to enhance the liveliness of the sacrifice?"
Orochimaru closely watched Akihara Kagura's actions, a strange glint flashing in his eyes: "Even the method to enhance the power of a Reanimator has been studied? But the stronger the Reanimator, the harder it is to control..."
As the Hashirama Cells entered Shimura Danzo's body, his body suddenly began to swell, and masses of white matter spread all over his form!
"I..."
Shimura Danzo felt his body gradually being corroded, his facial muscles constantly twitching. Unable to move, he could only watch helplessly at Sarutobi Hiruzen's corpse lying in front of him.
"Old Monkey..."
Shimura Danzo knew his body was being eroded by Hashirama Cells at an increasing speed, even patches of white flesh growing on his face, his body was completely out of control, and he could die at any moment!
"Ninpo..."
"Reanimation Jutsu!"
Akihara Kagura stretched out his palm, slamming it down on the ground, rapidly generating a mass of black incantations, whose large area appeared beneath both Shimura Danzo's body and Sarutobi Hiruzen's corpse!