Uzumaki Yuka looked at Fox with utter horror.
Wasn't Fox the Senju clan's spy in the Anbu?
Wait!
Uzumaki Yuka immediately remembered when the explosive tags first detonated, Fox had smeared hemostatic agent on his kunai.
The kunai hadn't pierced deeply, and coupled with the hemostatic agent, there wasn't much bleeding.
Uzumaki Yuka persevered and activated the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
Yōkō, meanwhile, put on an act of being powerless, shocked, and unable to stop her.
Over a dozen Adamantine Sealing Chains shot out, piercing everyone except Yōkō.
Whether it was the Kumo-nin or Captain Antelope, all were struck by this powerful sealing scroll.
Under the effect of the sealing technique, everyone was frozen, unable to move.
Yōkō felt secretly pleased. He had deliberately applied the hemostatic agent to the kunai precisely to make Uzumaki Yuka think he was on her side, so she wouldn't attack him.
The deception was successful; he was the only one not hit by the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
Yōkō stood up, wielded his kunai, and proceeded to kill all the Kumo-nin, one by one.
Captain Antelope saw Yōkō's fluid movements and was impressed.
The weakest ninja in the squad, the filler cannon fodder, was growing at an astonishing rate. His timing was becoming more and more seasoned, starting to have the feel of an Anbu ninja.
Captain Antelope looked down, saw the chain piercing his abdomen, and felt severe pain.
The Adamantine Sealing Chains were tipped with chain darts, and one of those darts had pierced through his chest.
The Uzumaki clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains technique could actually materialize chakra? What a fearsome secret technique.
Materializing chakra... he'd heard it involved the realm of Yin-Yang Release, something ordinary ninja couldn't master.
Seeing Captain Antelope's pitiful state, Yōkō didn't rashly treat the wound. Instead, he first snatched the sealing scroll from Uzumaki Yuka's hand.
He handed the scroll to the captain: "Mission accomplished, I seized it!"
Captain Antelope cursed inwardly. He wanted you to seize a complete scroll, not a used one.
No time to blame Fox now. Captain Antelope said, "Let's go! Leave this place!"
Yōkō supported Captain Antelope and jumped into the woods by the lake.
"Captain! I'll give you the hemostatic agent!"
The hemostatic agent was successfully injected into the captain's side, and the blood stopped gushing.
In the darkness, Yōkō's eyes beneath his mask were exceptionally bright.
He supported Captain Antelope, carefully sensing the captain's physical condition, not missing a single twitch of any muscle.
In the hemostatic agent vial, a small part was medicine, a large part was poison.
The poison used by Uzumaki Yuka, a Chūnin, shouldn't be ineffective.
This time, Yōkō wouldn't act recklessly like last time.
Captain Antelope had his hidden Fire Release trump card; Yōkō didn't want to be burned to death again.
The same move couldn't work on him twice.
After putting distance between them and the battlefield, Captain Antelope gasped for breath:
"Fox, your strength is low, but your luck is good. You always manage to survive to the end. Keep it up, maybe you'll grow up someday."
"Thank you for the praise, Captain."
Captain Antelope's breathing became increasingly labored: "This time, cough, the mission failed, but we can pick another, cough, another Uzumaki squad, continue our plan to obtain a sealing scroll."
Captain Antelope's vision kept blacking out intermittently; he felt it was due to excessive blood loss.
He thought to himself, As expected of the Uzumaki clan, their final counterattack was so terrifying.
Seeing Captain Antelope's condition worsening, Yōkō quickly asked:
"Captain! If you fall unconscious, how should I contact the superior squadron? I'm afraid I can't treat such a severe injury. Does the squadron have any medical ninja?"
Captain Antelope's consciousness began to blur. He thought Fox was right.
A penetrating abdominal wound, possibly a ruptured spleen... best treated by the squadron's medical ninja. Hemostatic agent was far from enough.
Captain Antelope reached for his tool pouch but found his vision doubling; the pouch split into three, spinning incessantly.
Yōkō hurriedly helped, taking the scroll from the tool pouch and handing it to Captain Antelope.
Captain Antelope shook his head, dizzy and seeing spots, but persisted in using a specific method to unlock the scroll:
"For each mission... the Code Corps devises... a set... of new codes..."
Before he could finish speaking, Captain Antelope lost consciousness.
Yōkō waited a few seconds, ensuring Captain Antelope was completely unconscious, then formed hand seals and used the Self-Cursing Body Binding Seal.
The sealing curse marks spread all over Captain Antelope's body.
Confirming Captain Antelope had no resistance left, Yōkō raised his kunai and brutally stabbed it into the captain's throat.
Blood gushed out. Captain Antelope woke from the pain, saw the kunai before his eyes, and saw what Fox was doing.
"You..."
The captain could say no more, completely dead.
Yōkō couldn't stop. He knew ninja could extract information from corpses.
The kunai stabbed down rapidly, pried open Captain Antelope's skull, and scrambled his brains.
How disgusting.
But also, how reassuring.
Captain Antelope was finally dead.
I wonder if the Squadron Leader will give me a squad leader position? The squad only has me left now.
After doing all this, Yōkō slowly stood up, turned slightly to look around, confirmed no one was nearby, and left the place.
He carefully studied the Anbu communication scroll.
Each time the Anbu carried out a large joint mission, a set of communication codes would be compiled to guide the dispersed Anbu squads.
The various squads could use hidden markers to determine where their superior captain was and which direction to find the main force.
With this scroll, Yōkō could go directly to the Squadron Leader.
Once he became a squad leader, he would receive missions directly, know more intelligence, and no longer be just a tool.
Yōkō returned to the previous battlefield and found Uzumaki Yuka lying on the ground.
Uzumaki Yuka didn't dare move recklessly; a kunai was still stuck in her abdomen.
The bleeding wasn't heavy, but she was afraid that moving, especially pulling out the kunai, would cause massive hemorrhage.
Seeing a figure appear above her, Uzumaki Yuka felt relieved: "Fox, you're here!"
Yōkō crouched down and said, "I'm here. Sorry, I had to follow the captain's orders earlier. Now let me treat your wound."
Uzumaki Yuka felt both confused and resentful. The Konoha Anbu actually tried to seize the clan's newly developed sealing scroll.
Fortunately, Fox was from the Senju clan, made preparations in advance, applied hemostatic agent to the kunai, allowing her to survive.
Thud!
Uzumaki Yuka's chin trembled uncontrollably.
A kunai was embedded in her throat, blood gushing, splashing into her mouth.
Yōkō felt a slight twinge of guilt, which then quickly dissipated.
Applying hemostatic agent to the kunai was to gain Uzumaki Yuka's trust, thus making it easier to complete Captain Antelope's order.
He was an Anbu ninja, not some Senju clan spy.
Who would want to be a spy for the Senju clan? That was a clan destined for destruction.
Yōkō didn't cross into the ninja world to uphold justice; he wanted to survive.
Uzumaki Yuka's eyes were filled with confusion and incomprehension, not understanding why Fox was doing this.
Yōkō offered no explanation.
Blame it on you knowing too much; you had to die here. Whether the secret of the Self-Cursing Body Binding Seal or the secret of opposing Captain Antelope, if either were leaked, Yōkō would die.
The great scientist Newton said, better the priest die than the taoist.
Yōkō searched Uzumaki Yuka's body but found no other Adamantine Sealing Chains scrolls.
Oh well. After replenishing some kunai, Yōkō disappeared.
(End of Chapter)