A sudden, shocking turn of events.
An unbelievable, shocking turn.
Only now did Danzo finally realize that he had, at some point, become immersed in an illusory world. Everything before his eyes had turned to nothingness.
'But…'
'Why?'
'What kind of Genjutsu could hypnotize me so silently and imperceptibly!??'
Danzo was both astonished and puzzled.
Don't forget.
He possessed Kagami's Three-Tomoe Sharingan. An Elite Jonin-level Sharingan… how could it fail to see through a mere Genjutsu!??
"Just when…"
"Did it happen?"
Danzo's gaze turned ashen, his tone still full of bewilderment.
"It seems you don't have the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing inscribed on your body."
Sora held the sword that pierced Danzo's heart and said calmly: "Danzo, your caliber is truly disappointing…"
Clink!
The next moment, Sora withdrew the blade. The friction of the blade against the wound produced a crisp, shattering sound.
It wasn't a normal sound, because Danzo's body had already been frozen by the Zanpakuto's chilling air, his body turned to ice, the last trace of life slowly fading away.
Looking down at his frozen body, Danzo's gaze became inexplicably complex. His mind went blank, countless turbulent emotions and memories rising incessantly in his heart.
"What a pity…"
"Hiruzen."
"Even at this moment of death, I have never truly defeated you. I've lost again…"
His voice ceased, and with it, his life ended.
Without any intense pain or contortion, the generation's veteran Ninja, Shimura Danzo, quietly met his final battle.
Encased in ice.
Frozen.
Danzo's corpse turned into a frost-covered ice sculpture, then shattered with a crash under the impact of Reiatsu.
Sora raised his hand, his right hand forming a loose grip.
Immediately after, a pale blue human-shaped light shadow drifted out from Danzo's head and was confined into Sora's mental void.
Within that cosmic, boundless mental void, another pale blue human figure already existed… the soul of Uchiha Shisui.
The two souls met in the void, but showed no intention of communicating. After merely glancing at each other, they fell silent again, sinking back into the void.
…
Danzo was dead.
The battlefield was already a complete mess.
Not only Danzo, but the whole Konoha's Root Organization had essentially been destroyed by Sora alone. After all, the loss of over fifty Jonin-level combatants was an immense blow.
However, all this was destined the moment Konoha's higher-ups devised their decapitation plan.
Decapitate Sora?
Assassinating a powerhouse comparable to the God of Ninja, Senju Hashirama or the villainous Uchiha Madara was itself a rather unwise move, destined to fail.
Unknowingly,
Sora had grown into an ultimate powerhouse capable of single-handedly suppressing the military might of a nation's Ninja Village.
The hundreds of Konoha's Jonin wiped out by him, and even the generation's Darkness of the Ninja World, Shimura Danzo, had all used their lives to prove this statement true.
Just as Danzo was beheaded, a system notification sound suddenly rang in Sora's ears.
[Ding!]
[Special Hidden Mission 1: Repel the Time Traveler, Six Paths Uchiha Sasuke, Completed. Reward: 600,000 Reiatsu Points, +5000 Hakuda, Zanjutsu, Hoho, Kido Experience]
[Special Hidden Mission 2: Kill Konoha's Ninja, Shimura Danzo, Completed. Reward: 200,000 Reiatsu Points, High-Level Kido: Hado #58, Tenran]
[Hado #58: Tenran: Use Kido power to stir up a hurricane, oppressing and killing the enemy]
…
800,000 Reiatsu points!
'This battle with Sasuke and Danzo actually triggered the system's hidden missions?'
A look of surprise appeared on Sora's face, followed by a bit of delight.
The reward of 800,000 Reiatsu points was simply too generous. Even without the Kido reward of Hado #58, Tenran, it was enough to make one excited and thrilled.
800,000 Reiatsu points!
It directly advanced Sora's Reiatsu level by a huge step.
Now, his Reiatsu combat power, even within the Rank 6 (High Kage-level), was among the top choices.
If he activated Hyorinmaru's Bankai, the combat power unleashed would probably be enough to contend with Six Paths-level powerhouses.
"This is too overpowered!"
Sora couldn't help but exclaim.
It had only been a few months since obtaining Hyorinmaru, yet his combat power had repeatedly advanced by leaps and bounds, undergoing a true qualitative change.
With a thought, his personal status panel appeared before his eyes.
[Eternal Shinigami Master System]
[Host: Yuki Sora]
[Reiatsu: Rank 6 (1,000,000/2,000,000)]
[Hakuda: Expert Level (5,000/10,000)]
[Zanjutsu: Expert Level (6,000/10,000)]
[Hoho: Expert Level (6,000/10,000)]
[Kido: Expert Level (8,000/10,000)]
[Zanpakuto: Hyorinmaru (Bankai), Kyoka Suigetsu (Shikai)]
…
Rank 6!
Zanjutsu, Hakuda, Hoho, Kido… all four at peak Expert Level, just one step away from Master Level!
With such terrifying combat power, one wonders what kind of erroneous intelligence misled Orochimaru and Danzo into devising a decapitation plan!!!
Now...
Danzo beheaded, Orochimaru sealed, Root Organization directly annihilated. The two had undoubtedly paid an extremely painful price.
…
"Kushina? Kushina? What's wrong?"
Jiraiya waved his fan-like hand in front of the dazed Kushina. After a good while, Kushina, as if jolted from a nightmare, suddenly widened her eyes and said somewhat apologetically: "Sorry, Jiraiya-sensei, I suddenly felt a strange sense of foreboding, so I was a bit distracted…"
"Don't worry too much about it!"
Hearing this, Jiraiya laughed and comforted her: "Didn't Shizune and the others say? Minato's recovery is going quite well. In another half month, he should be healthy again. It seems that Yuki Sora's move looked scary, but its actual lethality isn't that great. What a relief…"
"A relief?"
Kushina, however, felt an inexplicable unease, 'That Kirigakure's monster, Yuki Sora, clearly had the chance to kill Minato directly before, so why did he spare him…'
It wasn't that she looked down on Minato, but she truly didn't think Minato could have survived that terrifying Black Coffin.
'That black light, filled with destructive aura… forget humans, even a Tailed Beast like Kurama could probably be directly suppressed and killed by it, right?'
'So…'
'Why!??'
Whenever she thought of the name Yuki Sora, Kushina instinctively felt pressure. She furrowed her delicate brows in thought, always feeling she had missed some key detail.