Chapter 284: What a Monster
"Defected?"
Seimei's eyes widened as he shook his head in disbelief. "Don't try to fool me. You're a once-in-a-millennium genius of Konoha, and even Hashirama's final disciple. How could you possibly defect?"
"In this world, nothing is impossible!"
Li Jiexuan shrugged with a smile. "If you don't believe me, you can ask Gengetsu Hōzuki. I'm sure Kirigakure's intelligence division has already received my bounty notice!"
Hearing this, Gengetsu Hōzuki hurriedly contacted the intelligence department back in Kirigakure. After a while, he nodded at Seimei with a face full of shock. "It's true!"
"Nani?"
Seimei's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. After a long silence, he looked up in confusion. "Why? Why would Konoha do this?"
"I heard Li Jiexuan slaughtered an elder of the Uchiha clan," Gengetsu Hōzuki said with a pained expression. Just for something like that, Li Jiexuan defected…
In their Bloody Kirigakure, forget killing a clan elder. Even if someone killed him, no one would dare say a word. Instead, they would probably be pushed straight onto the Mizukage's throne!
"Now do you understand?"
Li Jiexuan sneered as he raised the induction coil and aimed the barrel at Seimei. "I'm not a Konoha ninja anymore. Konoha has no authority over me now!"
Hearing this, Seimei froze. He could already imagine what Konoha would say after Li Jiexuan fired this shot:
"Ninja Li Jiexuan has already defected from the village. During the period after his defection, all of his personal actions are unrelated to the village. Konoha will bear no responsibility for this terrorist attack. Out of humanitarian concern, we offer compensation in the form of one D-rank ninjutsu…"
Nothing but tricks and bullshits!
"Now, I'll ask you one last time. Will you honor the bet, or refuse?" Li Jiexuan aimed the electromagnetic cannon at Seimei. A coin slowly slid into the chamber, as if that terrifying white beam capable of destroying everything could be fired at any moment.
"Refuse or agree… that does seem to be a question!" Cold sweat covered Seimei's face. Though he wanted to agree, the citizens of the Land of Artisans watching from behind would never accept it.
If he nodded now, he might as well stop being the Daimyō of the Land of Artisans. Perhaps…
This Li Jiexuan doesn't actually dare to fire. He's just bluffing me. Should I gamble on it?
Just as Seimei hesitated, Li Jiexuan suddenly seemed to lose patience. His thumb twitched slightly, and a terrifying white light abruptly flared from the induction coil…
The dreadful white light was like a grim reaper clad in holy garments. As the glow intensified, so did the fear in Seimei's heart. In the end, he was so terrified he even forgot how to breathe…
"I'm going to die. He really dares to do it!"
As the light reached its peak, Li Jiexuan suddenly flicked the coin. Seimei felt his vision go black. Terrified, he collapsed to the ground, and a foul stream of urine uncontrollably poured out…
Ding-ling~!
The white light vanished. The small coin rolled out of the coil and cheerfully bounced across the ground…
Seimei was already kneeling on the ground, repeatedly smashing his head against the floor, wailing in tears. "I was wrong! I'm willing to honor the bet! Please don't kill me!"
Seeing all this, Li Jiexuan sneered coldly.
He had long known Seimei was not some fearless warrior. Otherwise, decades later, how could he have turned himself into that neither-human-nor-ghost humanoid ninja tool…
Watching this, Gengetsu Hōzuki couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement. This guy… is he really just a three-year-old child? Being Kage-level at three was one thing, but to have such terrifying control over human psychology…
What a monster!