Rengoku formed a hand seal, and his body turned into a blaze of fire that rushed toward Danzo.
The flames spun like a whirlwind, quickly approaching Danzo.
Danzo lifted the 7-year-old Hotaru in his hands, using her like a shield in the fire's path.
"Don't come any closer!"
Rengoku, in his flame form, crashed straight into her, burning both her and Danzo.
Danzo cried out miserably. Upon realizing Rengoku didn't care about the little girl's life or death, he fiercely hurled her toward Rengoku.
Rengoku didn't catch her, continuing his pursuit of Danzo and reverting from flames into human form.
A horizontal elbow strike smashed toward Danzo's head.
When Rengoku reverted to human form, he could choose any position within the flames.
Danzo didn't even react in time, his head took the full brunt of Rengoku's elbow, and his neck twisted completely.
With a thud, he collapsed to the ground.
After Rengoku landed, Danzo's body suddenly vanished from the ground.
He reappeared at Rengoku's side.
He gripped a kunai and lunged toward Rengoku.
Rengoku snorted coldly. He had already seen the three tomoe Sharingan in Danzo's hand.
He knew Danzo had already used Izanagi.
He remained vigilant the entire time. To kill Danzo, there was no need for Susanoo.
He simply shifted his body, dodged the kunai, a cluster of chakra erupted from his hand, slicing directly across Danzo's neck.
Danzo looked at Rengoku's hand in shock, clutching his bleeding neck as he fell limply to the ground.
'Rengoku can actually use the chakra scalpel?'
Danzo's body again vanished like a gust of wind.
This time, he reappeared farther away.
The moment he emerged, he had already completed his hand seals.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Bullets!"
Danzo puckered his lips, firing compressed chakra bullets like a machine gun.
Rengoku's Mangekyo Sharingan spun rapidly, tracking the vacuum bullets' trajectory, and with a few swift flickers, he moved horizontally through the air, evading the vacuum bullets.
Mid-air, Rengoku saw Danzo preparing another set of hand seals.
Rengoku's eyes opened wide, his powerful ocular energy burst forth.
"Amaterasu!"
The ominous black flames immediately spread across Danzo's face.
Danzo let out a terrible scream and fell to the ground.
But just two seconds later, Danzo again turned to smoke and disappeared.
After casting Amaterasu, Rengoku didn't stop. He formed seals again.
Fire Style: Ghost Lantern!
Like golden lotuses rising from the earth, countless orange fireballs floated up from the ground.
As soon as Danzo reappeared in the distance, all the fireballs swarmed toward him.
Danzo's face turned grim, but his hands didn't slow down.
"Summoning Technique!"
BOOM!
A massive long-nosed elephant appeared on the field, it was Baku.
But this time, Danzo summoned it purely as a meat shield.
Before Baku could even react, a barrage of fireballs crashed into it.
"Awooo…", With a howl of agony, Baku vanished with a bang.
Wind Style: Vacuum Great Sphere!
Danzo took a deep breath and fired a high-pressure wind orb from his mouth, like a rocket blast, straight at the incoming Rengoku.
Rengoku stared coldly at Danzo, his pupil power erupting.
Before the Vacuum Great Sphere could hit Rengoku, Danzo was locked in place.
Rengoku instantly burst into countless crows fluttering through the sky.
He completely dodged the wind blast.
When Rengoku reformed on the ground, a chakra scalpel had already formed in his hand, slicing off Danzo's arm.
Danzo grunted in pain and awoke with rage, "It's all because of you! My plan failed! DIE!"
A huge sealing formula appeared on his chest—
Reverse Four Symbols Sealing.
Ink blasted out violently, and Rengoku's figure quickly darted back.
A semi-gray sealing array carved a giant pit in the ground.
Looking at its size, if there had been a bridge here, it might have sealed it too.
But Danzo wasn't dead yet, he still had one Sharingan left.
After that Sharingan closed, Danzo reappeared far away.
Panting, he ran outward. He hadn't expected the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing to cost so much chakra.
Combined with Izanagi, he was nearly depleted.
Seeing Danzo revive, Rengoku, who dodged the sealing array, immediately chased after him.
But just then, a figure completely masked emerged from underground and slashed Danzo in two.
The next moment, a golden staff struck the masked man hard.
The masked man grunted, vomiting a large mouthful of blood, and used the momentum to fly away.
Rengoku glared coldly at the Third Hokage, who had just arrived.
That masked man was the same one who had attacked the Uchiha clan before.
Rengoku suspected he was from the Sarutobi clan, but he didn't know why.
Danzo wasn't dead yet. Cut in half, his eyes bulged as he glared at the Third Hokage.
"Good… good, Hiruzen…"
Blood kept gushing from his mouth, his breath rapidly weakening.
"I… I'll be… waiting for you…"
Rengoku glanced at the arriving Sarutobi Hiruzen.
But he didn't argue.
He simply walked to Danzo's severed body.
The Third Hokage thought Danzo's death ended everything, what a joke.
Rengoku glanced at Danzo's Wood Style arm. Trees had already started growing from it, if not handled soon, it might be too late.
With two slashes, he cut off Danzo's Wood Style arm and the other intact arm.
Unfortunately, even after being severed, the Wood Style arm continued turning into tree matter.
Rengoku had no choice but to dig out several discarded Sharingan from it.
"Hiruzen, what are you doing?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen, holding his adamantine staff, had been ready to argue.
But seeing Rengoku didn't seem enraged about Danzo's death surprised him.
Rengoku sneered, "I'm dismembering him. More precisely, cutting off Danzo's arms. Didn't you see?"
After digging out the Sharingan from the arm, the Wood Style had already turned fully into tree.
Rengoku unwrapped Danzo's bandages and found that his eye had turned an ashen gray.
Rengoku frowned, then directly dug that out too.
Finally, he severed Danzo's dog head, this thing was worth hundreds of millions.
He wrapped Danzo's parts and the discarded Sharingan in Danzo's clothing.
Rengoku stood up, "Third Hokage, you'd better think about how to explain this to the people."
The Third Hokage's expression turned gloomy, "I will give the people an explanation."
Rengoku ignored him and quickly returned to the little girl he had burned earlier.
He didn't know who she was.
He only saw Danzo had grabbed her while fleeing. Though she'd suffered burns, at least she was still alive.
Rengoku squatted to examine the girl's condition.
Having recently gained part of Nono's medical knowledge, a basic check was no problem.
But the girl's clothes were completely burned off.
Rengoku took off his ceremonial robe and covered her with it.
Only then did he discover the raised blood vessels and the secret seal in the center of her back.
He immediately realized who she was.
A descendant of the Tsuchigumo Clan, En no Gyoja's granddaughter, Hotaru.
Without changing his expression, he wrapped her up carefully and checked her again.
Aside from the burns he had caused, she had no internal injuries.
Only physical weakness.
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