"Are you serious? You dragged me out here in the middle of the night just to move cargo?"
"I literally just recovered from my injuries!"
Faced with Jinlin's complaints, Gekko Chizan turned a deaf ear.
He had already started herding all the carriages to one spot.
As for the shinobi guarding the carriages? Tossed into a pile—for later handling.
"Not my problem! You move them yourself."
"I'm a dignified golden python, absolutely not! No way!"
Gekko Chizan watched Jinlin shake his snake head like mad, completely speechless.
"A basket of snake berries..."
"Huh? What? Hiss... No! There's no way food could ever win me over!"
"Two baskets of snake berries..."
"Deal!"
Jinlin immediately agreed, afraid Gekko Chizan might change his mind. The massive golden python wrapped his huge body around all the cargo and piled it on himself in an instant.
"I'm heading back first. Don't forget—one hand delivers the snake berries, the other gets the goods."
"I'm telling you, if you don't bring the snake berries, I'll dump this cargo outside the snake pit."
"Hmph! You'll have a hard time getting it back then!"
Gekko Chizan nodded. It was just a few snakeberries—no big deal. The real priority was the cargo. Even if he couldn't bring it back to Konoha, he had other good distribution channels.
"Then I'm off to Ryūchi Cave. Waiting for your snakeberries."
"Also, stop summoning me at night. No—stop summoning us!"
"Poof!"
A huge puff of white smoke appeared. Jinlin and the cargo were gone.
Only 15 Kumogakure shinobi and a bunch of horses were left behind.
"Chizan, what should we do with these guys?"
"Leave them to me."
Chōmei suddenly spoke, a note of strange excitement in his voice that Gekko Chizan couldn't quite place.
"Leave them to you? Chōmei, what are you planning?"
"What do you think? They're enemy shinobi anyway. Let me test my scale powder on them."
Gekko Chizan's eyes instantly went wide. His expression screamed: Are you even human?!
But he quickly remembered—this was the Seven-Tails Chōmei. Not human. A bug.
"Chōmei, don't you think this is a bit much?"
"Too much? I don't think so. It's just an experiment. I've been working on a poison powder. I want to see if it can actually kill someone."
Gekko Chizan was speechless—but in the end, he agreed to Chōmei's request.
He tossed Troy aside, then walked over to the remaining 14 people.
Right now, Chōmei's paralysis powder was perfected. As long as a sufficient amount was inhaled, it caused full-body paralysis—even the five senses stopped functioning. Vision blurred, sound indistinct.
The 14 before him were basically 14 living mannequins, at Gekko Chizan's complete mercy.
As for Troy? Sorry—he had other uses. Definitely not for experimentation.
"Chōmei, how are you going to test it?"
"Hehehe, this is the poison powder I just refined. According to my theory, it should cause instant death."
Gekko Chizan nodded, then waved his hand.
A handful of colorless scale powder fell onto the face of a Kumogakure shinobi.
"Will your poison powder cancel out the paralysis powder?"
"It shouldn't, but it might weaken the paralysis effect. They're both scale powders, after all—some interference is possible."
As the poison powder landed, the Kumogakure shinobi suddenly convulsed.
Like he'd been electrocuted, his whole body began to spasm—violently, like a mantis shrimp on crack.
"You sure this is poison powder?"
"Yeah! I specifically based it on snake venom. Why's it doing this?"
Man and bug stared wide-eyed at the shinobi in front of them.
Poisonous or not, that was unclear—but the reaction sure was intense. Even the paralysis powder seemed to be wearing off.
The guy leapt up from the ground and immediately entered a berserk state.
His eyes turned blood-red, mouth gaping open as drool poured out.
To Gekko Chizan, he looked less like a ninja and more like a zombie...
"Hey hey hey, Chōmei, you've gotta be kidding me! This is supposed to be poison????"
"Uh... It's not? What if I messed up the proportions?"
"Yeah right! This isn't poison—it's a berserker drug!"
The shinobi who'd been hit with the scale powder charged madly at Gekko Chizan, completely feral.
Taijutsu, ninjutsu, weapons—all forgotten. He lunged purely on instinct.
Gekko Chizan freaked out and dodged, terrified the guy would really turn into a zombie and bite him.
"Shine!"
After dodging, Gekko Chizan casually pulled out a kunai and stabbed it through the ninja's head.
As the body collapsed heavily to the ground, Gekko Chizan finally let out a sigh of relief—then roared at Chōmei:
"Chōmei! What the hell is wrong with you?! Don't ever make that crap again!"
"That stuff will get people killed!"
Perfectly good poison powder—no poison at all. Turned into a berserker drug instead. My god.
"Wait! Something must've gone wrong. Could it be that the paralysis powder messed with the poison powder?"
"I don't care! Just drop the poison powder research. I'm scared one day you'll turn me into that thing by accident."
"Ack ack ack, don't be like that! Fine, no more poison powder! But I have other scale powders! If poison doesn't work, I've got a hallucinogen!"
Hallucinogen?
At that word, Gekko Chizan perked up again.
After all, Chōmei's scale powder had never had hallucinogenic effects. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so fixated on Orochimaru's drugs.
Sometimes hallucinations were far more effective than paralysis or sleep.
"Alright! I'll give you one more chance."
Gekko Chizan approached another Kumogakure shinobi, and Chōmei quickly began condensing scale powder.
He tossed another handful onto the shinobi's face.
Before the powder could even take effect, Gekko Chizan leapt to the side. He was genuinely scared.
If this scale powder mutated again and turned another guy into a zombie, he might die of shock.
As the hallucinogenic powder took effect, the shinobi didn't convulse.
Instead, his skin flushed red, and his entire presence became scorching hot.
Under the dumbfounded gaze of Gekko Chizan and Chōmei, the man suddenly did a kip-up off the ground—then, without thinking, dove onto a teammate lying nearby.
That movement, that posture...
"What the hell! Chōmei, if I trust you again, I'm a total idiot!"
"This isn't a hallucinogen! It's freaking aphrodisiac!"
"Ah! My eyes! Shine!"
A kunai flew out like lightning. The burning-hot shinobi's head was instantly pierced and he collapsed heavily to the ground.
Even in death, he was still radiating heat.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
Furious, Gekko Chizan spewed a ball of fire. A massive fireball whooshed across the battlefield, reducing the remaining Kumogakure shinobi to ashes.
[Ding! Detected that the host used Kumogakure shinobi in collaboration with the Seven-Tails Chōmei to conduct crimes against humanity and destroyed the corpses to erase evidence. Truly despicable and unbearable to witness! Special reward granted: Summoning Technique – Rashōmon! Note: This skill can be enhanced to: One Layer, Two Layers, Three Layers, Five Layers.]??
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