Chapter 123: The Golden Goose's Entrustment!
The Nara clan meeting was discussing a win-win strategy between the new and old clan heads. Nara Keisuke was also conducting a new experiment on the Kekkei Genkai with Pakura.
Inside the secluded villa.
Pakura gasped and fell into Keisuke's arms. At this moment, her eyes were like alluring silk, her tender lips were slightly parted, and she exhaled a breath like an orchid—
"Alright!"
Nara Keisuke timely pushed her away. A deep green mass of chakra was coalescing between his palms. A turbid, dark liquid was floating up and down within this chakra mass—it was the residue of the chakra-suppressing drug that had been left in Pakura's body.
[B-rank Technique: Delicate Illness Extraction Technique]
[Technique Description: Remove all toxins harmful to the human body.]
[Technique Effect: By sensing the chaotic chakra within the human body, one can observe the root cause of harm, such as toxins and pathogens. Incise the afflicted area, extract the toxin while simultaneously healing the damaged part, allowing the patient to break free from the threat of the poison's control.]
[Technique Evaluation: Not... a single drop is left.]
"Generally speaking, although the [Delicate Illness Extraction Technique] can remove the vast majority of toxins from the human body in a short period, it's still inevitable that some minute traces will remain."
Keisuke manipulated a shadow tentacle to retrieve a glass container from the side and placed the residual drug liquid from his hand into it. A faint, strange smell immediately filled the air. "But you, Pakura, took a chakra-suppressing drug. Although you haven't used chakra for a long time, for a Jonin like you, it shouldn't be difficult to re-mold it."
Pakura turned her face away and looked at the mirror at her side. Her smooth and tender back radiated the soft glow of white jade in the mirror, without a single scar to be seen. The next moment, she closed her eyes, raised her right hand, formed a sword finger, and with incomparable skill, molded and condensed her chakra.
Although there was still a certain sluggishness in the operation and control of her chakra, not as smooth as it used to be, feeling this long-lost power, Pakura almost cried on the spot. Who knew how she had gotten through these past few days! It was like walking on the edge of an abyss, like treading on thin ice. These two phrases were the best reflection of her state of mind during this period.
But finally... she had regained this power! The power of Scorch Release!
Pakura's eyes flew open. Her amber eyes, which had regained a trace of their sharp aura, looked in Keisuke's direction. The sword finger she held before her chest moved a tiny fraction. But in the end, she made no move, and just lowered her arm as if resigned to her fate. She discovered with some pity that she seemed to no longer have the courage to resist him...
"Such a good girl." Keisuke smiled lightly. "I originally thought you'd at least throw a little tantrum right now."
Hearing this, Pakura didn't even dare to roll her eyes too much. "Why did you give my chakra back to me?"
"Just a new round of experiments." A shadow net spread out from beneath Keisuke, firmly enveloping the prey named "Pakura." The [Shadow Threads] interspersed between the shadow tentacles, like the fangs of a predator, silently pierced into her body.
At the same time, Keisuke's spiritual consciousness, following this incomparably secret [Shadow Thread], connected to Pakura's central nervous system.
"What are you doing now?" Pakura looked down at the shadow at her feet. She tentatively moved her limbs and found that she was not restrained in any way. "Are you trying to scare me?"
"This is just a small part of the experiment." On the surface, there was no change, but the one answering Pakura's question now was a [Shadow Doppelganger].
Keisuke's consciousness was lurking in Pakura's body, and for the time being, he had not crudely seized control of her body. The [Shadow Doppelganger] deliberately paused for a moment before speaking. "Now, mold your Scorch Release chakra just like you used to."
Pakura's brow furrowed slightly. "Aren't you afraid I'll suddenly attack you?"
"I trust you," the [Shadow Doppelganger] said generously. "And I trust myself."
Pakura was silent for a moment, but still obediently began to mold her Scorch Release chakra. Keisuke, lurking in her body, through this meticulous method of observation, "personally witnessed" the entire process of the birth of [Scorch Release] from the fusion of wind and fire-nature chakra.
'This method of obtaining experimental data is countless times more efficient than verbal communication!'
Keisuke released the restriction of the [Shadow Manipulation Technique]. Pakura, who had just been molding her Scorch Release chakra, suddenly felt her vision go black. Her entire spiritual consciousness "retracted" into some unknown, secret little box, completely disconnecting from her body.
The [Shadow Manipulation Technique], during its use, could completely seal the opponent's spiritual consciousness! In this situation, Pakura had no way to perceive her own state, let alone the external environment.
"What's going on now?" After a brief moment of panic, Pakura almost instinctively attributed this change to Nara Keisuke. "Is this also your ninjutsu?"
"I'm just borrowing your body for a moment," Keisuke's voice sounded in her "ear." "To do a simple experiment."
"With my body..." Pakura didn't know what she had thought of, but even in her spiritual state, her face suddenly flushed red. "Don't you dare do anything funny!"
The surrounding darkness came as quickly as it went. Just as Pakura had "spoken" her words, her whole person was released from the black box, and she saw the light of the outside world again. The first thing she did upon waking was to check her body up and down.
Keisuke paid no attention to her actions. He was just savoring the strange feeling of controlling her body just now. In the state of the [Shadow Manipulation Technique], he could use the Scorch Release chakra in her body without any hindrance and release the technique [Scorch Release: Extremely Steaming Murder].
Although he had already mastered the [Scorch Release Chakra Forging Method], this feeling of experiencing the special ability of a Kekkei Genkai ninja from a "first-person perspective" still filled his heart with surprise.
'When using the [Shadow Manipulation Technique], I can personally experience the effect of an elemental-release-type Kekkei Genkai, which will be of great benefit to future experiments.'
'If that Explosion Release ninja was still in my hands, I should have been able to quickly research the secret of his Kekkei Genkai fusion and then make it my own. After all, I possess both fire and earth chakra natures.'
'If I had to say there's any flaw in the [Shadow Manipulation Technique], it's probably that it can't proactively mold the chakra in a ninja's body, only consume and use the chakra that's already there.'
'But chakra is a product of the fusion of a ninja's physical and spiritual energy. The opponent's spiritual energy is temporarily sealed by my jutsu, and it's impossible for my spiritual energy to participate in their chakra creation process.'
'All in all, it's pretty great!'
In the gap while Keisuke was thinking about the experiment process, Pakura, after checking that her clothes had not been pulled or tugged in any way, let out a sigh of relief.
"No need to be so nervous." Keisuke came back to his senses and beckoned to the Suna kunoichi. "You should have been mentally prepared for this, shouldn't you?"
Pakura bit her cherry lip and once again looked at the mirror at her side, a feeling of unbearable shame welling up in her heart. She always felt that the mirror had seen everything.
...Noon break activity...
Keisuke accompanied the obedient and gentle Scorch Release ninja, experiencing her scorching heat on a deeper level. It wasn't until dusk that he reluctantly left her, choosing to depart. But this time, he did not feed her the special chakra-suppressing drug again.
However... watching his departing back, Pakura's gaze was like looking at some kind of scum of the earth. "Scumbag! Beast! Pervert—"
Back at the Kikyo Orphanage.
Keisuke had originally planned to go find the glasses-wearing nun and sincerely repent for his evil deeds of the day. But out of the blue, he saw a long-unseen guest drinking alone in his and Nono'o's room.
"When did she get here?" Keisuke glanced at the flushed-faced, drunk-eyed Princess Tsunade, and gestured to Nono'o at his side.
"Lady Tsunade came at noon," Nono'o said in a small voice. "She's in a bad mood. A very bad mood. An extremely bad mood. She's been drinking in the room all afternoon."
"Mm, I can see that." Keisuke looked at the scattered wine bottles on the floor, rubbed his head, but still proactively entered the room.
What greeted him was a... "Hic—"
Tsunade seemed to have been deliberately waiting for him. She saw his arrival and was about to say something, but only managed to let out a huge and loud, drunken hiccup.
Keisuke froze on the spot as if he had been hit by the [Body Freeze Technique]. He had broad tastes, but they absolutely did not include drunkards.
Fortunately, Tsunade still had a shred of sobriety. She shouted in a rough voice, "Nara! Come here! Sit!"
Keisuke sighed, his shoulders slumping as he walked over in resignation. "You're drunk again, Sister Tsunade."
"It's better to be drunk." The trembling Tsunade slammed the wine bottle onto the ground. "Nono'o, another bottle! Put it on my tab!"
Keisuke used the [Shadow Gathering Jutsu] to catch the bottle just in time, preventing it from shattering on the floor. "This is the Kikyo Orphanage, not an izakaya," he said, placing the empty bottle to the side. "If you want to drink, go drink somewhere else."
"Then let's go... let's go..." Tsunade looked around, and her hazy, drunken eyes saw the moon in the sky. "I want to go to the moon to drink!"
"..."
The corner of Keisuke's mouth twitched a few times. He directly used his jutsu to grab hold of the dizzy golden goose. The next moment, he turned his head and nodded to Nono'o outside the door. A massive shadow eagle emerged from the darkness, carrying both him and Tsunade as it flew into the high sky.
The biting gale, the thin air, the plunging temperature. All of this finally made Tsunade sober up again. Before she could survey her surroundings and check the situation, her vision was filled with Nara Keisuke's face. Under the faint moonlight, the youth's face was cold and handsome, as quiet as a natural sculpture carved by the gods.
"The matter you mentioned before, I've already found out the result." Tsunade felt a wave of dizziness and instinctively began to recount the reason for her drinking binge. "Recently, some of the wounded in the Iwagakure war zone have been dying quietly after entering the infirmary. Logically, the infirmary is a key patrol location for medical ninja; this kind of situation shouldn't be happening. There is only one guess that can explain this problem—someone is secretly murdering Konoha's seriously wounded ninja."
"Are you testing my memory?" Keisuke reminded her calmly. "Or are you unwilling to mention that name yourself? Do I need to remind you one more time? Those are just seriously wounded personnel. For someone to murder these ninja who have lost their combat ability, it's definitely not simply for the sake of killing. It's because he needs the lives and bodies of these ninja to complete certain evil—"
"...No!" Tsunade suddenly crashed into him, grabbing the collar of his clothes with both hands, at the same time shutting him up.
Time seemed to stand still at this moment. Princess Tsunade stared at the close-up Nara Keisuke, her hazy brown eyes, tinged with the smell of alcohol, widened slightly. He didn't know how long had passed, perhaps a second, or perhaps a quarter of an hour.
"Nara!" Princess Tsunade, her face completely red, pulled away a sliver of silver thread, at the same time moving away from those ink-black eyes. "No matter what, remember what you said before! That guy Orochimaru, I'm leaving him to you!"
(End of Chapter)
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