With Nara Mikage's approval, Renya began distributing his personally developed poisons across the battlefield.
In front of the Konoha shinobi, he pulled out all the toxins he had brought with him in one go.
"This is poison I developed. You can coat your weapons with it."
The Konoha ninja stared at the various colored porcelain bottles with undisguised shock and disbelief in their eyes.
One thought simultaneously popped into everyone's mind—Renya could make poison?!
They had all assumed that as a proud Uchiha, Renya would never resort to using such underhanded methods in combat.
Clearly, they had been very, very wrong!
So that's why Renya was so good at detoxification—it was because he could create poisons himself!
Now it all made sense.
After the initial shock, one of the shinobi curiously asked:
"Renya-san, how effective is the poison you created?"
"Is it more lethal than the ones made by the Suna shinobi?"
At that, everyone instinctively turned to look at Renya, waiting expectantly for his answer.
They all wanted to know—which was stronger, Renya's poison or the Suna shinobi's?
Although Suna's poisons had already been neutralized, the trauma from the first two battles still lingered in their minds...
Hearing someone compare Suna's poisons to his own, Renya curled his lip with open disdain.
"There's no comparison. Suna's poison is trash."
As he spoke, he picked up a red porcelain bottle and explained:
"This is one of the poisons I developed. If you're hit, you'll lose the ability to move within three breaths."
His words left the Konoha shinobi stunned. They stared in disbelief at the red bottle in Renya's hand.
Had they heard that right?
Three breaths after being poisoned, and you'd lose the ability to move?!
That meant even if you had an antidote, there might not be time to take it.
You might lose the ability to move before even pulling it out.
And with such a deadly poison, there probably wasn't even an antidote...
Gulp—
The crowd collectively swallowed, eyes locked with fervor on the red porcelain bottle.
No one questioned the truth of Renya's claim.
After all, Renya's detox skills were plain to see. His ability to create poisons went without saying!
Among the crowd, Shimura Danzō and Koharu Utatane didn't appear all that surprised.
Over the years, they had already witnessed how terrifying Renya's poisons could be.
They had seen his poisons evolve—from initially mediocre to astonishingly potent, and now, to death upon contact...
Losing the ability to move in just three breaths sounded horrifying enough.
But both of them knew—it still wasn't his most lethal poison.
Danzō looked at Renya with a complicated expression, something unreadable flashing in his eyes.
This guy... he really is a genius when it comes to poison!
Suna's poisons didn't even come close...
Now that Renya was distributing his poisons across the battlefield, once the war was won—
Thanks to his detox and poison-making skills, he'd undoubtedly be hailed as the biggest hero of the southwest front.
And as for himself...
No matter how many enemies he killed, his accomplishments would never surpass Renya's.
Jealousy flashed clearly in Danzō's gaze as he looked at Renya.
He clenched his fists and muttered bitterly.
"Damn it! Why?!"
He had worked so hard, and yet he could never catch up to Renya.
In fact, the gap between them was only widening...
Becoming Hokage had always been his dream—but with Renya around, that dream was in jeopardy.
As long as Renya existed, he would never become Hokage.
Though Renya had once said he wasn't interested in becoming Hokage, Danzō didn't believe that.
At the time, Renya was still an Uchiha, so their sensei likely wouldn't have passed the title to him.
But now, things were different...
Renya had left the Uchiha clan and joined the Senju.
As their sensei's adopted son, and now a member of the Senju clan, coupled with his overwhelming contributions on the battlefield...
It was almost a foregone conclusion that Renya would become Hokage.
As for Renya not wanting to be Hokage?
Sure, that wasn't impossible—but Danzō refused to believe he'd really give up such a position.
No one would reject becoming Hokage!
No one!
Danzō suddenly let out a bitter laugh, slowly loosening his clenched fists.
Maybe the title of Third Hokage really wasn't meant for him.
But he wasn't giving up.
If he couldn't be the Third Hokage...
Then he'd become the Fourth, or the Fifth—even the Sixth Hokage!
As long as he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the village, he believed—
One day, he would become Hokage.
Just like that, Danzō managed to comfort himself.
His new goal wasn't to surpass Renya's achievements. There was no point in that.
He just needed to have more merits than the others!
With enough accomplishments, he could prepare to inherit the Hokage title in the future.
Already, Danzō had begun laying the groundwork for becoming Hokage someday!
When he came back to his senses, he saw the Konoha shinobi swarming around Renya, scrambling to apply the poison to their weapons.
"Everyone be careful—don't accidentally poison yourselves!" Renya shouted in warning.
Not everyone was like him, with some degree of resistance to poison.
Even if he got poisoned, he wouldn't die immediately.
But others weren't the same. If they got hit by accident...
Unless they had taken the antidote beforehand, they were as good as dead.
Seeing this, Shimura Danzō immediately pushed into the crowd, afraid he'd miss out on the poison.
"Renya, save some for me!"
Before long, everyone had coated their weapons with the poison.
Shimura Danzō looked at the kunai in his hand, unable to hide his excitement.
The poison he'd used was different from the others.
This was Renya's newest formula—
The same one he had applied to [Immaculate].
With this, his efficiency and speed in killing enemies would skyrocket beyond anyone else's.
Which meant that aside from Renya, no one else on the southwest front could surpass his achievements!
Concerned about accidental poisonings, Renya handed out antidotes to everyone.
The shinobi took the antidotes and swallowed them without hesitation.
With that peace of mind, they could fight freely.
Just in case they accidentally got poisoned...
If the Suna shinobi didn't kill them but they died from their own weapons, that would be a real joke.
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Southwest Battlefield — Sunagakure Camp
"Our poison has been neutralized!"
The silver-haired girl's face went pale upon hearing this.
"How could that be?!"
She had just developed that poison. How could it already be countered?!
The battle had only just begun!
Commander Matsuda's eyes gleamed, his expression showing no surprise at all.
He had expected this outcome. As long as Konoha's poison specialist was still active, their poisons would be useless.
Ignoring the girl's shock, Matsuda turned to the ninja who had reported in.
"Have you identified the one who developed the antidote?"
He had sent a group of shinobi to the battlefield not only to test Konoha's detoxification capabilities but also to identify the person responsible...
"Reporting to Matsuda-sama—we succeeded! We've discovered the identity of Konoha's poison specialist!"
Upon hearing this, Commander Matsuda leaned forward urgently.
"Tell me—who is it?!"
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