Chapter 152: The Confidence of a BOSS
Inside the earth prison.
"Oh... is this the ability to absorb chakra?"
Haruno Sakura said with great interest.
She carefully looked at her own hands. In the darkness, she could see the fluorescent glow representing her chakra being pulled by the earth prison, floating out of her body somewhat uncontrollably.
Of course, with her ability to control her chakra, this level of chakra absorption was far from being able to affect her.
"Interesting."
The faint blue glow of her chakra reflected on the girl's delicate nose. Sakura chuckled, not at all anxious about being trapped in the ninjutsu.
She even had the leisure to explore the characteristics of Jirōbō's ninjutsu.
The familiar scene made her recall some of the "plot" she had seen before. However, compared to watching the manga, personally experiencing the ninjutsu of the Sound Four was a completely different feeling.
"Is there Yin-Yang Release chakra mixed in, or is it the effect of a sealing barrier? I remember that ordinary Earth Style doesn't have this ability."
Orochimaru's research on Yin-Yang Release was also very in-depth. Many of his ninjutsu, such as the Living Corpse Reincarnation, had used the changes of Yin-Yang Release. So it was not surprising that his subordinates had some foundation in it.
While she was exploring this seemingly quite interesting ninjutsu, she was also patiently waiting for the chakra signatures of Tayuya and Kidōmaru to appear.
"Tayuya, Kidōmaru, you guys really don't learn... you've made the same mistake again!"
She soon sensed the appearance of Tayuya and Kidōmaru.
Do they think I can really be trapped by such a ninjutsu?
Truly naive!
The girl with the cat-face mask showed a sarcastic smile in the darkness.
Outside the earth prison.
"You fatass," Kidōmaru's knife-like gaze scraped across the fatso's face a few times. "What are you talking about?"
"I-I really can't absorb her chakra!" Jirōbō said with a mournful face.
In the team, Jirōbō had always been the one most looked down upon by his comrades. Kidōmaru and Sakon would even beat and curse him at every turn.
So being reprimanded by Kidōmaru like this, coupled with the huge pressure that girl had brought them, this fatso really felt like he was about to break down and cry!
"You waste!"
Kidōmaru said in a fit of anger, grabbing Jirōbō's collar and about to teach him a lesson. Suddenly, a terrible thought appeared in his mind.
The expression on his face also changed from a face full of anger to a pale and bloodless one in an instant.
"Damn it, she couldn't have..." Kidōmaru muttered to himself, a possibility coming to his mind.
...She let herself be trapped on purpose, didn't she?
Kidōmaru's words had not yet had time to come out.
In the next instant, a sudden change occurred!
"Monstrous Strength Technique - Castle Tower Kick!"
BOOM!!
The huge stone wall that Jirōbō had worked hard to maintain was instantly and fearlessly smashed to pieces by Haruno Sakura's nin-taijutsu!
Stones flew, and the scene was in chaos.
"Damn it, run!" Kidōmaru turned his head and reminded Jirōbō and Tayuya, and without caring how they reacted, he rushed out first.
However, he was not able to escape either.
Just as he rushed to the edge of the forest, an ice mirror radiating a chilling aura blocked his path.
The figure of the cat-faced girl emerged from the ice mirror.
"Where do you think you're going, you spider-silk-player?"
Kidōmaru's heart felt as if it had fallen into a deep abyss.
"Ice Style - Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!"
The ninjutsu, which had been prepared long ago in the earth prison, was unleashed the moment she broke free from her restraints. A thousand ice mirrors surrounded the several-hundred-meter range of the clearing and the woods, turning it into Haruno Sakura's domain!
She had successfully caught this little mouse, who liked to hide its head but show its tail, in her grasp.
Kidōmaru looked at the cat-faced Anbu who had leisurely appeared before his eyes, his face extremely ugly. He leaped back, returned to the clearing, and stood back to back with Tayuya and Jirōbō once again.
He had fallen into a trap.
He finally confirmed that this woman had indeed been deliberately trapped, but it was already too late.
"Your ninjutsu and taijutsu, although they are both very powerful, if you can't find your target, no matter how powerful they are, they are meaningless..."
"So you deliberately let yourself be caught by the fatso's ninjutsu, so that we would let down our guard and come out from our hiding places, exposing ourselves to your sight!"
Kidōmaru said gloomily.
"What else?" The cat-faced ninja chuckled. The girl's crisp laughter at this moment sounded like the best irony to the three Sound ninja. "Did you really think... that guy's slow movements could really catch me?"
"And I need to remind you of one thing. Even if you hadn't come out, you wouldn't have been able to hide for long... After I've dealt with this idiot who only has his brute strength left, I'll still have a way to find you and deal with you one by one!"
Her tone was one of undisguised contempt for the three Sound ninja.
As if in her eyes, the remaining three were nothing more than clay chickens and pottery dogs.
However, the situation was stronger than them. Even Sakon had been kicked to the point of near death by her with a single blow. In addition to the sharp water jutsu in her hands, if they were to fight, one cut would mean one death. If the Sound ninja were to fight her head-on, their chances of winning were almost zero.
Therefore, both Kidōmaru and Jirōbō just looked at the cat-faced girl with cold eyes, desperately thinking of a countermeasure in their minds, but with no intention of refuting.
Only Tayuya could not bear to be provoked.
"Don't look down on people, you coward who hides your face!"
In a rage, the ferocious fleshy spikes on Tayuya's body grew a lot longer, making her look even more like a monster.
She took out her flute, wanting to use her specialty genjutsu.
"Stop!" Kidōmaru glared at her fiercely. He pressed a hand on her flute and reprimanded her without mercy. "Have you forgotten that your genjutsu doesn't work on her!"
At the critical moment, his mind was racing. In just these few sentences, an idea had already vaguely formed in his mind.
"Don't be rash... Tayuya, Jirōbō, you two listen up. We still have a chance of winning!"
Kidōmaru said gravely, clenching his teeth.
"Jirōbō, you're responsible for setting up stone walls to disrupt her vision. Tayuya, summon all your remaining puppets. Our hope is on you! As for me, I'll do my best to hold her off and cover for you..." he said, staring intently at Haruno Sakura. "This is our only chance!"
"Hmph..." Sakura sneered. "Have you finished discussing your tactics?"
Watching others discuss tactics to deal with herself, she felt a sense of role reversal: as if she had become the big villain that the protagonists were teaming up to defeat.
She was clearly on the protagonist's side!
The Sound Four were the last boss team before Shippuden in the original story, but in the face of a huge gap in strength, the positioning of the boss had actually been reversed like this...
However, this feeling was also quite interesting. Watching the enemy futilely discuss tactics that were bound to fail, there was a kind of malicious fun of looking down on ants facing an irresistible flood!
Yes, Haruno Sakura was very certain that any tactics and resistance the other party made would ultimately be a mantis trying to stop a chariot... This was not her arrogance or blind self-confidence, but the control that came after her realm had surpassed a level, where she was confident in countering any means the enemy had!
Like that guy who played with spider silk but wasn't Spider-Man. He certainly had played with his spider silk to a fine art, having both highly resilient spider webs and being able to create spider sticky gold with a hardness comparable to steel, as well as other interesting tricks, such as summoning a large spider or something... But in the face of an absolute gap in strength, what effect could such a small trick have?
Could it block the Monstrous Strength Technique or the Wind Blade Raging Stream?
And Tayuya, the effect of her genjutsu on Sakura was too weak, which directly nullified half of her skills. Just with those few summons, could she do anything to her?
As for Jirōbō, his ninjutsu had already been proven to be ineffective against Sakura. Besides causing a little harassment, what use could he be... could he really compete with the Monstrous Strength Technique in terms of who had greater power?
However, Kidōmaru also seemed very confident.
In such a situation, he actually revealed a smile.
What... is he thinking?
Haruno Sakura was a little puzzled.
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