"Gulp!"
Umino Yoru quickly pulled out the green spinach pill he'd obtained from Akimichi Toribō and swallowed it whole.
At the same time, he devoured several honey-glazed energy bars and activated his Gluttony Technique, rapidly refining chakra.
"Since you're hellbent on dying… I'll oblige."
Seeing that the giant lizard refused to retreat, Umino Yoru finally erupted with fierce fighting spirit, his eyes icy with killing intent.
"Water Style: Water Clone Jutsu!"
Once again, he unleashed a swarm of water clones to buy more time.
The massive lizard, thoroughly enraged by the earlier Shadow Shuriken Jutsu, attacked with even greater ferocity—but its tactics had lost all composure.
The water clones' stalling strategy worked perfectly. The lizard rampaged wildly, smashing clone after clone in a frenzy.
Thanks to the spinach pill and energy bars, Umino Yoru's chakra reserves were now overflowing. Without hesitation, he created eight shadow clones.
"Water Style: Sticky Syrup Binding!"
"Water Style: Sticky Syrup Binding!"
"Water Style: Sticky Syrup Binding—!"
The clones instantly teleported around the lizard, surrounding it from all directions as they simultaneously unleashed the sticky syrup ropes, entangling the beast.
Then—
Umino Yoru hurled a sealing scroll above the lizard's head.
The moment it reached its target, the scroll unfurled, releasing eight massive iron balls chained together, crashing down like meteors.
The lizard was powerful—it managed to tear free from the syrup's adhesive grip.
But just as it broke loose, the falling chains wrapped around it, locking it in place.
And that wasn't all.
Another sealing scroll was already flying overhead.
This one unleashed a torrent of sticky syrup, drenching the lizard's body in a viscous, immobilizing flood.
"For giant summoning beasts… this tactic works wonders."
Umino Yoru nodded in satisfaction.
Against massive summons, conventional methods often failed. But thanks to his past-life memories, he recalled how Konoha's ANBU Squad "Vermilion" had once used Earth Style: Skyfall Pot Lid and Earth Style: Skyfall Clay to trap the Six Paths of Pain's multi-headed dog. They then roasted it alive with fire jutsu.
Umino Yoru lacked the ability to summon objects from another dimension—but he did have sealing scrolls.
While he couldn't afford something as extravagant as the Multiple Iron Prison Gates, his recent earnings allowed him to stock up on high-grade sealing scrolls.
Had he splurged on the Iron Prison Gates, he could've simply crushed the lizard outright.
"ROAR—!"
The lizard still refused to dispel itself, thrashing violently against the chains and syrup.
But the more it struggled, the tighter the syrup hardened, amplifying its restraints.
"Shunshin!"
Umino Yoru flash-stepped behind the lizard, landing in its blind spot.
Then, using the Gluttony Technique, he rapidly digested the remaining spinach pill and energy bars, converting them into a surge of chakra.
Within seconds, he completed the next jutsu.
"Grand Rasengan!"
BOOM!
The colossal spiraling sphere slammed into the lizard's skull, charring its flesh and splattering its brains into paste.
The beast didn't even have time to reverse-summon itself before death claimed it.
With a final shudder, the lizard collapsed, lifeless.
"Hah…"
Umino Yoru exhaled deeply.
But then—
"Frontline patrol squad?"
His brow furrowed. The battle's noise had drawn a Konoha patrol unit—now less than two kilometers away.
Acting fast, he sent four shadow clones to intercept them, buying time to erase all traces of the fight.
Within minutes:
All corpses were sealed away. Every drop of syrup vanished. The explosive tag trap he'd set earlier remained untouched.
The patrol squad—mere cannon fodder—was effortlessly knocked out by his disguised clones.
But his sonar radar jutsu detected more Konoha shinobi closing in.
Leaving one clone behind at the riverbank, Umino Yoru scooped up Anko Mitarashi, rallied the Fūma brothers, and weaved through the forest, avoiding all patrols as he raced back to the frontline.
Ten kilometers later—
KABOOM!
The distant explosion confirmed his clone had triggered the trap.
"Tch… 650,000 ryō up in smoke."
His eye twitched. At current prices, 100 explosive tags could've bought him a house in Konoha.
But then he glanced at the loot-laden sealing scrolls on his back and smirked.
"Worth it."
The gold dust, iron ingots, weapons, and supplies inside were easily worth millions.
And with Hanzo of the Salamander forcing Sunagakure and Iwagakure into all-out war, their value would double or triple soon.
"Heh. A windfall."
Suppressing his excitement, he tightened his grip on Anko and sped home.
One hour later…
Back at the familiar riverbank, Umino Yoru set Anko down and immediately inventoried his spoils.
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