Guy slightly regained consciousness and saw his father, his face covered in hot tears.
"Dad… Dad... I… I lost!"
"Guy!!" Might Duy cried out loudly through tears.
"You didn't lose. You showed everyone your youth, and you even broke through the Fourth Gate, the Gate of Injury. You are the youth I am most proud of in my entire life!"
"Waaah…"
The two embraced each other, crying bitterly with tears streaming down their faces, making Kairen so awkward he wanted to dig his toes into the ground.
He walked over and placed his hand on Guy's chest. A burst of life-filled light flashed.
Guy's pale complexion slowly turned rosy.
Might Duy stared at Kairen's miraculous hand. "This is—"
"Medical Nin-jutsu!"
Kairen replied.
Guy slowly recovered his youth, and the wounds on his face vanished in the blink of an eye.
Might Duy was full of gratitude. "Thank you! Thank you! Kairen, thank you so much!"
Kairen waved his hand. "No need to thank me. After all, I'm also the reason Guy was so badly injured!"
"No, that won't do. A match is a match, and personal feelings are personal feelings. We must thank you. After the Chunin Exams are over, Guy and I will invite you to run 300 laps around the village together."
"Then you'd better not thank me!"
Kairen shrugged, then suddenly said, "Duy-san, take Guy home. Don't go outside!"
"What's wrong?!" Might Duy was completely confused.
Kairen looked seriously at the rapidly changing winds and clouds.
"Don't ask, Duy-san. Leave here quickly!"
Might Duy was about to say something more when a long vine suddenly wrapped around his leg and flung him out of the competition grounds.
...
A group of people wearing ANBU attire appeared in the spectator stands and suddenly cast Genjutsu on the elders who were watching the match.
Everyone fell into a deep sleep, except for a few who were extremely vigilant against Genjutsu.
The sound of rapid footsteps rang out, like thousands of troops crossing a single-log bridge.
In just the blink of an eye, the area around the Chunin Exams finals arena was filled with ninja.
In the innermost ring were ANBU directly under the Hokage. More than a dozen of them carried large scrolls—they were from the Sealing Corps.
From the sky and from underground, layers upon layers of encirclement—Kairen seemed to have no way out.
On the high platform, Tsunade angrily questioned Sarutobi Hiruzen. "Teacher, what are you trying to do?!"
A turbulent gust erupted from Sarutobi Hiruzen's body, tearing his Hokage robe to shreds.
He didn't speak. Instead, Koharu Utatane beside him snorted coldly.
"You killed the Fire Country's daimyō. Do you think Moku Kairen still has a way to live? The village only let him live two extra days!"
Tsunade clenched her fists. "You're planning to… deal with Kairen?!"
Homura Mitokado pushed his glasses.
"Sorry, Tsunade. This is the decision of the village's high council, as well as the order of the new daimyō."
"Moku Kairen is indeed a rare talent for the village, but his instability also makes us deeply uneasy… afraid that one day he will lose control and destroy the village."
A low voice sounded.
"Gua! Why waste so many words? Just hurry up and deal with Kairen so I can go back to Mount Myōboku…"
A gloomy-faced man with his head wrapped in bandages was escorted forward by others.
It was Toadzo, the toad once pointed out by the Great Toad Sage.
"Danzo!!" Tsunade's pupils shrank slightly.
"You're still alive!"
Back then, Danzo had been executed by Kairen, not even a trace of his remains left behind. Yet today, this person had appeared again.
Toadzo croaked. "The Great Sage said that Moku Kairen is an unstable factor for the entire ninja world. If allowed to grow, he will become the second Kaguya. He must be completely eliminated."
Kairen opened his Byakugan and observed the surrounding situation. Suddenly, he noticed the bandage-wrapped old man on the high platform.
"Danzo?!"
He couldn't help feeling puzzled. Back then, to prevent Danzo from using Edo Tensei, not even a single cell of his had been left behind.
So how was he back to causing trouble again?!
No, I need to pinch Tsunade's slime and calm myself down.
Kairen's Byakugan observed on an even more microscopic level and suddenly discovered something unusual.
Danzo's chakra carried the flavor of senjutsu, concentrated within his body, forming a chakra mass shaped like a toad.
Seeing this, Kairen had basically figured it out.
"Mount Myōboku?! Those damn toads—why do they have their hands in everything?"
At this moment, Kairen made a decision in his heart.
When I have time in the future, I'll definitely go to Mount Myōboku and catch the Great Toad Sage to soak him in liquor.
"Kairen, today is your day of death. Even if the Sage of Six Paths comes, he won't be able to save you!"
A somewhat familiar voice sounded in Kairen's ears. He turned his attention to the speaker.
He looked somewhat like Konohamaru—it was Sarutobi Shinnosuke, whose fingers Kairen had chopped off before.
At this moment, the fingers on Shinnosuke's disabled hand had already regrown. It seemed he had received high-level medical treatment.
Kairen's Byakugan instantly radiated across the entire village, calculating the forces deployed by the upper echelon.
Inside the entire viewing arena, there were layers upon layers of ninja. More than a dozen ink hawks flew in the sky, each carrying flying ninja.
Moreover, ninja were stationed along every street, sealing off the entire village.
Nearly sixty percent of Konoha's frontline forces had been redeployed back to the village.
A ninja army of over ten thousand—among them, Jōnin and elite Jōnin were countless.
There was no fear in Kairen's eyes. "To deal with me alone, you're going this crazy. I really don't know whether you're cautious or simply scared out of your wits by me."
Shinnosuke chuckled. "Kairen, this time the new daimyō personally named you. He wants your head as a sacrifice. Even if the war collapses, you must be taken down."
Kairen sneered. "With just you people, you think you can deal with me? That's a bit too arrogant."
"The arrogant one is you. These are the village's regular forces—ninja who've been through life-and-death battles on the front lines, not the trash you dealt with before!"
Shinnosuke didn't plan to say more. He waved his hand.
More than a dozen sealing ninja spread open their scrolls.
Kairen's gaze sharpened. For a moment, he had the urge to go all out—summon a massive meteor and directly destroy Konoha.
But he suppressed the impulse.
This was a coup, not slaughtering, looting, and burning everything to the ground.
"Susanoo!"
Kairen's Mangekyō Sharingan manifested, and a fire-red giant enveloped him.
Susanoo was known as absolute defense. The sealing ninja attacked, only to be instantly repelled.
Standing within Susanoo's crystalline core, Kairen spoke with faint mockery in his voice:
"Do ants think they can dance?"