He was stunned at first.
Then, as if instantly understanding something, his single eye shot out a look of extreme venom.
"It... it's you! Yamato!!!" Danzo's voice trembled with extreme rage, "You traitor! You betrayed the Root!"
Yamato's expression was calm, yet his gaze was incredibly complex as he looked at the leader he had once served:
"Hokage-sama, I never truly condoned the darkness of the Root."
"My loyalty is to Konoha, to Konoha under the light, not to your personal ambitions."
"It is most fitting for me, a former member of the Root, to lead everyone in eradicating the Root's cancerous growth."
This explanation was logical and reasonable.
Yamato was once a member of the Root.
He was intimately familiar with the Root's operational methods and the locations of potential bases.
With him leading the team, it was indeed possible to precisely strike at Danzo's forces.
However, the doubts in Danzo's heart were not entirely dispelled.
Yamato did know some bases, but certainly not all of them.
Moreover, the specific timing and plan of his coup.
Yamato had left the Root many years ago; it was impossible for him to know such intricate details!
There must be someone else.
There was another deeper, more covert source of information!
But at this moment, he no longer had time to think about these things.
Tsunade sneered, clenching her fists, her knuckles cracking loudly:
"Danzo, your era is over!"
"Pay the price for everything you've done!"
Having lost all his trump cards and escape routes, with only a handful of loyal Root members left by his side.
Danzo was trapped in a truly inescapable, deadly ambush.
Seeing that the tide had turned and all escape routes were cut off.
A flicker of complete madness and despair crossed Danzo's single eye.
He knew that once he was captured.
What awaited him was ruin and a severe judgment.
Perhaps even a fate worse than death.
Escape?
Konoha Ninja surrounded him from all directions.
The sky and ground were sealed; there was nowhere to run!
A cornered beast still fights!
"Even if I lose... Tsunade! I'll drag you down with me!"
Danzo let out a hysterical roar.
He violently pushed away the last remaining Root member trying to protect him.
And charged desperately towards Tsunade!
His Chakra burned fiercely around him.
Even emitting a self-destructive, violent aura.
It was entirely a desperate stance to take her down with him!
Tsunade snorted coldly.
Facing Danzo's seemingly desperate counterattack, she was fearless.
As one of the Sannin, possessing the strongest Taijutsu and Medical Ninjutsu.
How could she be afraid of Danzo's dying struggle?
She also pushed off the ground, meeting him head-on!
The two collided like two meteors, with a resounding crash!
Bang!!!
A dull, massive thud echoed!
In the instant of their clash.
Danzo's head exploded like a watermelon crushed by a heavy hammer.
Under Tsunade's unparalleled monstrous strength, red and white matter splattered everywhere.
And Danzo's final desperate counterattack.
Also embedded a kunai deeply near Tsunade's shoulder blade.
Blood instantly stained her clothes.
"Hokage-sama!"
A gasp erupted from the crowd.
But seeing Danzo defeated, there was more excitement and a sigh of relief.
"It's over..."
Many Konoha Ninja thought to themselves.
Their taut nerves relaxed slightly.
The heinous Danzo was finally slain by Hokage-sama herself!
However, this relaxation lasted less than a second!
A sudden change occurred!
Danzo's headless "corpse" vanished like a phantom.
Without warning, it eerily disappeared!
As if the bloody scene just now had never happened!
"What?"
"What's going on?"
Everyone, including Tsunade who was standing close by, was greatly astonished!
And just as Tsunade's mind was momentarily shaken by this bizarre change.
A ghostly figure emerged as if from nothingness.
Appearing silently behind her!
It was Danzo Shimura!
He was completely unharmed, not even a tear in his clothes.
Only one Sharingan on his arm was now eerily closed.
As if it had lost all its luster!
His face bore a sinister, venomous grin of a successful schemer.
In his hand, he held a new kunai, glinting with cold light.
With lightning speed, he thrust it directly at Tsunade's unguarded vital spot: her neck!
"I've got you!" Danzo's voice was like a chilling wind from hell, "Tsunade, surrender!"
It turned out that the tragic, mutual destruction just now.
Was merely a ruse by Danzo.
A false reality woven using the Uchiha forbidden Jutsu... Izanagi!
At the cost of sacrificing one Sharingan embedded in his right arm.
He transformed the unfavorable reality of his death into a dream.
And turned the favorable moment of his sneak attack into reality!
This was his true objective.
Not to fight head-on in the open.
But to launch a fatal, decisive strike at the moment everyone thought he was dead and had let down their guard!
The sharp tip of the kunai had already touched Tsunade's neck.
Seeing Danzo resurrect like a ghost and appear behind Tsunade to deliver a fatal blow.
All the Konoha Ninja were terrified out of their wits!
"Hokage-sama! Behind you!"
"Look out!"
Kakashi and Might Guy's eyes were bloodshot.
They burst forth with all their strength, wanting to rescue her.
But Danzo's long-planned, Izanagi-created killing opportunity was too cunning, and the distance too close.
They simply couldn't make it in time!
They could only watch helplessly as the poisoned kunai.
Pierced deeply into Tsunade's fair neck!
"I got her?"
Danzo's heart swelled with joy, but then he was startled.
Because he found that Tsunade not only didn't dodge or block.
But instead actively offered her neck to his kunai!
This was completely illogical!
Di Yan, who was observing the battle, couldn't help but shake his head in disdain at this scene, muttering under his breath:
"What a waste! Danzo, that idiot..."
He seemed to be lamenting for Tsunade.
And also seemed to be mocking Danzo's clumsy tactics.
Danzo himself was bewildered.
His original intention was to severely injure Tsunade and then take her hostage.
Not to actually kill her on the spot, at least not yet.
Tsunade's active "suicidal" behavior completely disrupted his plan.
However, just as the kunai pierced her neck and blood spurted out.
"Ugh!"
Tsunade let out a muffled grunt.
But her eyes were unusually calm, even carrying a hint of mockery!
Almost at the same time.