"Bastard!!"
Danzo roared madly in his heart.
The fury of betrayal instantly consumed his reason.
Since you are unjust, don't blame me for being unrighteous!
Another crazy thought was born.
Take down Di Yan! Hold the Emperor of the Land of Fire hostage!
As long as Di Yan is controlled and his life is threatened,
Konoha, fearing repercussions, would surely not dare to besiege him further.
He would gain a chance to breathe.
He might even force Konoha to let him leave.
He would rather die in battle than die under Konoha's judgment as a traitor!
In a flash of lightning, Danzo made his final, and most desperate, gamble!
"Summoning Jutsu: Baku!"
Boom!
A huge cloud of smoke exploded.
The legendary dream-eating beast, Baku, was summoned.
It let out a strange roar.
Baku opened its massive mouth, creating a powerful suction, attempting to temporarily force back Tsunade, who was relentlessly pursuing him.
Taking advantage of this gap, Danzo poured all his Chakra into his feet.
His body shot forward like an arrow from a bow, at his fastest speed.
He recklessly broke through the chaotic battle, charging directly towards Di Yan, who had been observing from the sidelines!
"His Majesty the Emperor! My apologies! I'll be borrowing you!"
Danzo's face was twisted in a mad, ferocious grin.
His single eye was filled with a gambler's frenzy.
His right hand formed a claw, aiming directly for Di Yan's neck!
He believed that this pampered Emperor
would absolutely not be able to dodge his certain-kill strike!
The entire scene erupted in an uproar!
No one expected Danzo to suddenly turn his target towards the neutral Emperor!
"Danzo! How dare you!"
Tsunade was furious, she punched Baku away and rushed forward, but seemed a step too slow!
Kakashi, Might Guy, and the others were also greatly alarmed.
They all tried to intercept him!
Although Di Yan and Konoha also had ongoing conflicts,
no one could bear the responsibility of having the Emperor of the Land of Fire die in Konoha.
However, facing this sudden attack,
Di Yan, the target, merely raised an eyebrow slightly.
Not only was there no trace of panic on his face,
instead, he wore an expression... as if he was watching a moth fly into a flame, a look of intrigued amusement.
Uchiha Hikari, in his arms, even tilted her head curiously.
Danzo saw Di Yan's abnormal, even pitying smile.
His heart suddenly lurched during his charge.
A strong, ominous premonition instantly seized him.
Only at this moment
did he realize with horror
that his understanding of this so-called "collaborator" was probably not even skin deep!
Just as his fingertips were about to touch Di Yan's collar,
the seemingly harmless little girl who had been quietly resting in Di Yan's arms suddenly looked up.
In her originally clear big eyes, an eerie, crimson light suddenly flared.
Complex and beautiful black patterns instantly replaced her normal pupils, slowly rotating.
They emitted a terrifying ocular power that made one's soul tremble, far surpassing an ordinary Mangekyo!
"This... what is this?"
"Mangekyo Sharingan? How could a mere child possess it?"
Danzo was utterly horrified, his mind a blank!
However, before he could comprehend this unbelievable scene,
an irresistible mental force, as heavy as a towering mountain, surged into his mind through those eerie Mangekyo.
Crack!
Danzo felt the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan he was activating in his eye socket, in front of this absolutely crushing ocular power,
was easily shattered and suppressed like fragile glass.
All his Chakra instantly froze, his muscles stiffened.
His entire body remained in a forward-lunging posture.
As if bound tightly by invisible shackles, he couldn't even move a single finger!
"High-level Genjutsu: Restraining Stake Jutsu!"
"Move... move!"
Danzo roared madly in his heart.
He desperately tried to mobilize his Chakra to activate the Izanagi on his right arm to rewrite this controlled reality!
Just then,
Di Yan's voice, like a demon's whisper, clearly reached his ears, laced with undisguised mockery and pity:
"Danzo, do you know?"
Di Yan gently stroked Uchiha Hikari's hair in his arms, as if speaking of a trivial matter.
"You have always been just a relatively useful pawn in my hand."
"From the moment you sought my cooperation, every step you took was within my expectations."
"And even... under my guidance."
These words were like the coldest dagger, completely piercing Danzo's last psychological defense.
It turned out that all his ambitions, all his schemes,
were nothing more than a pre-arranged play in the other party's eyes.
His so-called trump cards and cooperation
were a joke from the very beginning!
Di Yan leaned slightly forward, his voice dropping even lower, yet it rang like a death knell in Danzo's mind:
"What a pity, Danzo... you won't live to see the day Konoha is completely destroyed."
Konoha... destroyed?
Danzo was startled.
As if doused with ice water, he instantly awoke from his anger and despair of betrayal!
So... so Di Yan's true goal was not to help someone become Hokage at all.
Nor was it some exchange of interests.
What he wanted from beginning to end was to completely destroy Konoha!
"No!!!!!"
Danzo's soul let out a silent roar.
He could die, he could lose.
But Konoha was the Village that he, Danzo Shimura, would protect even with the darkest means.
He would never allow Konoha to be destroyed by an outsider!
Extreme anger, unwillingness, and a twisted yet genuine obsession with Konoha
at this moment, overcame all fear and calculation!
Since Izanagi couldn't be activated in time, since it was already a certain death situation... then let's all go to hell together!
Inside Danzo's body, which was frozen by the genjutsu,
the last, destructive Chakra began to surge wildly and recklessly.
Beneath his wide robes,
countless dark, curse-mark-like runes appeared on his body's surface!
"Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu!!!"
Danzo used his last shred of will.
He was preparing to activate this ultimate sealing jutsu of mutual destruction.
He wanted to drag this dangerous Di Yan, along with everything around him,
into the abyss of death!
His body rapidly inflated like a balloon.
The black runes spread like living things.
A point of extreme darkness began to form at the center, emitting a destructive gravitational pull!
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
Uchiha Izumi and Tekka's expressions changed drastically, wanting to step forward.
However, Di Yan looked at Danzo's final madness, at the impending explosion of the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Jutsu.
0 · Please give fresh flowers --- There was no panic in his eyes at all.