Two shuriken flew past, making a piercing whooshing sound, directly hitting a large tree.
"Who?! Stop being sneaky! Come out now!" Boruto shouted, gripping his kunai, but his hand couldn't stop trembling slightly.
He had no confidence now. His chakra had been devoured too much, and his stamina was almost depleted. Moreover, he had Sasuke beside him, who was even more exhausted.
At this point, if even one strong enemy appeared, he would be completely helpless. Not to mention, he clearly felt an Otsutsuki aura behind that large tree.
Was it Urashiki or Momoshiki? He couldn't see clearly, but it was definitely dangerous.
What to do?
Boruto gritted his teeth, his brain racing.
Chakra was almost gone, stamina was nearly depleted, and the surroundings were very open, nothing but trees. He couldn't even run away. In this situation, what would Mr. Sasuke or Dad do?
Just as he was thinking, the person behind the tree finally appeared. It was the situation Boruto least wanted to see.
Furina, no, to be precise, Furina possessed by Momoshiki, slowly walked out from behind the tree, her gaze contemptuous and playful, as if looking at two ants.
"Momoshiki?!!"
Seeing the blue girl's figure, Boruto's eyes widened instantly. His hand trembled, and the kunai almost fell to the ground.
"Damn it..."
He straightened the kunai in his hand. A sense of humiliation surged in Boruto's heart, making him bite his lip.
"I actually feel timid in front of an enemy..."
Momoshiki in the distance didn't bother to guess what he was thinking. He just walked towards him step by step like a grim reaper, holding a Crimson Spiral in his hand. His posture seemed to indicate he had no intention of letting the two live.
"Aaaaaah——!!!"
Boruto shouted furiously, gripping his kunai and charging over, trying to dispel his fear in a reckless manner.
"Crimson Spiral!"
A dark red orb directly hit the running Boruto, instantly making his chest cave in, and his body uncontrollably flew backward.
A series of crashing sounds rang out. Boruto continuously broke several large trees, finally falling to the ground, his life unknown.
Sasuke, lying in the bushes with hazy consciousness, heard the sound. Years of life-or-death combat experience told him something big had happened. He desperately struggled to get up.
"Ugh..."
He used all his strength to prop himself up with his arms, laboriously lifting his upper body and opening his heavy eyelids.
His vision was slightly blurry, but it gradually focused and became clear. When he could see clearly, he found a blue girl's figure, too familiar to be unfamiliar, standing in front of him, with a strange smile on her face.
"You..."
Sasuke wanted to say something else, but suddenly felt a pain in his throat. He took a direct kick, and chakra surged through his flesh into his brain.
"Pfft ugh..."
Whether it was saliva or blood, it surged into his mouth. Sasuke instantly slumped to the ground like a deflated ball, his eyes rolling back as he fainted.
At the same time, a turtle on his collar also fell off, its shell flipping twice on the ground.
"Hmph."
Momoshiki snorted coldly, bent down, picked up the turtle, and then injected chakra to examine it.
Not bad. The chakra could still feel the fluctuations of time turbulence, which meant that as long as he used chakra to forcibly decipher and modify the rules, he could continue to travel through time.
Trump card +1.
Putting the turtle into the Kamui Dimension, Momoshiki intended to continue treasure hunting. He squatted down, turned Sasuke over, peeled back his hair with his hand, and opened his eyelids with his fingers.
A purple Rinnegan thus appeared before his eyes.
"Momoshiki, why is his Rinnegan purple?"
Furina looked at Sasuke's Rinnegan, inevitably falling into curiosity.
Momoshiki had yellow and red Rinnegan, and each had powerful abilities. So what kind of ability would this purple one have?
"There are yellow ones, red ones, and naturally other colors too."
Momoshiki was too lazy to explain much. He directly pressed the Rinnegan in his right hand against Sasuke's eye, then activated Takami-Musubi.
The Rinnegan was essentially an incomparably vast power, a state incomprehensible to ordinary people, but it was still within the conceptual realm. The power within it was continuously being extracted.
In less than a moment, Sasuke's eye turned into a normal eye. At the same time, the power of a tenfold Rinnegan surged into Momoshiki's body.
It could only amplify his basic attributes, which was a bit of a shame, and particularly wasteful.
Momoshiki lowered his head and thought for a moment. How should he get Amenotejikara?
His clever little brain whirred.
Got it!
He casually waved his hand, returning the original Rinnegan power to Sasuke, making his eye turn into a Rinnegan again, then patted himself and stood up.
The Ninja World at this time was still very chaotic. You could basically encounter bandits if you walked around a few times. So he would just find a random person, forcibly turn their eyeball into a Rinnegan, and then pluck it out for himself.
Why not just pluck Sasuke's? Mainly because he was afraid this guy would actually get killed. After all, he hadn't provided enough fun yet, so he couldn't die so early.
"Where are we going now?"
"Let's wander around this era. After all, coming to 20 years ago is very rare. If we can encounter bandits or human traffickers, that would be even better. We can just rob them for some money to spend."
"Oh." Furina still nodded obediently, but she felt a little nostalgic for Focalors.
She really wanted to eat the small cakes Focalors fed her.
She had clearly said they were just coming to plant trees, but after all this trouble, not only was no tree planted, but the Ten-Tails was also thrown away.
Alas...
Momoshiki ignored what Furina was thinking, directly observing his surroundings with his Byakugan, searching systematically.
You know, he actually found about three bandit hideouts. Although they were very far apart, for Momoshiki, who was used to wandering in space, it was no big deal.
Just as he was about to fly up, another whooshing sound came, and a kunai stabbed straight towards the back of his head.
"Tsk... annoying."
Shinra Tensei directly deflected the attacking kunai. Momoshiki's body instantly disappeared, then appeared before Boruto like a whirlwind.
Boruto seemed to have expected it. Although he was startled on the surface, he still stabbed with his kunai.
Momoshiki directly slapped the kunai away, then fiercely grabbed Boruto's neck.
"Lower lifeform! Isn't it better to just play dead obediently? I'm not killing you, why do you keep getting up to get beaten?"
Boruto didn't know if he was being reckless or if his brain was congested from being choked. He couldn't hear what Momoshiki was saying. His face flushed red as he slapped the fair wrist gripping his neck. When it had no effect, he suddenly pulled out another kunai.
Momoshiki once again slapped the kunai away, throwing the almost-choked Boruto aside.
"Are you also a conceptual god, you bastard? How many kunai do you have? Is there no end to it?!"
"Cough cough cough..."
Boruto slumped to the ground, clutching his neck and coughing, his expression ugly, breathing heavily.
He propped himself up with his elbows, recovering some strength. Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly felt a pressure on his back, and then was fiercely stomped to the ground. His limbs seemed to be locked by something, unable to move.
His head couldn't turn and was also fixed. His face was pressed tightly against the ground, so he couldn't see what it was.
Momoshiki leaned down slightly and directly grabbed his ear.
"Ugh..." Boruto cried out in pain, but quickly became angry.
"You bastard! If you want to kill me, do it quickly! Don't insult me!" Boruto shouted, his face flushed red, feeling utterly aggrieved.
How many times had he been stomped on in such a short time? Would he still have any face left after this?
"Do you want to die so badly?"
Momoshiki's foot ground back and forth on Boruto's back. Although the damage wasn't high, it maximized the humiliation.
"I do want revenge, but I have no intention of killing you. At least not now."
"After all, you can provide me with a lot of fun."
Momoshiki's lips curled slightly.
"You!!"
After hearing these words, Boruto's eyes widened in anger, but his heart went cold.
He had no intention of killing him, but rather wanted to humiliate him. This was worse than being cut down with a single blade!
"You bastard! If you have the guts, kill me!! Stop stomping! Stop!"
Before he could finish shouting, the feeling on his back disappeared, and then the sole of a shoe came from the back of his head. His face was fiercely pressed to the ground, unable to move or speak, and even breathing was difficult.
Momoshiki admired Boruto's struggling for a while, then spread his hands helplessly and said:
"Can you play dead? I'm leaving now. Just lie on the ground and play dead. Don't cause trouble."
Perhaps he heard it, or perhaps he gave up resisting, but Boruto really stopped moving, lying quietly on the ground.
"Very good."
Momoshiki retracted his foot in satisfaction, then put away all the chakra black rods that were fixing Boruto. His body dissipated like a gust of wind, leaving only some chakra aura in the air.
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps sensing that no one was nearby, Boruto finally raised his head, looking around in disbelief.
"That Momoshiki... actually left?"
He had originally thought Momoshiki was just teasing him, and that he would be killed by Momoshiki as soon as he opened his eyes again. He didn't expect him to actually let him go.
How was this possible? He had killed him, and he just let him go? Was this still Momoshiki?!
Boruto slumped to the ground, touching his aching head. His heart pounded rapidly, and a feeling of surviving a catastrophe surged in his heart.
Letting him go so easily, was it another scheme, or was it because of the girl he possessed? Had Momoshiki been reformed?
He glanced at the still unconscious Sasuke.
Never mind, he wouldn't think about it anymore. Being alive was better than being dead, at least he could still eat.
...
In a hidden part of the forest, the Ten-Tails was happily chasing two butterflies. In a moment of carelessness, its head directly hit a tree.
"Hmm?"
Looking at the large trees in front of it, the Ten-Tails seemed to consider them its kind. Its ten tails wagged a few times, and it happily rubbed against the trees everywhere.
Just as it was having fun, several footsteps sounded, along with the sound of a cart being pulled, and whispers.
"Boss, are we taking this batch of goods to the Land of Lightning? Isn't that too far?"
"What do you know!"
The person called "Boss" slapped the back of his subordinate's head, exasperated.
"We robbed a famous clan. Only people from the Land of Lightning would dare to take it. Is selling these things within the Land of Fire asking for death? If you want to get rich, shut up! Hurry up and get there. I always feel like something bad is going to happen!"
"Oh..."
The subordinate, after being scolded, immediately lowered his head and didn't speak.
The Ten-Tails heard the sound and felt very confused. So it crouched behind a large tree and looked in the direction of the sound, discovering the bandit convoy.
Seeing them pulling a large cart of things, it thought it was something fun and was about to jump out, but its head was suddenly held down.
A familiar scent of Lumidouce Bell, incredibly fragrant, and also carrying its master's aura!
The Ten-Tails' eyes lit up. It quickly turned its head to look. Indeed, it was its master!
Delighted, it was about to cry out and pounce into the slightly uncomfortable embrace, but it was held down again.
"Stay put!"
Momoshiki glared at it, signaling it to be quiet.
Although the Ten-Tails didn't understand why, it still obediently didn't make any more sound, sitting on the ground like a kitten.
Seeing this, Momoshiki was very satisfied, his gaze unconsciously looking at the convoy.
It would be easy to eliminate these people, but Momoshiki wanted to eavesdrop first to find out what they had robbed and what it would involve.
After all, Momoshiki didn't want to be walking around happily and suddenly have someone come to catch him.
If that really happened, then Konoha Village, which was originally built in a pit, would probably have to be built in the Chasm now.
For the sake of Konoha, the justice-filled, tsundere Momoshiki decided to avoid all troublesome things.
Although the boss told them to shut up, the two subordinates at the end of the team were still chatting. From their conversation, he learned that what was robbed was goods from a famous clan, and they themselves were just transporters.
He didn't know what clan it was; he hadn't heard of it anyway. But it seemed he could rob these bandits who had no background ties.
Hehe~
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