"Not good—Reverse Tetragram Sealing Jutsu!"
Pitch-black ink gushed violently from the bodies of the Konoha shinobi, gathering into a growing sphere that swallowed everything around it.
Hanzō instinctively hurled a kunai toward it—only to watch the weapon swallowed whole without a trace.
"A sealed space… Damn it. There's no dodging this."
"Third, get behind me!"
Chiyo shouted as she summoned three puppets—left, right, and rear—forming a defensive triangle around herself and the Third Kazekage.
These were puppets she had painstakingly crafted after returning to Sunagakure.
Not quite on the level of Monzaemon's Chikamatsu 10 Puppets—but close.
The only shame was that there were only three.
At the same time, Chiyo stretched out her left arm.
Her forearm suddenly unfolded—like the spinning rotor blades of an aircraft.
"Dust Barrier Seal!"
Not just her—
All three puppets unfolded their arm mechanisms.
The carved formulae along their limbs lit up, forming four shimmering blue chakra shields.
"Sealing Jutsu: Lion Roar!"
As Chiyo poured chakra into the technique,
the four blue barriers connected—forming a glowing sphere.
Its color shifted to white, shaping into the head of a roaring lion that bit down around them and the ground beneath their feet.
The pitch-black Reverse Tetragram Sealing Jutsu surged closer—colliding with Chiyo's white sealing sphere.
The sound was like glass scraping against glass.
Under the clash of seals,
the white Lion's Roar sphere shrank bit by bit—but so slowly it was barely visible.
The expansion of the Reverse Tetragram Sealing Jutsu, however—was slowed from lightning speed to a turtle crawl.
Hanzō couldn't hide his surprise.
"Using a sealing jutsu to counter a sealing jutsu… Chiyo, you're clever.
Shame I never studied sealing arts deeply.
I've got no way to counter the Reverse Tetragram Sealing Jutsu."
Sealing techniques were the greatest bugs of the ninja world—even monsters feared them.
Hanzō had never imagined Konoha would actually use them on him.
As the seal-space crept closer, even he felt a sense of helplessness.
At the same time, the Shimura clan head—also performing the Reverse Tetragram Sealing Jutsu—let out a faint sigh of relief.
"Never thought… Lady Mito's sealing jutsu would end up used like this."
"Trading my life and the clan's death operatives to take down Hanzō of the Salamander and the Third Kazekage—it's worth it."
"Danzō… Our clan's future rests with you now."
"You must become Hokage."
His vision darkened as pitch-black ink swallowed him whole.
His consciousness faded.
Hanzō stared at the encroaching seal-space, despair rising.
"I really didn't account for sealing techniques…"
"Konoha actually used death operatives…
I'm truly out of options this time."
"One tiny mistake…"
The barrier prevented escape.
No matter how fast Hanzō was, the sealing space formed by more than ten death-operatives quickly filled the entire barrier interior.
When the seal-space touched the purple-red barrier, it melted into it, unable to expand further.
Up close, the barrier's surface glowed with the black curse marks that had flowed out of the two shinobi behind Nara Rokujin earlier.
Now, the entire barrier was pitch-black—
save for the faint white glow of Chiyo's defensive seal.
Within a mere ten seconds, the disturbance inside the seal weakened, shrinking back into the mutilated bodies of the dead.
Silence fell.
The barrier interior now held more than ten circular craters.
Chiyo was collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath.
The Third Kazekage stared at Konoha's group outside the barrier—his expression pitch-black.
"Impossible… They're still alive?"
Rokujin panicked outside.
"So Konoha wants a fight to the death, is that it?" The Third Kazekage growled.
"This barrier won't last long."
"Nara Clan Head—when exactly were you planning to explain yourselves?"
The purple-red barrier had already lost most of its color, ready to collapse within minutes.
But the Third Kazekage wasn't waiting.
Iron Sand oozed from the ground inside and outside the barrier.
"Iron Sand: World Order!"
Masses of iron sand converged into black metallic cones—slamming again and again into the weakening barrier with deafening impact.
Nara Rokujin shouted desperately:
"Lord Kazekage! We absolutely didn't intend this! Something… something must have gone wrong!"
"Wrong? During a peace negotiation? MARVELOUS!"
"One mistake—one! And you almost killed me and Chiyo."
"Hanzō's body isn't even intact anymore."
"Don't think you can explain this away with words."
BOOM!
The barrier finally shattered.
"Iron Sand: Scattered Showers!"
An endless storm of iron-sand senbon rained down toward Rokujin.
"Not good—run!"
Outside the barrier, aside from Rokujin, were the Hyūga operative and a nameless chūnin.
"Too late!"
Rokujin formed seals at lightning speed:
"Ninja Art: Shadow Stitching Jutsu!"
"Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation!"
Rokujin's shadow thickened and extended,
solidifying into thorn-like tendrils that formed a shield.
The Hyūga shinobi spun rapidly, chakra erupting from his tenketsu, forming the protective blue sphere of Rotation.
Metallic clatter echoed as senbon embedded into the shadow shield and scattered around the Hyūga's dome.
The unnamed chūnin was instantly turned into a pincushion—dead beyond recognition.
"Third, you were too hasty. Something's off."
Chiyo finally stood, brushing dust off her shoulders.
"You Konoha brat—aren't you going to explain?"
Nara Rokujin was drenched in cold sweat.
"I—I swear, I don't know! Someone must be intentionally sabotaging this meeting!"
The Third Hokage had told him:
If the talks can succeed, do everything possible to succeed.
If not—Shimura will act.
But he never imagined the Shimura clan would be this insane.
If there was a next life, he'd never cooperate with them again.
The Third Kazekage turned to Chiyo.
"Chiyo… we could've just used Reverse Summoning and left."
Then he glared at Rokujin.
"And as for you—do you think I believe a word you say?"
The air trembled—iron sand rising again.
Nara and the Hyūga shinobi felt pure despair.
"Lord Kazekage, please—calm down!"
But just as the spear of iron sand began to form—
A small black dot appeared in the sky.
Both Konoha shinobi reacted as if seeing salvation:
"Fire! It's the Hokage! Lord Kazekage—please wait! Lord Hokage is here! He'll give you a full explanation!"
Armored and flanked by four ANBU,
the Hokage accelerated toward the battlefield.
"Arriving now, of all times."
Chiyo stared at the approaching figure with a cold smile.
She casually brushed her collar.
A few seconds later—her smile widened, bright and vicious.
She whispered something to the Third Kazekage, and his face shifted—from anger
to interest.
"Oh? Now that's amusing."
Both elders stared at the incoming Sarutobi Hiruzen—smiling like wolves watching prey.
*(TL/N - MC is dead. The story is over.)
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