Chapter 246: She Wasn't Affected by the Holy Water!
Shiromo and the other two landed at the entrance to Takigakure.
Outside the waterfall.
In the real world, Shiromo had once accepted Kurotsuchi's request and fought the Raikage here. He had also taken Fū back to Amegakure along the way.
"Wait!"
Shiromo stopped the two who were about to head inside and turned his gaze toward [Konan], "You didn't finish what you were saying earlier. If men who come into contact with the Yin Maiden Water turn into femboys, what about women?"
"I don't know."
[Konan] shook her head slightly.
"You don't know?"
"Mm. There's no recorded intelligence on any female ninja using the Yin Maiden Water."
[Konan] nodded.
"…Then let me tell you. Women turn into tomboys. It suppresses estrogen. No matter what their original figure was, they become completely flat, and their voices become more neutral as well."
Shiromo let out a breath and revealed information that even [Konan] didn't know.
This made the other two curious.
"How do you know that?"
Uchiha Hikari asked with interest.
"I saw it."
Shiromo pointed at the rushing waterfall before them, "Who would've thought this waterfall is made of Yin Maiden Water?"
In the real world, Takigakure's Hero Water was extremely precious and extremely well-hidden.
But in this world's Takigakure, the Holy Water was an entire waterfall!
How insidious.
Even [Konan], with this world's intelligence, didn't know about it.
One could imagine what would have happened if Shiromo hadn't been cautious and used the 'Epitaph' in advance to see the result of stepping into the waterfall.
[Konan] would suddenly realize she had "shrunk," let out a terrified scream, and then tell the other two what had happened. Uchiha Hikari would say in confusion, "Eh? Then why didn't I change?", only to learn that she would never develop again, and start clutching her head and screaming too.
Shiromo finally understood why Takigakure in this world could possess a Tailed Beast despite not being one of the Five Great Ninja Villages. He also understood how this Takigakure could guard its Tailed Beast with nothing more than a waterfall.
Any invader without prior intelligence, even if Uchiha Madara or Senju Hashirama came, would, at the moment of crossing the waterfall, lose a massive amount of chakra and turn into a femboy.
Either they'd be killed, or they'd become a member of Takigakure, never able to leave, with no way for the information to spread.
It's utterly vicious.
"Th-Then what do we do now?"
"Just activate Susanoo and block the water while we go in."
"Eh? Is it really that simple?"
Uchiha Hikari froze for a moment.
Soon after, under Susanoo's protection, the three entered Takigakure.
"It sounds simple, but in reality, even if Madara were here, without intelligence and unable to sense anything strange about the waterfall, he wouldn't casually activate Susanoo just to block some falling water."
On the contrary, with Madara's personality, he'd probably be delighted to get drenched by the waterfall and have some kind of 'lost-in-the-depths' moment.
After all, what kind of sane person, even with the Rinnegan, would deliberately let themselves be hit by a ninjutsu just to have their clothes blown off, so five juniors could admire the 'beloved' Senju Hashirama's face on his chest?
As Shiromo spoke, he scanned the structure behind the waterfall, searching for a suitable route toward the location Fū's transmitted intelligence had indicated.
"Intruders!"
"What?! Why is one of them unaffected?!"
A group of femboy Taki ninjas rushed out, pointing at Shiromo in shock.
"What the hell do you mean by that?!"
Uchiha Hikari exploded.
What did they mean, "only one person unaffected"?
They assumed [Konan] had originally been male and had become like this after passing through the waterfall.
Then what about her?
What exactly were these neither-man-nor-woman things implying?!
"Eh? Her voice? She was only half affected!"
After hearing that Hikari's voice was still soft and distinctly feminine, the Taki ninja paused, then hurriedly corrected himself and shouted to his teammates.
"…Damn it."
Hikari was truly enraged now. These femboys had gone too far.
Originally, the plan had been for [Konan] to handle blocking and clearing out the Taki ninja while she and Shiromo searched for the Seven-Tails' Jinchūriki.
Now the plan has changed.
After unleashing Susanoo and going on a rampage, Uchiha Hikari finally calmed down.
She had been holding it in for so long. At last, she'd vented some of it.
Those earlier perverted Tailed Beasts, she had wanted to kill them but couldn't. Now, at least, she felt a bit better.
"I hope the Fū of this world is a good person…"
On the way to find Fū, Uchiha Hikari suddenly let out a sigh.
Fū was one of the friends she'd made in Amegakure.
If this world's Fū also turned out to be some kind of lunatic, that would be hard to swallow.
Inside a small cave in Takigakure.
Shiromo and the others reached the end and saw simple living supplies arranged within.
This was where Fū lived in the Limited Tsukuyomi world.
"Waaah… I'm so hungry… Please give me something to eat… I'll do anything…"
[Fū] curled up on the bed, shrinking into herself. She looked at Shiromo's group with extreme shyness, yet, driven by hunger, could only beg for their charity.
Thump.
Uchiha Hikari tossed a small bag of biscuits onto the bed.
[Fū] lit up with joy and hurried forward, hugging the biscuits, "Three-sama, just tell me what you need me to do."
"I'm telling you not to eat the biscuits."
Shiromo said.
"?"
Still clutching the biscuits, [Fū]'s smile froze.
Sniff… sniff…
[Fū] rubbed her nose, looking as though she was about to cry.
"Go ahead, eat. I was joking."
Shiromo waved his hand.
Well now… the [Fū] of this world was actually an introverted, socially anxious type.
Still, this was already the best possible outcome.
At least she wasn't insane.
"We're here to extract the Seven-Tails from your body."
"..."
[Fū], who had been eating biscuits, suddenly paused. After swallowing, her face brightened with delight, "Really?! That's great!"
"You're… happy about that?"
[Konan] couldn't quite understand [Fū]'s reaction.
"Of course."
[Fū] lowered her head, nibbling on a biscuit as she explained softly, "The Seven-Tails is awful. It keeps urging me to find large numbers of males, saying it wants to lay eggs… It even said that after laying eggs, it would eat them to replenish energy."
"Thankfully, Takigakure has the Yin Maiden Water…"
She didn't continue.
The meaning was obvious.
Fortunately, Takigakure was full of femboys who had lost their abilities and most of their chakra.
They had neither the function nor the strength to oppose [Fū].
Combined with [Fū]'s own social anxiety, she had perfectly avoided the Seven-Tails' temptations.
"You do realize that extracting a Tailed Beast means death, right?"
Uchiha Hikari added.
Even in an illusionary world, she felt reluctant to harm a friend.
"I know."
[Fū] nodded, "But I've never been affected by the Holy Water. As long as I bathe in it during the extraction, I probably won't die, right?"
"…Uh… then do you know the side effects of your Holy Water?"
"I do."
[Fū] gestured up and down in front of her chest, "Doesn't matter. I don't have anything there anyway."
The extraction of the Seven-Tails went extremely smoothly.
Only the Fū in the audience seats fell into deep contemplation.
Why?
Why was the real-world her completely flat, and even in the Limited Tsukuyomi world… still the same?
This wasn't fair!
(End of this Chapter)