"This..."
Karin had just uttered a sound when Kazuto, with a single glance, erased the air around her.
Gaara's sand was a step too slow to cover her, and Temari rushed over to cover her mouth.
Karin's eyes widened.
Were they finally going to kill me!
She wept uncontrollably. If she had known, she wouldn't have listened to Orochimaru's words to go to the Imperial City.
In her perception, the Chakra in Shizuka's eyes was filled with darkness, making her feel as if she were in an abyss without seeing the light of day, and it was constantly growing darker.
Karin's tears streamed down, filled with regret. With her mouth covered, she couldn't even make a "mmph mmph" sound. She could only watch as, in front of that destructive white light, Kazuto held Shizuka tightly, preventing her from rushing in to throw her life away.
Shizuka's expression was one of immense sorrow, filled with unspeakable pain, as two lines of blood could no longer be held back and streamed from her eyes.
She had already lost her husband once before. After her resurrection twelve years later, her husband and son had misunderstandings, preventing them from seeing each other. Now, the misunderstanding was resolved. She thought that when they returned home, she could sit with her husband and son to eat, chat, and confide their inner thoughts to each other.
Laugh together, cry together, make a fuss together.
The family would be fine from this day on. But she never expected that to save them, her son would actually give up the possibility of life, sending them out while he himself stepped into that terrifying, destructive white light.
"Hiromi..."
Shizuka knelt on the ground, defeated and weak, looking sorrowfully at the white light that was gradually fading ahead.
Before her, the forest had already vanished, leaving only emptiness and desolation. In her eyes, the pitch-black pupils had vanished, replaced by a pair of Mangekyo filled with blood-red. That was a pair of eyes that were bloody, compassionate, yet very crazed.
Four hands were interlaced like a flower, wanting to cradle the thing at the very center.
Hariti.
A Mangekyo born for her child.
The powerful strength brought by the Mangekyo did not bring Shizuka the slightest bit of joy. She slowly stood up, filled with powerlessness and pain.
"Shizuka..." Kazuto looked at her with concern.
Shizuka shook her head slightly, she wanted to go to the center of that explosion. Even if her son's bones no longer existed, holding a handful of sand and carrying it with her would at least make her feel a little better, at least she could still fantasize that her son... was still there?
Suddenly, her emotions went numb. She saw that the white light in front of her had completely disappeared.
At the center of that terrifying explosion, the hundred-meter-tall Lava Giant stood there, slowly turning into ash and drifting away with the wind.
And within it, a youth was revealed. His body was completely undamaged. There wasn't a speck of dust on his black and red combat outfit.
"Hiromi..."
It wasn't just Shizuka who was stunned. Even Kazuto was dumbfounded.
In such a terrifying explosion, Hiromi hadn't been injured at all?
Temari and Gaara's pupils constricted sharply, shocked by Hiromi's power.
Karin was scared out of her wits. Her pupils trembled as she stared at Hiromi, her legs shaking, muttering incessantly, "Monster... Monster..."
But the next second, Hiromi collapsed to the ground with a thud, his life or death unknown.
"Hiromi!!!"
The Mangekyo in Shizuka's eyes spun violently. In an instant, her face turned pitch black, she had clearly been poisoned.
Meanwhile, Hiromi at the center of the explosion seemed to feel better, as if someone had helped him bear the pain. But as soon as he raised his head, he collapsed to the ground again.
Kazuto hurriedly removed the toxins from Shizuka, then tried to remove the toxins from Hiromi. But Shizuka, having just recovered, turned pitch black again, she had been poisoned once more. For a moment, they were trapped in a death loop.
Hiromi kept getting poisoned.
Shizuka kept absorbing the poison.
Kazuto kept removing it.
If this continued, both of their ocular powers would be exhausted.
However, Gaara immediately realized that it must be Chiyo's poison, and that they just needed to pull Hiromi out.
But in the next second, Hiromi took out a scroll, unsealed it, and corpses appeared around him. Those corpses were linked to Hiromi, appearing as if they had been drained dry.
Hiromi stood up slowly with a calm expression and used Chakra to project his voice. "Mother, I'm fine, don't waste any more ocular power."
During the explosion, he had converted the high heat and high corrosion brought about by the Molten God Form into defense. This tripled his defense, allowing him to remain unscathed in this terrifying explosion.
He had foreseen this situation. Even if his defense had been breached, he still had his Sage Body and Cellular Regeneration Absorption. No matter what, he couldn't die.
Even with the current poisoning, he used Cellular Regeneration Absorption to absorb the fresh corpses he had prepared, quickly replenishing his cells and allowing them to develop antibodies through constant defeat.
The only thing he hadn't expected was that Shizuka would awaken the Mangekyo. But thinking about it carefully, Shizuka had already died once, she was just missing the catalyst. So he wasn't surprised.
Now, seeing these two unlucky parents constantly using their ocular powers because of his poisoning made him unable to hold back anymore. He had to give up the comfort of lying down and resting, endure the pain, and climb up to tell them he was fine. He didn't want them to go blind just after awakening the Mangekyo.
Shizuka had been extreme for a moment, stuck in a rut. Thinking back on it now, Kazuto could have directly removed the toxins from Hiromi's body. What she was doing was truly a waste of ocular power.
For a moment, she blushed. But looking at Hiromi, her shyness was cast aside, replaced by overwhelming joy and happiness.
As long as her son was fine, it was enough.
Kazuto's thoughts were very simple. He possessed the ability to resurrect others, and after seeing that Hiromi was still alive, he was even more confident that Hiromi couldn't die in front of him—even from poison. Therefore, his mindset was very stable.
However, Shizuka couldn't help but want to go and hug her son. But she knew that Hiromi was surrounded by poison, so she looked at Kazuto, signaling him to quickly remove the poison from the air so she could go over.
Kazuto's lips twitched.
Looking at Hiromi, it was clear he was fighting the toxins, he just needed some time.
But Shizuka was his wife after all. If he didn't spoil her, who would?
Just as he was planning to remove the poison from the air over there, Hiromi opened his mouth and inhaled, the surrounding air being sucked into his mouth.
Even Kazuto, who was over ten kilometers away, could feel a breeze.
This left everyone dumbfounded. This was no longer a technique, it was a monster.
But with Chakra Mode active and his body wrapped in Chakra, Hiromi was an existence capable of confronting a Tailed Beast head-on, he was already superhuman. Not to mention Hiromi's Molten God Form.
"It's fine, you can come over now."
Hiromi sat on the ground, absorbing the corpses while resting, allowing his body to produce more antibodies.
Actually, he could have used Cellular Regeneration Absorption to expel the poison, but since there was nothing going on now, if Sunagakure used this kind of poison against him again, having antibodies would reduce the risk a little.
Hearing her son's call, Shizuka immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to go over.
Kazuto had just stepped forward, preparing to walk over. His wife Shizuka's impatience made him, who was already feeling a bit awkward facing Hiromi, feel even more awkward.
But after thinking about it, he endured the awkwardness and also used the Body Flicker Technique to go over.
Temari and Gaara wanted to walk over slowly, preparing to give this family some space. But after noticing that Karin hadn't moved, Gaara turned to stare at her, his expression cold and stern, killing intent stirring.
Karin's heart trembled, and she said in a trembling, somewhat aggrieved voice, "My... my legs are numb..."
"..."
Gaara felt a bit annoyed, he manipulated his sand to lift her up and follow behind him.
Seeing this, Temari didn't know what to think. Her gaze shifted back and forth between Gaara and Karin, and she revealed a faint smile.