NABC Chapter 79 Strangling the Salamander
Chapter 79 Strangling the Salamander
Chapter 79 Strangling the Salamander
Shiba Kiyokawa had been waiting for this opportunity!
As mentioned in the original work, after each time the salamander Ibuki vomited poison, it took him five minutes to recharge.
This secret was first discovered by Granny Chiyo, the elder of Sunagakure.
Ibuse, this summoning beast, poses a great threat to Shiba Kiyokawa!
No matter how much he prepared in advance, the number of his antidote pills was always limited.
So, as early as the very beginning of this battle, he was already plotting to annihilate this famous summoning beast!
Before Hanzo summoned it, all their tactics were executed very conservatively, until this moment—
"Now's the time, let's do it!"
With a loud shout from Shiba Kiyokawa, Nagato, who had retreated far away, quickly returned and raised his hand, spreading his five fingers!
At first, Hanzo did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
Whether in the original work or now, he initially overlooked Nagato.
In the original story, his main target was Yahiko, but now, it's because Shiba Kiyokawa's brilliance is too dazzling that he subconsciously ignores everyone else.
Until Nagato, who had rushed forward, removed the disguise from his eyes and shouted, "Shinra Tensei!"
Only then did Hanzo the Salamander belatedly realize the enormous mistake he had made!
"Those eyes...are they the eyes of a sage?!"
The legend of the Sage of Six Paths is widely known in the ninja world, and his eyes are naturally deeply ingrained in people's minds.
In the original work, almost everyone could recognize the Rinnegan at a glance, and Hanzo is no exception.
It's a pity that it's too late to recognize it now.
With a wave of his hand, Nagato sent the Salamander Inui flying into the sky!
"Konan!"
Immediately afterward, Shiba Kiyokawa shouted again, drawing Hanzo's gaze to the sky above.
The next moment, Hanzo's eyes widened to their maximum size once again in shock!
Xiao Nan, who had taken off ahead of time, was already prepared. Three six-meter-long guns made of rolled-up white paper were poised to fire in the air!
"No!"
Hanzo shouted and hurriedly put his hands together, trying to form a hand seal to release the summoning spell.
However, before he could even put his hands together, a knife slashed down in front of him with the force of a thunderbolt!
The plan to strangle the salamanders has already been carried out to this point, so Shiba Kiyokawa will certainly not give Hanzo another chance to retreat!
"when!"
The blade collided violently with the sickle handle!
The chains snapped back up, and Hanzo tried to repeat his trick.
The reason why Shiba Kiyokawa was defeated just now was to cooperate with the illusion to deceive and induce the situation. If it happened again, Shiba Kiyokawa, who saw through the trick, would be even less likely to fall for it!
As soon as the chains began to spin, Shiba Kiyokawa released the hilt of his sword.
Then take a half step back, turn around, raise your leg high, and kick out to the side!
Hanzo's chain wrapped around the tip of his sword, and the inertia caused the straight sword to spin in mid-air.
Then, Shiba Kiyokawa's side kick precisely struck the hilt of the sword in mid-air, further accelerating the speed of the straight sword!
The rapidly spinning katana quickly pulled away more chains, eventually turning the tables and taking control of the short-handled scythe that was connected to the chains in Hanzo's hand!
This combo was supposed to be Hanzo using the chains to control the enemy's weapon, giving his other hand's scythe a chance to finish them off. But now, Shiba Kiyokawa's counterattack has turned this smooth little combo into Hanzo controlling himself!
As he kicked the sword through the air, Shiba Kiyokawa's free hands continued to form hand seals without pause.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Ball!"
Using the rotating katana as a circular surface, Shiba Kiyokawa unleashed his Wind Release technique at close range, instantly blasting Hanzo away!
"What?!"
Even as he was being sent flying, Hanzo was still in disbelief!
He, a demigod of the ninja world, who had slain countless enemies throughout his life, actually lost a single exchange in a battle against a teenager in his middle age?!
Am I really getting old?
Good fortune never comes in pairs, but misfortunes never come singly.
While Shiba Kiyokawa was repelling Hanzo on the ground, the strangulation in the air was also being carried out simultaneously!
Xiao Nan spread her arms and threw the paper gun she had prepared for so long!
Three six-meter-long paper spears pierced the rain, exploding in the air in concentric rings the instant they were fired.
In an instant, they pierced through the body of the salamander!
This is not over yet!
After the white paper spear pierced the well, the paper that made up the three spears all spontaneously combusted without wind!
"Croak! Croak!"
Jing struggled and hissed desperately in mid-air, trying to pull out the paper spear from his body.
However, even Kakuzu spread his arms out and stretched them towards the sky!
"Secret Technique: Earth Grudge!"
A large number of black threads suddenly shot out from the seam on Kakuzu's arm, rising against the current and flying high into the air, wrapping around the falling salamander Ibuki and preventing it from pulling out the spear from its body!
When Hanzo was sent flying by the Vacuum Jewel, crashed to the ground and bounced up again, he looked up and saw all the white paper that made up the spear burning and exploding at the same time!
Under the influence of Xiao Nan's secret technique, those papers eventually turned into explosive tags!
"boom!"
A breathtaking artistic explosion occurred in mid-air!
"No!!"
Hanzo, half-kneeling on the ground, let out a mournful cry. In the end, he could only watch helplessly as his old partner was blown into pieces in the rain.
The fame of Hanzo the Salamander is largely due to his summoned creature, the Salamander.
This summoning beast, which is on the verge of becoming the strongest in the ninja world, was only suppressed once by Elder Chiyo of Sunagakure during the Second Shinobi World War many years ago. Apart from that, it has been almost always successful in its appearances!
But today, this salamander has finally come to the end of its magnificent life.
The next moment, everyone involved in the killing turned their attention back to Hanzo the Salamander!
At that moment, the oppressive force from the Eye of the Immortal left Hanzo with no time to reminisce about his old comrade.
Having lost the help of his most prized summoning beast, and even having lost his scythe and chains in the brief exchange, Hanzo finally felt the long-lost threat of death.
Having dominated the ninja world for so many years, he never imagined that one day he would be driven to such a desperate situation by a group of teenagers old enough to be his children and grandchildren.
He reached out his hand tremblingly, shaking and hesitating, but finally reluctantly reached for his mask.
He still has a sinister trick up his sleeve—a way to turn the tide in a desperate situation, or at least to take everyone down with him!
The ninja world knows that the poison of the salamander is unparalleled, but few people know that the most powerful poison of a demigod is actually himself!
A highly venomous salamander venom sac was implanted in his body a long time ago, and this venom sac was even more terrifying than the one in his old friend Jingfu's body!
Because of the presence of this poison sac, he unconsciously releases poison gas with every breath, which is why he has worn a breathing mask for decades.
Now, out of anger, madness, or perhaps shame and resentment, Hanzo finally reached for his breathing mask!
"Let's die together!"
He yelled and ripped off his mask!
However, the next moment, he saw a faint smile appear on Shiba Kiyokawa's lips, a smile that seemed both relaxed and mocking.
The other person spoke, and with just one sentence, shattered his last bit of pride and resolve.
"What do you think the sealing technique I used on you initially sealed? The poison sac inside you has temporarily lost its effectiveness; didn't you notice all this time?"
In that instant, Hanzo of the Salamander stood frozen in place, feeling for the first time with absolute certainty that his era had finally passed...
(End of this chapter)