Chapter 397: Danzo Shimura's Methods (II)
"I'm not interested in your methods." The young female ninja said softly, "Nor do I think—"
Her clear, cold voice paused.
"—you have the room to use them."
A sudden moment of silence, and then—
The sentence, spoken with equal confidence, fell like a horn call. The two confronting figures exchanged a glance and moved almost simultaneously.
Dirt flew, Danzo Shimura kicked the ground hard with his heels, leaving a deep footprint in the solid earth, then retreated violently, clasping his hands in front of his chest!
"Hare—"
The "Mangekyo Secret Technique: Izanagi" required only three hand seals to be cast. For a skilled ninja, it could be completed in less than a second. Danzo formed the first seal, "Hare," the instant he retreated.
The remaining two seals would only take another half a second or so.
However, at this very moment, Haruno Sakura also moved.
Her exquisite features seemed to elongate and sharpen in Danzo's eyes for an instant.
Unimaginable speed blurred Sakura's peerless face. Only those clear, autumn-water-like emerald eyes, narrowed slightly and elongated, were clearly reflected deep in the old man's turbid pupils.
With a tap of her toes, silent as if no force was applied, only raising a cloud of dust on the ground, Haruno Sakura's figure suddenly dispersed into the air and vanished from Danzo's sight.
Ice Body Flicker, Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!
Like a movie with frames cut out in the middle, the girl had just lifted her foot to start, and the distance of several meters was crossed instantly, appearing abruptly in front of Danzo.
In an instant, she closed in on the old man.
Only at this moment did Danzo Shimura realize why his subordinates were slaughtered like pigs and dogs without the strength to resist in front of Haruno Sakura's Body Flicker Technique.
Only at this moment did Danzo Shimura finally understand the terror and powerlessness of encountering an enemy like the Yellow Flash in battle.
A clear, flawless blade light lit up, resembling the crescent moon in the night sky, cutting through the air and slashing towards Danzo.
The bright red blood on the tip of the blade added a touch of bewitching redness to the cold silver light, so beautiful it could almost make one stop breathing.
The pupil in Danzo's left eye contracted violently, and the movement of his hands forming seals in front of his chest stopped abruptly.
Because the blade light was aimed precisely at his palms forming the seals!
Perhaps Danzo needed less than half a second for the remaining two seals. But that ice blade would not wait even a tenth of a second!
Those emerald eyes were already close at hand. The clear, water-like divine light in her eyes met the old man's deep gaze, as if repeating her words.
"I don't think you have the room to use them."
Danzo finally realized the weight of these words heavily in his heart.
In front of her Ice Body Flicker, he couldn't even complete the hand seals!
All jutsu requiring hand seals were domineeringly forbidden in the face of this unparalleled speed!
Danzo's chest suddenly contracted, shrinking his hands forming seals deeply into what was originally the position of his chest.
The blade light caught up, slashing down like a white line, cutting a deep wound on Danzo's hands, sending flesh and a section of metacarpal bone flying.
Danzo tensed his whole body, taking the opportunity to exert force under his feet, raising his body, leaping up crazily, fleeing into mid-air.
His hands, however, ignored everything. Relying on strong willpower, he forcibly suppressed the severe pain from the huge wound and forcibly continued to form seals!
Haruno Sakura's gaze was indifferent, following Danzo as he rose, her brows slightly furrowed.
"Meaningless struggle."
In any case, Danzo had lost the initiative and no longer had the chance to complete the hand seals. Such struggle was futile, only adding more wounds to himself in vain.
Not... useful.
Tapping the ground with her toes, her tender white instep showed no sign of exertion, but suddenly burst with huge power, stamping a deep mark on the ground. Then her figure shot out like a flying arrow, rushing towards Danzo.
In an instant, she came from behind and caught up with Danzo's figure.
With a turn of her wrist, that wandering clear light lit up again, relentless, biting towards Danzo.
Blade light appeared suddenly in this dim cave, like dawn breaking, falling towards the old man's hands forcibly forming seals.
The blade edge touched Danzo's hands without a hint of smoke and fire. Silver brilliance burst out dazzlingly, then quickly dimmed, dissipating in the air like a wisp of curling smoke.
"Got him."
The instantly blooming brilliance illuminated the cave, reflecting everything inside into those jewel-like eyes. The cold sweat on the old man's forehead, the bright red stained on the ice blade, and a pair of palms leaving the body while forming the "Boar" seal were all reflected in those clear pupils.
Danzo Shimura failed to form the second "Boar" seal of Izanagi after all, and his palms were chopped off.
Izanagi—a secret technique unique to the Uchiha, capable of turning disadvantageous states, including death, suffered by the caster into dreams within a very short time, restoring oneself to the original state. It is an ultimate genjutsu cast on oneself, freely manipulating the boundary between illusion and reality! In other words, after casting this ninjutsu, Danzo would have more than one life!
Such a strong genjutsu naturally required an astonishing price—not only consuming a large amount of chakra, but each conversion would cause a Sharingan to lose its light completely...
If such a powerful ninjutsu were really cast by Danzo, Haruno Sakura might fall into a hard battle because on Danzo's right arm, there were ten Sharingan...!
However, all this was meaningless now. Without palms, unable to form seals, the brewing Izanagi dissipated like smoke because it lacked guidance and wasn't fully cast.
"In this case, no matter how many methods he has, he can't use them!"
Although she didn't know what kind of ninjutsu Danzo would use, Sakura could keenly sense that a restless chakra in Danzo's body had quieted down due to the loss of seal guidance.
This thought flashed through her mind, and her tightly pursed thin lips finally relaxed, curling up slightly.
However, at this very moment, Sakura was surprised to see that on Danzo's always tense face, an ugly smile appeared for the first time!
"Got her!"
The right eye on the old man's face, which had been wrapped in bandages, had been unsealed by him at some point, revealing an eye hidden in the deepest part.
A bewitchingly bright red eye—Sharingan!
In that Sharingan, what flowed was not black tomoe, but a four-pointed pinwheel.
This was a Mangekyo Sharingan!
"Mangekyo Secret Technique: Kotoamatsukami!"
The world suddenly quieted down.
Then—
"Heh, that was close..."
Panting sounds came from behind Danzo.
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