The Fire Gun swept in like the wind; the short-haired Sunagakure shinobi instantly had an arm blown off.
"Are you all right? Junpei!"
Sunagakure shinobi Junpei's eyes were full of pain.
"That brat is too hard to deal with—no wonder he broke out of a thousand-strong Sunagakure force!"
The sealing ninja muttered under his breath, "Rosa just wants us to come here and die."
"Watch your words—we still have Pakura! She has Scorch Release!"
His tongue is so nimble and impressive..!
"That damned brat!" Pakura cursed under her breath and condensed another Scorch Release sphere in her hand.
"Scorch Release: Super Steam Kill!"
Moku Kairen saw Pakura's fireball, moved in an instant, and slammed straight into that fireball.
"Ding!"
"You were killed by Jōnin Pakura using Scorch Release, experience +380!"
Pakura was puzzled for a moment — her fireball seemed to have only traveled partway, so how did Moku Kairen crash into it?
This guy... seems to like being killed, doesn't he?
…
After respawning, a dozen shuriken suddenly flew toward him. He didn't dodge or evade; he let those shuriken pierce his body, and while doing so he borrowed their momentum to draw them into his system space.
Pakura immediately barked orders: "No—just like the briefing said, physical attacks don't work on him. Use sealing!"
Three Jōnin flanked the sealing ninja, watching Moku Kairen's movements warily. The sealing ninja unfurled a scroll, ready to seal Moku Kairen at first opportunity.
Pakura stomped on the gray giant hawk beneath her; the hawk opened its beak and released a wind blade.
"Whoosh whoosh…"
The wind blade cut across Moku Kairen and awarded him roughly a hundred experience points.
"Now!" Pakura shouted at the sealing ninja.
The sealing ninja nodded; the scroll in his hand unfurled rapidly like a white python constricting its prey.
"Try to seal me with that amateur sealing technique!"
Kairen smiled lightly inside the white smoke, flapped his wings, spun twice, and slipped out of the scroll's grasp.
Conventional sealing techniques were useless against his speed-type style; even with a corpse-sealing restriction, Kairen could fly away.
In short, as long as he didn't go reckless, sealing wouldn't be his weakness.
But going reckless... seemed to be Kairen's biggest flaw!
"Damn it—his revival speed is too fast!" Pakura clenched her fists.
A sharp gust of wind raced into everyone's ears as a black shadow streaked across the sky.
"Watch out!"
Moku Kairen's target was the sullen-eyed Sunagakure shinobi; unfortunately his comrade's warning came too late. With Kairen's flight and the overlay of Nine-Tails Chakra, his speed was impossible to track with the naked eye.
Moku Kairen's eyes were cold and indifferent.
"Earlier... you laid a hand on Tsunade!"
"Rasengan!"
A Rasengan smashed into the sullen shinobi's head, twisting him into a mangled, wrung-out mess.
As the sullen Sunagakure shinobi died, one thought raged in his mind: fuck—he had used the hammer.
Moku Kairen withdrew the hand that had formed the Rasengan and looked at the mashed-up head of the shinobi.
A Rasengan should be used to hit the head! Chidori is best for decapitation.
Ninjas fighting still aren't cruel enough!
"That damned brat!" Pakura instant-transmitted and kicked Kairen hard in the back.
Moku Kairen lost his balance in midair from the blow and plummeted toward the bamboo grove outside the city.
Pakura hurriedly launched several more Scorch Release spheres; the crimson fireballs chased after Moku Kairen.
"Go to the ground— that brat can fly; he has the advantage over us," Pakura ordered.
The gray hawk dived toward the bamboo grove where Moku Kairen was falling.
Moku Kairen smashed through several lush bamboo stalks and slid over the fragrant bamboo leaves, crashing into a pile of leaves.
He'd fallen from hundreds of meters, plus the follow-up Scorch Release attacks. After such a heavy hit, he still had breath—if he didn't go out of his way to die, he was hard to kill.
Kairen burrowed in the pit and slowly stood.
His leg bones were shattered; the skin and tissue on his back had been burnt away, but his body's immense regenerative power was visibly at work.
He drew a kunai from system space, placed it at his throat, and suddenly sliced—triggering rebirth.
Heat radiated from the sky to the ground; the nearby bamboo yellowed under the extreme temperature and slowly caught fire.
Moku Kairen turned into a cloud of white smoke, and in an instant escaped Pakura's Scorch Release attack.
Pakura and the other Sunagakure shinobi leapt down; they circled a bamboo stalk that had been stepped on, and above them was Moku Kairen.
"Snap!"
Moku Kairen snapped his fingers; a puff of white smoke rose from nowhere. A white-headed hawk swooped past.
Pakura sneered at Moku Kairen.
"Kairen, if you know what's good for you, give up resisting and come with us to Sunagakure!"
Moku Kairen sat on the bamboo stalk, which bowed in a deep arc under his weight. He propped his head up with one hand, as if Sunagakure meant nothing to him.
"An elephant? I've never seen one!"
"You're asking for death!"
Pakura formed hand seals and unleashed fireballs one after another.
Moku Kairen let her attack land—he didn't move an inch.
"Ding!"
"You were killed by Jōnin Pakura using Scorch Release, experience +350!"
The sealing ninja's hands were fast; he withdrew a scroll and immediately performed his technique.
As the white horizontal-banner scroll swept across the smoke, a small hawk burst out of the smoke and avoided the sealing ninja's seal.
Moku Kairen returned to his original form; a black wing sprouted from his back, and the two pillars of his transformation immediately proclaimed,
"Sunagakure, I have become a hawk— the sky is my domain. As for you lot, you can stare at the soles of my feet for the rest of your lives!"
"That damned kid!" Pakura ground her teeth, her chest rising and falling fiercely.
"Chirp!"
Sunagakure's summoned gray hawk streaked through the gale; a huge wind blade slashed across Moku Kairen's back.
Moku Kairen was cut in two, life slowly ebbing away; even in death he couldn't help but marvel.
"No wonder it's the Sasuke's spirit attribute—whenever I get bored, people come to cut me down."
This game is so fun—brothers, come and hit me!
The sealing ninja continued to unfurl his scroll. Moku Kairen's eyes flickered with killing intent.
"Rasengan!"
Moku Kairen spread his five fingers; five Rasengan condensed on his fingertips.
This is the hallmark of having 500% chakra control—he could even use his fingers to launch Rasengan.
But that's not all.
The five Rasengan on his fingers hovered; if you looked closely, there were thin chakra threads connecting the Rasengan to Moku Kairen's fingertips.
Why are Rasengan normally close-range?
Because they need the caster's subsequent chakra maintenance; without continuous chakra replenishment, the chakra flow inside the Rasengan will stop.
There are exceptions—like Boruto's invisible Rasengan, which added Lightning Nature chakra, allowing it to be fired at range and become invisible.
It's basically... an essential technique for killing and looting!
But the drawback is— it doesn't burn!