[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained an F-rank item: One tael of gold.]
…
[Congratulations, Host. You have completed your one-hundredth draw and triggered the guarantee. You have obtained an S-rank item: Otsutsuki Bloodline, 5%.]
Rasa did not hesitate.
"Use it!"
The next instant, Rasa clearly felt a familiar power surge into his body.
Immediately afterward, his body began changing at a rapid pace.
His physique was being strengthened.
His chakra was rising.
…
[Name: Rasa]
[Identity: Fourth Kazekage]
[Ninjutsu: Byakugan Scouting Technique, Sand Soldier Manifestation, Quicksand Displacement, Crescent Moon Sand Dune, Surface Fissure, etc.]
[Taijutsu: General Taijutsu]
[Genjutsu: None]
[Bloodline Limit: Magnet Release - Gold Dust, Byakugan]
[Otsutsuki Bloodline: 15%]
Suddenly, Rasa felt an itch spread through his ordinary eye.
It was as if something was stimulating it from within.
This feeling was familiar. He had experienced it before.
"So under the stimulation of a fifteen-percent bloodline concentration, my other eye is finally changing as well?"
"Both eyes have become Byakugan."
"And it isn't just an increase in number. The ability itself has improved too."
"The distance I can see, the clarity of what I can observe… all of it has increased."
Only when surprised voices came from across from him did Rasa return to himself.
"Kazekage-sama!"
The Sunagakure shinobi all looked toward Rasa.
Rasa gave a slight nod.
The leader of Kusagakure's face was terribly gloomy, but he did not dare show the slightest temper.
"Kazekage!"
"Hokage!"
"Tsuchikage!"
The three exchanged greetings.
Then, in unison, they looked toward Kusagakure's leader.
"Bring out Kusagakure's compensation."
"Yes."
The leader of Kusagakure lowered his head.
With a single order, large numbers of Kusagakure shinobi began carrying supplies over.
Watching them, Kusagakure's leader felt as if his heart were bleeding.
Over the years, Kusagakure had indeed taken advantage of the Great Ninja War to play all sides, acting in the shadows and gaining no small amount of benefit. But they had not gained that much.
Now, the moment Sunagakure, Konoha, and Iwagakure opened their mouths—
The reparations alone were enough to force Kusagakure to spit out every advantage they had gained before.
It still might not be enough.
And that did not even include the later compensation.
When that time came, how was Kusagakure supposed to pay?
The leader of Kusagakure could not imagine it.
After paying the compensation, what would Kusagakure become?
He did not know that either.
He was not even sure whether Kusagakure would still exist after this.
A desperate, pessimistic atmosphere surrounded every Kusagakure shinobi.
Suddenly—
Rasa saw something.
A Kusagakure shinobi had more than a dozen explosive tags tied around his body. His head was lowered, his face expressionless, and he held a massive box in his arms. It looked incredibly heavy.
He walked toward them.
First, he looked toward the Konoha shinobi.
Then toward the Sunagakure shinobi.
Finally, toward the Iwagakure shinobi.
Step by step.
Rasa narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Another suicide-bombing shinobi?"
"It seems my Kaguya Kagami started a bad trend."
"Genji copied it. Now even this Kusagakure shinobi is copying it."
Rasa glanced in the direction of the Konoha shinobi.
One Hyuga shinobi had clearly noticed the same thing, but he said nothing.
If the Hyuga said nothing, then Rasa could not say anything either.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps…
Closer.
Even closer.
Just as two Iwagakure shinobi stepped forward to take the box from the Kusagakure shinobi—
The Kusagakure shinobi suddenly charged toward the place where the Iwa shinobi were gathered.
"You Iwa bastards, all of you can die!"
Before he even finished shouting, he had already ignited the explosive tags on his body.
The Iwagakure shinobi failed to react in time.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
A chain of explosions erupted. The entire area was swallowed by blast waves, flying sand, shattered stone, fragments of shinobi bodies…
The smell of blood and charred flesh mixed together in the air.
Onoki's expression changed instantly.
"Kusagakure… how bold!"
Onoki glared furiously at Kusagakure's leader.
The leader of Kusagakure's face changed dramatically.
Against three great shinobi villages, was it that he did not want to resist?
No.
It was that he could not.
The moment they resisted, Kusagakure could not possibly endure against three great shinobi villages.
Their only ending would be vanishing from the shinobi world.
Just like countless small shinobi villages before them.
For example, Uzushiogakure.
And the pressure Kusagakure faced now was even greater than what Uzushiogakure had faced back then.
For Kusagakure's future, the leader of Kusagakure had chosen to endure.
A moment of revenge would certainly feel satisfying.
But afterward?
The despair in his eyes grew even deeper.
"You have doomed Kusagakure!"
Before Kusagakure's leader could react, that shinobi's actions seemed to ignite the resentment and anger buried inside many Kusagakure shinobi.
"Kill!"
"Kill them!"
"Fight them to the death!"
"Why should they get to bully Kusagakure like this?"
"Just because they're great shinobi villages?"
"They twist black into white!"
"They're forcing crimes we never committed onto our heads!"
"Kusagakure is innocent!"
…
Dozens of Kusagakure shinobi could no longer hold themselves back and charged toward the forces of the three great shinobi villages.
Onoki looked coldly at the dozen or so Kusagakure shinobi rushing toward him.
He was enraged.
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"
A single Dust Release attack descended, enveloping those Kusagakure shinobi completely.
The next instant, under the effect of Dust Release, they were decomposed.
Reduced into something finer than dust.
They vanished completely, not even leaving corpses behind.
Hiruzen Sarutobi formed hand seals.
"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
Violent flames swept out, surrounding another dozen Kusagakure shinobi from three different directions.
Boom!
The flames collided and burned fiercely.
Screams rang out one after another, and a burnt stench spread through the air.
The Kusagakure shinobi were too weak.
And with the Kage of three great shinobi villages present, they were even more helpless.
After the first suicide-bombing shinobi, the three great villages had already become wary. Their actions could no longer pose any real threat.
They were simply throwing their lives away.
Rasa raised one hand.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust!"
The ground immediately surged.
A wall of sand rose in an instant, then smashed down on the dozen Kusagakure shinobi charging toward the Suna forces like a towering wave in a tsunami.
Pa!
With one heavy crash, everything went still.
The dozen Kusagakure shinobi were all buried beneath the sand.
The leader of Kusagakure raised both hands, dropped to his knees, and begged for mercy.
"Hokage-sama, Kazekage-sama, Tsuchikage-sama, please listen to my explanation!"
"They acted on their own! This has nothing to do with the rest of us!"
"It's all their fault!"
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