If Uchiha Izumi was the blade of justice, then Ringo Ayuri would only beco Keizumi's sharp blade.
The forr was Keizumi's fellow traveler; the latter would only be a blade in his hand. But no matter how finely made a blade was, without a mind of its own, it was still a dull blade. Absolute Justice had no need for dull blades!
"Please do not refuse! Before my father died, he taught that kindness must always be repaid! As for my mother..." At the ntion of her mother, Ayuri felt a pain in her heart so sharp she could barely breathe. She had actually called that beast her brother for so many years. If her mother could see all this from the Pure Land, how much pain would she feel? "In any case, please do not refuse! No matter what you ask of , I will risk my life to accomplish it!"
Keizumi frowned slightly. Ayuri might truly be able to assist him in carrying out justice, but could a sharp blade that placed Keizumi's will above [Absolute Justice] really beco a blade of justice?
If Izumi was a believer in Absolute Justice, then Ayuri was more likely to beco a believer in Keizumi.
"Please accept her loyalty!" i suddenly spoke up in persuasion at that mont. When she had first seen Ayuri ask to follow Keizumi, she had still been lanting the loss of a Lightning Release genius for Kirigakure. But when Keizumi declined her, i thought of another possibility. "You cannot possibly remain in the Land of Water forever. When the ti cos, you could let Ayuri serve as your eyes and supervise the implentation of Absolute Justice in the Land of Water in your stead."
i did not care whether Ayuri would beco Keizumi's loyal hound in the future. No matter how loyal Ayuri might be to him, her strength had its limits. Compared with Keizumi, who could suppress Kirigakure by his own power alone, at best Ayuri would only beco an outstanding elite jōnin in the future.
There were many things Keizumi could do with ease that Ayuri could only compromise over by force of circumstance. Once Keizumi left, Kirigakure would have no shortage of room to play tricks.
"I will give you a chance for now." After a mont of thought, Keizumi swept his gaze across the Kirigakure shinobi present, then finally let it settle on a man whose square red marker above his head had deepened to a dark purplish red. "Ōhashi Jirō. Twelve years ago, you attacked a rchant ship to seize its valuables, causing all fourteen people aboard to die. Eleven years ago... three months ago... If you want to follow , then go kill him."
The mont his words fell, lightning flared around the prone Ayuri once more. Ōhashi Jirō, the man Keizumi had singled out, tried to flee, but the Sharingan's genjutsu nailed him firmly in place.
"Lightning Flash Slash!" Ayuri's figure flickered, and his head was severed in a single stroke. At the sa ti, Keizumi also received a prompt from his golden finger.
[Ding! One of the believers in Absolute Justice you have nurtured has joined forces to carry out an act of absolute justice! Your chakra has received a slight increase! Congratulations, you have successfully obtained: Kirigakure Swordsmanship Experience Book ×2]
[At the sa ti, Ringo Ayuri has also received a slight increase in chakra!]
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'So even followers who are loyal enough will be regarded as believers in Absolute Justice...' Though Keizumi was surprised, it also made sense. As long as he did not stray from the path of Absolute Justice, then his diehard followers would naturally also be diehard believers in Absolute Justice.
"Keizumi-sama?" Ayuri did not think that completing such a small task would be enough to earn her the qualification to follow him. But as long as he was willing to give her a chance, she would complete any test, no matter what it was. "Hm?"
Yet at that mont, she felt so kind of change co over her body. Her chakra reserves seed to have increased a little?
"Bastard! They lured us here just to kill us! Let's fight them to the death!" With three Kirigakure shinobi dead in succession, the rest imdiately erupted, especially the conservative faction's shinobi. So among them had committed cris even worse than Kurō, Kukurin, and Jirō. Keizumi clearly had no intention of sparing them just because there were many of them. If they kept waiting, sooner or later they would all die anyway.
Dozens of Kirigakure shinobi roared as they charged at Keizumi. Seeing that, Ayuri flew into a rage and clenched her short swords, about to rush forward and stake everything on the fight.
But just as lightning flared around Ayuri again, Keizumi's Mangekyō Sharingan began to spin and transform, forming a pattern that was even more complex, more sinister, and more profound!
Susanoo!
Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble—!!!
With the complete release of his ocular power, the earth let out a violent roar. A colossal crimson skeletal fra, vast beyond imagination, stood upon the land like a demonic god crawling up from the deepest pits of hell!
Crimson chakra surged forth like a rushing torrent of molten lava, rapidly constructing an incomparably robust, sinewy body over the skeletal fra.
Imdiately afterward, layer upon layer of heavy, ancient, and ferocious crimson armor spread over the demonic god's mighty body as if alive.
The extre heat radiating from the crimson chakra flas was so intense that even the ground beneath Susanoo's feet began to lt and boil, forming a rolling lake of lava that kept spreading outward in bubbling waves.
A pair of enormous chakra wings suddenly unfurled from Susanoo's back, and within those crimson wings, countless streams of blazing magma seed to flow.
Complete Body Susanoo!
Crimson light illuminated the night sky over Kirigakure. With each beat of its wings, waves of scorching, burning wind were stirred up, evaporating the dense mist that blanketed Kirigakure all year round!
Under Keizumi's control, the enormous Susanoo stretched out a hand and seized fiercely at the empty air!
Buzz—!!!
Endless Lava Release chakra gathered and condensed into a gigantic magma blade that radiated an aura of total incineration, then slashed violently toward the dozens of charging Kirigakure shinobi.
Just one strike!
Dozens of Kirigakure shinobi were burned away by the magma blade. The elite jōnin leading them tried to resist with Water Release, but the Water Release he unleashed was laughable before the might of Lava Release Susanoo, like a toy water gun.
"So strong!" Ayuri's eyes widened in shock. In her heart, that Susanoo towering beneath the heavens was like a god descending from above!
The remaining Kirigakure shinobi were scared out of their wits by the power Keizumi had displayed. Yet so of them still turned and ran without the slightest hesitation. The stronger he appeared, the more resolute they beca in their flight!
Yet Keizumi rely cast a glance at the fleeing Kirigakure shinobi, and Susanoo's left hand transford into a massive mass of lava. Wrapped in scorching magma and howling burning wind, a single blow blasted the ground several kiloters away into a deep lake of lava.
Along with it, those fools who had not even thought to scatter as they fled were reduced to ashes as well, their cris completely settled!
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