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Chapter 130 Death!

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Erii paused for a moment, then subconsciously turned her head to look at Uchiha Hikaru.

Uchiha Hikaru reached out and pulled her aside, gesturing for the girl to hide behind him. Then he looked up at the Grass Ninja opposite him: "What if she is?"

These grass ninjas don't seem very bright.

Uchiha Hikaru's words were clearly a rhetorical question, but they seemed to take it seriously, their eyes widening and their faces showing expressions of having struck gold.

"Huh, they really are from the Uzumaki clan?"

"I knew it! Only the Whirlpool Clan has that hair color. I was worried about how we'd manage with so many wounded lately, and how that woman alone could save them all. But we're so lucky... Hey, you red-haired one, come here!"

Neither Uchiha Hikaru nor Erii moved.

But the tall grass ninja assumed they were just frightened. He took two steps forward arrogantly, then unceremoniously reached out his large, fan-like hand and grabbed Erii's shoulder, coldly snorting at Uchiha Hikaru, "Get out of my way, you black-haired brat! Or I'll kill you!"

"..."

Just as the grass ninja's arm was about to be handed to him.

Hikaru Uchiha sighed softly: "Have you... always been this brave?"

As soon as he uttered the word "you," Uchiha Hikaru had already made his move.

To be precise, it was a leg extension—

In a flash, she executed a whip-like high kick, her slender, supple right calf striking the tall ninja's chest with a sharp whooshing sound, unleashing a tremendous force completely disproportionate to her physique! The ninja only saw a blur before being sent flying, soaring through the air for over ten meters before crashing into a wall!

boom--!

With a loud bang, the grass ninja left a human-shaped dent in the wall, then rolled back to the ground, his mouth gushing blood, quickly staining his chest red.

Until this point.

Uchiha Mitsuko casually uttered the words following "always," as if his speech had never stopped.

"...What...what happened?!"

"Kenta!"

Because Uchiha Hikaru's leg extension and retraction movements were so fast, in the eyes of the Grass Ninja, the ninja named Kenta appeared to have flown out of thin air.

One of the grass ninjas seemed to vaguely realize something and quietly retreated behind the group.

The other grass ninjas bravely surrounded them, looking like they were there to interrogate them.

Uchiha Hikaru was too lazy to waste words with them. With a few swift movements, his body seemed to split into three or four in an instant, and with a few clean and decisive whip kicks, he sent the remaining Grass Ninja flying. Each of them lay in a pool of blood, barely breathing.

After doing all this.

Without even glancing at those guys, she turned and pulled Erii up, saying, "Let's go, ignore them, let's go inside and take a look."

"Um……"

Erii nodded obediently, glanced at the few grass ninjas around her with indifferent eyes, grabbed Uchiha Hikaru's outstretched hand, and followed closely behind.

"..."

Uchiha Hikaru glanced down, his expression somewhat strange.

Speaking of which... where did Erii learn this way of holding hands with her fingers interlocked?

However, seeing Erii's bewildered expression, Uchiha Hikaru didn't say anything more. He just pursed his lips and walked towards the inner side of Kusagakure.

As time went on, more and more people gradually gathered around.

Many people noticed their presence and cast various glances at them.

Surprise, doubt, greed, drooling...

The eyes of these Kusagakure ninjas were almost like those of wild beasts living in the forest, conveying only naked malice and undisguised desire. It was as if they wanted to devour them alive with their gaze. Compared to them, even the villagers of Konoha who constantly shouted for the "Demon Fox" to be killed could be considered polite.

"Hey, who gave you permission to wander around the village like this...?"

Someone else blocked their way.

Uchiha Hikaru couldn't stand being bothered by these guys any longer, so he simply activated the Blood Jade Barrier, controlling its size to only enclose himself and Erii. Everyone who tried to approach was blocked by the semi-transparent, light-colored barrier.

"...What is that thing?"

"It looks like a barrier... I know, that red-haired girl is from the Uzumaki clan, this must be a barrier technique unique to the Uzumaki clan!"

"Where did they come from? Could they be looking for that mother and daughter? Quickly, inform the elder..."

The unrest began to spread.

However, no one came up to block the way for a while.

Uchiha Hikaru ignored the whispers of the Kusagakure ninja, grabbed Erii's hand, and walked a little further ahead as if no one else was there. They saw a building with a stone tablet that read "Kusagakure Hospital." As soon as they turned the corner and stepped into the corridor, a strong smell of blood and disinfectant filled the air.

"...Help! Someone here needs medical attention!"

"Where is that woman with the whirlpool? Bring her here quickly!"

"Wait a minute, this is still in use..."

As they were talking, a hospital bed was pushed out of a room at the end of the corridor.

A young woman with red hair was lying on the hospital bed.

He looked to be only in his thirties, but at this moment he exuded the emaciated appearance of an old man. His naked body was covered with countless teeth marks, and in some places the skin and flesh had been torn open, revealing bloodless muscle tissue. Rather than a person, he resembled a tree trunk drained of its nutrients by termites, a sight too painful to behold.

As the hospital bed was pushed along the corridor.

Several more ninjas staggered out of the adjacent ward, like hyenas driven mad by hunger, and pounced on the woman, tearing at her and sucking her dwindling blood.

"Blood...give me blood! Where's the blood, you worthless woman?!"

Several hyenas howled almost frantically, gripping the woman's neck tightly, trying to squeeze out the last drop of blood from her carotid artery.

"...Stop pinching her, she's dying!"

"Death... There are still so many wounded, how could she dare to die... Right, doesn't she have a daughter? Bring that daughter over! Her blood can definitely heal the injuries!"

"We've already sent people to look for it, just wait a little longer..."

"..."

Uchiha Hikaru, holding Erii's hand, stood in the corridor, silently watching this scene, speechless for a moment.

Even though she already knew about this plot, she still found it hard to imagine that humans could be so disgusting and ugly... The scene before her could only be described as hell on earth.

Suddenly, a "hyena" noticed Erii.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, they rushed over with red eyes, seemingly wanting to do to Erii what they had just done to the red-haired woman.

Uchiha Hikaru sighed again, a murderous glint flashing in his eyes—to these beings who had lost all sense of humanity, words were meaningless; the only way was to communicate in their language, which they could understand…

Almost at the same moment that Uchiha Hikaru decided to make her move, she suddenly felt Erii tighten her grip on her hand, and her fingertips began to tremble slightly.

then……

A clear, girlish voice rang out in the corridor, uttering the word that Uchiha Hikaru had been thinking of in an ancient language—

"die!"

(End of this chapter)