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Chapter 132 The Body Vanishes into Ashes!

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The height of a single floor in Kusakabe Hospital is only about three meters.

But the fourth form of Susanoo is a full forty meters long!

As the dark red flames surged, the ceiling of the Grass Village Hospital was directly ripped open, and the walls, already teetering on the brink of collapse from the "Judgment," crumbled in an instant, with large chunks of rubble continuously falling down. Carried by the boundless shockwave, the debris swept outwards, sending many Grass Village ninja flying and looking back with disheveled expressions.

In just over ten seconds, the entire hospital building was reduced to a pile of rubble!

"What...what is this?!"

The grass ninjas were dumbfounded.

They had never seen Susanoo.

But they still recognized each other through their Sharingan eyes—

"Uchiha...the Uchiha clan from Konoha! What are they doing here?!"

"Is Konoha going to attack Kusagakure?!"

"How did Uchiha and Uzumaki end up together...? Could that red thing be one of the legendary tailed beasts?!"

From the moment they saw the Sharingan and Susanoo, most of the Grass Ninja began to feel fear.

For a long time, they had been accustomed to bullying the weak. Their previous arrogance was due to the fact that Uchiha Hikari and Erii, two girls, seemed relatively weak. But when Sharingan, Uchiha, Konoha... these words representing power appeared, they began to feel fear, and even lost the courage to fight.

"How pathetic."

Uchiha Hikaru, high in the sky, scanned his surroundings with an indifferent gaze.

Everyone who met her gaze widened their eyes, then fell to their knees with a thud, their faces showing a mixture of fear and dread. In the blink of an eye, a large number of them had knelt down.

The elder who had taken Karin Uzumaki hostage collapsed to the ground, his already aged face appearing to have aged ten years in an instant.

——Engraved Tsukuyomi!

A few people with strong mental resistance struggled to get up and slip away at this point.

But as Uchiha Hikaru's eyes flickered slightly, everyone felt their chakra rapidly draining away, instantly collapsing to their knees, utterly exhausted. This time, they didn't even have the strength to move a finger.

"Damn it, why can't I muster any strength in my arms and legs... Is this some kind of Uchiha trick?!"

— "Eight Thousand Spears".

Using the seals as a medium, the "Eight Thousand Spears" almost instantly drained the chakra from the bodies of nearly a hundred people who had been marked, making these usually greedy and arrogant grass ninjas feel for the first time what it meant to be at the mercy of others.

Susanoo drew his dark red greatsword.

With the enhancement of Uchiha Hikari's eye power, jet-black flames ignited on the blade.

Although they didn't know anything about "Amaterasu," when they saw the giant sword that was over ten meters long and the black flames that were beyond their comprehension, all the Grass Ninjas opened their eyes wide in horror and felt a fear from the depths of their souls.

However, having also lost the strength to speak, they were unable to even beg for mercy and could only watch helplessly as Susanoo raised the dark red greatsword high and pointed it towards the sky.

"This sword strike is called..."

Uchiha Hikaru let out a soft breath: "Heavenly Punishment!!!"

The words fell.

The greatsword is swung!

At that moment, a black and red sword light streaked through the air, sweeping out a huge, dark ring around the ruins of the Grass Village Hospital. Centered on Susanoo, nearly a hundred Grass Village ninja were simultaneously cleaved in two! Then, they were ignited by black flames and, in temperatures of thousands of degrees, were rapidly burned to charcoal in utter terror!

And then...

Even these charred bones were completely burned away by Amaterasu's raging flames, turning into a pile of black charcoal slag that drifted away in the wind.

The air was filled with the strong smell of barbecue.

One strike, a hundred men, their forms reduced to ashes!

"!!"

As the sole survivor in the arena, Karin Uzumaki stared wide-eyed at the scene with a blank expression.

It wasn't until Uchiha Hikaru released his Susanoo and walked up to her that the girl suddenly came to her senses, looking as if she had just woken up from a dream.

"You...no, you..."

Karin Uzumaki opened her mouth, seemingly unsure of what to say.

Uchiha Hikaru patted her head and gestured towards the ruins: "Go check on your mother. I wonder if she's still alive."

Before activating Susanoo, Uchiha Hikaru had already set up the Blood Orchid Coral barrier, enveloping Erii and the red-haired woman within it, so even though Kusagakure Hospital had collapsed, they were not affected.

When Karin rushed up and hugged the red-haired woman, she began to cry loudly.

Erii approached Uchiha Hikaru with a worried expression, her dark eyes still fixed on her hand, her face streaked with tears. She held up her small notebook: "Hikaru's hand, does it still hurt?"

"...It's all over now, look."

Uchiha Hikaru smiled and raised his fully recovered left hand in a gesture.

Erii continued writing: "I'm sorry, it's my fault. I thought they were going to rush over and hurt Hikari... Hikari is bleeding, I'm so sad."

"Um?"

Uchiha Hikaru was slightly taken aback.

She initially thought Erii's actions stemmed primarily from anger, given how horrific the scene in the hospital corridor had been. But in reality…

This girl probably didn't think that much about it at all.

She simply thought that the group of grass ninja who had bitten people to death had targeted her and Uchiha Hikaru again, so she acted in self-defense in a moment of panic—but the self-defense methods she understood were a bit too violent for ordinary people.

"It's okay... They're the ones in the wrong. You were just trying to protect me. But that kind of power is too much of a burden on your body. Don't use it without my permission next time."

Uchiha Hikaru smiled, raised his hands to wipe away Erii's tears, and then patted her head: "Also, your voice is actually very nice."

"...But I can't say."

Erii raised a finger to her lips, bent her knees slightly, and nudged her head towards Uchiha Hikaru's palm, her fair face slightly flushed.

While they were talking.

Karin's crying stopped abruptly, replaced by a soft, joyful cry: "Mommy!"

Compared to ordinary wounded soldiers, the red-haired woman had almost lost all her blood, and her bodily functions, including digestion, were in a state of near collapse. Therefore, even the Senzu Beans were unable to heal her for a long time.

Uchiha Hikaru, on the other hand, was also taking a "do your best and leave the rest to fate" attitude and had already made plans to take care of her afterward.

—Her capsule contains quite a few crystal coffins, all purchased from the Dragon Ball world. They were used to store the bodies of Tanjiro, Kamado, and others.

but……

The red-haired woman's will to survive seemed quite strong. At this moment, her faint breathing gradually stabilized, and her stiff muscles began to show signs of softening again.

"Karin, right?"

Hikaru Uchiha walked to the ward, briefly checked the red-haired woman's condition, and then extended his hand to Karin: "Nice to meet you. I am Hikaru Uchiha, and this lady next to me is Erii Uesugi."

"I... my name is Karin Uzumaki, and this is my mother, Misae Uzumaki..."

(End of this chapter)