My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 22 The Dragon Crossing the River

The Land of Frost, Mount Lianya.

The mountains are like teeth, straight and sharp, with iron chains connecting the peaks. In the depths of winter, the iron chains are covered with frost, making it difficult for birds to fly over.

Kawamoto Seiichiro tightened his cotton coat, huddled behind a large rock, and stomped his feet incessantly.

Mountain bandits rely on violence to establish themselves, so they naturally cannot be as concerned with gratitude and loyalty as in legendary novels. The hierarchy among the members is very strict. Although Kawamoto Seiichiro is strong and powerful, he is a newcomer after all, so he can only keep watch on snowy nights.

"Watching the night... what kind of night watch is this? Those bastards are eating and drinking their fill inside, while I have to stand guard here..." Kawamoto Seiichiro cursed in a low voice.

A cold wind howled, and Kawamoto Seiichiro shivered, stomping his foot hard.

Damn it... a bunch of idiots! Who would climb Lianya Mountain in this weather? Let's find somewhere to hide... and have some drinks to warm up...

He stood up cursing, thinking of sneaking into the house to get something to eat. Mountain bandits, although they have rules, are nowhere near as disciplined as regular troops. Leaving their post during night watch is perfectly normal.

However, just as Kawamoto Seiichiro straightened up and subconsciously looked out over the mountain, he was struck dumb, frozen in disbelief at the scene before him—

On a snowy night, a figure suddenly appeared in mid-air. He stood on the iron chain connecting the mountain peaks, completely disregarding the cold, slippery metal chains beneath his feet. With his terrifying sense of balance and body control, he walked across the abyss as if it were flat ground.

Kawamoto Seiichiro rubbed his eyes, thinking he had frozen stupid and was hallucinating.

He rubbed his eyes hard with both hands, and when he put them down again, the figure on the chain had disappeared.

Then it appeared in front of him.

"Lianya Mountain? What a wonderful place, easy to defend and difficult to attack."

The boy's clear, bright voice was the last thing Kawamoto Seiichiro heard.

boom!

Hyuga Yuto gently patted the strong bandit's chest, easily destroying all his organs, causing his heart to stop beating and him to die instantly.

The young man who had split up the family pushed the bandit's corpse aside, put on a straw hat, and covered his face.

Then, holding a kunai in each hand, he calmly walked deeper into the thief's den.

The main peak of Lianya Mountain is the lair of this gang of thieves. The person who built this den must have been a very knowledgeable fellow. It is structured like an anthill, with a main road and secondary roads. Even if they were attacked by a strong enemy, the gang leader could easily retreat through the secret passage below.

The premise is... there has to be enough time.

Hyuga Yuto's killing speed is too fast.

After taking down the sentry, he walked only a hundred meters or so before reaching the gate of the thieves' den.

Without a word, the Byakugan's keen perception was a deadly weapon on such a snowy night. Three kunai pierced the guard's head almost simultaneously, slicing off half of his skull so that he couldn't make a sound.

Then, the one-sided killing began.

Inside the warm mountain peak, the bandits drank and laughed as they shared their spoils of the past few days. Everyone reeked of blood, some wearing clothes stained bright red with blood. Of course, the dried blood wasn't theirs; in fact, they didn't know whose it was. Burning, killing, and looting were things the bandits did every day. Who had the time to remember the pitiful creatures who died by their blades?

Suddenly, at a certain moment, a cold wind blew in, and the door was smashed by an external force, the thick wooden door covered with iron sheet shattered into fine fragments.

No one among the bandits could see who the attacker was; all they could see were gushing streams of blood.

The attackers were as fast as lightning, their attacks clean and swift. With a single, vicious strike, they could shatter the bandits' necks, bones, tendons, internal organs, muscles... All their armor was useless, and they could only be ruthlessly trampled before their overwhelming power, leaving limbs scattered everywhere and rivers of blood.

This world belongs to ninjas.

The name of the great power is "Chakra"!

In the face of Konoha Jonin, even the most formidable bandits are as fragile as tofu.

The wood chips from the gate danced in the cold wind, and before they even hit the ground, all the bandits on this floor were already dead.

Then, Hyuga Yuto kicked open the second wooden door.

His expression was blank, like a nail piercing through a block of tofu, turning this layer into a bloody hell before moving on to the next.

The third floor, the fourth floor, the fifth floor...

The killing was so simple; Hyuga Yuto encountered no resistance until the very last floor.

Ding--

Hyuga Yuto looked up in surprise at the burly man who had blocked his attack and then been sent flying:

"Oh... a ninja?"

The bandit leader, panting heavily, felt the excruciating pain of his wrist almost being severed, and was utterly horrified.

"M-My lord! Please spare me! We have already paid our taxes to the Frost Kingdom..."

Huh? Collusion between officials and bandits? Hyuga Yuto shook his head, then closed in again, not using Gentle Fist, but relying on the Byakugan's insight and solid physical abilities to engage in close combat with a kunai.

Because of the many people he had killed, the blades of his two kunai were pitted and uneven, resembling the serrated teeth of a shark.

The bandit leader fought back fiercely, and soon his body was covered in blood.

"My lord! Please spare me..."

"How shameful! A true ninja should fight to the death on the path he has chosen. When you led this rabble to gather in the mountains, setting fires and killing people, you should have thought of this day... This is all because you chose the ninja way."

"Sir! No! I... I'm still useful! I stole a lot of money, this money..."

"This money will all be mine after you're all dead," Hyuga Yuto said calmly, but suddenly, as if remembering something, he smiled broadly.

"Oh...yes, there is something I really need your help with."

Upon hearing this, the bandit leader was overjoyed. However, before he could say anything, he saw the other party's speed suddenly explode, almost turning into a blur. In the midst of the flying kunai, the bandit leader's tendons in his feet and hands were all severed.

Then, a hand glowing with a white light suddenly struck, landing heavily on the bandit leader's face.

The next moment, the bandit leader could see nothing at all.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh—my eyes! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh—!"

Overwhelmed by excruciating pain and the terror of blindness, the bandit leader completely broke down, howling and writhing in agony, just like the people he had tortured and killed before.

In boundless fear, the bandit leader vaguely heard the voice of that powerful enemy.

The voice was calm and steady, as gentle as an old friend reminiscing.

"The muscles around the eyeball were cut beautifully, but the cornea is damaged, and the fluid inside is leaking out... Hmm? As expected of a ninja, you subconsciously covered your eyes with chakra to resist my medical ninjutsu, resulting in the complete destruction of your optic nerve..."

"To sum it up... these two eyes are unusable."

"My hands are fast enough, but not steady enough. I need to be more precise in how I use chakra."

"But it's okay, it's just practice anyway... there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

"The lessons learned from this failure will surely be applicable to the next one."

boom!

The next instant, the bandit leader's head flew off his body, and his eyes, which had been taken from him, were casually tossed aside.

All the bandits shall be exterminated.

(End of this chapter)