I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 209 and 211: Miss Kiritani, you don't want to turn into a toad, do you?

"I was wondering why we had such a smooth journey. It turns out that Orochimaru controlled all these pythons."

Jiraiya turned his head, looked at the giant pythons that had suddenly emerged from the ground, and suddenly realized.

Orochimaru appeared atop the head of a giant, earthen-yellow python at some point. Although he was standing quite high, his hoarse voice still drifted down on the wind and could be clearly heard:

"Mount Myoboku is, after all, the lair of toads, so it's only this big. The largest one here is less than half the size of Manda."

Orochimaru seemed quite dissatisfied with these giant pythons.

"What a joke!" Yuuki Mineko's pretty face showed undisguised fear and horror.

These giant pythons, with their upper bodies standing upright, are over ten meters long, and their total length may be forty or fifty meters. They are even more terrifying than the python plague, and could even swallow an African elephant whole.

Just how long will that monster called "Manda" be?!

"Hiss, let's go!"

At Orochimaru's command, all the giant pythons surrounding Jiraiya and the others in the center shook their heads and tails, poised to pounce and bite.

The shadow cast by the python's head covered them all.

Except for Jiraiya, who remained unmoved, everyone else's faces were frozen in shock.

Only then could they truly understand how vivid the metaphor of stepping on an ant in the courtyard was.

Seeing these giant pythons with heads larger than dump trucks and bodies resembling sky bridges, one would be either killed or seriously injured, let alone bitten by one. Even being grazed by their rolling bodies would be fatal!

"whispering sound."

Jiraiya glanced at Yuki Mineko and the others behind him, seemingly hesitant, and abandoned his plan to dodge. After rapidly opening and closing his hands several times, he finally formed a Tiger Seal.

"Earth Release·Yellow Spring Marsh!"

From Jiraiya's front, the soil began to sink, revealing a vast gray swamp that ensnared the giant pythons.

In the vast swamp, which covered dozens of acres, only the area within a ten-meter radius around Jiraiya's feet remained unchanged.

From above, it looks like a green island in a gray ocean.

Yuki Mineko was stunned. Looking around, all she could see was a muddy, dusty expanse. The once vibrant green land had turned into a swamp in an instant!

Even the terrain has undergone tremendous changes.

This miraculous power to change the world—is this what immortals are like?!

"Splash—!"

The enormous pythons, with their enormous weight, were immediately swallowed by the swamp. The remaining parts continued to sink slowly, and in their struggle, large swaths of mud and sand were flung everywhere, creating a torrential rain of mud.

But this was nothing more than a death throes struggle, and soon the python's entire body sank into the swamp, leaving only its head sticking out.

"Orochimaru, those snakes you hastily grabbed to make up the numbers are nothing special." Jiraiya couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the giant pythons stuck in the mud, unable to move.

"Why don't you summon your trump card, the Ten Thousand Serpents? Perhaps it can break free from this immortal's Yellow Springs Swamp."

Orochimaru's face remained pale and gloomy, a strange look flashing in his snake eyes. He stamped his foot without saying a word.

The large, yellowish-brown snake beneath my feet opened its mouth wide, spewing out a large stream of venom from its two fangs!

"Earth Release·Earth Style Wall!"

Jiraiya slapped the ground with one hand, and a thick wall of earth immediately appeared in front of him.

"Sizzle sizzle—!"

A large amount of venom splattered onto the earthen wall, immediately emitting white smoke and eroding the surface of the earthen wall, leaving it pitted and uneven, demonstrating its extremely strong corrosiveness.

But the earthen wall remained unmoved.

"A mere trick, nothing more. No, it should be called a 'snake-carving' trick."

The earthen wall turned into rubble and crashed to the ground. Jiraiya stood behind it and said nonchalantly.

"Jiraiya, Sarutobi-sensei taught us that we must never be careless in any situation. But it seems you haven't taken that to heart..."

Orochimaru shot out his slick, long tongue, licked his lips, and said mockingly.

"Orochimaru, what did you say?" Jiraiya frowned.

"Lord Jiraiya, help!"

"A snake, a huge snake!"

A sudden cry for help reached Jiraiya's ears, and he glanced to his side.

A giant python, about to be swallowed by the swamp, strained its jaws apart, and another, smaller, white-scaled python, dripping wet, darted out.

The white python flicked its tongue, raised its head onto the green ground, and began to attack the ordinary people.

"The Art of Disordering Lion's Mane..."

Jiraiya's long, gray hair behind him began to flare out wildly.

"Don't even think about it! Wind Release: Wind Slice Technique!"

Orochimaru roared, his right hand clenched into five fingers and slashed downwards, a sharp wind blade shooting out amidst the chaotic wind.

"laugh."

With a sharp tearing sound, Jiraiya's long hair, which had been sticking out, was severed by a wind blade.

Taking advantage of this brief moment, the white python slithered up to Mineko Yuuki and swallowed her whole.

After swallowing one person whole, it was still not satisfied. With a flick of its neck, it swallowed another young woman named Hao Cai from the banana tree in one gulp.

"Hiss hiss hiss!"

The white python was slightly smaller than the earliest known python that hunted giant toads, but its size was still terrifying enough.

The remaining few were terrified and wanted to flee, but they were trapped on a green island in the swamp with no way to escape.

After devouring Mineko Yuki and Kosuke, the white python now set its sights on the fattest and most alluring woman. Its snout descended from the sky and swallowed the woman's upper body, while her legs continued to kick and thrash.

Although the third prey was larger than the combined size of the first two, it was still a piece of cake for the python, which swallowed it whole.

"Orochimaru, you filthy snake, you actually ate Kirito-san!"

Jiraiya, who had been preoccupied with Orochimaru and unable to help anyone, immediately turned pale upon seeing this and cursed.

"There are so many stinky men here, yet you still swallowed all the women, Orochimaru, are you deliberately going against this sage?"

Upon hearing this, the bespectacled man, the blond-haired youth, and several other men trembled once again in broad daylight, their hands and feet turned ice-cold, and tears streamed down their faces uncontrollably…

"snort!"

Orochimaru snorted, his face showing disdain and contempt.

We have captured half of the strangers who crossed over from the human world to Mount Myōboku, and our objective has been achieved. We can now retreat.

The white python seemed to sense Orochimaru's intentions. Instead of continuing its attack on the remaining four men, it turned around and swam through the swamp, preparing to make its escape.

"At least, at least get Kiritani-san back out!"

Jiraiya roared in grief and anger, clasping his hands together, but Orochimaru's attack clung to him like a leech, interrupting his spellcasting.

While the two were locked in a struggle, the giant white python had already escaped dozens of meters and was about to make its escape.

"Let me out, you stinking python!"

After Yuki Mineko was swallowed down the esophagus into the snake's belly, she felt the solid stomach walls squeezing her from all sides. She cursed a few times and accidentally swallowed a mouthful of bitter, foul-smelling gastric juice.

"vomit!"

I almost threw up my guts.

I can't even open my mouth to call for help, am I really going to die here?!

Damn it, I don't want to!

She hadn't even met Mr. Uchiha yet, hadn't shown him that the little girl she saved back then had grown into a beautiful young woman, and hadn't even received his praise. How could she just die here so silently!

Upon thinking of this, Mineko Yuuki's expression turned like that of a vengeful ghost as she bit into the python's stomach wall.

"I'd rather not become python excrement! Even if it bites your belly through, I'll still go back to Tokyo alive and be in the Metropolitan Police Department's Fourth Investigative Division!"

Mineko Yuuki bit into her stomach lining, suddenly feeling a burning sensation throughout her body, and that strange feeling from before resurfaced.

"boom!"

The white python, which was fleeing across the swamp, suddenly exploded from the inside out, its intestines bursting open, and several humans spilled out of the hole in its belly.

"Cough cough cough!"

Mineko Yuki was covered in blood, coughing violently with her eyes closed, wisps of black smoke rising from her throat.

Before she could even savor the joy of escaping death, Mineko Yuuki was shocked to find her body sinking. She quickly grabbed onto the python carcass that was floating on the mud like driftwood.

But this only delayed the inevitable death, as the white python's body was gradually sinking.

"Perverted immortal, help me!"

"What perverted sage? You should call me Jiraiya-sama or Toad Sage."

With a soft laugh, a strand of long, gray-white hair, like a white dragon, pulled Mineko Yuuki and the other two women out of the swamp.

They then threw them onto the green space.

"Orochimaru, you didn't expect that, did you? Your wishful thinking has failed in the end. This time, I won't give you another chance," Jiraiya said smugly.

"This woman looks quite delicious."

Orochimaru cast a cold, greedy glance at Mineko Yuuki.

Jiraiya slightly turned to the side, blocking Orochimaru's view and protecting everyone, including Mineko Yuuki, behind him.

"hiss."

Orochimaru's neck turned unnaturally as he looked around; the other giant pythons had already been swallowed by the Swamp of the Dead.

Even the large, yellowish-brown python at his feet had only a few scales sticking out from its head, and it was about to be submerged by the swamp.

"Jiraiya, your luck is as good as ever. This time it ends here, but this is just the beginning. Even without these outsiders as sacrifices, I can still find a way to descend to the mortal realm." Orochimaru put his hands together, forming a strange hand seal.

"Wait, Orochimaru! With your Akatsuki organization descending into the human world so frequently, have you already discovered a passage to reality?"

Seeing that Orochimaru was about to leave, Jiraiya quickly asked him questions, hoping to take the opportunity to extract information.

"Jiraiya, if you want to know, come to the human world. I'll be waiting for you there, and next time, I'll definitely kill you!"

Orochimaru's figure vanished like a wisp of smoke rising into the sky, disappearing right before everyone's eyes.

Orochimaru!

Jiraiya reached out his hand, seemingly wanting to hold onto something, but in the end he reluctantly withdrew his hand, his face full of complicated emotions.

Several minutes passed before someone asked hesitantly:

"Lord Jiraiya, that snake-like monster won't come back, will he?"

"While Orochimaru is certainly capable of such a cunning act, his presence can no longer be sensed within Mount Myōboku, meaning he has truly departed."

Jiraiya glanced at him, gave a curt reply, and finally turned his gaze to Mineko Yuuki, his eyes now showing a change from their previous frivolity to a hint of appreciation.

"Miss Kiritani, well done! I knew I hadn't misjudged you."

"Lord Jiraiya, you flatter me greatly," said Mineko Yuuki, her voice trembling with apprehension.

Mineko Yuki now looks like a beggar cat, with mud all over her hair, unlike her previous cute and innocent self.

She shook off the mud and felt a little itchy on the back of her left hand and cheek, but she didn't think much of it.

The fat woman and another young woman also gradually regained consciousness.

"It's less than half an hour's walk from here to Toad Oil Waterfall. This is the last leg of the journey," Jiraiya said, sitting on the ground with his chin in his hand.

"Let's rest for a bit, then we'll set off. You don't want to drag this out and turn into toads, do you?"

These people looked at each other in silence and quietly sat down to recover their strength.

"Lord Jiraiya, was the sudden explosion of that python's belly related to Miss Kirito?" Finally, the bespectacled man couldn't contain his curiosity and asked.

The others, especially the men, also perked up their ears.

After the giant white python swallowed three women, its belly suddenly burst open with flames, a scene witnessed by the four surviving men.

Afterwards, Jiraiya praised Kiritani-san, clearly indicating that the explosion was related to her.

"Oh, that's the spiritual energy that burned after the outburst."

"Spiritual power? Do we have that too?" someone asked impatiently.

"You guys, hehe, you awakened the moment you entered Mount Myōboku, but very few of you did. Miss Kiritani being able to activate it in such a short time is one in a hundred! Of course, you are still far inferior to this immortal."

"Huh?"

Miss Kiritani lowered her head shyly, as if she wanted to bury her head in her chest. It was precisely because her face was covered in mud that no one could see the upturned corners of her mouth.

I'm a genius!

But her expression started to become somewhat subtle.

It's so itchy, and it's getting itchier and itchier.

Unable to contain herself, Yuki Mineko scratched the back of her hand with her right hand and peeled off a hardened piece of mud.

She stretched out her fingers, sensing something was wrong. She glanced down casually, and her pupils immediately contracted.

Several yellowish-brown bumps appeared on the back of her left hand, and toad-like webbed fingers grew between her fingers!

(End of this chapter)