I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 250 and 251: The Yamata no Orochi, a Quasi-Kage Level Serpent

"Your obsession with the Sharingan is insane, but..."

Within a different dimension composed of pale flesh and blood, a cold expression appeared on Itachi Uchiha's face as he was gradually entwined by venomous snakes and tentacle-like fleshy strips, leaving only his head exposed.

"A snake crawling on the ground dares to presume to covet an eagle soaring in the sky; the snake's fate is to be torn to pieces."

A crimson, ominous aura burst forth from his eyes, staining the pale flesh clinging to his body like superfluous creatures into an almost blackish red.

The next second, the chunk of meat crumbled into pieces.

Moreover, the blood-red light began to spread outwards from Uchiha Itachi's feet, like ink dripping into clear water.

The power of the Sharingan is eroding this alternate dimension!

"Impossible! How could this happen! This is my..."

Higuchi Orochi exclaimed in disbelief, his voice trembling with fear.

"I think I've told you before, all your ambitions and schemes are meaningless before these eyes."

Uchiha Itachi raised his right hand, and with a slight flick of his ring finger adorned with the character "朱" (Zhu), the alternate dimension trembled, and the head of a colossal beast composed of red flesh and blood rose from the ground.

"How is this possible? This is clearly my alternate dimension, how could it be under your control!?"

The dragon-like, fleshy behemoth opened its massive jaws and bit down, swallowing the Higuchi Serpent whole.

"No!!!"

In a real-world office building, the walls and floors were covered with a layer of foul-smelling red paint due to the self-destruction.

Amidst the shredded flesh, a white venomous snake opened its mouth, and a half-human, half-snake monster covered in slime vomited out, lying on the ground in agony, violently spewing out a large pool of colorful slime.

"Ugh, ugh, ugh—!"

Several small snakes, each about the thickness of a finger, were struggling in the slime.

With a snap, Itachi Uchiha appeared behind the listless Orochi Higuchi, staring at him expressionlessly.

Higuchi Orochi was startled and hurriedly turned around, his right hand transforming into a snake that coiled around Uchiha Itachi.

A flash of red light, and leaping flames rose up, the instantaneous burst of high temperature burning the snake and python to ashes.

"Hidden Shadow Snake Hand, I've seen this trick before, no need to embarrass myself with it again."

With a flick of his wrist, Itachi Uchiha threw a kunai, pinning the tail of the fleeing Orochi Higuchi to the ground, and slowly approached.

Orochimaru's style of ninjutsu is characterized by people spitting out snakes, snakes spitting out people, people spitting out people, and snakes spitting out snakes. At first glance, it may seem a bit strange, but after seeing it a lot, it becomes nauseating.

"The power you obtained from the Crimson Moon must be more than this."

"This time you have no cursed seal to hide behind, so bring out all your other tricks."

"Okay! Hehehehehe!"

Higuchi Orochi's mouth split open almost to the back of its head, emitting a chilling, eerie laugh. Its expression was one of madness as it scratched at its neck with both hands, tearing off pieces of flesh and scales.

"It itches, it itches so much! It itches so much!"

On the bloodied and mangled neck, bulging tumors grew, forming snake faces exactly like the Higuchi serpent.

Strange heads, large and small, hung from Higuchi Orochi's neck, flicking their tongues at Uchiha Itachi, and saying in unison:

"The Eight-Headed Serpent Technique!"

The entire office building was burst open in an instant, and from the ruins of the collapsed building, giant snakes, tens of meters long and resembling pillars supporting the sky, rose into the air.

Although the sky over Sapporo was shrouded in dark clouds, making it feel oppressive and almost suffocating, it wasn't pitch black yet.

With the help of flashes of lightning through the clouds, the police at the intersection of the shopping mall and the crowds lingering around saw the enormous, multi-headed serpent, as big as a mountain.

The howling wind and churning clouds were frozen in that instant, and the world fell silent. Everyone could hear their own heart pounding.

What is this?!

One after another, enormous heads, connected to snake necks over twenty meters long, swayed and undulated in the air, like white flowers blooming in the darkness, looking both sacred and eerie.

They had never seen such a terrifying monster, nor such a sacred behemoth.

Such a terrifying aura, such a massive body, such a ferocious and menacing appearance, it's as if one has witnessed a demon descended from mythology.

No, it's a god!

"So many heads, could this be... Yamata no Orochi?"

The young people watching from the rooftop on the other side were so engrossed that they didn't even notice their phones falling from their hands.

Not only him, but all the Japanese citizens present had the same thought at the same time.

The fame of Yamata no Orochi in this country is beyond question; even young children are familiar with it.

The Kojiki records a demon god with eight heads and eight tails, whose body was so large that it could fill eight mountains and eight valleys.

The Yamata no Orochi was a monster feared even by the gods. It was eventually slain by Susanoo, one of the Three Noble Ones, and the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, one of the Three Sacred Treasures, was found in the Yamata no Orochi's tail.

How is that possible?

A myth has actually descended?!

The crowds gathered in the buildings and shops near the mall were all drawn by the commotion at the mall.

Most people may not know the inside story even now, but witnessing the appearance of this white giant serpent comparable to the Yamata no Orochi shatters their decades-old worldview in seconds.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The eight-headed serpent's heads pointed straight up to the sky, emitting a terrifying roar.

Bang bang bang.

The deafening roar echoed through Sapporo's commercial streets, shattering the windows of countless buildings.

Ordinary people around the office building ruins felt as if their souls were about to be shattered in an instant, and some cowardly people even fainted.

Suddenly, a snake head bigger than a bus pounced and swallowed three or five people on the roof of another building whole.

"roar!"

"Oh my god, run!"

Amidst the terrifying roar of the Yamata no Orochi, most of the onlookers snapped out of their daze, their bodies driven by the most primal instinct of fear, and fled in terror.

Not only were people on the rooftops fleeing, but those inside the buildings also felt unsafe, running out of the doors and running east and west through the streets, thinking only of getting as far away from the monster as possible.

The frantic flight of humans, as insignificant as ants, ignited the ferocity of the Yamata no Orochi.

Those few unlucky ones were barely a match for the Yamata no Orochi, which is over fifty meters long.

Its multiple heads attacked simultaneously, opening terrifying, abyss-like maws to feast on everything, and no one, whether fleeing into the streets or hiding in buildings, could escape death.

To the Yamata no Orochi, a wall made of reinforced concrete was no different from one made of paper.

The giant snake head rampaged wildly, and with each downward slam, the convenience store would be flattened like an empty can.

A snake-like neck, resembling an overpass, coiled around a nearby towering building. With a powerful twist of its scales, the snake's neck severed the building in half!

The upper half of the building crashed to the ground with a seemingly slow but actually rapid thud, collapsing with a deafening roar and sending dust flying everywhere.

"Damn monster!"

"Shoot! Shoot!"

On the street, a dozen Hokkaido Mobile Force soldiers picked up their submachine guns and assault rifles and opened fire on the Yamata no Orochi.

"Da da da—!"

"Bang!"

Gunfire erupted, the intense gunfire resounding like a storm, as metal bullets tore off large pieces of scales and flesh from the body of the Yamata no Orochi.

The heavy weapons in the hands of the mobile unit can also cause damage to the Yamata no Orochi, but given the Yamata no Orochi's mountain-like size, it wouldn't even be considered a superficial wound.

It's probably similar to an ordinary person getting a needle prick on their finger.

Although the damage was almost negligible, the Yamata no Orochi could still feel the pain. In a fit of rage, it raised one of its heads and spewed a large cloud of purple poisonous mist downwards from mid-air.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss."

Amidst a few short screams, the mobile squad was as if they had been doused with concentrated sulfuric acid; their flesh melted away, and within seconds, they were corroded by the toxic fumes until only bones remained.

"Hissing roar!!"

Most of the Yamata no Orochi's head was wreaking havoc in Sapporo's commercial district, while the remaining few heads were raised, emitting violent roars!

Amidst the rampage of the Yamata no Orochi, cries and screams rose and fell.

In just a short while, Orochi caused such a huge commotion that it almost demolished the commercial street.

This area is already one of the busiest commercial districts in Sapporo, and with the addition of people drawn by the paranormal incident, the number of people gathered here has increased even more.

The number of people who were swallowed or poisoned by the Yamata no Orochi has exceeded one hundred, and the number of victims who were buried by the collapsing buildings or injured or killed by flying shards of glass is countless.

On the rooftop of the shopping mall opposite the Yamata no Orochi, Itachi Uchiha's black robe with red cloud patterns fluttered in the wind.

"As expected, it's the Eight-Headed Serpent Technique."

Itachi Uchiha showed neither joy nor sorrow; it was entirely within his expectations.

"Unfortunately, it's only a half-finished product. It only has seven heads."

That's right. Although the panicked people mistook the enormous monster with multiple snake heads for Yamata no Orochi, the monster actually only had seven heads.

In other words, Higuchi Orochi's Eight-Headed Serpent Technique has not yet reached its full potential.

Well, although it could also be called Seven-Headed Serpent or something, since this is the Eight-Headed Serpent Technique, let's just call it Eight-Headed Serpent for now.

"Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Technique!"

Uchiha Itachi clasped his hands together, stood on the roof of the mall, and spat out a blazing fire dragon at the Yamata no Orochi.

"Boom!"

A massive explosion erupted, and raging flames engulfed half the street, instantly swallowing up the Yamata no Orochi.

Suddenly, a giant snake head burst out of the dust and flames, viciously biting at Uchiha Itachi.

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!

A massive fireball, over five meters in diameter, shot out and shattered the snake's head.

The burning, headless snake's neck thrashed wildly in the air, filling the air with the stench of burning protein.

The three tomoe in Itachi Uchiha's eyes swirled, his gaze piercing through the flames and haze. The previous Great Fire Dragon Technique had burned the three heads of Orochi to ashes, and with the Great Fireball Technique, that made four.

but……

Uchiha Itachi turned his head and looked at the headless snake neck in the air. The flesh on the severed surface was growing rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, a huge, wet snake head emerged.

As expected, the vitality of the Orochi Technique is extraordinary; it can almost be described as immortal.

Even with only LV3 Fire Release, it's still not enough to burn Orochi to ashes in one fell swoop.

The newly grown, enormous snake head suddenly swung open its massive jaws towards Uchiha Itachi. Terrifying chakra condensed and coiled within the snake's mouth, unleashing a torrent of purple lightning.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The purple torrent cleaved the upper half of the mall in two. Not only that, the aftershocks of the purple torrent also plowed a straight crack in the street behind it, until the buildings along the way collapsed with a roar.

A dozen or so crows surrounded Itachi Uchiha as he floated in the sky. He glanced back, a hint of surprise appearing on his usually indifferent face.

"Hiss hiss hiss, this is the power of a demon!"

The snake's head, spewing forth a torrent of purple liquid, extended its long tongue.

Or rather, it was the half-human, half-snake Higuchi Orochi that acted as its tongue, and it laughed wildly.

"With this power, the era of humanity is over. Hehehehehe!!!"

Uchiha Itachi was also somewhat surprised. In Higuchi Orochi's Eight-Headed Serpent Technique, the real eight-headed serpent was only missing one head. According to the system's evaluation, it was only one step away from Kage-level LV4.

A true Kage-level ninja wouldn't only have one LV4 ninjutsu.

With a body as large as a tailed beast, an almost immortal regenerative ability, and an astonishing amount of chakra, this Yamata no Orochi has reached the threshold of a near-Kage level.

It looks like it will take a bit more effort.

The three tomoe in Itachi's eyes began to transform, turning into black triangular windmills.

Kaleidoscope Sharingan!

At the same time, Itachi Uchiha's chakra began to sublimate, and an orange-yellow halo surrounded his entire body.

"Even though you're a snake, you've grown venomous fangs."

"Hiss, hiss, hiss! You still call me a snake? I've been reborn, shedding my snake skin and transforming into a dragon!"

Higuchi Orochi is very proud.

Uchiha Itachi extended his right hand, and orange-yellow chakra began to solidify, growing out a translucent humerus several meters long.

Click, click, click... Above the humerus, segment after segment of arm bones continued to grow: ulna, metacarpals, phalanges...

A long, orange, skeletal arm, several meters long, reached forward and grabbed the Higuchi Serpent along with its enormous head.

"Whether you are a snake or a dragon, it's all the same."

With a sudden clench of its skeletal hand, it crushed the head of the Yamata no Orochi!

"Let me show you the 'divine power' that anyone who witnesses it even once is doomed!"

(End of this chapter)