I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 443 and 444: An Invincible Person Who Doesn't Know What Love Is

Under the vast night sky, the bright moon hangs high, seemingly unchanging through the ages, its calm and gentle light spilling over the surging and turbulent sea.

The towering waves, threatening to reach the stars and moon, and the fierce battle between the imposing Susagi and the Yamata no Orochi caused Osaka Bay to churn and churn.

Wielding a forty-meter-long purple greatsword, the giant god cleaved through the waves and slashed down at the Yamata no Orochi.

One sword slays the dragon!

"boom!"

Like a miracle of parting the sea in mythology, a huge, straight abyss, as if cleaved by a knife and axe, splits the sea in two, stretching for hundreds of miles until it reaches the horizon.

"This is the power called Susanoo..."

"As expected of the sea god and god of destruction from the Kojiki!"

The world's dignitaries, witnessing this ultimate violence firsthand through satellite images, couldn't help but feel their blood boil and their adrenaline surge.

"Hehehe, what a pity, just a little short."

Ashiya Dōman turned his head to look at the Susanoo sword that had narrowly missed him, grinning wickedly, the dark purple bells hanging from his hair tinkling.

The body of the Yamata no Orochi was almost severed in two by a single stroke. All of its necks were cut off, but instead of bleeding, the wounds were filled with ominous and gloomy black energy.

"Damn it! If it weren't for those snake heads blocking the way, this sword could have cleaved Ashiya Dōman in two."

Standing atop the imposing Susanoo, Uchiha Senmon's face was grim, and he gritted his teeth.

He urged the armored Susanoo to draw the giant sword, but the two halves of the Yamata no Orochi's body, still connected by its roots, spewed out streams of black energy, which then gathered and stuck together, trapping the Susanoo sword.

"Roar!" "Roar!"

Several snake necks and limbs regenerated, and the dragon-snake's head instantly grew out, shoving itself in front of Uchiha Senmon and Sasuke, spewing out terrifying purple torrents from its mouth.

"Bang!"

The armor of the imposing Susanoo was blasted through, and even the giant wooden figure was blown to pieces.

The powerful impact propelled the two Uchiha Senmons several miles away, landing them on the shore of the Kobe Bridge from the ocean.

"Smack."

A white rainbow streaked across the sky, caught Uchiha Senmon, then swept across the sky in a semicircle, pulled another person, and landed on the ground.

"senior!"

"My lord!"

The battered and bruised Uchiha Senmon was receiving treatment from the saintess Jeanne. He glanced at the Twelve Divine Generals and members of the Supernatural Police Department beside him, as well as the Kobe Bridge, which was trembling from the impact of the waves:

"Was he blasted this far? He couldn't even defeat Susanoo in his armor..."

Uchiha Sasuke was on the verge of death.

On the dark, heavy sea, huge waves crashed and pounded against the shore, turning into a torrential downpour and a raging storm. This was nothing more than the movement of the Yamata no Orochi coming ashore from the sea.

The Yamata no Orochi crawled slowly but swiftly toward the group, its massive body and tail seemingly stretching infinitely from Osaka Bay.

Its massive body has been almost completely repaired, but the dimly lit Susanoo sword is still stuck in its abdominal cavity.

"Heh heh heh, is this all you've got?"

Looking up at the overwhelming demon god that blotted out the sky, everyone felt a chill run through them, and their hearts sank uncontrollably.

"Hmm, getting closer and closer. The distance between the underworld and the mortal world... the Obon Festival!"

Ashiya Dōman closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said with a smug look on his face.

Then he raised one hand, bit his fingertip until blood flowed, and Ashiya Doman shouted:

"Descend, Lord of Mount Tai! The Triple Rashomon!"

Amidst a deafening roar, the earth shattered, and three towering Rashomon gates, each fifty or sixty meters high, rose up and stood majestically.

"The Asakusa Incident: Lord Taizan's Arrival at the Gates of Hell on Earth!"

"There are actually three routes. Ashiya Dōman really wants to summon Taizan Fukun to Kobe."

"The child of prophecy is not the Uchiha, but me! As long as I hunt down Lord Taizan, I can resurrect everyone through Edo Tensei and make them saviors."

The endless, undulating body of a snake coiled around the triple Rashomon gates. Ashiya Doman, perched high above, looked down upon the desperate group and exclaimed gleefully:

"If I save the world, people will repay my love, and I will receive everyone's love!"

Even though the situation was extremely precarious, Ashiya Dōman's ravings still made everyone frown.

Uchiha Senmon looked thoughtful.

"It's quite a coincidence that this is Harima, my hometown."

The head embedded in the body of the Yamata no Orochi looked around and saw that half of the city of Kobe was submerged in the ocean and the other half was in ruins, with black smoke and fire rising everywhere.

"Isn't it touching that my hometown is the place where I realized my dream of saving the world?"

Hyogo Prefecture, where Kobe City is located, was formerly part of Harima Province, and Ashiya Dōman was born into the Harima Hata clan.

Before the words were even finished, the first Rashomon had already opened, and death energy filled with negative emotions such as curses, hatred, and fear poured out from it. It was indeed the gate to hell that connected to the underworld.

"Does a monster like you even have feelings for your hometown?"

Uchiha Senmon's eyes flashed as he raised his head and stared directly at Ashiya Doman in the sky, speaking in a cold voice.

"Now that things have come to this, say whatever you want to say. I will listen to it as if it were my last words."

Ashiya Dōman, with the superiority and composure of a victor on his face, smiled politely.

Do you truly love humanity?

The Uchiha Sage asked meaningfully:

"You simply cannot understand human emotions, whether it's familial love, romantic love, or friendship, you know nothing about them, right?"

Ashiya Michi's fake smile instantly turned cold.

It seems like I stepped on a landmine, but that's like hitting the bullseye.

"If you don't understand what emotions are, or what love is, then you naturally don't know how to love others, let alone love yourself."

Uchiha Senmon's gaze sharpened, and then he murmured to himself as if speaking to himself:

"But I also long to experience the feeling of love, so I can only awkwardly imitate my lover."

"What are you talking about...?"

"Perhaps you feel you haven't received enough love before, so you resort to such a twisted method to obtain it. You don't really think that by 'saving' the world in your own way, you can gain everyone's approval and taste the kind of love you've never experienced before, do you? You can't, can you?"

The Uchiha Sage Sect ignored them and continued to utter their veiled insults:

"Wearing the mask of a hypocritical clown, his heart is empty, and his hands are empty. How pathetic and laughable, Ashiya Dōman!"

"shut up!"

Ashiya Michimitsu's face contorted, as if his defenses had been breached, and he hissed:

"Cold-blooded, ruthless, and evil Uchiha, I'll deal with you right now..."

Several purple dragons and snakes opened their gaping maws in the abyss, purple light surging forth, brewing a terrifying aura.

Everyone was horrified; this attack could absolutely obliterate everyone, including the Kobe Bridge.

"Now!" Uchiha Senmon shouted.

The Susanoo sword embedded in the body of the Yamata no Orochi shattered instantly, and a phantom white fox snatched Ashiya Dōman's bell with lightning speed.

"They actually hid it here!"

Ashiya Michimitsu's expression changed drastically as a giant eight-headed serpent's head shot into the sky, lunging at the white fox.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, the bell shattered.

The tiny white fox stretched its body in mid-air and transformed into a peerless beauty, completely naked and radiating a hazy purple aura.

With a wave of her slender hand, she created a barrier that blocked the attack of the Yamata no Orochi. Then, like a celestial maiden bathed in moonlight, she looked down at Ashiya Dōman with a cold gaze and an expressionless face.

"Abe Seimei!"

Ashiya Dōman gazed at Abe no Seimei under the moonlight and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"Too late, hehehehehe—!"

Then it smiled, revealing a cruel side that resembled a beautiful, man-eating monster.

"With the meager remaining power in the bell, what can you possibly do? The divine descent of the Lord of Mount Tai is an irreversible trend!"

As if to verify Ashiya Dōman's words, the second and third Rashomon gates were opened.

The aura of death was vast and boundless, yet it was also filled with an indescribable divine presence.

Everyone present, especially those who had experienced the Asakusa Incident, suddenly felt a strong premonition that some sacred disaster was about to befall them.

"The absolute strong, the loneliness that comes with it, the invincible person who knows nothing of love, I was once such a person."

Abe no Seimei's long white hair flowed freely, seemingly ready to be carried away by the wind at any moment. She closed her purple eyes, a faint smile appearing on her face, as if she were recalling some past event.

"But in the end, my wife, Rika, taught me what love is."

"No, no, no, Seimei! You've misunderstood! You and I are the same kind of person; you could never know what true love is!"

Ashiya Michimitsu roared hoarsely.

The heads of the Yamata no Orochi rose, and purple light bullets, like cannonballs, smashed into the barrier in front of Abe no Seimei, making it teeter on the brink of collapse.

"Immortal Sect, make your move."

Suddenly, a wooden dragon rose from the ground and soared into the sky.

Having entered the Sage Mode of the Uchiha Clan, black curse marks remained on his eyelids, and his eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating that he had already activated his Sharingan.

"Rasengan!"

Although he did not receive instruction from Jiraiya, the Toad Sage, the Sharingan can copy the Rasengan.

At the same time, Sage Chakra is incorporated into the Rasengan.

Immortal method·Rasengan!

"Uchiha Senmon, what can you possibly do with that laughable dumpling in your hand! Watch me swallow it whole, you and me!"

"What if we add all of my Yin and Yang power?"

Abe no Seimei spread his arms, his body emitting a lustrous purple light, and threw it at the Sage Art Rasengan in Uchiha Senmon's hand.

In an instant, a small purple moon rose slowly in the sky above Kobe, its radiance dazzling, and the turbulent sea instantly calmed down.

Sage Art: Yin Yang Rasengan!

The wooden dragon beneath their feet whirled through the sky as Uchiha Senmon, holding a purple Sage Art Rasengan with a diameter exceeding ten feet, pressed it irresistibly towards the body of the Yamata no Orochi.

"Oh oh oh oh oh—!"

The world-shaking serpent, as large as a mountain, was forced to retreat continuously by a purple Rasengan that was disproportionate to its size.

"How is this possible?! How can there be such immense power?!"

Ashiya Michimitsu screamed in heart-wrenching agony.

"The power you stole from me is of the same origin as this sage technique, so it can naturally restrain the Yamata no Orochi."

The body of the Yamata no Orochi continued to move backward, getting closer and closer to the triple Rashomon gate that opened the passage to the underworld.

Several snake necks emerged, tightly entwined around Rashomon, struggling to support the body of the Yamata no Orochi from being sent to the underworld by the Sage Art: Yin-Yang Rasengan.

"Seimei, are you going to die with me? Don't you care about your body? If so, you'll also fall into hell and never be able to escape!"

Ashiya Dōman, on the verge of despair, roared in exasperation.

Let's all fall into hell together.

Abe no Seimei's voice remained as calm and undisturbed as ever, as if the destruction of everything was a trivial matter to him.

"Death is not the end. Daoman, this is the last lesson I will teach you."

"Seimei, Seimei, I hate you! Seimei, Seimei, Seimei, Seimei, Seimei! I hate you!"

Uchiha Senmon gritted his teeth, squeezing out the last bit of chakra and strength from his body, and forcefully pushed the Sage Art Yin-Yang Rasengan.

Boom boom boom—!

The sky was ablaze with purple light, sweeping across all directions with unbridled force, so much so that even satellite images couldn't capture what was happening on the scene.

After a while, the light dissipated, and the scene was empty except for the Uchiha Sage Sect.

Both the Yamata no Orochi and the Triple Rashomon have vanished into thin air.

"Ashiya Dōman ultimately obtained the 'love' he desired. Because he so vehemently hated Abe no Seimei..."

Just then, Uchiha Sasuke said calmly:

"The bondage of hatred is just as deep as that of love."

Uchiha Sasuke's face was swallowed by darkness, and he spoke without a trace of emotion.

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Senmon frowned.

What a twisted brat...

He had also heard that Itachi Uchiha was the culprit who slaughtered the entire Uchiha clan on the night of the massacre.

The love-hate entanglement between these two brothers is probably no less than the tragic love-hate relationship between Abe no Seimei and Ashiya Dōman.

However, Itachi Uchiha was handpicked by Jiraiya as someone he could trust, so there's probably more to the story.

"It's over, finally over, right?"

"Minister, we should have already defeated Ashiya Dōman, right?"

Uchiha Senmon forced a smile and nodded at the supernatural police officers who had gathered around him.

In any case, the long night is finally over.

"Cheers!"

A pale hand, dragging countless wriggling black tentacles, shot out and, with lightning speed, grabbed Uchiha Sasuke by the throat, binding him hand and foot before pulling him in front of it.

"It's not over yet!"

"Tosu, what are you doing!?"

Everyone stared in disbelief at the thin figure who had suddenly launched an attack.

"Hahaha, descendants of Izanagi, I have been waiting for this moment when you are exhausted and your life is over."

The "Bird Hero" laughed maniacally, as black tendrils resembling horsehair worms crawled out of its mouth, eyes, and nose, twisting and writhing, baring their fangs and claws.

"It's time to settle the score for how they abandoned me, Sasuke. Give me your body!"

(End of this chapter)