Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 241 Kill them all!

He watched as Kakuzu charged toward him.

Tachibana Kanagawa calmly tossed "Ryujin Jakka" into the air, then rapidly formed hand seals.

After Jianchuan Tachibana completed the hand seals, "Flowing Blade Like Fire" fell precisely to the ground and was caught by Jianchuan Tachibana again.

Ice Release: White Mist

As the words fell, the seawater beneath Jianchuan Ju's feet rapidly evaporated and rose, turning into a white mist that enveloped the surroundings.

As the fog thickened, Tachibana Kanakawa's figure became increasingly invisible.

When Kakuzu realized something was wrong, he immediately activated the Earth Grudge Silk Thread to extend his arm, attempting to grab Tachibana Kenkawa.

The tentacle fist aimed at the spot where Jianchuan Tachibana had been standing missed completely.

It was only then that Kakuzu noticed that the "Hidden Mist Technique" unleashed by the brat he was targeting today seemed to be quite extraordinary.

Surrounded by white mist, one could clearly feel the biting cold seeping into their body.

"That brat seemed to be talking about Ice Release? Didn't the intelligence report say he had only just mastered this bloodline limit?"

However, Kakuzu remained completely calm in the face of this unexpected situation.

With nearly a century of ninja combat experience and a mastery of a vast array of Five Elements Escape Techniques, Kakuzu has excellent solutions for various situations.

Kakuzu suddenly leaped into the air, then rapidly formed hand seals.

"Wind Release: Pressure Damage"

The massive wind bomb slammed into the sea beneath their feet. The moment it touched the water, the wind bomb exploded, transforming into a surging airflow that rapidly spread outwards. In the blink of an eye, it had formed a violent hurricane tornado, which carried the surrounding airflow and continuously blew the white mist outwards.

At the same time, the sea surface seemed unable to withstand such a violent wind-blown explosion, and a huge hemispherical crater was formed.

To Kakuzu's surprise, the white mist created by this Ice Release technique was much thicker than the mist created by the ordinary "Hidden Mist Technique".

His massive wind-escape attack only cleared the white mist near the cyclone. The mist in the surrounding area was only thinned out and was rapidly gathering and condensing back towards the center.

Even so, it was enough for Kakuzu to see clearly that there was no trace of the brat in the thin mist.

"Up in the sky?"

Looking at the sea he had bombarded, Kakuzu instantly remembered that the Kirigakure brat mentioned in the bounty poster's information possessed the ability to fly.

I subconsciously looked up at the sky.

However, just as Kakuzu looked up, a figure suddenly emerged from beneath the sunken sea below.

Kakuzu, who was falling through the air, reacted quickly. He didn't need to form hand seals at all. He swung his arm rapidly, and the joints broke off but were connected by the Earth Grudge Silk Threads. He smashed towards the figure like a high-speed meteor hammer.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the figure struck by the heavy punch exploded into countless splashes of water.

Water clone!

Unequal angles adjusted their positions, retracted the arm that had been swung out, and another figure rushed out from the sea.

The figure conjured a huge azure water ball in its hand and hurled it straight at Kakuzu, who was unable to move in mid-air.

"Innocent!"

With a loud shout, Kakuzu's old black vest suddenly bulged and burst open, revealing a dense array of black Earthly Resentment Silk threads that emerged from his back and quickly intertwined, transforming into a spiderweb-like glider.

Once the Earth Grudge Fear's "Glide" was formed, it immediately caught the air, abruptly stopping Kakuzu's descent.

The figure holding the water sphere passed by Kakuzu quickly, but failed to attack him. Instead, Kakuzu swung his whip hammer and sent the figure flying into the sea.

However, in the instant he brushed past the figure and sent it flying, Kakuzu's mind went blank.

"Wait! That's a frog? A summoning beast!"

The second time it leaped out from under the water, it was still not the kid from Mist Village.

Because he was previously obscured by the giant water sphere, Kakuzu didn't notice at all that the one who attacked him was Ranzai, who had been summoned by Tachibana Kenkawa in the white mist and had been hiding underwater with his water clone.

Only then did Tachibana Kenkawa, who had been waiting in the air for a long time, launch a fatal attack on Kakuzu's back as he spread his glider.

"Steam-powered shuriken-filled egg!"

A giant shuriken, brimming with scorching and violent steam, was launched from the hand and shot rapidly toward Kakuzu, its target being the area currently covered and obscured by the dense web of earth grudge threads.

Four masks!

That's right. Having read the original work and knowing all of Kakuzu's information, Tachibana Kenkawa had no intention of playing any boring games with Kakuzu, like "the enemy gets up after his heart explodes and then says, 'How come you didn't die?'"

From beginning to end, Tachibana Kanagawa was preparing to take advantage of Kakuzu's underestimation of his opponent and the fact that the Earth Grudge Mask had not yet separated from his body.

He destroyed all five of Kakuzu's hearts in one go!

The rapidly spinning "Steam Shuriken" emitted a sharp, piercing buzzing sound after striking the Earth Grudge Threads behind Kakuzu, just like a chainsaw cutting through steel bars.

Although these threads of earthly resentment continued to converge toward the center, struggling to block the high-speed cutting of the sword in his hand, they still burst open one after another.

Until the black threads that had gathered into a ball behind Kakuzu were all split in two.

"boom--"

A deafening, terrifying explosion rang out in the air.

Countless scorching hot steam, mixed with a large number of nearly roasted fragments of Earthly Grudge Silk, spread outwards along with the shockwave from the explosion.

The explosion caused by Tachibana Kanagawa's "Steam*Shakugan Egg Bomb" resulted in a giant steam sphere, tens of meters in diameter, rising from the sea surface, composed entirely of high-temperature steam.

Even Jianchuan Ju himself had to quickly retreat more than ten meters when faced with this high-temperature steam cloud to avoid being accidentally injured by his own attack.

At the same time, the sea surface beneath Jianchuan Ju's feet surged rapidly, producing a series of bubbles.

The little frog poked its head out from under the sea surface, also looking at the huge cloud of steam in the sky.

Then he looked at his owner with a somewhat resentful expression.

"Quack! (>。<#)?"

Jianchuan Ju scratched her head somewhat awkwardly, but still landed back on the sea surface.

Lately, Tachibana Kanagawa has become fascinated with the two ninjutsu, "Flying Water Shuriken" and "Bombing Egg". These two ninjutsu are so adaptable that Tachibana Kanagawa wants to combine and upgrade any new things she has with these two ninjutsu.

Facing someone like Kakuzu, whose lifespan is many times that of a normal person, Tachibana Kanagawa was also afraid that the petrification speed of "Wings of Return" would be too slow and wouldn't be effective.

He subconsciously used this new, powerful ninjutsu.

If Kakuzu hadn't knocked the little guy into the sea, he might have accidentally hurt him.

As the high-temperature steam cloud in front dissipated, Jianchuan Ju looked towards the beach and muttered to himself.

"He must be dead now, right?"

(End of this chapter)