Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 497 Learning from Mistakes

In the sky, Tsuchikage Onoki, accompanied by his guards, Hirotsuchi and Bunga, slowly descended.

However, their arrival meant that the battle, which had already been stopped, could not continue.

Seeing this, Tachibana Kanagawa smiled, casually released his hands, and let Minato Namikaze and Mifune retreat.

Then he raised his right foot.

With a loud bang, the Fourth Raikage, who was being trampled under his feet, burst out of the ground and was about to throw a punch at Tachibana Kenkawa.

"Go to hell, you brat!!"

"stop!!"

As the fist approached and Mifune shouted in his ear, Tachibana Kenkawa remained completely calm.

At the critical moment, he gently raised his arm, and his palm instantly gleamed with a metallic sheen.

Then came a "clang".

It was like a heavy hammer striking a solid iron ingot, making one's eardrums ache.

At the same time, a visible shockwave spread rapidly outwards from the two of them like ripples.

The drifting snowflakes were instantly pushed aside, and the spot where Jianchuan Ju and the other person collided seemed to transform into a vacuum.

However, this obviously powerful and heavy blow did not cause Jianchuan Ju's body to waver in the slightest.

Even the crackling lightning in the opponent's hand couldn't cause any damage when it struck Jianchuan Ju's palm.

Only her thin clothes fluttered in the sudden shockwave.

"Lord Raikage, I'm here to mediate this fight. If you launch a surprise attack like this, I won't be able to resist the urge to retaliate every time."

As she spoke, Tachibana Kanagawa gave Raikage Ai an innocent-looking smile.

However, seeing the Fourth Raikage's veins bulging, yet unable to pull his arm out of the other's grasp in such a terrifying way, was quite a sight.

All the onlookers couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"Raikage-sama!"

Kumogakure instantly appeared beside the Raikage and bowed respectfully. Only then did the Fourth A give up struggling, and even the lightning surging around him quickly disappeared without a trace.

"Kid, let go!"

"Hmm~?" Tachibana Kanagawa's eyes narrowed into slits as she continued to look at the fourth generation Ai.

The force in his hands did not diminish at all.

"Lord Mizukage!" Tsuchida, standing nearby, hurriedly spoke up with a look of anxiety.

After thinking for a moment, Jianchuan Ju decided not to make things difficult for the barbarian in front of her and simply released her hand.

Then, turning around, he gently brushed his right hand across his chest when no one was paying attention.

"Heh, these guys are actually quite formidable."

"Thank you, Lord Mizukage!"

Mifune, as the organizer, was the first to come forward and thank Tachibana Kenkawa.

If any of the Kage had actually died in that situation, the Five Kage Summit would have been completely ruined.

"Isn't anyone going to explain to me what's going on here?"

Perhaps worried that his height would affect his imposing presence, Tsuchikage Onoki descended from the sky.

Although the two burly guards he brought had already fallen into the snow and were now walking.

However, Onoki himself maintained his "Earth Release: Light and Heavy Rock Technique" and floated slowly in the air, keeping his height slightly the same as his two subordinates.

However, Tachibana Kenkawa ignored Onoki's question.

Explaining such matters is not his place as a "guest trying to mediate."

He simply waved his hand casually, his smile unwavering as he addressed the crowd.

"You guys talk first, I'll go back and change my clothes first."

With that, Tachibana Kenkawa took Zabuza and Mei Terumi, who were still standing there in a daze, and walked towards the room where they had been resting, under everyone's astonished gazes.

After crossing the rubble that had fallen from the collapsed "Pagoda Meat", and seeing that they were already some distance away from the others.

Then, Tachibana Kenkawa quietly asked Zabuza a question.

"How was it? I kept that person under control for you, so you must have seen something, right?"

Zabuza knew why his Mizukage wanted to take him and Mei Terumi with him when he went back to his room to change clothes, so he immediately leaned closer and whispered.

"The Fourth Raikage's arm, which was bound with bandages, does seem to have a problem."

"The chakra in his arm as a whole is only slightly different from his own. But there is something very strange on the back of his right hand! It is a kind of chakra that is obviously not his own, and it keeps flowing on the back of his hand."

Upon hearing this, Jianchuan Ju nodded slightly.

He wasn't surprised that the overall chakra level in his arm was only slightly different.

As an excellent medical ninja, Tachibana Kenkawa was well aware that even if someone else's arm was transplanted, the chakra would still flow through the body.

So they are generally the same, but the sites of transplantation may vary slightly, which is normal.

However, the key point is what Zabuza said later, which clearly does not belong to the Raikage's own chakra.

"Is this some new technology developed by the Hidden Cloud Village? Or is it really a White Zetsu's arm?"

"Something's off on the back of his hand? Could this guy have transplanted a Sharingan into his hand? I didn't see any bulges on the Raikage's hand when I looked closely just now."

The thought of an eye inexplicably appearing on the back of her hand sent a chill down Jianchuan Ju's spine.

Since it wasn't his own arm anyway, he decided to continue asking Zabuza.

"When you were observing with your glare, did you notice that the Raikage seemed to be under genjutsu control?"

"What?!" x2

Zabuza and Mei Terumi both paused in their tracks and gasped softly in surprise.

Fortunately, the three of them had already entered the building, and there was no one else following them.

Seeing the two stop, Tachibana Kanagawa looked at Zabuza with a somewhat speechless expression.

"No? It's one thing that Mei Terumi isn't surprised or rolling her eyes, but you just finished spying, why are you being so surprised?"

"Is there really none?"

Upon hearing Tachibana Kenkawa ask the question again, Zabuza realized that he had overreacted.

He frowned, recalling the scene he had just witnessed, before speaking softly to explain.

"It's impossible to be sure, because the strange chakra on the Raikage's hand is meant to slowly spread outwards, interfering with his own chakra flow and making it different from the chakra behavior of a normal human."

"So, based solely on my observation of the Byakugan, I have no way of confirming whether the other party is still under the influence of illusion."

The Byakugan is typically used to observe whether a target is under a genjutsu by looking into their brain and seeing if there are any changes in the target's chakra levels. It also checks whether external chakra, not the user's own, is gathering in the eyes and ears, which are organs that receive external information.

However, the Fourth Raikage's chakra is now fluctuating slightly due to the different chakra on the back of his right hand.

Zabuza was also unable to make an accurate judgment in this situation.

After listening to Zabuza's analysis, Tachibana stroked her chin thoughtfully.

"This is a lesson learned."

(End of this chapter)