Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 498 Speculation and Experimentation

That's right, although we're not entirely confident yet.

However, Tachibana Kanagawa had already decided in her heart that the tightly wrapped arm of the Fourth Raikage, A, was most likely the arm of a White Zetsu.

It's not that Tachibana Kanagawa doesn't believe that such a large village as Kumogakure doesn't even have the technology to transplant a new arm for their Raikage.

Leaving aside others, let's talk about Tachibana Kanagawa himself.

Given enough time, it is entirely possible to transplant someone else's arm to a person with a severed arm.

It can even suppress the rejection reaction to a minimum, so as not to affect the user's normal use or even combat.

But under normal circumstances, what kind of good person would install a chakra energy source on the back of their hand that is different from their own?

Based on Zabuza's description, Tachibana Kanagawa could only think of two possibilities for the time being.

One type is somewhat disgusting, similar to a foreign organ like the Sharingan.

Another possibility is that the other party forcibly embedded a different type of chakra gem, similar to the "White Jade Pearl" on Tachibana Kenshin's divine spear, directly into his hand.

To be honest, this second approach won't bring any real improvement to a master who has reached the Kage level.

Is it so that when I throw a punch, I can unleash a punch with a different attribute wind attack?

"Oh, there's another possibility: the other party used a sealing technique to seal a tailed beast's chakra the size of a fingernail onto the back of their hand."

A wicked thought popped into Jianchuan Ju's head again.

However, he immediately shook his head, dismissing this unrealistic idea.

If the Fourth Raikage did indeed transplant a White Zetsu's arm, and Zabuza's Byakugan cannot determine whether the Raikage was under the influence of genjutsu, then there are only two possibilities regarding his own situation.

First, the other party has reached some kind of cooperation with Obito Uchiha's side. As for whether the Hidden Cloud Village is aware that the person cooperating with them is Obito Uchiha, it is hard to say.

While the presence of a foreign energy source constantly emanating fluctuations within the body might slightly affect the Raikage's use of ninjutsu, it is still a good way for a foreign entity to counter genjutsu control.

Another possibility is that Obito and Black Zetsu used the same trick again, directly controlling the Raikage with genjutsu.

After all, these two have a history of such behavior, not to mention the time when Madara manipulated the Third Mizukage from behind the scenes.

In the original work, the other party also controlled the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi, behind the scenes for more than ten years.

If that's the case, then the so-called chakra fluctuations on the back of the hand seem to be a cover for genjutsu control.

It's possible that this was because Ao saw through his control of the Third Mizukage, which is why Ao took this precaution.

"Hmm, could my new reply command achieve a similar effect?"

With that thought in mind, Tachibana Kanagawa pushed open the door to her room and went inside.

He then immediately stopped, glanced at Mei Terumi, and waved.

"Ming, come here for a second."

Mei Terumi and Zabuza, who already knew that Tachibana Kenkawa was going inside to change clothes, had already stopped outside the door, ready to do their guard duty.

Upon hearing Tachibana Kenkawa invite her into the house, Mei Terumi's face immediately turned bright red, like a ripe apple.

He waved his hands unconsciously and mumbled a reply.

"Hey, hey, hey? This...this isn't quite right, is it?"

Despite saying that, Mei Terumi's feet seemed to move uncontrollably towards the house.

At the same time, her eyes, which vaguely revealed a hint of panic and shyness, kept glancing at Zabuza to the side.

Tachibana, preoccupied with her thoughts, didn't notice Mei Terumi's strange expression.

Seeing that the other person was only taking small steps into the house, he grabbed Terumi Mei's right hand, which was still symbolically waving.

At this moment, Mei Terumi's mind went blank, and she had no idea what resistance meant.

Even in the freezing cold of the Land of Iron, a faint warmth was rising from above.

Upon seeing this, Zabuza was initially utterly astonished, then quickly covered his Byakugan and turned to leave alone.

However, Tachibana Kanagawa, seeing Zabuza turn to leave, immediately called out to stop him.

"Zabuza, where are you going?"

Zabuza, who was about to lift his foot, suddenly froze on the spot.

"Do you expect me to guard this door? No, this place is definitely too crowded and noisy, I really need to..."

Just as one of the three present was focused on thinking, another's mind went blank, and yet the third's thoughts were racing.

Tachibana Kanakawa spoke again.

"Why are you turning around? Come here and use your Byakugan to take a look. Isn't the chakra fluctuation of this mark somewhat similar to the one on the Raikage's hand?"

"Huh??" x2

The two, whose minds were in complete chaos, finally came to their senses.

It was noticed that, at some point, a strange yellow-green mark, made of three hexagons and resembling a beehive, had appeared on the back of Mei Terumi's right hand, which was being held by Tachibana Kenkawa.

It was the 'Repair Command' mark that Tachibana Kenkawa had just placed on Mei Terumi.

"What...what is this?"

"What the hell? I told you to look, so just look now!"

Without explaining to the two whose minds were still a bit fuzzy, Tachibana Kenkawa urged them again.

Having regained his senses, Zabuza immediately realized that he had probably misunderstood something, so he decisively activated his Byakugan and stared at Mei Terumi's arm.

However, after reading it, he shook his head slightly and quickly said.

"It's different. Your mark looks like it was drawn on, with absolutely no chakra fluctuations."

Hearing Zabuza's answer, Tachibana Kanagawa wasn't too surprised.

Then he made a cut on his own arm and on Mei Terumi's arm.

"How about this?"

As she spoke, Tachibana Kenshin activated her "Reply Command" ability, quickly healing both Mei Terumi's and her own not-so-deep wounds.

Mei Terumi looked at her arm in surprise, feeling her wound being healed out of thin air, and then her chakra disappeared out of thin air.

Zabuza, who had been carefully observing with his Byakugan activated, spoke up again.

"When you were treating Mei, his condition was somewhat similar to that of the Raikage, but the Raikage didn't show such obvious signs of energy flowing to his wounds."

Do they look somewhat similar?

Ignoring the two who were still amazed by this novel ninjutsu, Tachibana Kenkawa stroked his chin and pondered silently.

Similar to the "Reply Command", this immediately reminded him of Uchiha Hikaru's Mangekyou Sharingan technique "Eight Thousand Spears", which was something he had been marveling at when he first obtained this skill.

"But since there's no chakra fluctuation when it's not activated, I guess I'm just overthinking it?"

"Furthermore, the Eight Thousand Spears of Light transmit and extract chakra. If it's active, the changes should be more noticeable than my mark. Conversely, when no chakra is being transmitted, it should be in a silent state."

"Should we go and test that Raikage again?"

(End of this chapter)