Chapter 44: Chapter 43 The Tyrant's Choice
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Amid the life-and-death crisis, Satoru Hyūga took a deep breath and tried his best to calm his mind.
"Anko, run quickly and find Teacher Shibi."
"What about you?"
"I'll stay here and hold them off."
"No, I can't just leave you alone and run away."
"Their speed far exceeds ours. If I don't stay and hold them off, none of us will be able to escape. Moreover..."
Satoru Hyūga took a deep breath, and a strong fighting spirit flashed in his eyes.
"I'm not completely without a chance."
"But..." Anko was still hesitating.
"There's no time left!"
Satoru Hyūga roared. As the white mist dissipated, he already held the Long Fang in his hand.
At this distance, he didn't have time to use his Bow & Arrow to defend.
Just as he roared, accompanied by a loud boom, the big tree in front of them was suddenly cut down with great force, and dust billowed up.
"Jujumaru, your nose is really sensitive. There's indeed fresh blood here."
After the dust dispersed, two figures appeared. One of them carried a huge ninja sword on his shoulder. Beside his sharp teeth were scarlet lines like blood.
"Hahaha, Jūzō Biwa, I told you so earlier. You just didn't believe me."
The laughter of the other person was shrill and piercing, like sharp fingernails scratching across a blackboard, making Satoru Hyūga and Anko feel a chill down their spines.
His eyebrows were two dots of scarlet, and there were thick dark circles around his eye sockets. Coupled with the cruel sneer on his face, he looked extremely hideous and terrifying.
Jūzō Biwa, the user of the Beheading Prison Chop and a Jonin of the Kaguya Clan. After seeing who came, Satoru Hyūga gasped.
"It seems they are ninjas from Konoha." Jūzō Biwa held the ninja sword horizontally and squinted at a rice-grain-sized notch on the blade.
"There's actually a notch on my Beheading Prison Chop. I'll use your blood to mend it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly leaped into the air, and the heavy ninja sword slammed down towards Anko's position.
Clang!
The immense force was transferred from the long-tooth ninja sword Long Fang to Satoru Hyūga's arm, making his body go numb and he couldn't help but take a few steps back.
"Anko, run!"
He turned around and roared at Anko.
"Satoru..."
Anko gulped down saliva blankly. Under the control of fear, her body lost all strength. Those dreadful memories resurfaced, overwhelming her completely like a tidal wave.
"Satoru, am I a useless person?"
"I really loathe myself. I'm right beside you, yet I can only watch helplessly and be completely useless..."
"I can only hold you back. I'm just a waste..."
"Anko!"
Satoru Hyūga's desperate roar jolted her last shred of sanity back. Her body trembled, and she woke up from the painful memories.
The scene in front of her was Satoru Hyūga using Long Fang to block the Beheading Prison Chop. His thin body kept retreating under the violent crush of Jūzō Biwa.
"Satoru, wait for me. I won't leave you."
「I'm going to find Teacher Shibi. I will definitely come back. Wait for me.」
A glistening teardrop trickled down the corner of Anko's eye. Finally, she conquered her fear. Her eyes were filled with an unprecedented determination as she quickly ran towards the back of the forest.
「Trying to run away!」
A fierce glint flashed in Jūzō Biwa's eyes. With a wave of his right hand, he smashed the Beheading Prison Chop towards Anko.
Clang!
The slender blade of Long Fang firmly blocked the Beheading Prison Chop, forcefully foiling his plan.
During this brief moment of stalemate, Anko's figure had already disappeared into the jungle.
「Brat!」 A trace of anger crossed Jūzō Biwa's face.
「Hey! Jūzō Jujumaru, are you even capable of this? You actually let a prey escape.」
The dissatisfied voice of Jujumaru Hyūga reached his ears, making the anger on his face even deeper.
「Shut up! I'll deal with this brat. You go after the escaping prey.」
As Jūzō Biwa stared intently at Satoru Hyūga, besides anger, there was also a hint of doubt in his eyes. He noticed that Satoru Hyūga was able to stop him despite being far inferior in strength. It was because a powerful attractive force had appeared on his Beheading Prison Chop, and it could slip out of his hand at any moment.
To avoid this situation, he had to divert a large part of his attention to suppressing the strange movement of the big sword.
「Brat, no matter what secrets you have, you can only become a ghost under my big sword!」
Being blocked continuously had pushed Jūzō Biwa's anger to its peak. Blue chakra surged out, completely engulfing the Beheading Prison Chop.
「Not good!」
Feeling the sharp increase in the force coming from the blade, Satoru Hyūga subconsciously clenched his teeth.
Zzzz...
Under Jūzō Biwa's violent crushing, accompanied by the sound of sparks crackling everywhere, the blade of Long Fang actually cut through the Beheading Prison Chop and slowly sank into it.
Until the entire blade was completely embedded in the Beheading Prison Chop.
Jūzō Biwa suddenly twisted.
Clang!
A clear metallic collision sound rang out. The blade of Long Fang was actually forcefully broken, shattering into several pieces of metal fragments!
Finally, the huge Beheading Prison Chop lost its resistance and heavily hit Satoru Hyūga's body. Satoru Hyūga was like a kite with a broken string, flying far backwards.
Scarlet blood kept oozing from the wound. Jūzō Biwa's pupils trembled slightly as he stared at his abdomen in disbelief.
There, several sharp metal fragments were deeply lodged in the muscles, and blood was spurting out.
「I finally know the source of that strange resistance.」
He suddenly looked up, his eyes glinting with ferocity, and stared fixedly at Satoru Hyūga who was getting up from the ground.
「Magnet Release. I never expected you to have double Kekkei Genkai!」
If he hadn't noticed before, then at the moment when Long Fang broke, it couldn't be more obvious.
The ninja sword fragments that were originally flying in all directions seemed to be controlled by some force and actually concentrated and stabbed towards his abdomen!
Kirigakure is the village with the most Kekkei Genkai, so he quickly associated it with double Kekkei Genkai.
Magnet Release, and it was a Magnet Release that leaned towards controlling the ninja sword.
Looking at the somewhat childish face of Satoru Hyūga, a strong killing intent welled up in his heart.
This brat mustn't be left alive!
He can use Magnet Release to control the ninja sword and he's so young. If he grows up fully, I'm afraid the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist will be removed from the list in the ninja world.
"Jūzō Biwa, stop chasing that woman for the time being. I've found an interesting target."
Jūzō Biwa picked out the fragments stuck in his abdomen. With each fragment he removed, the coldness on his face grew deeper.
"Hey! Jūzō Biwa, are you kidding? First you tell me to go after her, then you tell me not to. Do you think I'm your underling?"
"This Satoru Hyūga kid has double Kekkei Genkai."
Jujumaru's expression turned rigid. He slightly squinted and sized up Satoru Hyūga from head to toe.
"Are you sure you're not wrong? I've never heard of anyone in the Hyūga clan awakening double Kekkei Genkai."
"I'm not mistaken. That must be Magnet Release, no doubt about it!"
"Really? What's the village's intelligence department up to? They didn't even report the emergence of double Kekkei Genkai in Konoha?"
Jujumaru of the Kaguya clan was evidently also interested. He stared intently at Satoru Hyūga.
This was the first time he'd seen double Kekkei Genkai in a member of the Hyūga clan.
Jūzō Biwa pulled out the last fragment from his abdomen. He wiped his palm across his abdomen and quickly smeared the blood on the Beheading Prison Chop. A scarlet bloodstain appeared on the blade.
After absorbing that fresh blood, the Beheading Prison Chop actually squirmed, as if it had come alive. The gap in the middle of the blade vanished.
Pointing the sword horizontally at Satoru Hyūga, the coldness in Jūzō Biwa's eyes was fully shown.
"You're the first one to make me use my own blood to repair the great sword!"
Looking at this scene, Satoru Hyūga couldn't help but click his tongue. The ninja world really didn't make any scientific sense at all. With such a big gap in the Beheading Prison Chop, it could be repaired with just a little blood?
Was this blood made out of iron?
There wasn't even a hint of fear in his heart. A strong fighting spirit blazed brightly in his eyes.
"Let's see what that technique can accomplish!"
Slowly closing his eyes, his chakra churned violently, surging towards the acupoints all over his body. Meanwhile, his aura suddenly became extremely powerful, and a layer of air waves enveloped his body.
When he opened his eyes again, blue lightning arcs had completely surrounded his body.
Tyrant Mode!