The Final Blow

"Too slow."

As Sakura Haruno uttered those words, her hands formed Hand Seals.

With just a single seal, Chakra surged forth rapidly, and the ice giant's sideburns suddenly rose and lengthened, entangling the attacking Mist Ninja and binding and strangling him tightly!

"Damn it..." The Mist Ninja swung his long sword with all his might, but his body was already entangled in the green hair and he could not take another step forward; the slash that he had calculated should have pierced the girl's heart suddenly stopped in front of her chest.

Just centimeters away from drinking in the warm blood, his momentum had completely dissipated, and those few centimeters became an insurmountable obstacle for life! In that instant, the expression of despair on the Mist Ninja's face froze, and the next moment, he was lifted up by the Ice Giant's hair, letting out a meaningless cry, and then slammed to the ground like a whip!

With a muffled thud, the Mist Ninja was thrown to the ground and fell silent.

Perhaps he's dead?

Sakura Haruno didn't have time to deal with this problem.

Because... this is still just a feint by the enemy!

While her attention was drawn to the Mist Ninja, the Mist Ninja's true killing move was revealed!

The killing move was hidden in the Fūma Shuriken she had just dodged.

In the instant she dealt with the Mist Ninja who rushed up from behind, the Shuriken snapped back to its original form: it was a tall, burly ninja wielding a massive fish-shaped sword.

In mid-air, he twisted his body, and the fish-shaped greatsword suddenly emitted a dazzling light, condensing into Chakra ball half the height of a person.

Just by looking at it, you can feel the immense power contained within this sphere of light!

Every ray of its light proclaims its presence, inspiring both alertness and fear.

It was as if it was shouting "Danger!"

"Hiramekarei: Flash Release!"

With a loud shout, the burly ninja condensed a ball of light the instant he swung his greatsword. With a swift, sweeping strike, the ball of light unleashed a dazzling path of light, hurtling towards Sakura Haruno with lightning speed!

The moment the girl finished off the first Mist Ninja, she sensed something amiss behind her.

When she turned her head to look, the orb of light was already within reach!

"Die!" the burly ninja roared, as if he could already see the girl Chakra ball!

She had no time to intercept or dodge. The Mist Ninja who launched the sneak attack using Hiramekarei was certain of this.

The ice giant suddenly raised its right hand, trying to block the Hiramekarei's attack, but it was still a beat too slow. The ball of light brutally shattered the giant's fingers, which it couldn't close in time, and continued to fly wildly towards Sakura Haruno. Mei Terumi's eyes widened in an instant, and she suddenly spread her thumb and forefinger, causing a torrent to split off from the Water Formation Wall and shoot rapidly towards the ball of light. However, it still couldn't catch up with its speed!

As for the pink-haired girl, she was still paralyzed by pollen, and her movements were still difficult. Even turning her head was a bit stiff, let alone making a high-speed dodge!

In a split second, he strained his eyes to see the expression on the girl's face.

Was it panic? Stunned? Or at a loss?

However, neither is true.

Mist Ninja disappointed to see that Sakura Haruno's expression remained calm.

"This time, it's already very fast." In the instant their eyes met in mid-air, he seemed to see the girl saying these words.

Then, whoosh! In the fraction of a second that the ball of light touched the tip of her nose, she vanished from before the Mist Ninja's sight!

The Chakra orb whizzed past the girl's afterimage, swept through the air without hindrance, and flew into the distance, turning into a star and disappearing into the invisible distance.

Sakura Haruno's figure appeared on the ice giant's forehead the next second, with a faint red mark on the tip of her nose. That was the only injury the Hiramekarei had left on her, which quickly healed naturally and disappeared without a trace.

With two swish sounds, the ice giant's arm and Mei Terumi's Water Release defense finally arrived late!

"Such a fast Body Flicker Technique!" The Mist Ninja was stunned as his body fell along with the Hiramekarei Greatsword.

This was his last thought.

The next moment, a silvery-white jet of light slashed through the air!

The rebels' strongest counterattack has failed.

The elder's face turned ashen, and many ninjas below exchanged silent glances. Finally, someone's eyes began to flicker.

We can't beat them!

She can dodge even such attacks; how can you possibly fight her?

With such a swift Body Flicker Technique, what kind of attack could possibly hit her?

An unsolvable problem.

What if the target of the attack had been Mei Terumi instead? It would still be meaningless... Even if the Mizukage were severely injured, without eliminating the Ice Giant, Sakura Haruno could still single-handedly defeat them all.

By this point, they had begun to realize that the Suikazan faction had lost this battle.

The remaining ninjas, barely clinging to life, gradually lost hope, their eyes dimming. They merely instinctively used Ninjutsu to resist the two women's next attack.

Even the Grand Elder felt a wave of despair when his painstakingly designed killing move failed!

"Lava Release: Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique!"

Faced with Mei Terumi's third wave of attacks, the rebels rallied together and unleashed an unprecedentedly powerful Water Dragon Bullet Technique. The two to three hundred-meter-long water dragon barely managed to block the Lava Release attack, and both perished together, turning into a light drizzle and scattered pebbles that fell to the ground.

Facing Mei Terumi's Ninjutsu for the third time, they gradually found the knack for dealing with it, successfully blocking the Mizukage's powerful Kekkei Genkai Ninjutsu, which immediately boosted the morale of the rebels.

However, this was Mei Terumi's attack.

What about Sakura Haruno's Ninjutsu?

The Mist Ninja looked up and saw her soft pink hair fall down from its flying state, the hem of her clothes still clinging to her waist, revealing a glimpse of fair skin; the aftershocks of Chakra gradually subsided, proving that the girl had just used a great deal of Chakra and once again unleashed a despair-inducing Ninjutsu!

This time, it wasn't the Legion Ice Clone's explosive technique.

There weren't those countless, terrifying self-destructing clones like before.

The Mist Ninja secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After experiencing the endless bombardment of clones just now, no one wanted to face that Ninjutsu again!

However, the Clone Explosion Technique is already terrifying enough; if it's not that, what kind of Ninjutsu could it be?

Sakura didn't keep them waiting too long.

Just as the Mist Ninja were beginning to have doubts, someone noticed something amiss from a large patch of shadow that suddenly appeared on the ground.

He looked up at the sky above, where an incredibly enormous creature appeared, blocking out the light, obscuring half the sky, and shrouding most of the training ground in darkness!

"No way..."

The Mist Ninja muttered to herself, her voice trembling slightly.

"It's over."

Sakura Haruno spoke softly, without a trace of sadness or joy.

She raised her right hand, then swung it down violently!

"Ice Release: Leviathan's Wrath!"

Boom--!

When the colossal ice giant and the even larger, ferocious beast appeared, the entire Kirigakure could see these two Ninjutsu.

When Leviathan crashed down, the shockwave it generated uprooted buildings within a 200-meter radius! The aftershocks were devastating, echoing through the sky, and the entire Kirigakure seemed to tremble in the face of this attack!

Without needing to be informed, the Mist Ninja watching from a distance realized the battle was over when they saw that Ninjutsu.

This is the decisive final blow!

Did the Fifth Mizukage win?

When they arrived at the battlefield, the first thing they saw was a deep pit, dozens of meters deep; the original training ground had been completely destroyed!

The completely altered terrain, the ruins-like scene, and the surrounding buildings in disarray made it almost unrecognizable to the Mist Ninja that this place had once been the largest training ground for the Mist Ninja.

"You've come." Mei Terumi stood on a pile of broken ice at the highest point of the ruins, watching their arrival, and said calmly.

Even after a fierce battle, their Fifth Mizukage maintained her elegant, beautiful, and sexy image, standing gracefully with her slender figure and impeccable style, her clothes neat and tidy, without even a wrinkle left from the battle.

If it weren't for the lingering smell of gunpowder on her body, the faint beads of sweat on her face, and the undiminished killing intent in her eyes, the arriving Mist Ninja wouldn't even have guessed that she had just been fighting a life-or-death battle!

The girl from Konoha stood beside her, tall and imposing, her presence mirroring that of the Fifth Mizukage, her aura and presence in no way inferior. Hearing Mei Terumi speak, her light green eyes also turned towards her.

"You won?"

They asked.

"Yes, we won."

Mei Terumi finished speaking, her murderous intent finally subsided, and the calm expression on her face was replaced by a gentle smile. Her eyes, as clear as autumn water, looked at everyone, and she returned to her usual gentle and approachable Mizukage persona.

"Thanks to Konoha's help... I declare that from this day forward, Mist Ninja has completely shaken off the shadow of the Bloody Mist Village, and will never return to that bloody and dark era!"

She shouted.

The Mist Ninja instinctively cheered!

Sakura Haruno smiled faintly as she walked over to her three students and patted them on the head. The four of them stood aside and quietly watched the Mist Ninja's celebration.

However, although Mei Terumi has completely rid herself of the lingering poison from the Bloody Mist Village, she hasn't actually gotten rid of it yet.

Not only these neutral ninjas, but Mei Terumi's staunch supporters, are not all able to escape the influence of the old era.

Many of them haven't quite come to terms with it yet. The Bloody Mist Village has left such a deep mark on them that it may affect their thinking for many years, or even a lifetime.

The harmonious and loving relationship with one's companions advocated by Mei Terumi might still be seen by the older generation of Mist Ninja as weakness, incompetence, and a sign of womanly compassion, which is seriously inconsistent with the Mist Ninja's consistent ruthless style.

Don't worry, everything will be alright. Mei Terumi is very confident about this.

During her term, Mei Terumi will dispel the darkness of the Mist Ninja and transform the village into a place filled with light.

The first step is to completely eradicate the Suikazan faction!

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