Have You Regretted It?
The Fourth Raikage was solemn, his hands crossed in front of him.
He had already suffered from being hit by Sakura Haruno's Monstrous Strength Technique. Just now, when the girl's all-out high kick swept across his left arm, even Raikage, who was protected by arm armor and Lightning Release Armor, felt as if his arm was shattered, numb and swollen, and even wondered if the bone had cracked.
It sounds like a joke, but it's true— the Raikage is weaker than this slender girl in terms of power.
It's the kind of gap that can be suppressed.
Ai should have used his speed advantage to contend with Sakura Haruno. But he simply couldn't.
Sakura Haruno's Ninjutsu is too powerful. If he continues to use that mild fighting style, I'm afraid the Kumogakure will be razed to the ground, and he Sakura Haruno will still be evenly matched.
Ai had never imagined that the power amplified by Monstrous Strength Technique combined with Sage Mode would be so terrifying!
--Just as he had never imagined that provoking Sakura Haruno with such despicable and cruel means would bring utter destruction to the Kumogakure.
Sakura Haruno's punches were not like the Raikage's punches, which pierced through the air; instead, the force of her punches was like a tiger roaring through the mountains, coming down with unstoppable force.
On the contrary, when this punch, which combined the power of Nintaijutsu and Sage Mode, was unleashed, its momentum was rather unremarkable.
It attacked without any trace of human presence.
Ai was on high alert, not daring to be careless in the slightest, but when he received the punch, he still realized that he had underestimated Sakura Haruno.
"That was a heavy punch!"
The fist struck his body, and an overwhelming force surged from within, causing Raikage's scalp to tingle and his pupils to shrink instantly;
He then realized that this seemingly calm and unassuming punch contained explosive power!
Boom!
When the fist struck, the sound wave was compressed into a shockwave and exploded outwards.
The transparent air wall suddenly expanded, and the entire scene seemed to tremble!
The heavy steel armor and the Lightning Release Armor, which was solid and even harder than steel, crumbled layer by layer in the face of this overwhelming power. Then, that enormous power was unleashed onto Raikage's body, which had been tempered and hardened like a rock!
"Nintaijutsu: Star Cannon Fist!"
Bang!
With a loud bang, Raikage's burly body flew backward like a kite with a broken string.
"Big brother!"
The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki caught the Raikage with his tentacles and helped him up. He saw that half of the Raikage's Lightning Release Armor had been blasted apart, and a dark red fist mark was clearly imprinted on his thick arm. His right arm hung limply to the side.
Ai, true to her word, shook off the medical-nin's support and stood up.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his left hand, grabbed his dislocated right arm, roared angrily, and forcibly set the bone back in place, his eyes fixed on Sakura Haruno.
He was slightly out of breath, but the fighting spirit in his eyes still burned brightly.
"Again!"
The man's rough voice carried over from dozens of meters away.
"You've got a tough bone to burn!" Sakura Haruno sneered, as if offering a compliment. "But if you can keep going, how long can your village hold out?"
She reached out and pointed to the collapsed buildings behind Raikage.
"Look behind you... Lord Raikage."
Faintly, one could hear Lian's cries and screams coming from over there.
Ai was startled, and his dark face paled almost imperceptibly.
He slowly turned his head, his neck stiff and unable to move, like a machine without lubrication.
The Kumogakure Ninja present also glanced back, following the Raikage's action.
The moonlight was extremely bright, faintly illuminating the corner of the Kumogakure destroyed by the Wind Blade Torrent in the night.
After the waterline cuts through at high speed, nothing can escape.
A faint Kakkō could be seen coming from the ruins.
The Kumogakure Ninja knew that only a part of the village had been destroyed, but given the village's population density, how many people were affected by that destruction?
"How many people are there over there?" Raikage asked, his voice trembling slightly.
No one knew the exact number. After a moment of silence, a voice whispered, "Maybe... maybe more than two thousand."
Ai trembled all over, her eyes red-rimmed, and slowly turned around.
His eyes were bloodshot as he pointed at his heart and roared, "This is a battle between you and me!"
"Come at me if you dare, come at me here!"
"Don't hurt innocent people!"
"Innocent people?" Sakura Haruno's eyebrows shot up as she roared, "When you were massacring the members of the delegation, did you never think of them as innocent people as well?"
As she spoke, water clumps condensed again in the girl's hand, and silver water lines shot out from her fingertips, flickering and spitting out like the tongue of a venomous snake.
Her expression, like the Ninjutsu she used, was unpredictable.
"There are no innocent people at all." Sakura Haruno paused, then looked at the Kumogakure Ninja and continued, "The Kumogakure Ninja elders who could teach someone like Omoi, the Kumogakure Ninja youths who take bandit logic for granted, and the Kumogakure actively support your path of militarism!"
"None of this has anything to do with innocence whatsoever. From the moment you attacked the delegation, everyone in the Kumogakure... became my enemy!"
The chilling murderous intent in the girl's words made this early autumn night feel as cold as the dead of winter.
Some in the Kumogakure Ninja felt a chill run through their bodies, while others were filled with rage.
"You bastard! You killed so many of our comrades and you still dare to be so arrogant..." Killer B roared, his anger rising, "I'll blast you to smithereens!!"
The Jinchūriki, blinded by rage, recklessly transformed in the center of the village, entering Complete Tailed Beast Mode, opening the mouth of the Eight-Tails, and brewing a giant Tailed Beast Bomb!
An astonishing Chakra, mixed in a yin-yang ratio of more than 8, formed a large black sphere, even larger than the head of the Eight-Tails. Its imposing, mountain-like pressure made the onlookers, the Kumogakure Ninja, gasp for breath.
"A terrifying aura..." Sakura Haruno frowned slightly.
The Raikage, however, was even more impatient than Sakura Haruno, glaring and shouting angrily, "Damn it, are you planning to use the Tailed Beast Bomb in the center of the village, you idiot!"
With its enormous size after Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, it has already caused considerable damage simply by standing in the center of the village; if Killer B were to unleash this Tailed Beast Bomb, whether it could even hit Sakura Haruno or not, he would blast away most of the village in one go!
At that time, the one who will cause the most damage to the village will probably not be the enemy, but rather Jinchūriki!
Fortunately, the Raikage's worst fears did not come true...
Because Sakura Haruno made her move.
"Senjutsu: Giant God Warrior!"
The majestic giant, which had been hidden in the ruins of Raikage Peak for a long time, suddenly pounced out as Sakura Haruno's hand seals turned!
If "Mangekyō Senjutsu - Majestic Attire God Warrior" is Sakura Haruno's strongest technique at present, then "Senjutsu: Giant God Warrior," which lacks the Susaku of Mangekyō Sharingan, is still a powerful Secret Technique of destructive power, even though it is not as powerful as "Majestic Attire God Warrior."
Even with the girl's exceptional Chakra control, it would take her some time to complete this move—she was secretly preparing this technique before the Raikage returned to Kumogakure.
With a height of over 100 meters, the Giant God Warrior is in no way inferior to the Eight-Tails' complete form in terms of size.
In terms of pure strength, the Giant God Warrior even has the advantage.
It leaped out, slamming down on the Eight-Tails like Mount Tai, pinning them firmly to the ground.
Almost at the same moment the Giant God Warrior leaped out, Sakura Haruno's agile figure Body Flicker Technique appeared on the giant's forehead.
Using the momentum, she leaped up, landing above the Tailed Beast Bomb, and unleashed a punch that forcefully blasted the black, spherical Tailed Beast Bomb into the Eight-Tails' body!
The Eight-Tails beast's belly suddenly swelled up.
"Taste your own Tailed Beast Bomb Ball!"
The girl roared angrily! At the same time, the Giant God Warrior clamped its jaws shut on the Eight-Tails fox!
Then the next moment--
Rumble!!!
The Tailed Beast Bomb exploded inside the Eight-Tails!
At the moment of the explosion, the terrifying power of the Chakra sphere expanded the Eight-Tails' belly without limit until it burst through the Eight-Tails' body, transforming it into a giant sphere of light!
The blinding sphere of light suddenly burst forth with boundless radiance!
For a moment, the entire Kumogakure seemed to have entered a white world.
At the epicenter of the explosion, the front half of the Giant God Warrior's body was melted by the violent blast, turning into a puddle of mud that flowed into the deep crater created by the Tailed Beast Bomb.
Half of the core area of Kumogakure was reduced to ashes and vanished into thin air with a deafening roar.
When Ai snapped out of the blinding light and deafening noise, he found that his Lightning Release Armor had dimmed and his exposed skin was throbbing.
The mountains that once housed the Kumogakure Ninja buildings are now a giant crater, so ugly it looks as if someone had forcibly ripped a piece of flesh out of the Kumogakure.
The Kumogakure Ninja troops were scattered around, each one wounded and looking dazed.
How many people lost their lives in that attack, including the ninjas present and the nearby villagers?
One thousand? Two thousand? Four thousand?
The Raikage remains unknown.
I'd rather not even guess at that number!
Where is Killer B?
Raikage was startled and looked towards the other side of the deep pit.
On the other side, Killer B deactivated his Tailed Beast Transformation. Covered in wounds, he leaned on his sword and stood with difficulty.
Sakura Haruno hid behind the Giant God Warrior, looking quite disheveled. Her light and loose pajamas had several charred holes, and she was covered in blood.
But her Chakra was still surging, and her eyes were still sharp as knives!
"Die, Killer B!"
The girl landed, holding a butterfly dagger, pointing it at the man covered in wounds, and said coldly.
The Jinchūriki remained silent.
The flippancy on his face had vanished, leaving only a final, fierce glint in his eyes, like a cornered beast struggling for its life.
"Aaaaaah--!"
The man gripped his knife tightly and launched a desperate charge!
As Raikage looked over, the two had just completed their final charge and passed each other.
Everyone took their positions.
A strand of Sakura Haruno's hair broke off and floated in the air, leaving a bloodstain on her face.
Killer B suddenly shuddered, gasped for breath, and then collapsed.
"Stop, Sakura Haruno!"
Raikage roared angrily across the deep pit, but ultimately dared not make a move.
The girl completely ignored him.
Her face was extremely cold, and she held the ice blade upside down in her hand. She turned around and walked in front of Killer B.
Just like how Killer B treated Shizune.
She stomped hard on the Jinchūriki, crushing his face into the mud.
His nose was broken, his face was torn, and blood quickly flowed from the ground.
And this is just interest.
"Do you regret what you did...?"
"You scumbag?"
Sakura Haruno's voice contained not a trace of vengeful pleasure, only boundless coldness.
[First update. The second update will probably be a bit later, so don't wait up, get some rest. There will be at most three or four more chapters before this volume ends. According to the outline, there won't be any more plot developments similar to this volume.]
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