Goodbye, Nao...
Goodbye, family...
Black Flames burned before his eyes. Chiba slowly rose to his feet, watching the girl already swallowed by the black flames, his lips pressed tight in silence.
Damn it!
That bastard! Then, he glanced at Hirohiko on his back, whose eyes were covered in bandages. His blood-soaked hands clenched tightly once more, and a scroll inscribed with the Sealing Fire Jutsu Scroll slammed onto the ground with a smack, slowly unfurling.
The moment Nao's farewell had ended, he had thought of the Sealing Fire Jutsu Scroll. These Black Flames had to be Amaterasu's flames. He had seen this technique once before! He also knew that the Sealing Fire Jutsu Scroll could seal them away, and a sliver of hope had risen in his heart.
As long as he sealed Amaterasu's flames, Nao could definitely survive! But before he could even feel happy, before joy could surface at all, Nao had turned to ash amid the Black Flames at a visible speed. It had happened so quickly that in the blink of an eye, Nao had vanished without a trace.
He simply had no time to use the Sealing Fire Jutsu Scroll! That bastard had used an ocular-power Sealing Jutsu to directly send Amaterasu's flames into Nao's body! From the inside out, he had turned Nao...
Damn it!
That bastard! By then, the fires of indignation and grief in his heart had already transformed into venomous hatred.
That man had given Nao no chance at life whatsoever. He had been determined to kill her, cruelly burning Nao to ashes from the inside out with Amaterasu's flames! Not only had he killed her, he had destroyed her body as well, leaving Chiba no chance to bring Nao's remains home!
For the first time, Chiba hated someone so deeply.