Mama Still Loves Me

Fingertips touched the eyeball, gently probing in, tenderly squeezing through the slit between the eyelids. Cold nails scraped across the soft inner flesh, burrowing deeper and deeper.

A chill swept through the entire body like a tidal wave. Trembling like a frightened little beast, tears of terror mixed with it as the connected optic nerve was severed bit by bit. Blood flowed into the eye socket.

With just a gentle hook, the eyeball could be removed whole.

Astonishingly horrifying medical extraction technique.

No.

No!!!

Who! Someone, please save me!

"Summoning Technique!"

The air before her exploded as space churned, scattering droplets of blood that splashed across the snow-white collar and the charred, battered mask.

On it, tiny insects caught the scent of blood and moved like sharks following blood in the water. They shifted across the clothing and mask, changing the patterns. At the center of the mask, the disguised Nine Tomoe Rinnegan pattern twitched and twisted.

"What luck."

Looking down at the empty pool of blood before her, the woman withdrew her bloodstained hand. A drop of blood fell from her fingertip and shattered across the ground.

"You can't escape!"

Her icy tone concealed immense fury.

She turned her head and looked toward Konoha on the distant horizon.

He was there.

An opening!

Run!!

In an instant, Jigen, who had been pretending to be dead nearby, suddenly shrank. His tiny body floated into the air and flew away at high speed, fleeing for his life without looking back.

The woman stepped forward and rose into the air, preparing to give chase.

Who would she chase!?

Jigen's pupils contracted. The surrounding forest erupted all at once. Amid the rustling, twisting sounds, sharp thorns shot and stretched toward him like rain, dancing wildly like a swarm of snakes as they pursued