Jingū Kiraku Arrived in His Loyal Hidden Rain Village

Art was Patrick Star?

The seemingly absurd, nonsensical words made Hanzo's heart pound.

An unimaginable sense of immense danger spread wildly through him, even stronger than when he had faced the Three Legendary Ninja!

Should he kill this guy as quickly as possible, or just run?

Hanzo was caught in a dilemma.

In less than a second of hesitation, countless black cracks rapidly spread from the mouth on Jingū Kiraku's chest across his entire body, while his body gradually began to turn transparent.

"It's too late to run now, Lord Hanzo."

Jingū Kiraku's words were like the judgment of the Grim Reaper.

The instant his words fell, an aura of destruction spread from his body.

Hanzo's eyes widened at once.

Jingū Kiraku's entire body rapidly condensed into a small black sphere.

Then, countless cracks appeared across the sphere's surface.

The next second, dazzling white light shot out from those cracks. The brilliance of the explosion instantly filled everything in the world, like...

A brand-new sun rising from the ground!!

Hanzō the Salamander's expression finally turned panicked at the sight. Without another word, he turned and ran.

As he fled at full speed, he roared inwardly--

Was Jingū Kiraku insane?!

There was no way he could survive an explosion like this either!!

Unfortunately, Hanzo's question was destined to go unanswered. That violent energy was already close at hand!

Though he had burst forth at his fastest speed, it was still utterly insignificant before an explosion capable of covering ten kilometers in every direction.

In an instant, the blinding radiance swallowed him like a tsunami.

Unimaginably terrifying energy rampaged outward in every direction, mercilessly destroying everything in its path.

The ground melted as easily as butter. Rocks and valleys were reduced to dust beneath the white light. Everything would be turned to nothingness in this dreadful explosion.

"What is that..."

The people of Hidden Rain Village, more than thirty kilometers away, stared into the distance in shock.

The piercing light shot into the heavens, gathering in the deathly silent world into a white "doll" more than ten thousand meters tall.

Its pointed head rammed straight into the sky. Even the rainwater in the air evaporated, and with it vanished the endless gloom that had shrouded the Land of Rain for decades.

The light stretched everyone's shadows long, and the entire Hidden Rain Village was engulfed in a ghastly white glow.

Yet even so, every villager endured the pain caused by the intense light and watched the astonishing scene in the distance with anxious anticipation.

Whether they were the opposition, the Hanzo Faction, or ordinary villagers, everyone knew clearly--

The future of Hidden Rain Village, and even the entire Land of Rain, would undergo an incomparably drastic change because of this explosion.

Whether they would march toward the future or sink into the abyss would be revealed after this battle!

The scene returned to the battlefield.

The terrain here had been completely transformed by the explosion. Rain Dragon Valley, once shrouded in mist, had been wiped clean from existence.

With the explosion's epicenter as its origin, an enormous crater stretching over a thousand meters lay before them, resembling the remains left behind by a meteor impact.

Everything within ten kilometers had vanished without a trace in the explosion. Even the rain clouds overhead had been blown open with a massive hole.

Rare sunlight for the Land of Rain poured down through it, while dust and gravel floating in the air drifted slowly beneath its rays.

"Hiss, that hurts like hell..."

In the dead-silent ruins of the battlefield, Jingū Kiraku's voice suddenly rang out.

Then, his arm emerged from the rubble. It took all his strength to pull himself out of the ruins.

"Whew, I almost died together with that old bastard Hanzo."

Jingū Kiraku sat on the ground, panting as he stared at the boundless crater before him.

Honestly, the explosion had lasted unexpectedly long. It had nearly exceeded Izanagi's invincibility duration.

That's right. This was the simple little combo Jingū Kiraku had devised to deal with Hanzō the Salamander--

Using Izanagi's invincibility duration together with the Clay Secret Technique's Patrick Star self-destruction to take the enemy down with him!

The results proved that this little combo was quite effective.

Its ten-kilometer range was enough to send most shinobi in the current ninja world to the afterlife, Hanzo included.

Of course, the only drawback was that he could use it only twice. After all, Jingū Kiraku currently had only two eyes.

If he could stuff an entire arm full of Sharingan like a certain Shinobi of Darkness, he could probably become a "nuclear peace ambassador."

Whenever someone pissed him off, he could just run over and hit them with a Patrick Star combo, then throw in a head-pat emote. Those little punks of the shinobi world wouldn't even have time to react!

Unfortunately, Konoha and the Uchiha had not yet grown estranged enough to reach the level of the Nine-Tails incident, so the nuclear peace ambassador plan could only be put aside for now.

At that thought, Jingū Kiraku could not help touching his eye.

There was no trace of blood left in it, only a pale, lifeless pupil.

That was the price of using a forbidden technique!

One Sharingan in exchange for one minute of "invincibility."

Fortunately, eyeball transplantation techniques in the ninja world were quite advanced. Jingū Kiraku only needed to find a new eye and put it in later.

Or he could draw a new one from the system!

As for why Jingū Kiraku had summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path earlier?

It was mainly to force out Hanzo's Summoning Beast, lest Hanzo imitate some outstanding contractor of Ryūchi Cave when it came time to embrace art and summon his beast to die in his place.

It was simply a precaution.

Besides, Jingū Kiraku was relatively optimistic about whether Uchiha Madara would notice anything.

Though the explosion had indeed drawn some attention, linking him to the summoner of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path based on that alone would be far too much of a stretch.

He did not possess the legendary Sage's Eye...

No matter what, after paying a certain price, Jingū Kiraku had finally claimed victory and cleared away the greatest obstacle to his rule over Hidden Rain Village.

Everything after this would be much easier.

Jingū Kiraku climbed onto the back of a white clay bird and swiftly flew toward Hidden Rain Village.

When he appeared at the village gates carrying Hanzō the Salamander's corpse, the people who supported Jingū Kiraku immediately erupted into thunderous cheers.

They knew that the Land of Rain was about to welcome a stronger, more hardline leader.

And he would fulfill his promise: to spare children from the ravages of war and ensure that every citizen could have milk and bread to eat!

Looking at the cheering crowd before him, Jingū Kiraku slowly raised his arm.

"Everyone, victory to the Land of Rain!"

"Victory! Victory!"

"Victory to Hidden Rain Village! Victory to the Land of Rain!"

The entire village erupted in deafening roars.

And so, Jingū Kiraku once again arrived in his loyal Hidden Rain Village.