I'll See How Long You Can Keep Enduring

"This...!?"

Danzo's face filled with shock—genuine astonishment—as he looked at the arm piercing through his chest, crackling with blinding lightning.

Then, a bone-chilling voice came from behind him. "No matter who it is, anyone who tarnishes the village's honor must be punished!"

Suppressing the pain, Danzo activated Swift Release. His figure flashed, and he leaped some distance away.

At the same time, the Konoha Anbu pursuing him caught up and surrounded Danzo once again.

"Kakashi!"

Covering the wound on his chest, Danzo ground his teeth and snarled Kakashi's name inwardly.

There was no doubt about it. The one who had just used the Flying Thunder God to launch a surprise attack and pierced his chest with Chidori was Kakashi!

Danzo had indeed intended to put on a show with the Anbu behind him, allowing these weak and useless Anbu, in his eyes, to injure him so he could spread news of his grave condition to the God Organization through the village and lure Flame Demon into making a move.

But that had merely been his plan. Before he could put it into action, Kakashi had thoroughly played him. He did not care about such a minor injury, but the insolence of a junior like Kakashi infuriated him beyond measure.

Forcibly suppressing his surging rage, Danzo deliberately said in a trembling voice, "I... I'm not Danzo. You can't treat me like this!"

"Surrender and come back to the village with us, or die here and be taken back as a corpse. Choose."

Still maintaining Chidori, Kakashi's gaze was cold and sharp. With lightning blazing from his right hand, he resembled an unsheathed sword, its edge fully revealed!

Danzo continued acting. "Konoha is far too overbearing. I merely wanted to live. I was also a victim of that ritual!"

"Save those words