Truth and Reward (Please Vote!)

After sealing the small nutrient tank containing the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan into a storage scroll and tucking it into the Ninja Tool Pouch at his waist, Hyuga Kagami started toward Danzo.

By now, Danzo had long lost his previous madness and ruthlessness. His burned face was filled with panic as he crawled awkwardly across the ground, inching his way outward in a meaningless struggle.

The area on his back where Hyuga Kagami had pierced him with a Truth-Seeking Orb had completely necrosed, and the necrosis was gradually spreading.

The same was true of his severed arm. Because the wound was so large, the affected area was even broader than the wound on his back, and black patches of necrosis had even appeared on his neck.

"Why? Such an injury should be nothing. Why won't it heal?!"

As he struggled futilely, Danzo muttered to himself.

Hyuga Kagami, walking toward Danzo, said evenly, "I told you before. Without Six Paths power or Senjutsu chakra, any substance that touches a Truth-Seeking Orb will be mercilessly broken down. Your body is no exception."

Danzo froze for a moment before realization dawned on him. "You deliberately avoided my vital points with that earlier strike?"

After losing the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, no longer tempted by greed or affected by madness, Danzo's mind had become much clearer. He immediately understood Hyuga Kagami's actions step by step.

"Yes."

Hyuga Kagami did not hide it and nodded lightly.

The reason he had deliberately avoided Danzo's vital points when he first stabbed him in the back with a Truth-Seeking Orb was that he feared Danzo, sensing mortal danger, would activate "Izanagi" and destroy one of the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

The purpose of that strike was that the essence of a Truth-Seeking Orb was a fusion of seven chakra natures. Once