"The Hormone Potion Golden Three Laws!"
Hearing such a perverted name, Hyuga Hyakusho and Namikaze Minato instinctively felt that it couldn't possibly be anything good. And after hearing it, their ears were sure to endure something no one their age should have to hear!
However, when they saw Hatake Shudan across from them, wearing the perverted expression of someone whose invention had finally come to fruition, who was eager to share his joy with others and looked ready to kill them if they refused to listen, Hyuga Hyakusho and Namikaze Minato exchanged a glance. They swallowed the words they'd wanted to use to refuse him, then turned to Shudan with looks of eager curiosity!
"Excellent! Since you're so eager to know, I'll tell you!"
Receiving the response he wanted, Zhou Duan looked smug:
The first of the Hormone Potion Golden Three Laws: There are two types of potion. The first is a colorless, odorless, transparent liquid. When it clings to a person, it has no effect at all. Its only purpose is to make animals ignore the person who used it. That's the one I used on us!
The second type is a pale-white liquid that quickly evaporates into a pale-white mist when exposed to air. Once it clings to a person's body, anyone within a hundred meters who has used the first type of potion will produce a scent that humans can't detect. This scent stimulates animals within a three-hundred-meter radius, driving them into a frenzy and making them want to mount whoever's giving off the scent!
The second of the Hormone Potion Golden Three Laws: Strict limitations—the potion has no effect on jonin-level ninja and is neutralized by large quantities of water. The mist from the second type of potion must cover at least seventy percent of a person's body to work!
The third of the Hormone Potion Golden Three Laws: Compared with these strict limitations, its effects are powerful—no matter what methods ninja use, they can't scare the animals away. As long as a ninja is moving, the scent grows stronger and more enticing to the animals, driving them even crazier!
"Oh, my god!"
After hearing what the potions did, Minato and Hyakusho were stunned for a long time. Shudan was probably the only person in all of Konoha who could come up with such ridiculous potions. What normal person would make something like this?
Only then did Shudan seem to realize what was going on.
"Hey, Hyakusho, Minato, you're here to help, not attend a lecture. Don't just stand there. We can deal with him first and talk later!"
Hyakusho and Minato nodded awkwardly, but they didn't immediately launch a reckless attack on the middle-ranking Sand ninja in the clearing. If Nawaki, that brainless idiot, were here, he would've charged in already. Namikaze Minato looked at Shudan.
"How should we support you?"
"Minato, Hyakusho, the Ninja Turtles I summoned haven't fully matured yet. If they encounter danger, they can quickly pull their heads into their shells, but the place where their necks meet their shells is a weak point. Ninjutsu isn't a problem, but if he uses Senbon or Shuriken, or any other attack with powerful piercing effects, we have to block it in time!
"And, Hyakusho, it's good that you're here. Keep your Byakugan activated. If you spot any abnormal Chakra flow in the Sand ninja, report it immediately. Also, keep a close eye out for Clone Technique!
"These Ninja Turtles can only withstand techniques below C-rank. If the Sand ninja does anything suspicious, Minato, you and I will stop him. Make sure he can only use C-rank techniques and can't do anything else. He's already used up a lot of Chakra, and my paralytic poison is spreading. If we keep this up, it won't take long for him to lose his ability to fight and become easy prey!"
"Understood!"
After hearing Shudan's instructions, Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hyakusho immediately split up and each stood on the shell of a Ninja Turtle. Together with Shudan, they formed a triangular encirclement around the Sand ninja. They were also forced to learn the colorful—and utterly foul-mouthed—insults of the Ninja Turtles from the Turtle Island's one hundred and eight caves, specifically those belonging to the Tortoise Lump Cave, insults capable of driving any normal person insane!
Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hyakusho exchanged a glance, each seeing the same pity for the Sand ninja in the other's eyes. Falling into Zhou Duan's hands was probably the most miserable thing that had ever happened to him!
"Not good!"
Ten minutes had passed. Hyuga Hyakusho, who had been carefully watching and reporting the whole time, spoke in a stern voice for the first time.
"His Chakra flow is abnormal. He's going to self-destruct!"
"It's too late for that! He won't succeed!"
Zhou Duan issued his order without hesitation.
"We attack together!"
With the animals enthusiastically "mounting" him and the few Ninja Turtles hurling their outrageously insulting abuse, the middle-ranking Sand ninja from the Land of Wind had barely clung to the last scraps of his sanity. Knowing he had no chance of escape, he finally made his choice: a self-destruction that would preserve what little dignity he had left.
However, after repeatedly using ninjutsu and enduring the relentless spread of the paralytic poison, the Chunin's Chakra and body had both sunk to their lowest point. Facing three top-level genin who had spent most of the fight recovering their strength—and had only interrupted his ninjutsu a few times—his wish seemed little more than a fantasy!
"Konoha Sword Technique—Five Directions Kill!"
"Gentle Fist Style—Artery Break Punch!"
"Senbon—Vital Point Killing Technique!"
Five slashes struck, leaving five wounds deep enough to expose bone. His back and arms were cut, and two of the slashes had even opened his chest, exposing his internal organs!
A total of twelve Senbon plunged deep into the Sand ninja's vital points, worsening his already fatal injuries until death was all but certain!
What drove the Sand ninja to despair most was the seemingly ordinary punch thrown by the kid with white eyes, who looked like the weakest of the three. A strange kind of Chakra covered his fist and passed through it, instantly clinging to the ninja's meridians. With his body utterly depleted, his ability to control his Chakra had fallen to rock bottom. The Chakra stopped flowing at once, turning any chance of self-destruction into a joke!
"I refuse to accept this!"
After letting out an unwilling roar, the nameless Chunin from the Land of Wind—who had been terribly unlucky enough to run into Zhou Duan—finally collapsed onto the ground, once dry but now covered in mud. His bright life had come to a miserable end!
"Phew, the fight's finally over!"
After the battle ended, Zhou Duan plopped down on the ground. On the surface, he'd seemed to toy with the Chunin from the Land of Wind, always keeping the upper hand. But in reality, it hadn't been easy. Being hunted by a Chunin was no joke. Even with the Hormone Potion, Zhou Duan had been walking on thin ice every step of the way. Summoning more than a dozen poisonous crocodile turtles and five defensive Ninja Turtles five or six meters long had also consumed half his Chakra. Now his Chakra was almost completely spent, and the physical and mental exhaustion was steadily catching up with him!
"Zhou Duan, are you all right?"
Before Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hyakusho could ask, the five Ninja Turtles had already dragged their slow-moving bodies over to Zhou Duan in a hurry. They gently nudged him with their big heads.
"Are you hurt?"
"No!"
Zhou Duan smiled.
"I'm just a little tired. And thank you all—you really helped us out today!"
"It was our pleasure!"
The Ninja Turtles looked grateful.
"Since our only strength is defense and we're useless at everything else, hardly any ninja are willing to sign a contract with us. And the few who do are complete losers who can't bring out our strengths.
"You're the only one who not only helped us improve with your potions, but also gave us a chance to be useful. We got to insult the enemy nonstop while he couldn't do a thing about it. That's been our dream our whole lives, and today we really did it. We're only low-ranking Ninja Turtles, you know, and a Chunin couldn't do a thing about us! Zhou Duan, signing a contract with you is the best!"
Zhou Duan smiled as he saw off the reluctant Ninja Turtles. Then he stood up and looked at Namikaze Minato and Hyuga Hyakusho, who had finished recovering. After a moment's thought, he suddenly asked a question that didn't seem very important.
"Minato, Hyakusho, aren't we missing someone?"
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