The massive half-human, half-centipede monster before him, covered in a dark purple exoskeleton, had its head severed by the very man it had pierced through!
Its pale, grotesque head fell from a height of forty or fifty meters and hit the ground. Having lost its head, the monster's body finally collapsed with a crash.
Boom!
Its enormous body slammed heavily into the ground, kicking up billowing clouds of dust.
Because he had been pierced through by the Rinkaku, Shiraishi Mori was buried beneath the shattered ground as well.
"Seriously..."
Hidan looked rather surprised at the sight. He abruptly turned to Simu beside him.
"Damn it, Simu. Don't tell me you foresaw this the moment you kicked that ant away!"
Hidan did not believe that, with Simu's strength and his natural suppression over Kagune, he would leave that ant even the slightest chance of survival.
The only possibility was that Simu had deliberately spared the ant, allowing him to complete his final... performance.
Simu raised an eyebrow, his voice full of surprise. "With your intelligence, you actually figured out I was holding back on purpose?"
Faced with Simu's mockery, Hidan instantly flew into a rage.
"Damn it, Simu! Are you looking down on my intelligence?"
Simu gave him a look of astonishment. "You figured that out too!"
"I'll kill you!"
As the two bickered, the corpse of the centipede monster, which resembled a small mountain, suddenly twitched a few times.
Simu slowly adjusted his glasses and said calmly, "Looks like this kid got lucky."
Hidan narrowed his eyes. The centipede's corpse kept shaking, and then suddenly, a hole burst open in its body. Shiraishi Mori's fair arm stretched out from within.
Though the arm did not look particularly thick, the faintly bulging muscles proclaimed its explosive power.
His arm pressed against the monster's body, and Shiraishi Mori finally pulled his entire body out of the corpse.
Compared to before, his body was now extremely thin and pale. His originally dark hair had turned completely snow-white, his eyes entirely engulfed in darkness, while dense blood vessels spread in twisting lines from the centers of his eyes.
His entire aura had changed completely, as if...
He had been reborn.
"Well, damn. The kid really survived," Hidan said in considerable surprise.
He had thought that, after suffering such horrific injuries, the kid had probably perished together with that ant. He had not expected him to be so lucky.
Simu looked at Shiraishi Mori below, his eyes crimson and his hair snow-white, then smiled. "He did more than merely survive by luck."
"Oh?"
Hidan studied Shiraishi Mori curiously, seemingly trying to find some difference in him beyond his appearance.
Shiraishi Mori showed no strong reaction to Hidan's rude stare. He merely raised his head calmly, his white hair drifting slightly in the airflow.
"Who exactly are you people?"
"Eh? Why did this kid become so calm? Somehow, he feels a little like you, you bastard Simu."
Hidan grumbled, then climbed onto the railing of the stands. Swaying unsteadily, he spread his arms and laughed wildly.
"But since you asked so sincerely, I'll graciously tell you!"
"We are from the Jashin Cult, the representatives of the great Lord Jashin who walk the Shinobi World!"
Shiraishi Mori frowned slightly. He had originally thought the Jashin Cult was merely doing evil under Jashin's banner.
But after seeing everything that had happened to him and the others, perhaps Jashin truly existed?
"You should have the ability to free everyone, right?"
Shiraishi Mori looked directly at Simu. His calm tone did not sound like an accusation.
Simu nodded without denying it.
"I do indeed have the ability to easily deal with Sakamoto and save all of you."
Shiraishi Mori clenched his fists. Just as he was about to speak, Simu interrupted him.
"You want to ask why, since I had that ability, I did not save you directly. Why did I instead go to such lengths to create an opportunity for you, giving you the chance to kill Sakamoto in return? Is that it?"
"If I had acted sooner, perhaps your parents would not have died. Is that it?"
Simu crossed his arms, tilted his head, and scrutinized the white-haired man below.
Then he smiled and asked playfully, "But why should I do that?"
Simu leaped down from the stands and landed before Shiraishi Mori, staring into his eyes.
"Take a closer look. I am not some good person. I am not even human. I am merely... a monster."
With that, Simu put his hands in his pockets and slowly turned around.
Shiraishi Mori lowered his head, the shadow cast by his hair concealing his expression.
"But if it hadn't been for you..."
Before Shiraishi Mori could finish, Simu was already in front of him. A knee strike bent his body like a shrimp.
"If it hadn't been for me, not only your parents, but you too would have been killed by Sakamoto long ago."
Simu said it casually, then released the trembling Shiraishi Mori and let him collapse to his knees.
Suddenly, information shared simultaneously by the Raven flock made Simu raise an eyebrow.
"Heh, kid. It seems something rather serious happened in Shuiyu Village."
At Simu's words, Shiraishi Mori's eyes widened instantly.
His parents were already dead. In this world, his grandfather and younger sister were the only two relatives he had left.
He absolutely, absolutely could not let anything happen to them!
His eyes instantly turned black, terrifying blood vessels spreading across them. A dark red Centipede Weihe shot violently from his waist, smashed through the ship's wall, and raced through the breach toward the little fishing village where he had grown up.
The instant he came into contact with the outside air, an awful smell of burning filled Shiraishi Mori's nose.
Then, what came into view was a terrifying sea of flames!
Shiraishi Mori's mouth opened slightly. Four Kagune shot from his back and slammed into the ground. Using the recoil, he shot into the sky and charged toward the village.
Explosions rang out throughout the village.
With the enhancements provided by his various Kagune, Shiraishi Mori reached his home in only two minutes.
But he was still too late.
A ninja wearing a forehead protector marked with three diagonal slashes was using the Ninja Blade in his hand to pierce an old man's body.
That old man was Shiraishi Mori's grandfather.
His grandfather saw Shiraishi Mori as well and used his last strength to say, "Run. Little... Mori."
Hearing him, the ninja turned around and saw Shiraishi Mori.
"Heh, looks like one little brat slipped through."
A cruel smile appeared on the ninja's face as he slowly pulled the Ninja Blade from the old man's body.
Shiraishi Mori witnessed the scene with his own eyes. His pupils shrank into tiny red dots, and a terrifying aura of destruction erupted completely from his body!
Like a towering tsunami, it roared!
Every Kagune on his body was unleashed in that instant, going berserk!
Roar!
The aura of destruction swept through the entire village. A centipede monster resembling a black dragon appeared, and with merely a twist of its body, it created a terrifying scene of earth-shaking devastation.
"What kind of monster is that?"
The Yugakure ninja who had been wreaking havoc through the village without restraint showed horrified expressions.
One young ninja trembled. "I told you long ago that we of Hidden Hot Water Village shouldn't have accepted Sakamoto's job just for a little money!"
Hearing that hindsight, another ninja glared at him.
"If we don't cooperate with Sakamoto Trading Company, do you want to rot away with those old fossils in the village?"
No matter how much they regretted it or how unwilling they were, the terrifying giant shadow had already enveloped them. A boundless abyssal maw would swallow everything, and the cruel avenger would destroy everything!
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