White-Haired Youth

The massive, half-human, half-centipede monster covered in dark purple exoskeleton was, just like that, decapitated by the man it had impaled!

The pale, grotesque head plummeted from a height of forty or fifty meters, and the monster's body finally collapsed with a thunderous crash after losing its head.

"BOOM!"

The gargantuan body slammed heavily into the ground, kicking up billowing clouds of dust.

Because he had been pierced by the Rinkaku, Shiraishi Mori was also buried within the shattered earth.

"Well, that's certainly..."

Seeing this scene, Hidan felt somewhat surprised; he abruptly turned his head to look at Simu beside him.

"You bastard Simu, don't tell me you anticipated this step the moment you kicked that ant away!"

Hidan didn't believe that with Simu's strength, combined with his natural suppression of the Kagune, he would have left even a shred of life for that ant.

The only possibility was that this guy had intentionally spared the ant's life, allowing it to complete its final... performance.

Simu raised an eyebrow, his tone filled with surprise: "With your intelligence, you actually managed to see that I was intentionally going easy on him?"

Faced with Simu's mockery, Hidan instantly flew into a rage.

"You bastard Simu, are you looking down on my intelligence?"

Simu revealed a look of astonishment: "You actually figured that out too!"

"I'm going to kill you!"

As the two bickered, the mountain-like corpse of the centipede monster suddenly twitched a few times.

Simu slowly pushed up his glasses and said indifferently: "It seems this kid has pretty good luck."

Hidan narrowed his eyes. He watched as the centipede's corpse continued to twitch, and suddenly, a hole tore open in its torso, from which a fair arm belonging to Shiraishi Mori reached out.

Although the arm didn't look particularly thick, the faintly bulging muscles declared that it possessed explosive power.

With a push against the surface of the torso, Shiraishi Mori's entire body finally crawled out from within the monster's remains.

Compared to before, his body had become extremely gaunt and fair, his originally jet-black hair had turned completely snow-white, and his pupils were entirely shrouded in darkness, with dense, winding bloodshot veins spreading out from the center of his eyes.

His entire aura had completely changed, as if...

He had been reborn.

"Whoa, this kid actually survived," Hidan said, quite surprised.

He had thought that after suffering such terrifying injuries, the kid would have surely perished along with that ant; he hadn't expected his luck to be this good.

Simu looked at Shiraishi Mori below, who had scarlet eyes and a head of snowy hair, and said with a smile: "It's not as simple as him just luckily surviving."

"Oh?"

Hidan curiously sized up Shiraishi Mori, seemingly wanting to find something different about him beyond his appearance.

Faced with Hidan's rude gaze, Shiraishi Mori didn't react much, merely lifting his head faintly as his white hair drifted slightly with the airflow.

"Who exactly are you people?"

"Arey, how did this kid become so calm? I strangely feel like he's become a bit similar to you, you bastard Simu."

Hidan muttered a complaint, then climbed onto the railing of the viewing platform, swaying as he spread his arms and laughed wantonly:

"But since you've asked so sincerely, I shall grant you the mercy of telling you!"

"We are from the Jashin Cult, the walking representatives of the great Lord Jashin in the Shinobi World!"

Shiraishi Mori frowned slightly. Originally, he had thought the Jashin Cult was merely using the name of a god to commit evil deeds.

But now, seeing everything that had happened to himself and others, was Jashin, perhaps, truly real?

"You should have the ability to liberate everyone, right?"

Shiraishi Mori's gaze locked onto Simu, his calm tone not sounding like an interrogation.

Simu nodded, not denying it.

"I do indeed have the ability to easily resolve Sakamoto and save all of you."

Shiraishi Mori clenched his fists, and just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Simu.

"You want to ask why, since I possess this ability, I didn't just save you all directly, but instead went to such lengths to create an opportunity for you to kill Sakamoto, is that it?"

"If I had acted sooner, perhaps your parents wouldn't have had to die, right?"

Simu crossed his arms over his chest, tilted his head, and scrutinized the white-haired man below.

He then smiled and asked playfully: "But why would I do that?"

Simu leaped down from the platform, arrived in front of Shiraishi Mori, and stared into his eyes.

"Look clearly—I am not a good person, I am not even human; I am merely... a monster."

With that, Simu shoved his hands into his pockets and slowly turned away.

Shiraishi Mori kept his head lowered, the shadow cast by his hair making it impossible to see what expression he wore at that moment.

"But if it weren't for you..."

Before Shiraishi Mori could finish his sentence, Simu had already appeared before him, delivering a knee strike that caused his body to contort like a shrimp.

"If it weren't for me, not only your parents, but you yourself would have been killed by Sakamoto long ago."

Simu said this indifferently, then released the trembling Shiraishi Mori, leaving him to collapse onto the ground.

Suddenly, information shared synchronously from a flock of Raven caused Simu to raise an eyebrow.

"Heh, kid, it seems something extraordinary has happened in Shuiyu Village."

Upon hearing 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.

Absolutely, absolutely nothing must happen to them!

His eyes turned pitch black in an instant, and terrifying bloodshot veins spread from them. A dark red centipede Kagune burst from his waist, shattering the wall of the boat before he sped off through the gap toward the small fishing village where he had grown up.

The moment he touched the outside air, a terrible smell of burning reached Shiraishi Mori's nostrils.

Immediately following that, a terrifying sea of fire came into view!

Shiraishi Mori's mouth opened slightly as four Kagune ejected from his back and slammed into the ground. Using the recoil, he launched himself into the sky and sprinted toward the village.

Explosions rang out one after another from within the village.

With the aid of his various Kagune, it took Shiraishi Mori only two minutes to reach his home.

But he was still one step too late.

A ninja wearing a headband with three diagonal slashes was using his ninja sword to pierce through the body of an old man.

And that old man was none other than Shiraishi Mori's grandfather.

His grandfather saw Shiraishi Mori as well, and with his final ounce of strength, he said, "Run... Xiao... Sen."

Hearing his words, the ninja turned around and spotted Shiraishi Mori.

"Heh, so there was one little brat left over."

A cruel smile appeared on the ninja's face as he slowly pulled his blade from the old man's body.

Witnessing this scene with his own eyes, Shiraishi Mori's pupils contracted into tiny red dots, and a terrifying aura of destruction exploded from his body!

Like a monstrous tsunami, it roared!

Every Kagune on his body was released in that instant, running wild!

"Roar!"

The aura of destruction swept through the entire village. A centipede monster resembling a black dragon appeared; merely twisting its body caused the ground to shake and the mountains to sway in a terrifying display.

"What is this monster?"

The ninjas from Yugakure who had been wantonly wreaking havoc in the village wore expressions of horror.

One young ninja shivered, "I told you, we from Yugakure shouldn't have accepted Sakamoto's mission just for a bit of money!"

Hearing this hindsight, another ninja glared at him.

"If we don't cooperate with the Sakamoto Chamber of Commerce, do you want to rot away with those old fossils in the village?"

Regardless of their regret or unwillingness, the terrifying giant shadow had already shrouded them. The boundless, abyssal maw was about to swallow everything, and the cruel avenger was about to destroy it all!

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