Kotoamatsukami's Freedom

The death torture of Root lasted for an entire day.

Hundreds of instances of death torture not only failed to break Danzo's spirit, but surprisingly, caused his soul to grow even stronger.

This discovery left Kimura Takuya pleasantly surprised.

Because he clearly perceived that the strengthening of Danzo's soul was due to the accumulation of negative energy!

Every time he died, Danzo's soul generated a trace of negative emotion.

The energy produced by these negative emotions was precisely the energy that Kimura Takuya's soul could absorb.

"What exactly is this energy? Why can negative emotions directly generate this kind of energy without any other cost or source, appearing out of thin air?"

Kimura Takuya was filled with confusion, and after thinking for a long time, he still could not understand.

"As long as it can be absorbed, these questions can wait for later."

Immediately, Kimura Takuya stopped dwelling on the matter.

"Everyone has had their revenge several times over, right? Now comes the most exciting part."

After saying this, Kimura Takuya had the person beside him bring out a scroll. When he opened it, it was not Danzo's body inside, but a pig.

A sow!

Kimura Takuya quickly resurrected the sow and then removed its head.

He then turned back to kill Danzo, and just as the latter's soul was about to leave his body, he sliced Danzo's head off with a blade.

He then took Danzo's head, still containing his soul, and grafted it onto the sow's body.

Having had dozens of experiences with human-to-beast transplantation, Kimura Takuya perfectly attached Danzo's head to the sow.

He even modified the nerves in the head, making his entire body ten times more sensitive to sensation!

"Is this really necessary? Takuya, isn't this going too far?"

"Huh? A debt of blood can be repaid with his life, at worst we just let him die a few more times. But for other humiliations, he must experience them ten times over himself."

As Kimura Takuya spoke, he even performed some plastic surgery on Danzo's head, making the latter look more like a pig to ensure Danzo wouldn't scare off any rutting boars.

He also turned Danzo's skin into a soft, pink, and tender texture.

In this state, not only would those boars not be scared, they might even have a preference for Danzo!

After all, what rutting boar could refuse a sow with such pink, tender skin?

"Take him away. I recall there is more than one pig farm in the village, right? Have him mate with every boar in the village. If he dies before he finishes, don't bother coming back to see me."

"Don't worry, Takuya. Although our medical ninjutsu isn't as good as yours, can't we at least keep a sow alive until she dies of pleasure? I guarantee every boar in the village will have a turn! It's just that..."

Seeing the man hesitate, Kimura Takuya thought he was still sympathizing with Danzo, but just as he was about to speak, he heard the man say:

"Is it possible to let him be finished by the boars, then change his gender and feed him some aphrodisiacs so he can go through all the sows in the village too?"

"Hiss!"

Not only Kimura Takuya, but the others were also shocked by this guy.

Everyone present here had been trained by Root; even if their emotions hadn't been completely extinguished, they wouldn't be easily surprised by others!

But now, they were collectively stunned by this man!

I thought I was already inhuman enough, but he can actually go a step further?

Kimura Takuya gave the man a shocked nod of agreement, and then the man actually had other ideas.

"Not just pigs, there are dogs too! I know where the Inuzuka Clan's ninken breeding base is. The ninken there are all tall and fierce; that should be enough for this old bastard to handle!"

"Hiss!"

To think Root had such a ruthless character; Kimura Takuya admitted he was inferior.

"You... handle it yourself. Come find me when you need to change his form."

"Yes! Hehehe!"

The man agreed, then let out a strange laugh as he led people away with Danzo, who had been transformed into a sow.

After storing Danzo's remains, Kimura Takuya had the scene cleaned up.

He gathered those who had been brainwashed by Danzo together. Because Danzo had activated the Cursed Seal of the Tongue indiscriminately, they had all lost consciousness and were easily dealt with by Kimura Takuya and his group.

In recent days, to cope with the development of public opinion and the Anbu, Danzo had recalled most of the Root members to his side.

Combined with the people from the Spark Society, almost all of Root was here now.

After Kimura Takuya woke them all up, these people only knew that a group of Root members had rebelled, but they were unaware of Danzo's fate, so Kimura Takuya began his deception.

"We are all undercover agents for the Fifth Hokage; everything the Root did was directed by Danzo.

Now that Danzo has been taken away and will soon face trial, the Cursed Seal of the Tongue has been lifted from all of you.

Those who hold a grudge against Danzo may step forward to testify against him; those who do not are now free."

As he spoke, Kimura Takuya embedded Shisui's eye into his palm and cast Kotoamatsukami upon them.

He only planted a suggestion for them to protect Konoha.

He did not do anything more.

He did not force these people to be loyal to him; such loyalty would be too hollow and meaningless.

Kimura Takuya possessed his own pride and disdained doing such things.

He only used Kotoamatsukami on this group, not on the members of the Spark Society present.

Kotoamatsukami is known as the strongest genjutsu, capable of altering a person's will and thoughts; everyone who sees Shisui's Sharingan when the technique is cast is affected.

If Kimura Takuya had wanted to, everyone present would have been affected, but he did not do so.

Watching the Sharingan in his palm fall dormant, Kimura Takuya knew that if he wanted to use this eye again, he would have to wait at least ten years.

Danzo had never used it, always waiting for the perfect moment he desired, but unfortunately, it never came, and it never would.

Kimura Takuya took it and used it immediately; things like this should be used as soon as they are off cooldown, rather than agonizing over how to maximize their utility.

Instead of agonizing over it, it was better to just use it and find a way to solve the cooldown issue later.

Moreover, Kimura Takuya suspected that the cooldown of Kotoamatsukami might be related to negative energy.

Given Kimura Takuya's sensitivity to negative energy, after using Kotoamatsukami, he keenly sensed a powerful burst of negative energy erupting from within the Sharingan, directly affecting the souls of the targets.

This was the truth behind Kotoamatsukami: by controlling the negative energy that affects the soul, it directly alters a person's soul, modifying their thoughts and will at the deepest level.

So, what exactly was this negative energy that could affect the soul?

Kimura Takuya thought about it for a long time without an answer, but it led him to conceive of a new ninjutsu, or perhaps a genjutsu.

Pseudo-Kotoamatsukami!

Shisui's Sharingan modifies the will of others at the soul level by controlling negative energy.

Therefore, Kimura Takuya, who could also absorb and control negative energy, should be able to use Kotoamatsukami by directly controlling negative energy himself.

However, Kotoamatsukami used via the Sharingan has the genjutsu amplification of the eye, and Shisui's eye likely has an even higher amplification than a standard Sharingan.

Thus, the Kotoamatsukami that Kimura Takuya casts without the Sharingan would only be a Pseudo-Kotoamatsukami.

It was still better to have the Sharingan; the genjutsu amplification of the Sharingan is extremely powerful, far stronger than the Illusion Eye of Kurenai Yuhi.

Kimura Takuya seriously suspected that the Yuhi Clan was a branch of the Uchiha Clan.

The Illusion Eye was merely a degraded version of the Sharingan.

Just as the Uchiha Clan was once a branch that split off from the Hyuga Clan.

Regardless, Kimura Takuya could now use Kotoamatsukami with any random Sharingan he picked up.

Even without a Sharingan, he could still pull it off.

Furthermore, he had found the energy capable of recharging Shisui's eye.

He had achieved true Kotoamatsukami freedom.

Kimura Takuya instantly felt an even greater need for negative energy.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, the fake Danzo disguised as a member of the Spark Society had already arrived at the Hokage Building.

He was instantly surrounded by the Anbu, and he offered no resistance, surrendering immediately.