"I'll kill you! I'll absolutely kill you, Namikaze Naruto!"
He had watched them die with his own eyes.
And in such a brutal manner.
The moment that scene unfolded before him,
Chojuro went completely mad.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his face had twisted into a grotesque mask.
He looked ready to tear Naruto apart with his bare hands.
Yet his fury didn't shake Naruto in the slightest.
Naruto's gaze shifted.
He didn't even wait for Chojuro to make a move.
"Whoosh!"
A flash of light streaked through the air.
Naruto appeared right beside Chojuro.
His right leg swung out in a heavy kick.
"Gah!?"
The blow landed hard.
Chojuro's face contorted.
His body doubled over.
"Wind Blade!"
Wind Style chakra gathered with equal ease.
A razor-sharp blade.
A precise strike.
"Splurt!"
From top to bottom,
the cold, deadly blade pierced straight through him.
It was swift and merciless.
"Miz...ukage..."
The attack was a fatal blow.
Chojuro had no chance to respond.
Just like Darui, who had died alongside the Fourth Raikage, the man who would have become the Sixth Mizukage in the original story had died at Naruto's hands, following his Fifth Mizukage.
The process had been utterly brutal.
The result, devastating.
The Mist Ninja had tried everything, yet couldn't even wound Naruto. More than a hundred of Kirigakure's elite forces—including the Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi—had been killed by Naruto in one fell swoop.
"The Fifth Mizukage is dead! Kirigakure and the Land of Water face only total annihilation! Surrender now, or death will be your only fate!"
Naruto had gone straight into Complete Tailed Beast Transformation. As the dazzling figure of the Nine-Tails appeared, his resounding, cold words rang across the entire battlefield.
Every gaze turned toward him.
"Whoa! Lord Snow Shadow!"
"Long live the Snow Ninja Village!"