Victory, and the Kubikiribōchō He'd Longed For
"Surrender, Zabuza."
Otherwise, you and your companions will all perish here today!
At that moment, Feng's voice rang in Zabuza's ears. After walking for a while, he finally arrived at the center of the battlefield.
Ke Feng clearly persuaded the wrong person to surrender.
How could someone as ruthless and iron-blooded as Zabuza, Kunai with a kunai in his mouth even after losing both arms, possibly surrender?
so...
"Hateful!"
Faced with Feng's attempt to persuade him to surrender, Zai Buzan's eyes Zabuza bloodshot, and he roared as he launched an attack on Feng.
He knew he was doomed, but he would not allow the enemy to humiliate him.
"I am Zabuza the Demon!"
With unstoppable momentum, he wielded the Kubikiribōchō, channeling all his Chakra into it. This strike embodied all his power and resentment.
Feng's gaze remained calm, neither flinching nor avoiding, and he made no apparent movement.
But in an instant, crimson Chakra surged from his body, and the Basic Susanoo surrounded and protected him, while the Susanoo's hands Zabuza their swords at Zabuza.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud was heard, followed by two more sounds.
"Clang~" "Pfft~"
The Kubikiribōchō was stuck in the ground, now a true broken sword, severed in two.
Zabuza spit out blood, his body would fly out like a kite with a broken string, crash heavily to the ground, twitch a few times, and then stop moving.
With Zabuza's death, the annihilation of the Kirigakure Ninja on Demon Island accelerated, and the battle ended in no time.
Of the three hundred Kirigakure Ninja, fewer than one hundred survived. Of those who did survive, most were captured after being seriously injured, and only a small number surrendered voluntarily.
In this respect, they truly embody the warlike yet indomitable spirit of Kirigakure.
After the battle, Feng ignored his men who were cleaning up the battlefield and escorting the prisoners from Kirigakure.
Instead, he calmly took out a communicator that looked like a Bluetooth headset from his person and turned it on.
"This is over. Let Zabuza's men return to Kirigakure."
Remember to have him relay a message back: the Merchant Ninja Village is ready to challenge the Kirigakure again at any time.
Feng smiled and spoke into the communicator.
A moment later, Uchiha Bosawa, who was carrying the same communicator, received Feng's message on a ship not far from Demon Island, and immediately smiled.
He turned to look at the Kirigakure ninja, Meito, who had also heard Feng's words through the leaked audio from the communicator. Meito's face was deathly pale, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
"Hey, Kirigakure, did you hear that? It's our Merchant Ninja Village that won!"
Now, get out of here. If you're not happy, you're welcome to come back and die again.
"Impossible! This is impossible!"
Lord Zabuza lose, much less lose to a bunch of Nameless who popped up from some obscure corner!
Meito simply couldn't believe that his own Kirigakure, one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages in the Ninja World, had actually lost to the small Merchant Ninja Village in a fair fight.
Especially since the leader of his team was a powerful figure whom he recognized and followed, the village's infamous "Demon" Zabuza.
"Heh, don't believe me? You watched the whole thing yourself."
Uchiha Bosawa's lips curled into a slight sneer. After speaking, he ignored the other person and turned to leave.
The ship the two were on wasn't far from Demon Island. Although they couldn't see the specific battle situation on the island clearly, they could still vaguely see and hear the Kakkō and booming sounds.
With the abilities of a ninja, through careful observation and analysis, one can still guess some of the general idea.
Therefore, Bosawa believed that the other party would make their own judgment and did not need him to explain further.
He had only recently occupied the Sea Country, and he was responsible for the four islands of the Sea Country entrusted to him by his clan leader. He had many things to do and no time to chat idly with others.
On the other side, Demon Island.
After relaying the news of the victory back, Feng casually put the communicator away.
These are a few qualified finished products that the Research Department has finally managed to replicate after two years of hard work, using the communicators and computers brought back from Konoha as samples.
Currently, within Feng's sphere of influence, it is still a rare item, so naturally it is carefully kept.
As for when it can be as widespread as it was in his previous homeland, Feng estimates that it will be around the time he leads the Ninja World to catch up with his homeland in the early 21st century, when Naruto: Shippuden begins in a few years.
But right now, he had something more important to him: the Kubikiribōchō he had just captured, which was now broken in two.
Because of the knife's regeneration mechanism, Feng had some special thoughts about it even before he transmigrated.
So after he actually traveled to the Ninja World, he always longed for this great sword.
After mastering the "Ninja Art: Sword-Control Art," his desire for it intensified.
Now with the Kubikiribōchō in hand, Feng held one section in each hand and, without hesitation, slashed at the corpses of the Kirigakure Ninja on the ground, making them drink blood together.
He wanted to see exactly how the Kubikiribōchō would recover after absorbing blood.
There are essentially two possible outcomes. One is quite simple: after the damaged Kubikiribōchō absorbs blood, it can be reassembled and restored to its original state through the activation of a special spell or some other condition. In other words, the Kubikiribōchō was broken in two, will eventually be restored to a complete Kubikiribōchō.
If that's the case, then the fate of the Kubikiribōchō will be to be sent by Feng to the Land of Crafts, where it will be modified into Broad-Bladed Horse-Cutting Sword while retaining its blood-draining and regeneration properties, and then become Feng's personal flying sword for his "Ninja Art: Sword-Control Art".
In another scenario, the two pieces of the Kubikiribōchō absorb blood and then regenerate, becoming two intact Kubikiribōchō.
But that will be very different.
This was also the situation Feng most hoped for, because in that case, the Kubikiribōchō would not be an ordinary Ninja Blade, but a national treasure, or even the number one divine weapon in the Ninja World.
As for why?
Heh, one Kubikiribōchō can be perfectly replicated into two after killing a few people (refer to the anime's elaboration on chapter 523 of the manga, where Zabuza killed two people, and the Kubikiribōchō recovered about one-tenth of its length after absorbing some blood). Kill a few more, and you have four, and then...
Leaving aside the value of the Kubikiribōchō as a sword itself, what benefits would one gain from obtaining countless Kubikiribōchō?
Even considering only the material of the blade, obtaining a Kubikiribōchō means obtaining 30 kilograms of special metal. So, the blood of several people is approximately 30 kilograms of special metal.
Given this characteristic, there's no need for deliberate killing; Feng only needs to cut the Kubikiribōchō in two or hand it over to his executioners to carry out the executions of death row inmates.
Or he could have his subordinates take it to kill some bandits and outlaws to maintain order;
Alternatively, they could regularly organize their staff to donate blood.
This process of restoring and then dividing the metal, followed by restoring it again, in an endless cycle, would have allowed them to acquire metal at a speed that far surpassed that of all those in the Ninja World who made their living through mining and smelting, before the advent of industrial assembly lines.
Moreover, such Kubikiribōchō can be made of materials that are almost comparable to shape Memory Metal and Lossless Metal, and can be used in industries such as construction, medicine, industry, and aerospace, playing a vital role.
However, there's no need to climb the technological ladder, build production lines, or painstakingly synthesize Memory Metal and Lossless Metal. After all, the same material used in the 30-kilogram Kubikiribōchō only requires some blood.