Cleaning Out Hidden Leaf's Sewers! Kamizuki Yu: Danzo, Your VIP Trial Has Expired!

After several flickers, the two figures had moved far away from the devastated forest ravaged by Wood Release.

Under the moonlight, Shisui's face remained pale. Although the wound on his shoulder blade had been eased by medicinal pills, the blood loss and exhaustion from the fierce battle could not be dispelled so quickly.

"Advisor, this time..." Shisui's voice carried lingering fear and deep gratitude. "If you hadn't arrived in time, my eyes..."

He did not dare imagine what would have happened if Kamizuki Yu had not appeared. He would not only have lost his eyes—he might not even have survived.

Kamizuki Yu did not slow his pace, his tone calm. "Danzo has coveted the Uchiha Clan's eyes for more than a day or two. Tell me exactly what he did to you."

Shisui nodded and briefly recounted how Danzo had led Root ninjas in an ambush, how he had forced him to hand over his Mangekyo, and how he had resisted with all his might.

Danzo's undisguised greed and ruthlessness, in particular, still left Shisui shaken.

"Willing to pay any price for those eyes..." Kamizuki Yu's gaze darkened. That old dog was still as despicable as ever.

"Advisor, Danzo..." Shisui was worried. After failing this time, Danzo would never let the matter rest.

Kamizuki Yu glanced at him from the side. "Don't worry. He won't be jumping around for much longer."

He stopped and turned toward Shisui. "Go back to the Uchiha Compound first. Tell Clan Head Fugaku and Itachi everything that happened here, exactly as it occurred. Let them prepare themselves and reassure the clansmen."

Shisui froze. "Advisor, you're...?"

A sense of foreboding rose within him. Kamizuki Yu's tone was calm, but beneath that calm lay thunder waiting to erupt.

"Hidden Leaf's roots have grown too deep, and they're far too filthy." Kamizuki Yu spoke lightly. "It's time to clean them out completely."

Shisui's pupils contracted sharply. "You're going to Root's headquarters?!"

That was Hidden Leaf's darkest corner, Danzo's lair of many years. Its defenses were tight, its experts numerous, and it might even contain countless unknown forbidden techniques and traps.

"Advisor, please reconsider! Root's base is no small matter. Going alone..." Shisui urgently tried to dissuade him.

Kamizuki Yu raised a hand, cutting him off. "They're just rats hiding in the sewers. I'll be back soon."

This confidence was not arrogance. It came from absolute control over his own strength.

Shisui looked at Kamizuki Yu, opened his mouth, but ultimately could only sigh. "...Please be careful."

He knew that once Kamizuki Yu made a decision, no one could change it.

From a Root ninja who had been bound by Wood Release: Tree Binding Burial and was not quite dead yet, Kamizuki Yu easily obtained the precise location of Root's headquarters. In the instant mental illusion created by Tsukuyomi, the ninja had revealed everything.

Kamizuki Yu had no interest in wasting words on such a blindly loyal man.

"Go." Kamizuki Yu nodded at Shisui.

Shisui bowed deeply. Without further hesitation, he vanished into the night after several Body Flickers. He had to bring the news back to the compound as quickly as possible.

Kamizuki Yu watched Shisui leave, then his figure flashed as the Flying Thunder God Technique activated.

In the next instant, he appeared deep beneath Hidden Leaf Village, before a dark and oppressive entrance.

This was Root's headquarters, a place that never saw daylight and bred countless conspiracies and sins.

The entrance was heavily guarded. Several Root ninjas hid in the shadows, their auras heavy and still.

Yet in Kamizuki Yu's perception, these so-called elites were full of openings.

He did not even bother to conceal himself and simply walked forward step by step.

"Who goes there?!" The Root ninjas lurking in the darkness finally noticed him and shouted sharply as several kunai tore through the air toward him.

Kamizuki Yu did not even raise his eyes.

Kamui!

An invisible force of distortion instantly enveloped the kunai and swallowed them all.

Then he surged forward like a ghost.

Just as one Root ninja was about to form hand seals, he felt a chill across his neck, and his consciousness sank into eternal darkness.

The instant kill of Flying Thunder God combined with taijutsu was unimaginably fast.

"Enemy attack!!" A piercing alarm suddenly rang through the underground base.

The entire Root base awoke in an instant. Countless figures poured out from every corner, rushing toward the intruder with murderous intent.

Kamizuki Yu stood in the center of the passageway, expressionless.

Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!

Rumble—

The trees that erupted were smaller in scale than those in the forest earlier, yet tougher and far more piercing as they grew wildly through the confined underground space.

Thick trunks crushed against the walls, while sharp branches pierced through everything like spears.

Screams, wails, and the sound of shattering bones rang out without end.

Most Root ninjas did not even catch a glimpse of their enemy before the sudden, terrifying Wood Release strangled, skewered, and crushed them.

Blood dyed the wildly growing trees red, as well as the cold ground.

"Monster! It's a monster!"

The few Root ninjas fortunate enough to survive looked upon the hellish scene and let out despairing shrieks.

Kamizuki Yu continued forward step by step.

Every living presence that entered his sensory range was erased by one unimaginable method or another in the next instant.

Kamui warped space, reducing sturdy blast doors and defensive fortifications to nothing.

The mental purgatory created by Tsukuyomi instantly broke those strong-willed Root elites, making them slaughter one another.

Wood Release: Tree Binding Burial and Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees were used in alternation, turning entire groups of enemies into nourishment.

He was like a Grim Reaper walking the earth, efficiently and coldly harvesting lives.

Deep within the Root base, inside the central control room.

Through the massive surveillance screen, Danzo Shimura watched Kamizuki Yu advance unstoppably. He watched the Root members he had spent countless years and effort cultivating get slaughtered as easily as fragile straw.

His single eye was bloodshot, and his body trembled slightly from extreme fury and a trace of uncontrollable fear.

"Kamizuki Yu!!" Danzo ground his teeth, each word squeezed out through clenched jaws.

He had never imagined that one person could be so powerful.

That terrifying Wood Release, those bizarre space-time techniques, and those impossible-to-defend-against mental attacks...

"All ANBU, activate the final defense!" Danzo roared into the communication device. "Kill him at any cost!"

Yet from the other end of the device came only several brief screams before all sound ceased.

It was over.

Danzo's heart sank little by little into the abyss.

The underground kingdom he had meticulously built was rapidly collapsing in a way he could neither understand nor stop.

"Kamizuki Yu... what kind of monster are you..."

Fear, like an icy venomous snake, began to gnaw at his heart.

He could not sit here and wait for death!

Danzo abruptly rose to his feet and tore the bandages from his right arm, revealing the arm implanted with First Hokage cells and more than a dozen Sharingan.

An ominous chakra aura spread through the room.

"I... haven't lost yet!" Danzo's eyes twisted savagely.

As long as he still had Izanagi, he had a chance to turn things around!

Boom!

The alloy door to the control room was smashed open and torn apart by violent trees.

Kamizuki Yu walked in slowly, not a speck of dust on him, as though he had merely completed an insignificant cleanup.

"Danzo, your 'Root' doesn't seem very sturdy." Kamizuki Yu's tone held a trace of mockery.

Danzo stared at him fiercely. The Sharingan on his arm rotated one after another, radiating an eerie glow.

"Kamizuki Yu, do you think you've already won?" Danzo growled.

The next moment, he charged at Kamizuki Yu, several Sharingan on his arm closing at once!

Izanagi!

Yet Kamizuki Yu merely stood where he was, a mocking smile curling at his lips.

"The same trick won't work on me."

Just as Danzo's attack was about to strike him, Kamizuki Yu's figure rippled like water and effortlessly avoided it.

At the same time, a thick wooden spike suddenly shot up from the ground and instantly pierced Danzo's chest.

"Urgh..." Danzo lowered his head in disbelief, staring at the Wood Release piercing through his body.

He died.

Then, he came "back to life."

The effect of Izanagi activated, turning the reality of his death into a dream.

Danzo reappeared several meters away, his aura somewhat weakened. Another Sharingan on his arm had lost its light.

"How... is that possible..." Danzo's face was filled with horror. Kamizuki Yu seemed to have completely predicted his movements, even knowing exactly when Izanagi would activate.

"I told you, it's useless." Kamizuki Yu took one step and appeared before Danzo again.

"Your Izanagi forcefully twists fate at the cost of the First Hokage cells' vitality, doesn't it?" Kamizuki Yu's voice was not loud, but it entered Danzo's ears with perfect clarity. "How many more resurrections can that arm support?"

Danzo's mind shook violently. He even knew that?!

Fear completely seized his heart.

"Again!" Danzo roared, activating Izanagi once more as he tried to find that sliver of survival.

Wood Release, taijutsu, space-time ninjutsu...

Like a cat toying with a mouse, Kamizuki Yu precisely "killed" Danzo every time he attacked or tried to flee.

With every "resurrection," Danzo's aura weakened further, and the Sharingan on his arm closed one after another.

Despair engulfed Hidden Leaf's "darkness."

When the final Sharingan on his arm completely lost its luster and became an ordinary eyeball, all of Danzo's chakra was exhausted. He collapsed onto the ground, gasping heavily.

Every trump card he possessed had been spent.

Kamizuki Yu slowly walked up to him and looked down from above.

"The power of the First Hokage's cells isn't something a person like you can wield."

Before his words had even faded, several wooden strips extended from Kamizuki Yu's hand and wrapped around Danzo's arm, the one implanted with First Hokage cells and Sharingan.

"AAARGH!!" Danzo let out a tortured roar.

The power of Wood Release surged, and Kamizuki Yu forcibly tore that arm off his body!

Blood sprayed everywhere.

Kamizuki Yu casually used Wood Release: Thorn Kill to completely seal the severed arm, cutting off every connection to the chakra within it.

"As for you..."

Adamantine Sealing Chains!

Several golden chakra chains shot out from behind Kamizuki Yu, binding the gravely wounded, dying Danzo tightly and completely sealing the chakra remaining within him.

Kamizuki Yu swept his gaze over the devastated control room, as well as the massive collection of incriminating scrolls and materials gathered from throughout the base—evidence enough to nail Danzo forever to the pillar of shame.

This cancer that had lurked in Hidden Leaf's darkness for decades had finally met its end.

Kamizuki Yu lifted Danzo, bound by the Adamantine Sealing Chains, as though carrying a dead dog.

"Every Sharingan you dug out, I'll take back one by one."

Danzo was barely alive and no longer had the strength to respond.