Playing Too Far! Alone in a Room with the Demoness

Qian Ye took a deep breath, steeled himself, and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Pakura! What happened last night was my fault!"

"I shouldn't have run off by myself and left you alone in the middle of nowhere!"

His voice was full of vigor, chakra carrying it across the entire right-wing battlefield.

The battlefield fell silent, leaving only the sound of the wind.

Choza Akimichi, who had been about to swing his club, jerked his hand. His custom iron club, weighing several hundred pounds, slammed down onto his own foot.

He sucked in breaths of pain but did not dare make a sound, staring wide-eyed at Qian Ye.

The Hidden Leaf shinobi behind the barricades went completely wild.

"Holy shit! Alone in the middle of nowhere! What the hell did they do last night?!"

"Is this kid tired of living? He dared shout something like that in front of both armies?!"

"The War God is awesome! He even dared provoke Sunagakure's hero!"

The assault unit on Sunagakure's side was thrown into even greater chaos.

Several Chunin exchanged looks, no longer knowing where to stab with the kunai in their hands.

"Lady Pakura... was really alone in the middle of nowhere with that Hidden Leaf Genin..."

"Shut up! Do you want to die?!"

In midair, Rasa stood atop a Gold Dust Disc and nearly fell headfirst from it.

He looked down at Pakura, his mind buzzing.

What the hell was that woman doing?!

Pakura's entire body trembled.

With rage.

She had lived for over twenty years, yet had never suffered such humiliation.

The four bright white fireballs around her let out piercing shrieks as their owner lost control of her emotions, while the surrounding air crackled from the heat.

"I'll burn you to ashes!"

Pakura thrust both hands forward.

Four streaks of bright white light, carrying temperatures hot enough to destroy everything, shot straight at Qian Ye's face.

Qian Ye had prepared for this. Chakra surged into the meridians of his legs.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

He stomped the ground ten times in rapid succession. Qian Ye became an afterimage and slipped through the gaps between the fireballs.

Boom!

The spot where Qian Ye had been standing was blasted into a pit more than ten meters deep. The earth had fused into glass, and wisps of blue smoke still rose from its edges.

Qian Ye felt a searing pain across his back.

He had come within a hair's breadth of meeting the Sage of Six Paths.

But this time, his legs did not go weak and floaty like they had last night.

The vitality brought by the Sea King meat still surged through his body, making him feel as though he had endless strength.

This crazy bitch had lost her mind!

Qian Ye turned and ran, heading straight for the C4 Defense Zone.

Even as he ran, he did not forget to look back and keep taunting her, determined to hold her aggro.

"Why are you being so unreasonable?! I already admitted it in front of both armies!"

"What more do you want?! Do you expect me to marry into Sunagakure?!"

"I'm a Hidden Leaf man in life and a Hidden Leaf ghost in death!"

Pakura was so furious that she nearly spat blood.

"Shut up!"

Scorch Release: Great Steaming Murder!

A skyful of fireballs rained down, covering Qian Ye's escape route.

Qian Ye weaved left and right through the rain of fire.

Thanks to the nourishment from those five pounds of Sea King meat last night, his muscle fibers had grown much tougher, and his chakra flowed more smoothly as well.

Repeated use of Geppo would originally have caused severe muscle strains, but now he could barely withstand the burden.

Still, the heat made him miserable.

Part of his hair had been scorched away, his back burned painfully, and the legs of his newly changed pants had been burned off by another large section.

Crazy woman! You're really trying to kill me!

Qian Ye pulled a revolver from his Ninja Tool Pouch, turned around, and fired two shots.

Bang! Bang!

The large-caliber bullets pierced through the heat haze and flew straight at Pakura.

Pakura did not even dodge. A shield of fire appeared before her, and the bullets struck it, melted into iron, and dripped onto the sand.

"That's all you've got?"

Pakura sneered. Chakra erupted beneath her feet, and her speed suddenly increased.

Qian Ye's heart skipped a beat.

The distance was closing.

Once a Shadow Level powerhouse like Pakura got serious, her speed was not something a mere Genin like him could match.

Fuck, I'd played this too far!

Qian Ye gritted his teeth and used Geppo again, forcibly opening up some distance.

If this had been last night, his legs would probably have been crippled after that burst.

But now, he could still grit his teeth and keep running.

He put away the revolver, pulled out two Explosive Tags, tied them to kunai, and threw them backward.

Boom! Boom!

The smoke from the explosions briefly blocked Pakura's vision.

Taking the chance, Qian Ye slid into a narrow canyon.

He had reached the C4 Defense Zone.

Towering rock walls stood on both sides, creating enclosed terrain with only two exits, one in front and one behind.

Qian Ye rushed inside, braced himself against the rock wall, and panted heavily.

Pakura landed in the canyon right after him, blocking the entrance.

"Run. Why aren't you running anymore?"

Pakura advanced step by step. The fireballs around her lit up the entire canyon, and rocks along the walls began cracking from the heat.

Qian Ye straightened and shouted toward the top of the canyon.

"Barrier Team! Move!"

Qian Ye's cry was heartrending. He poured all his chakra into his throat, shaking loose rocks from both sides of the canyon.

The moment his voice fell, four blinding flashes of purple light burst from the canyon's four corners.

Four Hidden Leaf ANBU wearing animal masks appeared out of thin air. They formed hand seals and slammed their palms against the ground.

"Four Violet Flame Formation! Rise!"

Four walls of purple flame erupted from the ground and rapidly spread along the canyon walls, shooting into the sky. The violet flames met in midair, forming a massive sealed barrier.

Qian Ye was already sprinting toward the exit at the other end of the canyon.

Just as he came within less than three meters of it.

Boom!

A wall of purple fire rose directly before his nose, brutally cutting off his path.

Qian Ye's scalp went numb. He planted both feet, poured chakra into his soles, and carved two deep furrows into the ground before barely stopping ten centimeters from the violet fire wall.

The heat radiating from the wall burned several stray hairs on his forehead into ash.

Qian Ye froze.

He stared at the purple fire wall before him, then looked at the ANBU outside it, still maintaining the hand seals for the formation.

"Hey!" Qian Ye slapped at the air in front of him and shouted outside. "I'm not out yet! Didn't you close it too early?!"

The barrier blocked sound, so the ANBU outside could not hear him.

Qian Ye went completely numb.

He turned around, pressed his back against the purple fire wall, with nowhere left to retreat.

The canyon had not been large to begin with, only about a hundred meters long and wide. Now that the Four Violet Flame Formation covered it, it had become an airtight box.

Pakura stood less than twenty meters from Qian Ye, four bright white fireballs slowly revolving around her.

Seeing his furious, exasperated expression, she let out a cold laugh.

"To win, you even locked your own people inside with me."

"The Hidden Leaf really hasn't changed at all."

Qian Ye forced a smile uglier than crying and raised both hands.

"Big sis, look, we're both victims now."

"That old bastard Orochimaru screwed me over too."

"How about we sit down and rest for a while? In three minutes, when the barrier opens, you take the broad road and I'll take the narrow bridge?"