Chapter 213 The Dark Side of Karin (Part 1)
The forest on Island Turtle's back was so quiet and almost frozen in the afternoon sun.
The crown of Coniferous Forest sifts the sunlight into fine golden spots, which fall on the thick layer of pine needles and make a slight rustling sound when stepped on.
Base established by Hidden Cloud is located deep in the forest, with several wooden houses built using Island Turtle carapace scraps mixed with local wood.
The outer wall is covered with cold-resistant vines, and if you don't look closely, it almost blends into the forest.
Samui After counting the supplies, he used red chalk to mark the occupant's number on the door frame of each wooden house. The handwriting was as neat as printing.
Atsui has set up a marching stove in the open space in the center of Base. Land of Lightning's unique Mountain Vegetables Miso soup is simmering in the pot. The hot steam evaporates into white mist in the cold air of early winter.
Karin put his luggage roll on the bed board of the wooden cabin on the far side without opening it.
She stood at the door, looking through the gap of Coniferous Forest at the pale golden lake behind Base, her lenses flashing in the sun.
Waterfall of Truth!
The waterfall was looming under the afternoon sun, and the lake surface was as calm as a mirror, but her Mind's Eye of the Kagura felt a continuous Chakra pulse.
"Sister Karin, why don't you wait for brother Utakata to come with you?"
Firefly poked her head out from the wooden house next door, still holding the training clothes she had just received from Supply Station in her hand.
"No wait."
Karin pushed up his glasses and said in a calm but determined tone, "Utakata needs to adjust his condition, I don't need to, and my dark side... I probably know what I will see."
Hearing this, Yingying opened her mouth to say something, but Karin had already stepped towards the waterfall.
Her back looks particularly slender in the mottled light and shadow of Coniferous Forest, but the lines of her shoulders are straight.
Sōji stood under the Base tallest tree Spruce, Six Eyes penetrated the layers of barriers between the tree canopy and the lake, and quietly watched Karin step by step along the lakeside stone steps towards the grassland in the center of the lake.
He did not follow. Waterfall of Truth faced the trial alone, which was a road that Jinchūriki could not get around.
The grassland in the center of the lake is a natural meadow with a radius of only a few feet, surrounded by pale golden lake water, with a thin layer of light mist floating on the water.
Karin stood in the middle of the grass, took a deep breath, then sat cross-legged and formed a basic mudra with his hands.
Mind's Eye of the Kagura was in full swing, and her perception was like an invisible hand, reaching into the depths of the lake and touching the core of Waterfall of Truth.
At this moment, the lake suddenly lit up.
It was not a reflection of sunlight, but a golden light beam rising from the depths of the lake, covering the entire grassland.
Karin felt a warm and heavy force pouring in from the top of his head, sinking all the way along the meridians, and finally formed some strange resonance with Three-Tails's Chakra deep in Dantian.
Then she heard a voice, not with her ears, but directly in her mind, with Resonance echoing like the bottom of a lake.
It was her own voice, but the tone was colder, sharper, and more merciless than hers.
"You're here!"
Hearing the sound, Karin opened his eyes.
Across the grass stood a girl who looked exactly like her, with the same red hair and red eyes, the same round glasses, and the same Hidden Mist ANBU uniform.
But the whites of the other person's eyes were completely black, and there was a sarcastic arc at the corner of his mouth that she had never seen on her face before, and the eyes behind the lenses were sharper and darker.
"You know who I am!"
The dark side Karin tilted his head, his tone was not a question but a statement, "You can see me every time you look in the mirror, but you never dare to admit it."
Karin stood up and said calmly, "You are my dark side, Waterfall of Truth has embodied you."
"Dark side? What a convenient way of saying it!"
The dark side Karin walked slowly, the grass blades under her feet bent slightly when she stepped on them, and then quickly returned to their original shape after she raised her feet.
"You clearly know that I am not a dark side, I am you, the memories and thoughts that you have suppressed in your heart and never dare to bring them out. Do you want me to read them to you one by one?"
Karin did not respond. The Chakra in her body had begun to instinctively gather into her palms, but her hands were still hanging by her sides and she did not take the lead.
"Article 1...
The dark side Karin sneered and stretched out a finger, "You are afraid of death. You have been locked up in Kusagakure's cage for so long, being whipped Chakra every day, and watching your companions being dragged away one after another every day and never coming back."
"Every night you wonder whether it will be your turn next, and you are scared to death, but you don't dare to cry, because crying will make those people think you are weak, and they will get worse."
"That's all in the past!"
Karin's voice was still steady, but the fingers hanging by his side tightened slightly.
"Second, you hate Kusagakure."
"It's not ordinary hatred, it's the kind of hatred that makes you want to crush everyone who has bullied you one by one."
Dark side Karin pushed up her glasses. The reflection of the lenses obscured her expression, but the curvature of the corners of her mouth became deeper and deeper.
"Today you are Shadow Guard Captain on the surface, Uzumaki Clan's hope, and Land of Whirlpool Chief Sealing Master in the future."
"But deep down in your heart, there is always a place screaming that you want them to pay the price. This is something you dare not tell Brother Sōji, because you are afraid that he will think you are not kind."
Hearing this, Karin took a deep breath, and Hand Seals slowly raised his hands, "I know everything you said, and I have never denied it, let alone escaped...
"Ah, yes, Sōji Ni-chan...
The dark side Karin interrupted her, and her tone suddenly became frivolous and sharp. "This is the last thing you dare to face, right?"
"What do you think about Yamada Soji?"
As she spoke, she Copy Karin her usual action of pushing up her glasses, but this action seemed particularly ironic on her.
"Dependence? Gratitude? Or something else?"
"Every time I see him standing in front of the window without looking back, my heart skips a beat. Every time I take the mission document from his hand, I deliberately let my fingers touch it for one second longer, and even secretly...
"Enough!"
Karin's voice finally showed an extremely subtle tremor. It wasn't just anger, it was poking at the softest place in his heart.
She knows herself too well.
Every word spoken by the dark side was a thought that had flashed through her mind.
Those thoughts that she had never dared to say to anyone, or even to herself, were being poured out without reservation by her other mouth.
"What's more, I haven't finished speaking yet...
The smile of the dark side Karin is getting brighter and brighter, so bright that Jinping is cruel, "You are jealous of Tsunade, you are jealous of Samui..."
"They are all so plump that men can't take their eyes away. Maybe Brother Sōji likes this kind of figure? But you are just a tablet, hehehehe..."
"When I saw Samui at the dock today, my first reaction was to measure the gap between myself and her, right?"
The dark side Karin pressed his hands on his chest, smiling strangely with a hint of sarcasm.
"That's enough, they will grow up!"
Karin shouted in shame and anger, and immediately took a step forward, wrapping Chakra Enhanced Strength in his right fist and smashing it straight into the opponent's face.
"Oh, the dark side Karin chuckled, and the speed of Hand Seals's hands was amazing. She is the dark side of Karin, and naturally has all the abilities of Karin.
A circle of black seal lines spread silently from her feet, and Sealing Technique transformed into Taijutsu to accurately capture the landing point of Karin.
The Sealing Technique style suddenly tightened the moment it touched Karin's ankle, locking her movements in place.
The shock wave of strange force hit the inner wall of the sealing technique, and the entire grassland in the middle of the lake shook violently, but the sealing lines did not move at all.
"You think you can defeat me with brute force?"
The dark side Karin stood outside the sealing formation, with his hands on his hips and an undisguised sarcasm in his tone.
"I know all your techniques and every fighting habit of yours. The more excited you are, the more unstable Chakra will be and the tighter the seal will be. You should know this better than anyone else."
Karin looked down at the Sealing Technique style wrapped around her ankle. It was the Taijutsu style she learned from Qing herself.
The density even exceeds the original version.
Now this Cursed Technique is being used by his own dark side to lock himself. This feeling is really ironic.
But her expression became calmer and calmer. She said so much about the dark side, and every word struck a painful spot, but she finally understood one thing.
Those jealousies, greeds, fears, and anger are all real, they are a part of herself, and she cannot get rid of them even if she denies them ten thousand times.
From the day she walked out alive from the Kusagakure cage, these emotions have been with her and have stayed with her until now.
The dark side was not here to hurt her, it was her who hid these emotions so deeply that they turned into enemies under the light of Waterfall of Truth.
The moment she figured this out, the Chakra in her body calmed down.