"Lord Mizukage! Please have some self-respect!!"
A heart-wrenching, furious roar filled with endless despair and shame suddenly exploded in the grand banquet hall!
There sat the one-eyed veteran, Qing, in the first seat on the side.
He sprang up from the mahogany chair as if he'd been stung on the butt by a poisonous bee!
His usually serious and stern face was now flushed redder than a monkey's bottom, and the veins on his forehead were throbbing wildly.
Ao gripped her collar tightly with both hands, trembling with rage, and pointed at Mei Terumi, whose chest was almost pressed against Kenya's.
"You are now the supreme leader of the Land of Water! You are the rightful Fifth Mizukage of Kirigakure!!"
"This represents the highest dignity and prestige of tens of thousands of ninjas from the Land of Water!"
Qing's voice trembled violently with extreme grief and indignation, and spittle flew everywhere:
"How could you, in front of all the clan leaders and Anbu of the village, act like a lovesick fool, peeling shrimp and pouring wine for a boorish man from Konoha?!"
"He even... he even has the audacity to say he wants to have a child with someone?!"
"If the Third and First Third Mizukage could know this in the afterlife, they'd be turning in their graves with rage!!"
This was a heart-wrenching, elder-style reprimand.
The young Chōjūrō, who had been eating with his head down in the hall, Jonin frightened that he didn't dare to lift his head, clutching his Hiramekarei tightly and trembling.
However.
Faced with his deputy's open protest.
Mei Terumi, leaning against Kenya, her eyes sparkling, possessed an exquisitely beautiful face.
In an instant, it turned completely cold.
The gentle, spring-like waters that had filled the eyes suddenly froze, and a pair of large, shimmering eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Green."
Mei Terumi slowly turned around, her deep blue off-shoulder dress fluttering even without wind.
A wisp of hot, white mist, carrying a faint, acidic, corrosive scent, rose softly from her nail-painted fingertips.
"What... did you just say about coffin lids?"
Mei Terumi's lips curled into a chilling, sinister smile, her voice as soft as if she were whispering:
"If you feel uncomfortable with your mouth empty, I'll use my Lava Release to pour you a pot of special sour soup right now and give your gums a good wash."
"By the way..."
A dangerous glint flashed in Mei Terumi she precisely struck Ao's fatal weakness:
"I wouldn't mind sending a squad of Anbu to the Land of Hot Water to turn that blind date you secretly picked up in the hot spring town last month into a pile of mud using Boil Release."
"Hiss--!!"
Qing gasped in shock, instantly covering her mouth with both hands!
He looked like a hen being strangled, his face ashen, and he stumbled backward, finally collapsing back into his chair.
I was drenched in cold sweat and dared not utter another fart.
We can't afford to mess with them.
This domineering woman, who possesses both Lava Release and Boil Release techniques, is truly capable of melting people when she gets angry!
Kenya stood to the side, not even bothering to glance at them.
His two large, strong hands swiftly grabbed from the plate a whole three-meter-long deep-sea bluefin tuna sashimi.
In less than half a minute, he ate it all like noodles, slurping it down in one go!
Along with the thick, hard fish bones, he swallowed them with a crunching sound as they broke between his large, white teeth.
His godlike digestive system caused his abdominal muscles to gleam with a faint, dark golden light once more.
"Three more plates of grilled oysters, with extra garlic."
Kenya patted his belly, shouted at Bai, and then put the white jade pipe back into his mouth.
Qing, who was sitting to the side, kept her mouth shut.
But his eyes, hidden in the shadows, were fixed on Kenya's unseemly gluttonous eating.
The fear and apprehension in my heart did not subside; on the contrary, they grew wildly!
"Something's not right... something's really not right!"
Qing gritted her teeth and repeatedly rehearsed the scenario in her heart:
"From beginning to end, this Senju Kenya didn't show even the slightest fluctuation of a regular ninja's Chakra!"
"How could an ordinary human body possibly withstand the Three-Tails ' ferocious claw attack with one hand? How could it possibly shatter the Mangekyō Sharingan's deep Genjutsu with its bare hands?!"
According to the rules of the Shinobi World for thousands of years, everything has Chakra pathways.
Even the Senju Clan, known for their superhuman strength, and Lady Tsunade Chakra, rely on compressing their chakra into their fists for instantaneous bursts of power.
The man before them had completely violated the fundamental laws governing Chakra life forms!
"This kid... he's definitely hiding some kind of shady, heretical, and unorthodox secret technique!"
"Or perhaps it's a forbidden modification like Orochimaru's, where he transplanted alien monsters into his body!!"
Qing's intelligence-gathering instincts, typical of veteran Anbu, were fully activated.
He felt that as the last line of defense for clear-headedness in Kirigakure, he had to expose the tyrant's disguise!
We absolutely cannot allow the Land of Water, which has just survived a great calamity, to unwittingly become a vassal of the Senju Monster!
Even at the risk of being discovered by the Emperor...
Qing's eyes turned cold, and his hands, hidden beneath his wide robe and concealed by the tablecloth, began to rapidly Hand Seals with extremely small movements:
"Wei-mao-yin!"
Qing took a deep breath and silently channeled the water-attribute Chakra within his body to the right side of his head.
Hidden there lies the priceless treasure he seized from the elite members of the Konoha Hyuga Main Family during the Third Shinobi World War—
One of the three purest Dōjutsu in the entire Shinobi World, the Pureblood Byakugan!
" Byakugan... Open!!"
A low growl escaped Qing's lips.
The capillaries around his right eye socket bulged out instantly, like several green earthworms coiled around his forehead!
See through all matter! See through the flow of all Chakra channels!
Within the absolute vision of the Byakugan.
The bodies of everyone in the hall instantly transformed into semi-transparent humanoid Chakra conduit models.
Qing took a deep breath and adjusted the focus and pupil power of his Byakugan to the extreme.
It pierced through the heavy mahogany dining table in front of me, and through that thin floral shirt.
Without reservation, it pierced straight towards Senju Kenya's chest, which was as broad as a black iron mountain!
However.
Just a fraction of a second before Qing's Byakugan fell upon the core of Senju Kenya's body!
"Buzz--!!"
An indescribable terror, like Supernovas sun exploding at close range.
Without warning, it exploded deep inside Qing's right eye socket!
That's not a meridian!
That wasn't an ordinary flow of Chakra!
Under the microscopic vision of the Byakugan, every cell, every drop of blood, and every inch of muscle fiber of Senju Kenya can be seen.
They all contain the boundless, wildly passionate primordial life essence, like a vast ocean!
It was a purely physical, divine-demonic furnace, roaring and radiating terrifying energy capable of scorching mountains and boiling seas!
And just at that moment.
As Kenya devoured a raw oyster, a satisfied rumble of digestion echoed from his stomach.
The blood and energy within his body, along with his Armament Haki, rippled outwards in an extremely weak, almost imperceptible, manner, accompanied by his nervous instincts.
That tiny, overflowing surge of life.
Following the penetrating optic nerve of the Byakugan, it surged in against the current like a raging tsunami!