CH 224

The sun is shining in the sky, and Michiru smiled at the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi.

“Two big brothers, you are Shinobi, and you must be hired to kidnap me, right? I’m willing to pay you twice, no, ten times the price to hire you. Please, let me go.”

“I am Prince of the Land of the Moon. I have mines at home. How about I give you ten boxes of gems?”

“As long as you let me go, I will give you all my money!!”

After Michiru, who is tied to a wooden stake, ate military ration pills, his stamina recovered, so he immediately began to save himself. attempting to raise it. He tried to bribe the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi by raising the price, but unfortunately the gains were very small.

Just when Michiru was full of despair, a wind suddenly sounded from far away.

In the next instant, the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi standing in front of him immediately took out kunai and became alert.

Then, the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi disappeared in an instant, accompanied by a clanging sound of metal clashing, and the surroundings became quiet after a while.

“What’s going on?”

“What happened?”

“Hey, where are you guys?”

Michiru shivered and shouted twice, but he didn’t get a response. He was shocked, his eyes flashed with joy, and he began to struggle frantically.

At the same time, in the dense forest in front of the temporary camp, the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi quickly chased after Kanpū’s Shadow Clone.

“Is this that Konoha’s Shinobi?”

“He’s really cunning! After we disperse with Aoi-sama, he attacked us!”

The faces of the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi were cold. The one on the left threw shuriken and kunai wildly as he ran, while the one on the right formed hand seals to use Water Release, and spat out water while running!

Kanpū’s shadow clone dodges left and right, and his speed is getting slower and slower.

“What’s going on?”

The two Kirigakure’s Shinobi glance at each other, both feeling a little strange.

They learned from Aoi that this Konoha’s Shinobi is very powerful, but why does he look a little too weak now?

At this moment, the ice crystals snowflakes fall from the sky at the front, and then spun rapidly, like countless blades volleyed and cut towards the shadow clone.

In the next instant, the shadow clone suddenly disappeared, and the countless blades fell to nothing!

“He ran away again!” ‘Aoi’ got out from the side with a look of anger, “Bastard, show yourself!!!”

“Sir!”

The two Kirigakure’s Shinobi rushed over when they saw ‘Aoi’.

“Sir, what happened just now?”

“That Konoha’s Shinobi, how did he suddenly disappear?”

The two Kirigakure’s Shinobi looked very surprised.

“This is why I said he was very difficult to deal with!”

‘Aoi’ solemnly said, “That Konoha’s Shinobi has Transparent Release Kekkei Genkai! He is an invisible person, a normal Sensor Ninjutsu couldn’t even detect him! I immediately rushed over when I heard the movement here.”

“Transparent Release Kekkei Genkai?”

“So that’s how it is!”

The two Kirigakure’s Shinobi looked at each other with solemn expressions, and said anxiously, “If this is the case, then once he assassinates us…Wait, Sir, how about Kodaiyarō?”

‘Little bastard?’ (T/N: This guy’s name in the RAW is written in Japanese, Kodaiyarō, which means small bastard.)

‘That short Kirigakure’s Shinobi has such a name?’

‘What a good name!’

‘I should have called him that before he died!’

‘Aoi’ was amused in his heart, but his face shows an arrogant and proud look: “Don’t worry, he’s behind!”

“Sir, we… may be caught in a scheme!”

The Kirigakure’s Shinobi on the left suddenly showed a surprised and angry look, “That Konoha’s Shinobi must have deliberately brought us here!”

“That’s right, he brought the three of us here, his target is… Prince of the Land of the Moon, or Kodaiyarō?”

The two Kirigakure’s Shinobi look at each other in blank dismay. They look around, but only the sea breeze was blowing all around, bringing with them the smell of the sea.

“It’s Kodaiyarō!”

‘Aoi’ turned sharply to look in the direction he came from, and said, “With his speed, he should be able to catch up with me quickly, but he hasn’t come yet…”

“Lord, let’s go support Kodaiyarō immediately!” The two Kirigakure’s Shinobi nodded at each other, and wanted to set off immediately.

‘Aoi’ hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop them, and asked: “What about Tsuki Michiru? I don’t need to say more about the importance of Tsuki Michiru. No matter what, we can’t let anything happen to him! We should divide into two groups, you two go back to watch after Tsuki Michiru, I will go save Kodaiyarō alone!”

When the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi heard this, how could they let that happen? They immediately expressed that they would assign one person to help their Lord.

‘Aoi’ righteously refused, but the two Kirigakure’s Shinobi was very insistent, so ‘Aoi’ had no choice but to accept their suggestion.

Then, he galloped back with one of the Kirigakure’s Shinobi, and the last Kirigakure’s Shinobi returned to the temporary camp.

Michiru is still tied to the wooden stake. He struggled frantically before, but the more he struggled, the tighter the rope on his body became, causing the flesh on his body to be outlined at this moment. It was uncomfortably tight!

At this time, when he saw the Kirigakure’s Shinobi coming back, he immediately demanded humane treatment.

“Hmph!”

The Kirigakure’s Shinobi knew what kind of shit Michiru was pulling when he saw his condition, and he loosened the rope on Michiru’s body with a gloomy expression.

“Big brother, why are there fewer and fewer of you?” Michiru said in a somewhat pleasing manner.

“Of course it’s because… eh?”

The Kirigakure’s Shinobi frowned. At this moment, it finally dawned to him that the development of the situation seemed a little abnormal!

‘That Konoha’s Shinobi, obviously only had one person, but he killed Sato and Takayanagi and the others successively. Counting them down, three people have already died, and it is very likely that Kodaiyarō has been assassinated too!’

‘This is too unusual. Even for a Shinobi who is proficient in assassination, it is impossible to kill four Chunin in such a short time!’

Although his Lord said that Konoha’s Shinobi had the Transparent Release Kekkei Genkai, he still did not want to believe it.

And for some unknown reason, a strong ominous premonition suddenly surged in his heart at this time, so he first knocked Michiru out, and then created a water clone and ordered it to stay here, while his main body quietly hid in a knee-length weeds behind.

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Time passed, and while the Kirigakure’s Shinobi was anxiously waiting, a man covered in blood suddenly emerged from the dense forest.

Standing in front of the wooden stake, the water clone looked intently, and it is none other than his Lord, Aoi!

He took two steps forward and looked at him in surprise: “Sir, why are you alone? Where are Kodaiyarō and the others? You, you…”

“Sorry, I was careless!”

‘Aoi’ showed a grief and indignant expression and seemed to have made an unforgivable mistake.

“You… are you really Aoi-sama?” The water clone looked at the other party while trembling.

“What nonsense are you talking about! Of course I am… Aoi himself!”

‘Aoi’ was furious, then blushed, and a moment later, he finally squeezed out the slightest ice crystal snowflakes, as if he had exhausted his Chakra!

Seeing the Ice Release, the Kirigakure’s Shinobi he had exhausted, ‘It is Ice Release. He is indeed Aoi-sama!’

But soon after, he suddenly remembered that every time before an accident happened, his Lord seemed to use Ice Release, as if he was silently telling them, ‘I am Aoi’, and then… there would be accidents!

‘Did Aoi-sama betray the village?’

“No, that’s impossible! I don’t believe it!!”

Aoi’s father is Yuki Clan’s Clan Head!

‘Anyone can betray the village, but he can’t!’

The Kirigakure’s Shinobi looked unwilling, and looked a little eagerly at ‘Aoi’, and said: “Sir, you…”

Just as the Kirigakure’s Shinobi was about to speak, there was a kunai attacking from behind, and directly stab him from the back.

In the next instant, the Kirigakure’s Shinobi’s body turned into water and fell to the ground!

“Water clone?”

‘Aoi’’s expression changed slightly upon seeing this.

“He actually noticed it in advance?” Kanpū’s shadow clone also showed his figure, and looked towards ‘Aoi’, “Can you sense him?”

‘Aoi’ immediately formed hand seal to use the Sensor Ninjutsu he collected before. With the rapid spread of the sensing range, he soon discovered that the Kirigakure’s Shinobi was running frantically towards the distance at a very fast speed!

“Chase him!”

‘Aoi’ and Kanpū’s shadow clone immediately chased after him.

But their temporary camp was very close to the shore, so after just a few minutes, the Kirigakure’s Shinobi has already reached the sea, and then use Water Release to leave directly.

“It’s going to be troublesome now.” ‘Aoi’ and the shadow clone stood on the shore, frowning, ‘Now that the Kirigakure’s Shinobi ran away, the information of my Ice Release and Transparent Release…’

“Don’t worry, don’t forget that your current identity is Yuki Aoi!”

The shadow clone spoke calmly, then he said with a low voice, “In the eyes of this Kirigakure’s Shinobi, it is Aoi who betrayed Kirigakure and colluded with Konoha’s Shinobi to assassinate his companions. He would never have thought that you, who can Ice Release, and I, who can use Transparent Release, are the same person!”

‘Aoi’, or rather Kanpū nodded thoughtfully, and then he showed a rather exhilarating smile: “And in this way, ‘Aoi’’s identity can be used by me!”

After that, he created shadow clone with Ice Release. With this, he can use Aoi’s identity to act!

“The name Yuki Aoi doesn’t sound good!”

The shadow clone’s eyes emitted cold glow, and the corners of his mouth formed a cold arc, “Why don’t you call me Yuki Hyōketsu!” (T/N: He called himself Hanbing, which means Ice in Chinese. So I thought it would be cooler to call him Hyōketsu.)