CH 498

On the battlefield.

In order to stop Satori from continuing to advance into the hinterlands of the village, Fujin used Magnet Release to fly in the air and started fierce air combat with Satori.

Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh

One after another, two shadows that were constantly entangling each other flew from one position to another while attacking and dodging each other’s attacks.

In terms of body size, Fujin is naturally very small when compared to Satori who is as big as Gamabunta.

But if it’s about fighting ability, momentum, and flying speed, Fujin, who has Iron Sand Wings acting as an extension of himself is far superior compared to Satori.

However, as Fujin had guessed, the first shop he got on Satori was really just a lucky shot, because after that no attack from Fujin managed to land on Satori.

At this time, the golden-orange hue of the setting sun has completely disappeared, the stars have started to appear in the night sky, and a gloomy aura has enveloped the entire village that is filled with the strange and maddening laughter of Satori as well as the sound of Iron Sand constantly whistling around.

Although Fujin has not been able to subdue Satori as of yet, he is not too worried… in fact, his constant entanglement with Satori has allowed most of the villagers to successfully enter the refugee shelters, of course, this does not mean that there are no casualties, those whose minds were affected by Satori and the Box of Ultimate Bliss have already lost themselves and are causing chaos, so the wailing and shouting on the streets are still there.

At this moment, Fujin flew forward at a high speed and crossed his hands.

Under the control of Fujin’s Magnet Release Chakra, Iron Sand around him was divided into dozens of groups and swept toward Satori from several different directions… These several different groups extended forward waving an endless giant net to trap Satori within it just like a Fish.

“It’s useless…. Useless, it’s all useless!” Satori let out a burst of frantic and mocking laughter, at the same time he avoided the range of the Endless Iron Sand net with ghostly speed, and slippery and agile movements… just like a… just like a loach in the lake.

Of course, in doing so, it had to lower its altitude and passed by a wide long street, where someone was already waiting to vent her anger at him.

“It’s now!” as she shouted, Tsunade-hime leaped up from a semi-destroyed tall building and with all her strength she slammed her Chakra Enhanced fist at Satori who was coming towards her from the front.

Satori wasn’t afraid, as he had already sensed her bloodlust, so the moment he reached closer to Tsunade he just tilted his body slightly and brushed past Tsunade at an impossible angle… and continued towards the end of the street while still laughing wildly.

Tsunade wasn’t surprised that her attack was easily dodged, instead, she controlled her momentum and while falling toward the ground, she looked backward.

At this time, the huge figure of Gamabunta appeared at the end of the street at an extremely fast speed.

And with Satori rushing towards him, Gamabunta leaped forward to attack him with his Tanto.

The metallic Blade of Tanto that was illuminated by the surrounding fire was slashed at a lightning-fast speed.

Slash…

The speed of Slash was so fast that many Konoha Jonin in the surroundings were unable to see it clearly, and the power within the slash was so high that it literally released high-pressure air cuts toward Satori… and slashed towards him with a thunderous force.

But even such a fast slash proved to be completely useless as it was easily avoided by Satori because he sensed Gamabunta’s Bloodlust.

However, Gamabunta wasn’t finished yet, he suddenly opened his mouth and shot his long tongue forward… the tongue was also extremely fast and struck Satori.

“It’s useless, I can read everything you want to try!” chuckled Satori with a disdained tone of voice, and suddenly rose up to avoid the tongue attack of Gamabunta that he had long since expected.

But Gamabunta is also a shrewd one, he did not retract back the tongue immediately, instead continued to extend it to the maximum limit, revealing the figure of Jiraiya who was hidden on the tip of the tongue.

The current Jiraiya has already entered his imperfect Toad Sennin Mode, with several Toad Characteristics on him along with Toad Fukasaku and Toad Shima standing on both sides of his shoulders.

Using the momentum given to him by Gamabunta’s tongue, Jiraiya leaped further and the Chakra Orb in his hand grew bigger and bigger as he attacked Satori.

‘Senpo: Choodama Rasengan!’ (Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan!)

Satori did the same thing as always, he flapped his pair of wings and while firing countless sharp feathers towards Jiraiya and Tsunade, he soared high into the sky, easily avoiding Jiraiya’s attack.

“So, this series of attacks was also completely useless?” muttered Fujin with a thoughtful look on his face.

Jiraiya and Tsunade cooperated together to carry out a series of four-stage attacks, and each of the four moves can be said to be an extremely dangerous one, especially Jiraiya’s last blow using the ‘Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan’ that he used as a surprise move while hiding inside the mouth of Gamabunta.

But even this set of well-thought-out attacks proved to be completely useless, and still didn’t manage to touch Satori.

While Fujin had a thoughtful look on his face as he observed the unscrupulously laughing Satori, Jiraiya and Tsunade had solemn expressions on their faces.

To deal with Satori, one has to become emotionless and thoughtless, there should be no emotions such as fear, anxiety… Nor should the person attacking Satori should have any malicious intentions towards him that would give out blood lust, otherwise the attack would be easily perceived by Satori and he would be able to dodge it.

In other words, the attacker should be either thoughtless, or they should not fear it, nor they should have any intentions of inflicting damage on him.

Fujin is naturally not afraid of Satori, but he can’t attack Satori without any blood lust. That’s just impossible unless you care about him or love him. Fujin neither cares about him, nor does he love him, so obviously he can’t fake those emotions. At the same time, his mental state has also not grown enough to be completely thoughtless while attacking… therefore, even he has not been able to hurt Satori.

Both Jiraiya and Tsunade were angered as they helplessly watched Satori raging all over the Village; laughing and mocking others like a devil, sometimes shooting his razor feathers to kill the evacuating civilians, and other times he would throw the civilians inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss to make them puppets of the box. They want to stop him but are unable to, so they can’t help but get more and more angered.

On the other hand, Fujin’s mind is relatively stable… because he is not deeply affected by the death of Villagers and also understands the true horror of Satori better than the Sannin.

Even in the Canon, all the people fighting against Satori at the Hozuki Castle were elites personally led by Tsunade-hime. Elite Ninjas like Hatake Kakashi, Might Guy, Shizune, Yamato, and Sai along with the grown-up Konoha-11 worked together with the Jinchuriki of Hachibi, Killer Bee, and yet proved to be helpless against Satori.

Had it not been for Uzumaki Naruto to figure out the weakness of Satori, and using his Talk no Jutsu Mui, to inspire Mui into exerting his utmost effort in using the ‘Secret Fire Style: Celestial Prison Jutsu’ on Satori to confine him, defeating Satori would have been an almost impossible task for anyone alive at that time.

But even while doing so, Naruto was mortally wounded and would have certainly died if not for the sacrifice of Ryuzetsu by using the ‘Dragon Life Reincarnation’, to transfer her life force to Naruto in order to save him… and had she not done that, the soul of Rikudo Sennin might have personally made a visit to save Naruto’s life.

So, all this shows just how tricky Satori really is… of course, all of this does not imply that there is no method in Fujin’s hands to solve him… and he has been trying to figure out if that method would work.

At this time, Satori landed on top of the Box of Ultimate Bliss and said, “You people can never imagine the world inside this Box… there is nothing but suffocating darkness inside it… it’s maddening… it’s sickening… no matter how you tried resisting it, there was no resistance, I tried destroying this box from the inside and escaping it, but couldn’t… then slowly and steadily my will to struggle was corroded and crushed… And finally, I gave up, then when I killed Otou-San, I finally felt relief and all shackles were gone… nothing can restrain me anymore… there is no hope, no relief… only an endless nightmare…”

Listening to Satori’s words, Fujin’s gaze was condensed, and he muttered to himself, “Sure enough, as this one guessed… he is indeed Muku, the son of Mui… which means he does have a few weaknesses…! Now if only this one’s plans work as this one thinks it would.”

…

At the cliff where Mui opened the Box of Ultimate Bliss

Caw caw caw caw caw

Accompanied by the sound of cawing, several crows flew through the forest and landed on the ground near Mui who was lying in a pool of blood.

Not long after, Iron Sand flew over like a swarm of bees and gradually took the form of Fujin.

“Phew… finally found him…” muttered Fujin (Iron Sand Clone) with a relieved breath.

As soon as Fujin discovered that the monster attacking the village is Satori, he separated an Iron Sand Clone and assigned it the task of finding the location where the Box of Ultimate Bliss was opened and the person who opened the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

His intentions in doing so were quite simple in fact. If the Box of Ultimate Bliss was opened by the same person as in the Canon that is Mui, and the sacrifice is the same that is Muku, then Fujin can use Mui to solve the issue of Satori.

But if the situation is different, and the person who opened the Box of Ultimate Bliss is different, and the sacrifice is different then Fujin’s Clone had to find the person who opened the Box to deal with Satori.

The Box of Ultimate Bliss may be the ultimate during the era of Rikudo Sennin, but it is just a weapon, after all, and Satori is nothing more than a puppet of the Box, so there must be someone controlling the Box. And as long as the person controlling the Box is found, dealing with the situation will become quite easy.

And now that he has found Mui, dealing with Satori is just a matter of time, as soon as Mui is healed, Satori can be easily dealt with.