CH 514

Seeing the Bone Blade protruding out of the palm of Fujin’s hand, Hiruko raised an eyebrow in surprise, “Shikotsumyaku?”

Hiruko studied and researched many Kekkei Genkai when he was selecting the best five Kekkei Genkai he wanted to absorb, so he is no stranger to Shikotsumyaku of the Kaguya Clan.

Hiruko has also personally fought against the new members of the Akatsuki Organization including Kaguya Takashi in order to test their combat ability.

Although neither side did its best in the combat, it was Hiruko who suppressed the entire Kirigakure team consisting of five members all by himself. And frankly speaking, Hiruko wasn’t deeply impressed by any of the new members, except for maybe Hoshigaki Kisame…

So, even though Hiruko saw Fujin use Shikotsumyaku, he didn’t really care too much because in his opinion although Shikotsumyaku is a very practical Kekkei Genkai, it is not strong enough… and won’t change anything in this battle.

With this thought, Hiruko raised his right hand into the sky…

Instantly, a flash of lightning fell from the Dark Clouds and wrapped around Hiruko’s arm… holding the dazzling lightning that is giving out palpating feeling, Hiruko smiled and said, “If Shikotsumyaku is your only trump card, then I will be very disappointed.”

Fujin fully enhanced the sharpness of the Bone Blade in his hands, and said with an indifferent tone, “I hope you won’t regret it later.”

After speaking so, Fujin didn’t wait for Hiruko’s reply and instantly disappeared from his position.

Looking at Fujin’s figure with his Sharingan, Hiruko said with a Glasgow grin, “Heh, no matter how fast you run, will you be faster than lightning, itself?”

After speaking so, Hiruko pressed his hand on the ground.

Zizizi

Instantly, the highly concentrated Lightning Chakra wrapped around Hiruko’s arm spread in all directions like pulsating waves.

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On the sidelines

Looking at the Lightning rushing towards her face, Tsunade shouted, “Hurry up everyone, scatter!”

With Tsunade’s warning, the Konoha Shinobi on the edge of the battlefield instantly scattered like birds and beasts.

On the battlefield, Hiruko kept waving his hand, while simultaneously controlling the lightning in the Thunder Storm Clouds in the sky above Konoha.

In this scene, Hiruko was like a conductor, and lightning danced under his command… wherever he pointed his finger, pillars of lightning with voltage as high as 300 million Volts to 1 billion Volts would fall from the sky and hit that exact spot causing multiple rumbling sounds.

Considering his generous character, Hiruko wasn’t discriminated against with his attacks, although most of the attacks were directed towards Fujin, the Konoha shinobi weren’t spared either.

In this dangerous zone, where pillars of lightning rained down on the sky, Fujin was like an incredibly fast ghost… he avoided each and every attack by virtue of his extremely high speed on Byakugan’s insight.

But the Konoha Shinobi on the sidelines were not so lucky, in the fight between two extremely strong powerhouses, they suffered despite how far they were from the main battlefield.

Although Tsunade had warned everyone to scatter away, the speed, insight, and nerve reaction of most of the Shinobi is not so fast… so before they managed to retreat far away, many of them were engulfed by pillars of lightning.

“Ahhhh…” “Arghhhh…”

In the blink of an eye, the sounds of the wailing of people who were instantly killed because of being struck by the pillars of lightning started to resound all over Konoha.

Anyone who is struck by pillars of lightning would turn into a pile of smoking coke and die on the spot.

‘Art of the Raging Lion’s Mane!’

Jiraiya, who was preparing to enter the Sage Made quickly used Ninjutsu to lengthen his hair to help several Konoha Shinobi dodge the Lightning Pillars.

Smash! Boom!

Tsunade on the other side also hit the ground with her Chakra Enhanced fist.

Accompanied by roar and tremor, Tsunade’s fist hit the ground, causing rock pieces to fly into the air to protect her and Konoha Shinobi around her.

‘Eight Trigrams: Revolving Heaven!’

Watatsumi also used Revolving Heaven in order to protect several Konoha Shinobi including Kakashi, Hana, and Rabbit.

But noting that Akame was not around, Watatsumi searched for her position, then looked at Kakashi, “Kakashi…”

Kakashi nodded and instantly flashed away using Flying Raijin.

Because Akame was too busy observing the battle between Fujin and Hiruko, so she got her ankle bruised while retreating, and was a step too late to dodge the curtain of lightning spread around by Hiruko.

Now fallen to the ground with her thigh injured and bleeding, she hissed in pain and looked at the pillar of lightning descending on top of her with a horrifying expression.

Just when the pillar of lightning was about to fall on her, Kakashi appeared next to her with Flying Raijin, and immediately disappeared together with her.

Then very next instant, Kakashi and Kurenai (Akame’s mask has been removed because of being destroyed), appeared next to Watatsumi and the rest of the members of the Team – Ro who have hidden, themselves in a building after taking some measures against the Lightning Pillars.

After putting down Kurenai to let Hana heal her, Kakashi asked Watatsumi, “How’s the situation?”

Because the distance from the battlefield is too far and lightning pillars are continuously raining down, it is very difficult for Kakashi to be able to understand the exact situation since he has already lost the Sharingan, therefore, he can only rely on Kuroto (Shadow Clone) to better understand the situation on the battlefield.

Watatsumi (Kuroto’s Shadow Clone) had already activated the Byakugan and sighed, “Everyone alive has already retreated into safe zones… but as for the situation of the battlefield? I can’t make out the exact situation… too much lightning Chakra in the surroundings is affecting my visual acuity… but based on what I am able to make out, Fujin has been able to constantly dodge all the pillars of lightning… so we shouldn’t worry too much, I think, Fujin might be able to defeat Hiruko.”

After listening to Watatsumi’s analysis, Kurenai, whose injury has been treated by Hana looked at Watatsumi with a suspicious expression on her face.

Watatsumi (Hyuga Kuroto’s Shadow Clone) noticed Kurenai’s expression, and questioned, “What’s wrong? Why look at me like this? Did I say something wrong?”

Kurenai got up, and said, “Kuroto-kun, for some time, I have been feeling that something is wrong with you tonight. With your character, how can you be so peaceful and carefree even when so many strong individuals are present in Konoha?”

The Shadow Clone was speechless after hearing Kurenai, and asked, “When did I leave you with the impression that I have a reckless Character?”

Hayate (Masked removed) on the side wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, “Apart from Jiraiya-sama, and Tsunade-sama, who are barely qualified to be able to intervene in such battles, no one else can interfere… not even captain. Although Captain is a bit proud and arrogant, he is not stupid.”

Yugao (masked removed) nodded with Hayate, “Yes… Captain can still analyze the difference in strength between him and Hiruko… besides with Captain’s mentality, he would not interfere in such a battle where he stands no chance at all.”

With Hayate and Yugao’s comment, Kuroto’s Shadow Clone became more speechless, “Hey, you idiots… don’t talk nonsense… I am confident and perhaps somewhat proud, but I am ‘NOT’ arrogant! Besides, I am your captain, shouldn’t you people have some respect for me?!”

At this time, Kurenai leaned closer to Kuroto’s Shadow Clone, and whispered lightly, “Frankly explain… Kuroto-kun, do you know Futen personally?”

Ever since she has seen the pair of Byakugan in the eye sockets of Futen, Kurenai believes that Futen is most definitely a member of the Main Family of the Hyuga Clan. Kurenai’s guess is more confirmed considering the somewhat similar appearance of Kuroto and Futen.

Listening to Kurenai’s question, Kuroto’s Shadow Clone asked with a confused expression, “Who is this Futen?”

Kuroto will obviously not give Kurenai any hint about his connection with Futen.

As for the reason why he did not participate in any major battle? One reason is that he was supposed to be a reinforcement to Jiraiya and Tsunade, and another reason is that currently, he is a Shadow Clone. Being a Shadow Clone there is always a risk of disappearing. Although this risk is very low for him because of a very good supply of Chakra because of Toyotama’s presence, it doesn’t mean that the Shadow Clone won’t disappear if hit by a powerful attack.

And Kuroto’s Shadow Clone would obviously not risk it.

“Really?” – Kurenai looked at Kuroto suspiciously but did not ask anymore…

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On the battlefield.

With continuous Body Flicker, Fujin continued to flash from one position to another and arrived in front of Hiruko.

“You… you… you! Damn it!” Seeing that Fujin was not only able to dodge the rain of Lightning Pillars, but also managed to pass through the dense Lightning nets covering the entire battlefield, Hiruko had an incredible expression on his face. He couldn’t imagine the strength, speed, and insight required to be able to do such body manoeuvring in such short instances.

Fujin didn’t care about Hiruko’s shock, and without any hesitation, he waved the Bone Blade in his hand to cut down Hiruko!

Converging his surprise, Hiruko hurriedly raised his Steel Release hardened hand to barely block Fujin’s Bone Blade.

Ding…

A harsh metallic symphony resounded on the battlefield upon the collision of Bone Blade and Hiruko’s hand.

Seeing that the attack was blocked, Hiruko chuckled in disdain, “Idiot, do you really think that you can break through my Steel Release hardened armour with a mere Bone Blade…?”

He couldn’t be more familiar with such types of idiots… In the past few years, Hiruko has seen many Shinobi who tried to break through the defence of his Steel Release armour using various means… but all would result in for nought… all the attacks on his body will result in a metallic symphony, and nothing more.

However, soon his smile solidified, as Hiruko noticed that under the Sharp Bone Blade, his arm was put down without any resistance!

“What?!” Shocked, Hiruko hurriedly controlled the bandages wrapped around him to attack Fujin, at the same time, he subconsciously waved his left hand toward Fujin’s head!

Aside from the bandages that are as sharp as Swords, Hiruko’s hand that came towards Fujin shot Lightning at him which could instantly penetrate his brain and kill him in one shot.

But facing such an attack, Fujin did not dodge. Firstly, he controlled his hair and lengthened it to deal with the bandages coming towards him, next he lifted his other hand, caught the Hiruko’s attack that was coming towards his face and crushed it immediately.

Caught by Fujin, the lightning completely disappeared and only smoke was left in Fujin’s hand.