"Aiya!" Rondo was so frightened by Kaoru's card that he fell to the ground, his whole body trembling uncontrollably!
"Uchiha Kaoru, you really have the heart to betray the village. Why are you attacking our own people!" Seeing Kaoru do this, Mitokado Homura said those words in a moment of agitation.
"I really have the heart to betray the village? Mitokado Homura is suspecting me?!" This question flashed through Kaoru's mind, but he quickly dismissed it. Now wasn't the time to worry about that.
"Teacher Kurenai, these four ninjas can only be temporarily left to you to deal with alone!" Kaoru shouted towards Yūhi Kurenai, and then his mind stirred!
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
His figure instantly disappeared from the spot. The card stuck in the tree trunk emitted a burst of light, and Kaoru had already appeared beside Rondo!
"What do you want to d...?"
Before Rondo could finish his trembling words, Kaoru directly picked him up in one swoop. Then, he pushed off with his feet and jumped high into the air!
And almost as soon as Kaoru left the ground, the ground where Rondo had been standing, which was full of fallen leaves, suddenly stirred up a vortex!
This vortex came unexpectedly. In the blink of an eye, it sucked half of the bodies of the two Leaf Village Chūnin who were still standing on the ground beneath the surface!
"This is... Ah!!!"
The two Leaf Village Chūnin let out a painful scream. A large amount of blood spurted out from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses. Then, the two people's bodies tilted, and their entire bodies were cut in half at the waist.
Instantly, intestines and internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and a large amount of blood sprayed on the ground, a strong bloody smell permeating the forest.
A tragic death! An absolutely tragic death!
"Ahhh!!! A demon, he's a demon!!!" At this time, Rondo had been taken by Kaoru to a tree trunk. He looked at the deaths of the two Leaf Village Chūnin below and screamed frantically, tearing his heart and lungs.
"Just as I thought, this Demon-Faced Rakshasa can infiltrate the ground to carry out assassinations. However, this method is too cruel. No wonder he's called a Rakshasa..."
At this time, Kaoru's heart was also heavy. The reason he wanted to save Rondo was because Rondo was Yūhi Kurenai's protection target. Rondo's death would mean Yūhi Kurenai's mission failure. Yūhi Kurenai was his teacher, and he naturally didn't want this kind of thing to happen.
"This Uchiha brat has actually learned the Flying Thunder God Technique. It seems that Sarutobi Hiruzen values him quite a bit!" Mitokado Homura, who wasn't far away, also had a face full of fear.
At this time, after witnessing the Demon-Faced Rakshasa's killing methods, he also quickly found a tree and climbed up. Although the Demon-Faced Rakshasa's target wasn't him, it was always good to be prepared.
"However, I did wrongly accuse him. It seems that he wants to save Rondo's life and doesn't want to attack his own people. I just didn't expect Rondo to be hunted down by such a terrifying guy. If I had known, I wouldn't have walked with this guy..." Mitokado Homura hugged a tree trunk, secretly regretting it.
On the surface of the stream, Yūhi Kurenai was fighting four Chūnin alone. Two of these four Chūnin were releasing ninjutsu from afar, while the other two were wielding swords and engaging in close combat. However, Yūhi Kurenai was a genjutsu-type ninja. At this time, she was transforming flower petals to confuse the enemy, while her real body stayed in a hidden place, waiting for an opportunity to move. It seemed that she wouldn't be at a disadvantage in the short term.
"Your speed is beyond my expectations. It seems you're a troublesome brat..." After killing the two Leaf Village ninjas, the Demon-Faced Rakshasa's head emerged from the bloody ground. He looked at Kaoru and Rondo above and said coldly.
"You're not weak either. You killed two Chūnin in the blink of an eye." Kaoru smiled, and then his expression changed slightly: "Eh, that's not right..."
He stopped paying attention to the Demon-Faced Rakshasa and instead tilted his head to look at Rondo to the side: "This Demon-Faced Rakshasa can kill two Chūnin in the blink of an eye. With this level of assassin, is this still a B-rank mission..."
Saying this, Kaoru's voice turned cold: "You wouldn't have deliberately lied about the true situation when you posted the mission, would you?"
"I... I don't know what you're talking about?" Rondo didn't dare to look at Kaoru's gaze. He shrank to the side, muttering softly.
"If you don't tell the truth, I'll throw you to the ground right now!" Kaoru said calmly.
"No, no! I'll tell you!" With Kaoru's slight threat, Rondo was immediately frightened out of his wits: "Not long ago, I offended a powerful guy. He posted a wanted order in the black market, but I didn't expect that it would be the Demon-Faced Rakshasa who took on this business. I just wanted to save some money, so I posted a B-rank mission..."
"You're really a bastard!" Kaoru cursed in a low voice. He was supposed to be a tycoon, but he was willing to risk his life to save money. If it weren't for him, Kaoru really didn't know if Yūhi Kurenai could cope with this Demon-Faced Rakshasa.
"Now I'm upgrading this mission to A-rank. You must pay 300,000 Ryo for this!" Kaoru said. He wasn't greedy for money, but Kaoru was someone who didn't want to suffer losses. He was facing this kind of guy for no reason, which made him somewhat unhappy. He had to ask for more compensation for Yūhi Kurenai.
"Why? You can just upgrade it as you please? Lord Mitokado told you to protect me well. Are you not even listening to his words?" Rondo shouted excitedly, still unwilling to pay a single penny more.
"Hmph!" Kaoru sneered, and then stared into Rondo's eyes: "Do you think I would listen?"
Seeing Kaoru's face that was smiling but not smiling, Rondo completely succumbed. "Okay, okay, I'll give you 300,000 Ryo, as long as you can guarantee that I live!" Rondo blurted out these words. He was very clear about the fate of those two Leaf Village Chūnin. He didn't want to be directly cut in half at the waist by the Demon-Faced Rakshasa.
"Deal." Kaoru responded softly, and then looked at the Demon-Faced Rakshasa below.
"It seems I can earn a lot of money from you." Kaoru said indifferently.
"You ignorant brat, your arrogance will bring you to your doom!" The Demon-Faced Rakshasa said in a sinister voice, and then his head disappeared into the ground again.
"He's disappeared again..." Rondo sighed in a low voice.
Kaoru narrowed his eyes, paying attention to all movements below.
"Hiss..." A subtle, almost imperceptible sound rang out. Kaoru looked up, and his Sharingan captured a hairline crack, like a silk thread, rapidly spreading upwards from the roots of the tree along the trunk, and quickly approaching the branch where Rondo and he were.
"Danger!" Kaoru's figure moved again, grabbing Rondo next to him and directly jumping away from the tree. "Swish!" A silver scythe suddenly flew out from the trunk of this tree, slashing towards Kaoru and the two.
This scythe was about two meters long, and it shone with silver light under the afterglow of the setting sun. The strangest thing was the width of the blade, which was barely wider than a hair, and it could be said to be quite sharp.
"Just as I thought, there's something fishy!" Kaoru casually threw out a handful of shuriken, sweeping towards this menacing scythe.
"Naive!" The Demon-Faced Rakshasa sneered from beneath the ground. His scythe was called "Cicada Wing," famous for its blade as thin as a cicada's wing. He had already calculated the angle, and his scythe was slashing vertically towards Kaoru. The blade was very thin. In Kaoru's eyes, it was just an extremely thin line slashing towards him. How could shuriken hit a thin line?
However, in the next second, the Demon-Faced Rakshasa couldn't laugh anymore. He saw that all the shuriken that Kaoru had thrown actually hit the blade of his scythe!
"Clang!" Several crisp metallic clanging sounds rang out. "Cicada Wing" was knocked aside, re-entering the ground. Kaoru also took this opportunity to grab Rondo and disappear into a patch of shade. After a moment, they landed on another tree.
"Rumble!" At this time, the previous tree was cut in half and fell to the ground.
"What a sharp weapon!" Kaoru praised. No wonder this guy could become a legend in the black market. Whether it was the scythe he used or his unique secret techniques, it could be said that everything about him seemed to be born for assassination.
"How could you....." A buzzing sound, the Demon-Faced Rakshasa's voice traveled through the ground, reaching Kaoru's ears.
"How could I discover and hit your scythe?" Kaoru chuckled. "It's very simple. My Sharingan can clearly see very small objects. I could clearly see you hiding the scythe in the tree trunk, and also......"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly turned his head. In his vision, the shadow of the scythe appeared again from the tree trunk, slashing towards Rondo!
"You're talking to me, deliberately distracting me, and then secretly setting up the scythe again?!" Kaoru frowned. His body moved, quickly grabbing Rondo and escaping the range of this tree.
"It's not that simple!" The Demon-Faced Rakshasa's laughter came from within the ground. The ground below Kaoru and Rondo actually sprouted a Cicada Wing Scythe again!
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