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Chapter 63: No One Can Destroy the Village's Peace!
With Itachi's shrill roar, the Mangekyo in his eyes spun madly, transforming into a bloody vortex. Two lines of bloody tears flowed from his eyes, sliding down his cheeks and congealing into hideous blood crystals on his chin. The chakra around his body also fluctuated violently.
The original energy skeletal frame around his body rapidly grew chakra muscles, then covered itself with a layer of armor outside, one hand holding a blade and one hand holding a shield.
Though still in half-body form, its momentum surged explosively, its imposing presence overwhelming. The very earth cracked under Susanoo's pressure. Debris floated upward defying gravity, then was ground into powder by chakra currents.
"Already insane?" Sasori still wore that expressionless appearance. The scroll in his hand flicked, and a new humanoid puppet appeared in his hands.
"That's..." Kotetsu Hagane and other onlookers saw it and were immediately shocked.
The Third Kazekage's reputation had once resounded throughout the shinobi world. Even if ninja from various villages hadn't seen him in person, they'd all seen portraits in intelligence reports—no one didn't recognize him.
Moreover, after the Third Kazekage later disappeared, the Earth and Fire nations had even fought heavily once because of it. Thus Konoha Village ninja had particularly vivid impressions of the Third Kazekage's image.
Seeing this human puppet now, they were immediately frightened.
But Sasori fundamentally didn't acknowledge these small maggots, staring intently at Itachi opposite him as though facing a great enemy.
When recruiting Kakuzu previously, he'd witnessed Itachi's actions, knowing whether ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu, Itachi was all top-level. Moreover, there was the incredibly powerful Susanoo.
So Sasori went big from the start.
"Magnet Style: Iron Sand World Method!"
His ten fingers hooked. Chakra threads flicked. The Third Kazekage human puppet flew into midair. Its mouth opened, massive amounts of iron sand surging from its mouth. Mid-air, they magnetically attracted and transformed into a giant iron spear that shot down toward Itachi.
Itachi also knew Sasori was a formidable enemy, so likewise went big from the start.
While raising his shield to deflect the iron spear, he glared with his eyes, activating genjutsu.
"Tsukuyomi!"
The environment distorted. All colors receded without trace. Only black and white colors remained in the surroundings.
Sasori's body hung suspended in midair, bound to a cross. Uchiha Itachi stood opposite with a grim face, holding a long blade in his hand, forcefully stabbing toward Sasori.
"No one can destroy the village's..."
"Peace!"
The sharp blade entered flesh, producing harsh friction sounds. But Sasori still wore that expressionless appearance, showing not half a bit of painful reaction.
"That's it?"
"Your genjutsu is indeed very impressive, but it's completely meaningless to me!"
Sensing the strange feeling transmitted from the blade in his hand, Itachi's gaze focused. He turned the blade horizontal, forcefully dragging it sideways.
Screech...
The blade and Sasori's body again produced harsh friction sounds, opening a massive gash in Sasori's stomach.
Seeing the traces of various wooden blocks and screws exposed inside that wound, Itachi also fell silent.
He slowly withdrew the blade, slashing several more times, dismembering Sasori's body into eight pieces. But what was exposed were all various mechanical constructs—not a single drop of blood.
"You see—I long ago transformed my fragile body into a puppet."
Sasori spoke flatly, as though what Itachi was dismantling wasn't his body at all.
"So-called genjutsu can only be applied to ninja. It has absolutely no effect on a puppet."
"Puppets have no hunger, no pain, no emotions. Only needing occasional part replacements, they can achieve eternal life."
"This is eternal art—something all people since ancient times have dreamed of."
"Not right." Itachi slowly shook his head. "If you were truly a puppet, you fundamentally couldn't appear in genjutsu space."
"Since you've appeared here, it means you still possess a human core existence."
Itachi dismantled Sasori's body bit by bit, finally looking at that round pearl in his chest cavity, raising the blade high and forcefully stabbing down.
Where blade light fell, blood splattered!
Personally witnessing his core being pierced, Sasori remained unmoved, expression indifferent:
"It's useless."
"I said—puppets have no pain, no emotions."
"This is genjutsu space. You cannot cause me real harm."
"Your actions are all wasted effort."
"At least I've already learned where your weakness is." Itachi coldly said a line, then released the genjutsu space.
Black and white colors rapidly receded. The two returned to the real world again. The iron spear formed by Iron Sand World Method had just flown before Susanoo, heavily colliding with Susanoo's left-hand shield.
Boom!
Accompanied by a massive explosive sound, that iron spear immediately shattered. Iron sand particles shot everywhere, riddling the already brutalized ground like a sieve.
Poor Sasuke—that head rolled about everywhere like a rotten watermelon, shot by iron sand, yet no one acknowledged it anymore.
Itachi's gaze lifted, looking toward Sasori's core position. The Mangekyo in his eyes turned again.
"Amaterasu!"
A black flame ignited from nothing at Sasori's chest, rapidly spreading toward his limbs.
Sasori's ten fingers hooked. The Third Kazekage human puppet immediately opened its mouth, spitting an iron sand torrent toward Sasori like a waterfall, washing over the flames.
But what surprised Sasori was this flame not only didn't extinguish—it even ignited the iron sand.
Seeing the flames had a spreading trend, Sasori didn't dare hesitate any longer. He immediately shook his arms. Sharp daggers appeared at his fingertips, cutting down those ignited sections and flinging them outward. Simultaneously, chakra threads retracted, lowering the human puppet to block in front.
"Even iron sand can be ignited—truly terrifying flames!"
"However, now it's my turn."
"Magnet Style: Iron Sand World Method!"
Sasori's chakra threads urged again. The human puppet's hands came together. The iron sand originally bombarded underground suddenly erupted, like vines crisscrossing underground, magnetically attracting and aggregating, piercing through the ground and growing upward.
Sensing the movement underfoot, Itachi hurriedly leaped up, landing on adjacent buildings. Looking down, he saw sharp iron sand branches charging up from underground, planting a cluster of steel thorns where he'd just stood.
Moreover, this thorn cluster was still continuously growing, spreading in all directions—clearly intending to transform this area into an iron forest.
"Itachi, your Susanoo's attack and defense are indeed both very strong."
"However, thanks to Yasushi, everyone now knows—half-body Susanoo's weakness is underfoot."
"As long as you can't fly in the sky like Pain constantly, your defense will always have blind spots!"
"Come, Itachi!"
"Let's test whether you first break through my core or I first transform you into my human puppet!"
" Yasushi..." Itachi ground his teeth, muttering lowly that name he hated to the bone.
In his view, though Akatsuki was the enemy invading Konoha Village, Yasushi—who triggered conflict between Akatsuki and the village, causing the two villages to inevitably wage war—was the true culprit behind Konoha Village's current wartime chaos.
Especially Yasushi leaking much village ninja intelligence, causing the village's current passive situation facing invasion.
As for reflecting that he'd done wrong—shouldn't have slaughtered the entire clan, inviting Yasushi's retaliation?
Hehe... Uchiha who became Mangekyo—before death, the concept of regret fundamentally didn't exist in their minds.
He would only consider not eliminating the threat completely that day, not thoroughly killing Yasushi as well, as his greatest mistake. He absolutely wouldn't regret initiating the clan massacre night because of this.
This was Mangekyo Uchiha's thought process!
'No good—I must also report Akatsuki's intelligence clearly to the village. Otherwise, who knows how much the village will lose!'
This thought flashed through Itachi's mind, making him immediately lose desire to continue fighting Sasori.
"Hey, Kotetsu, come block him. I have important intelligence—need to see the Third Hokage-sama."
After speaking, Itachi canceled Susanoo, leaping toward the Hokage Building's direction.
But the moment his form landed, a figure flashed before his eyes. Kotetsu Hagane and others blocked before him.
"Itachi, I'm unclear whether you two had real or fake internal strife, but as the village's guards, I cannot let you pass here, much less let you approach the Hokage-sama at will."
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