"Telling me to behave myself? Garp, do you really think that's possible?
It was you, you bastard, who ruined my great ambitions, because of you, I spent my whole life stranded in this god-forsaken Land of Water..
If I don't grind your bones to dust, I won't be able to die in peace!"
Byakuren's expression turned cold, and a terrifying, storm-like wave of chakra exploded from him.
Even without a physical body, reduced now to pure chakra, he was still one of the First Five Kage. The sheer pressure he released made every shinobi of this era shudder involuntarily.
Even Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Yagura, top shinobi of the modern village era, rivaling the current Five Kage, felt an overwhelming pressure from Byakuren.
"You didn't just destroy my era, you destroyed my grand, world-shaping ambitions.
If not for you, the village I founded wouldn't have been Kirigakure, it would have been Konohagakure.
And the land beneath my feet wouldn't be the Land of Water, it would be the Land of Fire.
You… ruined everything!"
Byakuren pointed at Garp, his icy voice dripping with a venomous hatred that made one's skin crawl.
"You talk like that because you really think that if you hadn't run into me, you could've beaten Hashirama and Madara."
Garp dug at his nose and smacked his lips dismissively.
"..."
Byakuren, who had been raging a moment ago, suddenly froze mid-snarl.
"..."
Tsunade, Orochimaru, Fugaku, and the others couldn't help but snicker.
"..."
Unlike the Konoha shinobi, Yagura and the other Mist ninja covered their faces in embarrassment.
They couldn't help it, because Garp's words weren't wrong.
Even if he hadn't met Garp, Byakuren would still have gotten beaten into the dirt. His so-called grand ambitions were destined to collapse.
Neither the peace-seeking Hashirama nor the then-peerless Madara would ever have allowed Byakuren to lay a finger on the Land of Fire, the most fertile land in the entire shinobi world.
"You should be grateful you ran into me. Sure, you got hammered into the ground and lost an eye, but at least you got to stay in the Land of Water a few more years.
If you'd run into Hashirama or Madara back then, forget everything, your ashes would've been scattered all over the Pure Land."
Garp continued talking leisurely, completely ignoring Byakuren's darkening face and the murderous aura radiating from him.
"Hearing you talk like this… I should thank you, Garp, for letting me spend my twilight years in the Land of Water?"
Byakuren glared coldly at Garp, floating eerily in midair, like a vengeful spirit returning from the dead.
"If you're not satisfied, I can send you off again. When you were alive, I could send you to the Land of Water. Now that you're dead, I can send you to the Pure Land.
All you have to do is say the word."
Seeing Byakuren's hateful expression, the excitement Garp felt at reuniting with an "old acquaintance" evaporated. Any intention to reminisce vanished as well.
"You're still the same as before, so arrogant you don't put anyone in your eye.
As if I, the First Mizukage, meant nothing to you!"
Byakuren's expression darkened further.
That same disdainful gaze… the same posture he had back then, when he beat Byakuren into the ground and casually tossed him into the Land of Water.
"No, I wasn't targeting you specifically. In fact, aside from Hashirama, all four of you First Kage are trash in my eyes."
Garp shook his head.
Among the original Five Kage, only four were even worth an extra glance, and even then, just a glance.
In the entire Warring States era, only two and a half people truly earned his respect.
One was the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju.
One was the Ghost of Uchiha, Madara Uchiha.
And the remaining "half" was Tobirama Senju, whose entire body aside from Water Release was basically forbidden jutsu.
"That's truly unfortunate… because you are about to die at the hands of the trash you speak of."
Before Byakuren's words even finished, his hands were already forming seals.
The seven swords of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen suddenly surged with immense chakra, which flooded into Byakuren's body, making his previously ghost-like, translucent form rapidly solidify.
At the same time, the corpses of Juzo, Fuguki, Kushimaru, and the rest of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen twitched violently.
Moments later, seven massive chakra beasts, each a different color, burst out of their bodies and dove straight into Byakuren.
The First Mizukage, who had been nothing more than chakra, suddenly began growing bones, flesh, nerves, and organs at a frightening speed.
As chakra fused with his new physical form, a distinctly living presence emanated from Byakuren.
"He… he's completely alive again?"
"Look at the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, their bodies, and those swords…"
"I think… I understand what this is!"
Tsunade, Orochimaru, and the others looked from the revived Byakuren to the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, whose corpses had been drained down to bone-white husks, and one word surged through their minds:
Forbidden jutsu.
Both the immense chakra stored in the seven swords and the seven elite Mist shinobi who wielded them were essential components of this forbidden technique.
Just as Garp had said, there was no such thing as "benefitting the next generation of Mist."
There was only using the next generation as pawns for his own resurrection.
This was one of the First Five Kage of the Warring States era,
The most brutal, cold-blooded, and insidious Mizukage in Mist history.
Byakuren.
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[P.S: I know Byakuren in original series wasn't this powerful but in this new timeline, as Garp is part of this world so he has brought many changes as butterfly effect and the hate Byakuren and may be some other characters have for Garp has motivated them to get stronger and make new jutsus to defeat Garp.]
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