Inside the "Iron Coffin Seal," Danzo's eyes were bloodshot with rage, his entire face contorted beyond recognition.
"Useless! All of you are useless!"
He pointed at Zero, letting out a beast-like roar at the last few confidants beside him.
"Kill him! Chop this traitor into mincemeat!"
"Yes, sir!"
The three Root Ninja didn't hesitate, their bodies erupting into three black blurs that lunged at Zero.
However, Zero simply stood still, not even raising an eyelid.
He gently lifted his hand and snapped his fingers.
Buzz.
The walls, ceiling, and floor of the entire enclosed space instantly lit up with dense, blood-red Jutsu patterns.
The next second, several solidified Chakra chains shot out from all directions, precisely piercing the limbs of those Ninja, pinning them firmly in mid-air.
"Ugh, ah!"
A shrill scream rang out.
The chains were like living things, their runes glowing as they began to frantically drain the Chakra from his body.
Visibly, the Root Ninja's body rapidly shriveled, the glow of his Chakra flowing along the chains, continuously pouring into the massive barrier, making the oppressive feeling of the entire space even stronger.
This was both a cage and an execution ground.
The fury on Danzo's face froze, replaced by an expression of incredible horror.
"This is… when did you…?"
"The preparation time wasn't one month."
Zero finally spoke, his tone so steady it had no ripples.
"It was one year."
He looked at Danzo, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes—a gaze mixed with hatred, sorrow, and relief.
"From the day I was chosen by you to become 'Zero,' this 'Iron Coffin' has been prepared for you."
Zero's thoughts drifted.
This was a secret Jutsu passed down through his family for generations. Before their family fell into decline, they were once a prominent family of sealing Jutsu users, similar to the Uzumaki clan. Though not as renowned as the Uzumaki, they thrived by relying on their ancestral skills.
Until they met Danzo Shimura.
His family was destroyed, their secret Jutsu stolen, and he himself became a tool.
Today, everything should come to an end.
"Traitor!"
Danzo finally realized he had fallen into a trap custom-made for him.
He no longer hesitated, taking action himself. His hands quickly formed seals, and a massive amount of Wind Release Chakra began to gather.
Just then.
Boom, rumble, rumble—!
The entire room, no, the entire Root base, began to shake violently.
Loud explosions continuously echoed from outside, dull and continuous, as if a mighty army was assaulting Root's layered defenses with the most ferocious methods.
The shockwaves of the explosions penetrated the thick rock layers, making the air inside the "Iron Coffin Seal" tremble.
Danzo's hand seals paused.
Was it the monkey? Had he finally decided to purge Root?
No, that's not right, that monkey wouldn't have the guts!
Then who was it?
A strong sense of panic and isolation from cut-off information instantly gripped his heart.
Outside the base.
Dozens of Naruto Shadow Clones, each enveloped in the Three-Tails' Chakra cloak, were like the most efficient sappers. In squads, they placed large amounts of explosive tags on various critical load-bearing structures and defensive nodes of the Root base.
The roar of Chainswords was incessant. They used the simplest and most brutal methods to cut open alloy gates, creating immense noise and destruction.
"Detonate Zone A."
"Zone B, suppress with firepower."
"Zone C, create structural collapse, cut off all backup passages."
Instructions were synchronized and transmitted among all Clones through the Shadow Clone squad leaders.
For a time, explosions, alarms, and the sound of twisting metal reverberated throughout the underground, as a perfect "feigned assault" was being staged.
Meanwhile, in another secret passage of the base.
Kakashi followed Naruto, his steps so fast they almost left afterimages.
The shock on his face was almost impossible to suppress.
Along the way, they hadn't triggered a single trap, nor alarmed a single guard.
What should have been Konoha's top-tier defense system was as fragile as a child's scribble in front of Naruto.
Naruto didn't even need to look at a map; he simply relied on memory to make the correct choices at countless crossroads.
"Turn left, infrared sensor thirty meters ahead, use the ventilation shaft."
"Next intersection, there's a poison gas trap on the wall. Use Wind Release to blow it towards the fork in the road."
Naruto's instructions were clear and calm.
Kakashi's heart, however, grew heavier and heavier.
He finally understood that what he saw was always just the tip of the iceberg.
This realization made Kakashi, a former Anbu captain who had seen much darkness, feel a prickle on his scalp.
Finally, they stopped before a huge steel door covered in runes.
A figure was already waiting there.
It was Zero.
Seeing Naruto appear, Zero wasted no words, kneeling on one knee and lowering his proud head.
"Political Commissar."
"I have been waiting for a long time."
Naruto nodded at him, a sign of approval.
"You've worked hard, Zero."
"Release the seal."
"Yes."
Zero stood up, formed hand seals, and placed his hands on the steel door.
With a creaking sound of mechanisms, the heavy door slowly slid open.
Inside, Danzo's venomous and insane face was the first thing that came into view.
When he saw Naruto, and Kakashi Hatake beside Naruto, the last shred of sanity in his eyes was completely devoured by madness.
"Uzumaki Naruto!"
"Wind Release: Vacuum Consecutive Wave!"
Danzo roared, spitting out several solid, crescent-shaped wind blades that instantly sealed off all dodging space at the entrance with tricky angles.
"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"
Kakashi reacted extremely quickly, slamming his hands on the ground. A thick earth wall rose up, blocking the deadly wind blades.
The moment the earth wall shattered, several Naruto Shadow Clones, cloaked in crimson Chakra, had already ghosted inside, heading straight for the Root Ninja suspended by chains.
At the same time, four Karsten Squad members, armed with menacing firearms, emerged from the shadows behind Naruto.
They raised their Bolters, their crimson visors locking onto Danzo's last two confidants who were attempting to resist.
Bang! Bang!
Dull gunshots rang out.
The two Root Ninja hadn't even finished forming a hand seal before their upper bodies exploded into a bloody mist under the Bolter fire.
"Ah ah ah ah!"
His shattered dream of becoming Hokage and the desperate situation created an unbearable sense of disparity. Danzo roared madly, tearing off the bandages on his right arm.
That arm was disgusting.
On his pale arm, nine slowly rotating crimson Sharingan were densely embedded.
"Today, none of you will leave!"
The battle erupted instantly.
Naruto's Shadow Clones, Zero's Instant Assassination (Shunshin Assassination), the Chakra chains constantly shooting out from the barrier, Kakashi's Ninjutsu, Karsten Squad's room-wide suppressive fire, all converged from all directions.
Danzo, like a madman, struggled to hold on, relying on the Sharingan's insight and his seasoned Ninjutsu.
But he was old after all, and the unhealed wound on his shoulder further reduced his strength.
Under such high-intensity encirclement, flaws gradually appeared in his movements.
Now!
Kakashi's eyes blazed with cold intent, his right hand wreathed in lightning, emitting a piercing bird-like cry.
"Lightning Blade!"
He transformed into a flash of electricity, piercing through all the gaps in the attacks at a tricky angle, his right hand heading straight for Danzo's heart.
Pfft.
The Lightning Blade effortlessly pierced through Danzo's chest.
However, there was no dying despair on Danzo's face.
His body, under Kakashi's gaze, slowly dissipated into an afterimage.
The next second, he reappeared completely unharmed a few meters away.
And one of the Sharingan on his arm closed forever.
Kakashi's pupils suddenly constricted.
"What is this…!"
"An inefficient ability that consumes 'spare eyeballs' to rewrite reality."
Naruto's cold voice rang out like a narration.
He calmly observed Danzo's disgusting arm, like an experienced quartermaster checking inventory.
His gaze precisely swept over the eyes that were still rotating.
"You have eight more chances to revive."
Naruto raised his hand and waved it forward.
"Purge initiated."
He gave the order.
The four Karsten Squad members immediately spread out, forming a perfect fire suppression formation.
Da da da da!
The Bolters began to roar, and a storm of metal instantly engulfed Danzo.
Danzo was so suppressed by this unprecedented firepower that he couldn't even form hand seals, only able to dodge frantically in the hail of bullets.
One squad member seized a moment of vulnerability as he rolled, switched to a Chainsword, lunged forward, and swept it out horizontally.
"Ah!"
Danzo screamed, cut in half at the waist.
He lay on the ground, his upper body still twitching.
But soon, his body virtualized again, and with the closing of a second Sharingan, he reappeared in his original spot, completely unharmed.
Kakashi watched all of this silently.
He watched this man, who once wielded immense power in Konoha, being slaughtered again and again like a caged animal.
His heart was surprisingly calm.
Kakashi turned his head and said coldly to Naruto,
"Leave the last one for me."
The scene that followed became a one-sided slaughter.
The third time, his head was blown off by a Bolter.
The fourth time, his limbs were severed by a Chainsword.
The fifth time, he was burned to a crisp by Kakashi's Fire Release.
The sixth time… the seventh time… When the seventh Sharingan on his arm closed, leaving only two still rotating, Danzo's mind finally completely collapsed.
He was no longer the cunning leader of Root.
With disheveled hair, he was like a beast that could only scream and flee, dodging the Shinigami's hunt in the confined space.
"Get away! This is all terrifying Genjutsu, you can't kill me."
His screams echoed in the cold "Iron Coffin," filled with despair.
"I am Danzo Shimura, the Fifth Hokage!"
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