radicalducati Chapter 34 Nanoscale Exploding Insects, the Xuanyuan Clan Attacks
Chapter 34 Nanoscale Exploding Insects, the Xuanyuan Clan Attacks
"The secret technique scroll should be fine, Lady Tsunade." Kakashi quickly checked the contents of the scroll and compared them with the previous Sharingan copy before putting the scroll away and nodding to Tsunade in confirmation.
"Don't worry, we're very sincere," Amai of the Cloud Ninja said awkwardly, her face stiff. "The remaining 500 million ryo will be delivered soon, so please begin the treatment, Lady Tsunade..."
"Five...five hundred million taels? Lady Tsunade, did I hear that right?! It really is five hundred million taels for the consultation fee??" Shizune, slightly sober after taking the hangover medicine, blurted out the question, stunned by the enormous sum.
Five hundred million ryo! If Kumogakure truly keeps its promise, then Lady Tsunade's debt burden will vanish. What is a surprise? This is a surprise!
Yes, I'll use the money to pay off my debts as soon as I get it. I absolutely cannot let Lady Tsunade continue to squander it. As for the rest?
She must carefully preserve the rest and plan how to use it, for at least two years—no, one year! Well, maybe just six months to avoid debt and having to hide.
As for no longer being in debt? What a joke! Jingyin wouldn't even dare to dream of such a beautiful but unrealistic hope.
"Shizune, don't make such a fuss and embarrass me!" Tsunade frowned, feigning displeasure, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If the patient is silent, they can wake up in time, which means that surgeries that require bloodshed can proceed without problems.
Then, Tsunade looked around at the ruins and her smile faded. "Of course, treatment should be done in a quiet place! But before that, you need to take care of the cleanup here."
Compensation to the izakaya is necessary, but she absolutely refuses to pay it. After all, it was Raikage and his gang who started this mess!
“No problem.” Amai glanced at the ruins of the izakaya and nodded hurriedly. At this crucial moment, they couldn’t afford to mess things up and lose more than they gained.
"Hmm." Tsunade nodded in satisfaction, then turned her gaze to the Fourth Raikage. "If you want me to heal you, you must explain the whole story in detail. I need to know what exactly is inside you and what its function is before I can proceed."
"Let me say it!" Amai hurriedly stepped forward to speak, how could she let Lei Ying speak about such a thing?
"This whole affair was caused by our attempt to steal the secret ninjutsu techniques from Sugi no Ninja Village..."
"Is it another case of plundering by force? Heh, that's just like the usual style of Kumogakure!" Tsunade couldn't help but mock and ridicule Amai as soon as she opened her mouth.
The leader of Kumogakure, one of the Five Great Nations, shamelessly stole a scroll from a minor ninja village, only to end up like this, almost dying! What a cruel irony…
"So, it was you who held back the power of Sugi no Ninja Village." Kakashi, Ishikawa, and the other two were also taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized.
No wonder the Sugi no Ninja Village was too busy with a mere C-rank mission; it turns out the Raikage and his men raided their base!
Although the other party spoke casually, it was obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense that Sugi no Ninja Village had suffered heavy losses and might have already been placed under lockdown.
"Let me explain next..." Seeing the strange expressions on everyone's faces, Raikage brazenly interrupted in a low voice.
At the same time, he gestured to Amai to handle the compensation issue for the izakaya.
"Our mission started off smoothly. However, after obtaining the secret scroll, the Sugi no Ninja Village actually hired the Xuanyuan Clan to chase after us and steal the scroll..."
Hearing the Raikage's arrogant tone, Tsunade, Kakashi, Ishikawa, and the others all cast disdainful glances at him.
So you're saying you can only take from others, but they're not allowed to fight back?
"Ahem..." Faced with that blatantly disdainful gaze, even the thick-skinned Raikage couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. "Now is not the time to talk about this. After we encounter the Xuanyuan Clan..."
"Wait a minute." Suddenly, just as the Raikage finished explaining the chase from the previous night while suppressing his anger, Tsunade's expression changed as if she had realized something. "You mean, you were hit by a parasitic bomb after a blinding white light?"
The Raikage nodded emphatically upon hearing this, "And with the use of chakra, that bomb will grow rapidly until it explodes! Two of my subordinates died because of this; one self-destructed, and the other could explode at any moment."
At this point, the Raikage's expression suddenly changed. "Leave this to Amai. Tsunade, come with me to rescue Karai."
“No rush, I need to confirm something first,” Tsunade said calmly, then turned to Kakashi. “Tell me the location of that thing.”
"Yes, Lady Tsunade." Kakashi didn't waste any words, and his left eye, with its three tomoe, rapidly spun, activating the Sharingan's Insight Eye.
In an instant, Kakashi saw the flow of chakra within the Raikage's body. And within the uniformly colored chakra flow, a faint yet distinctly different color of chakra appeared clearly on the Raikage's abdomen.
"There." Following Kakashi's pointing, Tsunade formed hand seals and unleashed a palm strike technique, slapping it towards the spot.
"Snapped……"
Faced with Tsunade's sudden move, the Raikage suppressed his muscle reflexes and stood still. Tsunade then struck him in the abdomen with a palm strike, applying a Healing Palm Technique.
"Lady Tsunade, that thing is absorbing your chakra." Kakashi, with his enhanced Insight Eyes focused on the changes in the Raikage's abdomen, loudly reminded him from the side.
As Kakashi gave his warning, a worm-shaped bulge appeared slightly on the Raikage's abdomen beneath Tsunade's palm. Furthermore, it seemed as if something alive was moving inside.
"Just as I expected!" Tsunade wasn't surprised; this was exactly what she had anticipated. She had planned to use this method to sow discord between the Raikage and the Raikage, to see what would happen!
"Raikage, now use your Lightning Release Armor to see..." Tsunade took two steps back and urged the Raikage, whose eyes were filled with gloom.
"What does this mean??" The Fourth Raikage asked suspiciously, but still obediently activated his Lightning Release armor, his body crackling with electric arcs!
As his chakra circulated throughout his body, the bulge in his abdomen trembled slightly and flashed with arcs of lightning, before falling into a deathly silence and ceasing all movement.
"That thing seems to have been paralyzed by lightning! It's no longer absorbing the Raikage's chakra." Kakashi reminded him again, his scarlet left eye flashing red.
"As expected, no wonder the Raikage, who used the most chakra, was unharmed! It turns out that when he used Lightning Release, he paralyzed that thing at the same time, preventing it from quickly absorbing enough chakra to transform and grow." Staring at the insect-shaped bulge that resembled a stillborn fetus, Tsunade finally confirmed, resting her chin on her hand.
"So, this thing is useless to me?" Raikage asked, his breathing quickening and his face darkening. Then he'd shed blood for nothing!
"Useless? Unless you continuously use Lightning Release Armor to paralyze it, it will continue to absorb your chakra and grow, only at a slower pace." Tsunade sneered disdainfully, then her gaze sharpened. "It seems that the white light was the key to your being caught off guard. It most likely contained the cell-level explosive larvae cultivated by the Xuanyuan Clan, which enter the human body through the nostrils or mouth to absorb chakra and ultimately become human bombs."
"What?! Cell-level explosive bugs?!" Instantly, everyone present paled upon hearing this.
Cellular entities are invisible to the naked eye; how can we defend against them?
"Hehehe... Have you discovered our secret? Well then, let me show you the power of the Bursting Bugs once again!!"
What you fear will come to pass.
Just as everyone was filled with apprehension, five dark figures with flashing crimson eyes appeared on the branches of a tree beside the clearing. Before anyone could react, a blinding white light, as bright as day, emanated from the tree and enveloped the entire area, dazzling and piercing…