Uchiha Sasuke's arrival once again changed the battlefield.
"Sasuke-kun?!" Karin was greatly surprised, not expecting Sasuke to appear at this moment, while Orochimaru was not surprised at all.
[As expected, Sasuke would never miss out on killing Danzo. See, he came as soon as he smelled it.]
Hinata withdrew her hand. Since Sasuke wanted to kill him, she would give him the chance.
"Danzo—!!!" Sasuke's roar tore through the air, his Mangekyo Sharingan locked onto his target without any wasted words.
Danzo unleashed a Wind Release jutsu, firing it towards Sasuke in the air.
Sasuke's purple Chakra surged out of his body like raging flames, instantly constructing a giant skeletal ribcage to protect him. Susanoo blocked the attack, and Sasuke landed steadily.
Danzo's single eye was gloomy. Facing this legendary power, he didn't panic; instead, a hint of mockery appeared on his face.
"Hmph, is this Susanoo? It seems you've learned things you shouldn't have. I didn't expect Itachi to leak information."
Danzo's face turned ugly.
"I'll tear you to pieces! Old scoundrel!"
Danzo's words were tantamount to an admission. Susanoo's skeletal arm clenched into a fist and smashed towards Danzo with destructive power!
"Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!" Danzo quickly formed hand signs, and an incredibly sharp, high-pressure wind blade slashed towards Susanoo's fist.
Boom!
The wind blade collided with the Chakra fist, emitting a piercing roar. The wind blade dispersed, but Susanoo's fist also paused slightly. Danzo used the recoil to retreat rapidly, simultaneously striking with both hands— "Wind Release: Vacuum Consecutive Wave!"
Several wind blades, like a sudden storm, shot towards Sasuke inside Susanoo!
"It's useless!" Sasuke roared. Susanoo's ribcage glowed, blocking all the wind blades. He controlled Susanoo, taking large strides forward, while the other skeletal arm swept horizontally like a giant scythe, aiming to cut Danzo in half!
A flicker of calculation crossed Danzo's eyes. This time, he didn't dodge or evade!
"Pfft—!"
The skeletal arm passed through Danzo's body without obstruction, blood splattering!
Did he succeed? A hint of satisfaction flashed in Sasuke's eyes, but in the next moment, his pupils suddenly contracted.
The "bisected" Danzo's figure dissipated like a phantom, while another completely unharmed Danzo silently appeared not far behind him, a three-tomoe Sharingan on his right arm quietly closing.
"Genjutsu?" Sasuke frowned.
"Hehe… all your attacks are futile!" Danzo sneered, holding a Kunai and stabbing towards Sasuke's back.
[666, the famous scene of Kunai stabbing Susanoo has arrived.]
The Kunai broke without surprise. Sasuke turned and smacked Danzo to death, but Danzo's figure flickered again and he began forming hand signs.
"Summoning Jutsu: Baku!"
The giant dream-eating beast, Baku, was summoned. It opened its massive mouth, emitting a powerful suction force, attempting to swallow Sasuke along with Susanoo.
"Damn it!" Sasuke felt Susanoo shake slightly. He roared, injecting even more massive Chakra. Susanoo quickly grew flesh and meridians, transforming into a half-skeletal giant, resisting the suction, while a purple Chakra arrow condensed in its skeletal hand.
Boom, boom, boom!
Arrows shot towards Baku and Danzo.
The explosion's fire and smoke engulfed everything. However, as the smoke cleared, Danzo reappeared unharmed in the distance, another Sharingan on his arm closing. Baku, however, was blown away and dispersed.
"Muda! Muda! Muda!" As Sasuke watched Danzo "resurrect" again and again, his inner anxiety and rage burned like wildfire.
Sasuke saw through the trick, but his idea was simple: keep killing Danzo until he could no longer resurrect!
He attacked relentlessly. The black flames of Amaterasu erupted from time to time, Kagutsuchi changed forms to assist in attacks, and Susanoo's fists and arrows continuously bombarded.
Danzo, like the craftiest fox, constantly used Izanagi to evade fatal blows, occasionally harassing from a distance with Wind Release, and sometimes launching surprise attacks by instantly changing positions after "resurrecting."
"What's wrong? Uchiha brat! Is this all you've got?" Danzo provoked him with words.
"Compared to your brother Itachi, you're still far inferior! Both in spirit and in power!"
"Shut up! Don't you dare mention him!" Sasuke completely erupted in fury.
Susanoo's form changed further, covered in Karasu Tengu Armor, its defense and attack power soaring again! He abandoned all defense, controlling the Perfect Susanoo like a purple god of war, launching a storm of attacks!
Arrows rained down, the entire valley trembled, rocks shattered, and the ground cracked.
Danzo's figure continuously "died" and "resurrected" under the barrage of attacks. The Sharingan on his arm closed one by one at a visible speed.
His Chakra consumption was immense, and his breathing became rapid, but the chilling calculation in his single eye never faded. He was waiting, waiting for Izanagi's limit, and also waiting for Sasuke to expose a weakness.
"Five… six… seven…" Danzo silently counted the closing eyes, feeling the heavy burden of Chakra depletion.
And Sasuke, in his frantic assault, was rapidly depleting his Mental Energy and Chakra as well.
The burden of the Mangekyo was far beyond imagination. His vision began to blur, and a needle-like pain shot through his brain, but he ignored it. Hatred sustained him, wanting only to utterly crush the enemy before him!
"Last strike! Danzo!" Sasuke roared, furiously pouring his remaining power into Susanoo. The giant purple Martial Artist drew its bow, and a purple arrow, far more solid and massive than before, condensed, locking onto Danzo, whose aura was slightly unstable due to multiple "resurrections"!
"It's over!" Sasuke violently released the "bowstring"!
The purple arrow shot towards Danzo like a meteor piercing the sun, carrying an aura of absolute destruction!
Danzo looked at this fatal blow. Instead of fear, a glimmer of cunning triumph flashed in his single eye. He didn't try to dodge; instead, he clasped his hands together, seemingly preparing to take the hit head-on.
Just as the arrow was about to hit him—
Izanagi's effect activated again! Danzo's figure vanished, and the arrow pierced through his afterimage, pulverizing a small hill behind him!
And Danzo's real body, reset by Izanagi, appeared directly above Sasuke's Susanoo! His hand slammed down towards the exhausted Sasuke!
At this point, Sasuke could no longer maintain Susanoo's integrity, and it began to gradually recede.
"I got him!" Danzo roared inwardly, a ferocious look on his face!
This sudden, inconceivable angle of attack, coupled with Sasuke's momentary exhaustion and mental daze after his all-out strike, actually allowed him to seize this fleeting opportunity!
Danzo successfully touched Sasuke, and the Seal runes began to glow!
A trace of horror finally flashed in Sasuke's eyes! He wanted to control Susanoo to defend, but his Chakra was no longer sufficient to maintain Susanoo's power.
At this critical moment, Hinata, who had been standing by silently, slightly raised her eyelids.
Danzo felt as if he was being targeted by an invisible, primeval beast. A bone-chilling cold instantly shot up his spine to the crown of his head! Danzo's movements paused for a split second.
It was this trivial pause that gave Sasuke the last bit of reaction time!
"Get lost!!!"
Sasuke forcibly squeezed out his last bit of ocular power. Susanoo's arm defended at an almost distorted speed, and its giant palm slammed upwards!
"Bang!!!"
Danzo was sent flying by this enraged blow, crashing into the distant mountain wall like a kite with a broken string, stirring up a cloud of dust!
Sasuke gasped violently, kneeling inside Susanoo. The bloody tears flowing from his left eye had stained half his face, and his vision was a blurry red.
He stared intently in the direction Danzo had fallen, the madness and hatred in his heart not diminishing in the slightest; instead, they burned even more fiercely due to the recent danger.
In the dust, Danzo scrambled to his feet, disheveled. All the three-tomoe Sharingan on his right arm had closed and turned grayish-white.
He had failed.
His meticulously planned fatal blow was ruined by that instant of interference.
The feeling of being at the end of his rope, for the first time, clearly surged into Danzo's heart.
His single eye instantly turned blood red, filled with unwillingness and final madness. He suddenly raised his hand, grabbing at the bandage covering his left eye!
He couldn't wait any longer! He had to use that! Use Shisui's eye to rewrite Uchiha Sasuke's will! This was his last chance!
However, his fingers had just touched the edge of the bandage.
Hinata's figure appeared between him and Sasuke without warning, perfectly blocking his line of sight to Sasuke.
She quietly looked at Danzo. She had been waiting for this moment. She couldn't let him use that eye; its cooldown was long, several years, and it would be a waste for him to use it.
"Your act, Danzo, is over."
With that, Hinata didn't give him time to react. Her spiritual pressure erupted, immobilizing Danzo for a moment. Then, Hinata punched Danzo in the stomach, rendering him unable to resist, even making him drool.
Finally, Hinata's hand shot out, digging out that eye, just as Danzo had taken Shisui's eye back then.
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