Drov cast a strange glance at the human below, who seemed to harbor a grudge against this Senju clan and wanted to use his hands to settle it.
"You're free."
He threw out those cold words, which sounded like a revelation to Shiba.
With a loud boom, Drov shot off into the distance, leaving behind the injured Shiba, who fell onto his backside due to the shockwave… and also due to fear.
He let out a hollow laugh and raised his only hand to wipe the tears from his eyes, which had fallen because of the dust, not because of the joy of surviving death.
He lifted his head to stare at the clear black sky filled with stars.
"Damn monster… but still ... I never expected there to be beings in those stars."
***
Above the vast skies of the Land of Fire, Drov flew at a moderate speed, his eyes scanning the ground, trying to find another human to gather more information.
He did not fully trust the information given to him by the other human. If not for his promise to spare him, he would have killed him immediately.
"Hmm…" Drov frowned suddenly and stopped mid-flight, floating in the air. The dizziness and blurriness he had felt on the ship had returned.
He closed his eyes and remained in place, waiting for the sensation to pass, but unfortunately, it did not fade, instead, it worsened to the point where he could no longer maintain flight and began to fall unsteadily downward.
Boom!
He crashed into a tree, breaking branches that slightly softened the impact.
He hit the ground and rolled several times before being forced to stop after colliding with the trunk of another tree.
He supported his trembling body with his arms and opened his mouth, spitting a large amount of blood that stained the green grass.
"Blood? Again? What is happening to me?" Drov stared with wide eyes at the pool of blood beneath him.
He lay on his back and raised his trembling right hand before his eyes. Just like before, his vision was blurred and doubled.
He clenched his fist tightly and closed his eyes, trying to calm his mind and assess his deteriorating condition.
"There is something wrong with my body. I can almost feel it… my cells are being destroyed and regenerated at a rate my body cannot withstand."
Drov managed to identify the flaw in his body immediately, yet he remained confused. He opened his eyes, which had regained their clarity.
His expression twisted into one of disgust and a grim frown.
"It's impossible for those inferior creatures to create a poison this powerful, let alone the fact that I didn't consume anything on the ship…"
He stopped mid-sentence when a thought struck him about how he had been poisoned. Opening his blood-filled mouth, he said coldly:
"Through the air!!"
He clearly remembered not putting anything into his mouth. Therefore, the only way for the poison to enter his body was through his nose,meaning someone had used a chemical agent to infect everyone on the ship. That was his reasoning, but upon reconsidering, he dismissed it.
He let out a dry laugh and muttered mockingly:
"So… it started on the planet… how amusing. Someone actually dared to attack the Viltrumite Empire with a chemical weapon…"
He suddenly raised his hand and caught a kunai aimed at his head. He tossed the cold metal weapon aside and rose calmly, narrowing his eyes at five humans standing on tree branches around him.
They surrounded him, their eyes fixed on him like predators watching their prey.
But it never crossed Drov's mind that he was the prey… he was the predator.
A sadistic smile formed on his blood-stained face like a beast. He let out a hollow, mocking laugh and said:
"Disgusting, savage creatures. Are all humans this violent? Inclined to attack others randomly…"
He suddenly stopped mid-sentence, feeling as if he had seen ... No, lived this before. Didn't the Viltrumite race do the same thing?
"It doesn't matter…" he muttered, pushing the thought aside and focusing on the humans above. "I hate looking up at those above me."
As if those words were a declaration of war, the five ninjas wearing medieval brown armor moved.
In the air, they all drew kunai and threw them toward Drov, aiming for his life for reasons unknown.
In Drov's view, this race called humans, despite their intelligence, was foolish and even more violent than the Viltrumites.
Despite his high reaction speed, it was impossible to deflect all the kunai, so he simply avoided them by launching himself upward.
The kunai pierced the ground where he had been standing.
Coldly, Drov moved at high speed and grabbed one of the ninja by the neck.
Crack!
Without a single word, he tightened his grip with immense force, breaking the human's neck, then threw the body forcefully at another human. The latter dodged, but still fell into Drov's grasp, as the first body had merely been a distraction.
Drov appeared before him like the Grim Reaper, extending his palm like a spear.
"No!!.Stop..."
"No "
Drov replied coldly to the human's command before thrusting his palm forward with speed and power, piercing through the armor and the ninja's body, destroying his heart like fragile tofu.
He pulled his hand out of the body with pure disgust and let it fall lifeless to the ground.
A Sarutobi clan ninja shouted in rage, staring at his comrade's corpse:
"You son of a..."
He quickly formed hand seals, then inhaled deeply.
"Wind Style: Cutting Wave!"
An invisible wave of wind shot forward, but the destruction it caused was very real. Massive trees were cleanly sliced apart.
Drov quickly raised his arm to shield himself, but he had underestimated the destructive power of this ninjutsu the human had told him about earlier.
The blade of wind cut through his arm, exposing white bone. Not just his arm,the slash extended across part of his head and a portion of his chin, then continued across the rest of his body all the way to his right thigh.
Drov clenched his teeth in pain from the injury, glaring with intense fury at the ninja who had dared to harm him. He had never expected these humans to possess such destructive power.
Because the fire dragon earlier had caused him no harm, he had assumed all ninjutsu were weak,but now he had suffered severe damage.
He raised his hand and touched the wound on his chin.
"F*cking disgusting human… how dare you…"