Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

Chapter 886 Would I be jealous of you, you white-haired girl who has no class at all?

Thud—smack!

Just as Hanzo and Danzo were exchanging compliments, a red figure crashed heavily beside them.

"Can you guys stop chatting for a bit? The Third Tsuchikage isn't dead yet!"

Covered in dust and dirt, Xiu lay on his back, thinking that if he didn't still have a few puppets to control, he would have definitely given each of those two a good whack.

"Huh? Impossible, I aimed my knife at his old wound, there's no way he could have done that."

Danzo's expression froze upon hearing this. He was very confident in his swordsmanship; that last strike was absolutely precise, and even if Onoki didn't die, he certainly wouldn't be in good shape.

"Hehe, your information is a bit outdated."

Hearing Onoki's strong and clear voice, Danzo turned around and was surprised to find that the other man was vigorously ravaging the surviving puppet knight, the gruesome wound on his waist already healed.

"What?! Didn't you break your kidneys?"

"Bang bang——!"

"I found a highly skilled doctor, and now I have everything I need!"

After casually crushing the cores of two puppet knights, Onoki turned his head, his voice filled with the smugness of regaining his former glory.

"Hurry up and lend a hand, I only have these two puppets left!"

Xiu looked at the two puppets reduced to scrap metal with heartache. In less than a minute, he had lost six expensive knight puppets, with initial estimates of losses reaching tens of billions.

"How long until your reinforcements arrive?"

Danzo glanced at the Seven-Tails and Nine-Tails knight puppets struggling on the battlefield, then turned to Hanzo beside him and asked,

With Senju Hisama not yet here, he can only pin his hopes on the powerful support Hanzo mentioned.

"One minute and thirty-six seconds."

After calmly calculating the remaining time, Hanzo said nothing more, silently flicked his lightsaber, and leaped towards Onoki.

"Bah!"

Their figures instantly intertwined, the blue light of blades clashing with the dark red lava, creating dazzling fireworks against the backdrop of the pitch-black night.

Although the two were evenly matched and fought back and forth, anyone could see that Onoki was deliberately holding back, probably wanting to capture him alive to study.

"Is fate really going to destroy someone in my group?"

Now, Danzo couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration. If Root had found Senju Hisama, with his mastery of the Flying Thunder God Technique, he would have come to their aid long ago.

There's still no movement, there's only one possibility.

Senju Hisahi left first.

Or perhaps,

The other party had no intention of rescuing him at all.

In his desperate situation, Danzo, whose mind was in turmoil, inevitably fell into his bad habit of speculating and maliciously fabricated stories about Senju Hisana.

"No! I can't die yet."

But soon, he thought of his wife and children waiting for him at home. Rin, who had just turned one year old, had just learned to call him "Dad." His daughter's sweet and lovely smiling face flashed through his mind, and Danzo's indomitable flame was rekindled.

Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head, all the dejection and cowardice in his eyes vanished, leaving only boundless fighting spirit.

Knowing that Onoki was skilled in close combat, Danzo did not blindly rush forward to compete with him in taijutsu. Instead, he used his Wind Release technique, which he had honed over many years, and took the initiative to assume the role of ranged damage dealer in the three-person team.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Ball!"

The next second, countless transparent wind projectiles shot out from his mouth, heading straight towards Onoki, who was not far away.

"Bah!"

Sensing the sharp aura behind him, Hanzo, who was engaged in close combat with Onoki, suddenly swung his sword, using the recoil to send him flying backward.

"Humph!"

Seeing the sharp wind bullet hurtling towards him from not far away, Onoki frowned slightly. He didn't choose to continue pursuing Hanzo, but instead prepared to dodge Danzo's ranged attack by turning to the side.

"Don't even think about hiding!"

Just then, Xiu manipulated the remaining Seven-Tails and Nine-Tails Knight puppet to close in, forming a pincer movement from the left and right, completely blocking Onoki's escape route.

"Bang~ Bang~ Bang."

Although it only delayed him by less than a second, it allowed Danzo's Vacuum Giant Ball to successfully hit its target. With a series of crackling sounds, countless dark red sparks bloomed on Onoki's heavy armor.

"hateful!"

Onoki raised his hand to block the continuous stream of Vacuum Spheres, cursing angrily. Although this attack couldn't break through his defenses, it severely restricted his mobility, making him unable to move an inch for a time.

This was precisely Danzo's intention. Seeing Onoki restrained by his Vacuum Jewel, he mustered his strength, rapidly forming hand seals while taking a deep breath.

"Wind Escape·Vacuum Jade."

If the Vacuum Ball is like a bullet fired from a machine gun, then the Vacuum Giant Ball is like an RPG rocket launcher; even a tailed beast wouldn't fare much better if it took a hit head-on.

"Tu Dun·Tu Liubi!"

Seeing the massive wind blast hurtling towards him, and sensing a sense of danger, Onoki bravely withstood the onslaught of the Vacuum Sphere, slamming his hands hard against the ground.

Rumble!

The earthen wall, devoid of dog-head carvings, rose instantly from the ground, its thickness far exceeding that of ordinary ninjas.

"Oh!"

But even such a thick wall of earth couldn't stop Danzo's desperate gamble with the Vacuum Jewel. In just one exchange, it was blasted open, leaving a hole half a person's height in its wake.

"boom!"

The wind bullet, undiminished in momentum, slammed solidly into Onoki's thick breastplate, sending him flying dozens of meters. He crashed through several thick trees before landing heavily on a protruding rock in the ground.

"teacher!"

Xiao Zi's eyes widened instantly upon seeing this scene. In his memory, his teacher had never been so embarrassed.

"Lord Danzo, you've opened it?"

Hanzo and Shu were equally surprised; the former asked in a serious tone, while the latter looked on with a strange expression.

"Were you just pretending to be making candy?"

"Basic exercises should not be six."

Danzo, pale-faced, waved his hand. Those two attacks had used up all his chakra; he was only able to stand and speak thanks to the resilience he had developed through training in Hip Release.

"Snapped!"

On the other side, Onoki, who had pried himself off the rock, slowly stood up and slammed his hammer down on his mottled breastplate. As lava fragments rained down, the knight's armor, hidden beneath the heavy lava-escape armor, finally saw the light of day.

"What?!"

Seeing Onoki emanating an even more terrifying aura than before, Danzo and the other two's expressions changed instantly. It turned out that after fighting for so long, they hadn't even broken through the opponent's defense.

"I never imagined you could push me to this point."

Onoki, whose body had shrunk considerably in an instant, moved his stiff joints, his anger clearly audible in his voice.

"Hey~ this little potato is even playing Cast Off."

Uchiha Gin, who was watching the spectacle from a distance, witnessed this familiar move and couldn't help but mutter a comment.

"Curly Hair, what are you talking about? Come and see how I pose, isn't it classy?"

Behind him, Senju Hisako stood in front of a life-size mirror she had created using Water Release, her butt sticking out, maintaining a transformation pose that made Uchiha Ginhaku roll his eyes.

"Sorry, with your aesthetic sense, you're destined to have no class whatsoever."

"Hmph! I think you're just jealous."

As the saying goes, honest advice is hard to swallow, and Senju Hisa didn't take Uchiha Gin's sincere words to heart at all, simply assuming that he was jealous of her status as a knight.

"Me, jealous of a white-haired guy like you who has no class?"

"Otherwise what? Wait, something doesn't sound right to me about what you're saying?" Hearing this, Senju Hisa slowly lowered her hands, which were raised above her head, and turned to look at Uchiha Gin with a questioning gaze. She felt that this curly-haired man's words were hiding something.

You're overthinking it.

Uchiha Gin scratched his head helplessly, inwardly cursing. This white-haired girl seemed to have gained some intelligence; he'd have to be more careful when playing tricks on her in the future.

Just as he was pondering how to make an excuse, the continuously glowing silver spot in the night sky finally revealed its true form. Uchiha Gin immediately stood up, feigning excitement as he pointed at it, thus diverting Senju Hisama's attention.

"Oh! He's here! He's here! That stylish man has finally arrived!"

"Oh!"

On the battlefield, after shedding the heavy armor that served as height-increasing armor, Onoki, revealing his true form, easily and effortlessly knocked Danzo and his two companions to the ground with overwhelming force.

"Whew. How much time is left?"

Danzo, his mouth agape and eyes closed, was panting heavily. He whispered a question to Hanzo, who had reverted to his "human stick" form beside him.

"20 seconds."

The successive heavy blows completely crippled Hanzo's already sluggish processing system; now, its only function is as a stopwatch.

"I'll hold them off for the last 20 seconds."

Xiu, who had been lying face up on the ground, struggled to his feet. He glanced at the two collapsing puppet knights behind him, gritted his teeth, and twitched his bloodied fingers a few times.

"Click~ Click~ Click~"

A sickening metallic scraping sound suddenly rang out.

"Heh, you haven't given up yet?"

After dealing with the three, Onoki's anger subsided considerably. He didn't continue his violence against them. Seeing the two nearly broken puppets charging at him again, he merely chuckled twice and tossed out two red lava energy projectiles.

"Oh!"

"Snapped!"

The Seven-Tailed Puppet Knight and the Nine-Tailed Puppet Knight fell one after another, turning into a pile of fragments, with screws and springs of various sizes flying everywhere.

"Crack!"

Under Xiu's grief-stricken gaze, Onoki stepped on the head of the Seven-Tailed Knight puppet that had rolled down in front of him, glanced down at the exquisitely crafted 1:1 scale figure, and a sneer spread across his face.

"This kind of trash should stay away from me in the future, or I'll beat him up every time I see him."

"Boom!"

Having said that, he used the Weighted Rock Technique to crush the steel puppet's head to pieces with one stomp.

"You! Pfft!"

Seeing his hard work trampled on by Onoki, Xiu was so enraged that he couldn't hold back and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"So, are you all ready to cooperate fully, or come back with me to experience Iwagakure's unique services?"

Onoki kicked away the shattered head of the Seven-Tailed Knight, his tone filled with a strong threat.

"Lord Shu, Lord Danzo, we are sorry, it is all because of our Land of Rain that you have been implicated."

Hanzo stared at the countdown in his mind, now zero, his heart filled with guilt.

The powerful support that Hydrangea had promised did not materialize, and if Shu and Danzo, who had been defeated alongside him, were captured and humiliated, he would be held responsible.

"What's the use of saying all this now? Just remember not to trust your subordinates too much next time."

With time running out and the reinforcements Hanzo had so desperately hoped for failing to arrive, and with no news from his Root organization either, Danzo felt a pang of sorrow as he realized they had become, in a sense, strangers in the same boat.

"A ninja must have the mindset of a ninja; if one's skills are inferior, one should willingly admit defeat."

Xiu shook his head slightly, appearing remarkably calm. Since he had used all his trump cards but still failed to cause any real harm to Onoki, being captured, taken prisoner, and humiliated was only to be expected; this was the fate of a ninja.

"It seems you don't want to cooperate."

Seeing the three of them chatting away as if no one else was around, a flash of annoyance crossed Onoki's eyes.

He hated being ignored the most, and immediately reached out to twist off Hanzo's head to take back and study it.

"Sorry, you can't take my client away."

However, just before his hand was about to touch Hanzo's metal head, a large, silvery-white hand suddenly appeared and blocked his way.

"what?"

"You hid one too?"

Upon hearing the unfamiliar voice, everyone present looked up in surprise. Danzo blinked after recognizing the person, then turned to the bewildered Xiu and asked,

"Without me."

"Teacher, I'll handle this puppet. You can rest now."

Following behind Onoki, Komurasaki couldn't see the sudden seriousness that rose on his teacher's face. Like Danzo, he assumed that this suddenly appearing Seven-Tails Knight was Shuzo's trump card, and eagerly clenched his fists as he stepped forward.

"Little Purple, no."

Having confirmed the identity of the person before him, Onoki noticed his disciple's reckless behavior and immediately spoke up to warn him.

"Oh!"

In the end, it was too late. Little Purple had just taken a step when she was punched dozens of meters away by the silver-white Hercules Knight, crashing heavily next to the unconscious Han and accompanying him into his dream.

"This is your successor? Tsk tsk tsk~ How about your Iwagakure village move over and transfer one of the five great nations' spots to our Takigakure village?"

The silver-white knight slowly withdrew his large hand, teasingly remarking in a sarcastic tone.

"Melting Fist!"

Onoki did not refute. At this moment, the most appropriate response was to use his fists. He unleashed a scorching lava fist.

"boom!"

A terrifying gust of wind swept past, and Danzo and the others who were closest instinctively raised their hands to block it.

Except for Hanzo the Human Stick.

Under the overwhelming force of the punch, the silver-white knight not only did not dodge, but instead drew his short blade from his waist with a snap and swung it fiercely.

"Bang!!!"

The next second, the shockwave from the collision of the giant fist and the sword blade shot into the sky, blowing the temporarily immobilized Danzo and his two companions off balance.

"what!"

Danzo, unable to control his body, was about to plunge headfirst into the muddy swamp when a thin young man suddenly appeared from the darkness and caught him.

"Hoohoo. Who are you?"

Danzo, who had almost ruined his reputation, breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the young man who had saved him with eyes full of gratitude.

After officially recognizing Danzo, the handsome young man scratched his face shyly, mustered his courage, and spoke.

"Hello, I'm Qianyi, Grandpa Laodu's assistant. This rescue service comes with an extra charge." (End of Chapter)