Chapter 40: Attacking Konoha? Are You Dreaming?
Ink-like black energy spewed from Danzo's chest. This black energy was not chakra, and it gave off a very ominous feeling.
The pitch-black energy splattered outward like ink. Obito had half of his body submerged into the stone bridge. As for Sasuke, he had been slowly advancing toward Danzo earlier. Hearing Obito's shout, Sasuke wanted to retreat, but he was too close to Danzo, and due to the previous battle, his stamina was over 90% depleted. Escaping the sealing technique's range on his own speed was nearly impossible.
At the center of the sealing technique, Danzo tilted his head back, enduring unimaginable agony—a sensation of his soul being violently torn apart.
The so-called Four Symbols Seal was almost a suicide sealing technique meant to take the enemy down with you. After using this technique, regardless of the user's condition, the user would die. That was the definition of the Four Symbols Seal: sealing everything around into the user's corpse.
Danzo knew he couldn't escape death today, so he activated this technique. Perhaps he had long anticipated this day, which was why he had pre-arranged the Four Symbols Seal on his chest.
The ink-like black energy flowed across the bridge surface. Suddenly, that black energy began to splatter.
Boom!
A black sphere appeared with Danzo at its center. Sasuke, who was quickly retreating, jerked his head back, narrowly avoiding being hit by the black sphere. Though he didn't know what it was, he was certain of one thing: he must not touch it.
The black sphere expanded abruptly after appearing, growing from tens of meters to over a hundred meters.
Everything touched by the black sphere vanished, as if instantly disintegrated. In reality, that wasn't the case—the vanished things were sealed inside Danzo's body.
A semicircular crater appeared on the stone bridge, its clean cut as if meticulously crafted by an artisan.
At this moment, Danzo was suspended in midair, at the center of the Four Symbols Seal. His consciousness was fading. In his final moments, he thought of one person.
"Even at the end, I never became Hokage."
As Danzo's words fell, the black sphere around him disappeared. The moment it vanished, Danzo immediately lost all signs of life, as if his life had been cut off.
With a thud, Danzo landed in the semicircular pit at the center of the stone bridge. Danzo was dead, but he was smiling—because he had left nothing for his enemies.
The moment the Four Symbols Seal ended, Danzo used a secret technique to destroy the Shisui's Sharingan in his right eye socket, as well as his entire brain.
If Danzo's body were dissected at this point, it would be found that his brain was like paste.
Though Danzo's corpse appeared intact, he died without a complete body. Destroying Shisui's Sharingan was to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, and destroying his brain was to prevent the leakage of Konoha's classified intelligence.
Beside the crater on the bridge, Obito's breathing was slightly rapid. The Four Symbols Seal was no joke. If hit by this technique, no matter how strong his spatial abilities were, he would be dragged into Danzo's body and sealed within.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
A dry cough came from beside Obito. It was Sasuke. He hadn't been sucked into the Four Symbols Seal.
A clear eagle cry came from the sky. A large eagle soared overhead—this was Sasuke's summoning beast.
Given Sasuke's condition, he couldn't have escaped the Four Symbols Seal's range. It was that summoning beast that saved him at the critical moment.
Obito looked at Danzo's corpse in the pit and spoke:
"That was a sealing technique that sucks the enemy into the user's corpse. It seems he had this technique prepared long ago."
"..."
Sasuke remained silent, just staring at Danzo's corpse. His expression clearly showed the loneliness and emptiness after successful revenge.
"Next, we head to Konoha."
Sasuke's tone was resolute. Hearing this, Obito's expression stiffened beneath his mask. He felt that after killing Danzo, this young man had clearly become overconfident.
If Sasuke attacked Konoha now, it would be like throwing an egg against a rock. His Susanoo was indeed formidable, but facing Konoha's large number of ninjas, he would quickly be surrounded and killed. Whether he could even break into Konoha Village was uncertain.
When Su Xiao and Nagato attacked Konoha earlier, they didn't launch a direct assault. First, they used the Animal Path to summon a large number of summoning beasts, causing chaos. Then the Animal Path reverse-summoned the other five Pains. Su Xiao broke through the barrier from the outside, drawing Konoha's attention. Using the opportunity Su Xiao created, the six Pains launched a surprise attack inside Konoha, preventing the Konoha ninjas from regrouping. Finally, the Deva Path cleared the field, taking out most of the ninjas in one move.
As for Sasuke attacking Konoha with his current strength, he was overthinking it.
"Konoha, huh."
Obito didn't directly answer Sasuke, clearly not wanting to hurt his pride. He simply jumped into the pit and approached Danzo's corpse.
"I need to retrieve this guy's Sharingan. Sasuke, don't be too impatient. Head back to the base and rest first. Your eye power is overused. If this continues..."
Obito activated his eye power, sucking Danzo's corpse into the Kamui dimension.
Seeming unwilling to linger, Obito leaped out of the pit and walked toward Su Xiao's direction.
Su Xiao had witnessed Danzo's death from start to finish, but he didn't intervene. Intervening now would be thankless effort and might even get him caught in Danzo's sealing technique.
"Time to pull out. White Zetsu sensed pursuers."
Obito came to find Su Xiao to retreat, but he hadn't mentioned the pursuers to Sasuke earlier.
"Pursuers?"
Su Xiao's eyes narrowed. He had been waiting for pursuers. This was a golden opportunity, because the one chasing them was the protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki—the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. He wanted to try capturing Naruto before the Great Ninja War began and see what would happen.
"At least a few dozen people. Some are Konoha ninjas, but more are unfamiliar faces."
"A few dozen?"
Su Xiao was somewhat surprised by the number of pursuers. According to the original intelligence, there were only a few pursuers. The identities of the other few dozen were obvious.
Naruto Uzumaki was undoubtedly a Lawful Good protagonist. This type of protagonist was the most popular. As long as there was no hatred or hostility, such a protagonist wouldn't easily kill others and was relatively easy to negotiate with.
Due to his unfortunate childhood, Naruto had developed an optimistic and positive personality. Negotiating with this kind of protagonist, as long as you didn't harbor ill intentions and proactively built goodwill, could bring considerable benefits.
It was easy to imagine that Naruto would be surrounded by a large number of contractors, each using their own methods to interact with him—naturally, all with friendly intentions.
As for Su Xiao, don't even joke about it. If he met Naruto, the fact that the guy didn't immediately go berserk with tails already showed that Naruto was remarkably calm.
Think carefully about what Su Xiao had done: capturing Naruto's close friend Gaara, cutting down Naruto's teacher Kakashi, attacking Naruto's home village of Konoha, severing Hinata's arm, and killing Naruto's friend Kiba Inuzuka.
With that in mind, their relationship was no longer just hostile—it was mortal enmity!