Yagura had been keeping an eye on Rengoku's movements all along, yet what made him feel at ease was, perhaps it was for the glory of the Uchiha, or perhaps it was for his own sake.
Rengoku didn't choose to pursue Juzo and Zabuza, but stayed in place.
Watching as coral appeared on Susanoo, Rengoku directly canceled Susanoo and walked out from the gaps.
This place had been fought over for too long, and there were no longer any living beings around.
Rengoku at the moment did not have the disease of putting on airs, and he wasn't standing there posing, he was simply waiting for the place to be cleared of people.
Because what he was going to do next couldn't see the light of day.
"You know, running into me counts as your bad luck."
After everyone had left, Rengoku also stopped pretending. His eyes narrowed slightly, and then his eye power burst out:
Amaterasu!
As Yagura felt a tightness in his heart, black flames suddenly slammed down on his body.
"AHHH… UHHH… AHHH…"
The intense pain made Yagura let out a shrill and miserable howl. He rolled continuously on the ground, but couldn't extinguish the black flames.
Yagura had never encountered Amaterasu before and didn't know how to dispel it.
Amid the heart-wrenching screams, in just a few seconds, he was burned into unconsciousness.
Rengoku extinguished the Amaterasu and walked to the already half-cooked Yagura.
He stretched out his hand, and with a "bang" summoned a crow.
With the other hand, he pried open Yagura's eyelid, and the four-cornered windmill in the crow's eyes began to spin.
———
[Let's rewind time to before the Nine-Tails went on a rampage.]
Konan detonated the explosive tags brought by Hyuga Koshin, and those tags in turn triggered the ones placed by Genno twenty years ago in Konoha.
There were many detonation mechanisms for explosive tags, and the one Konan used was chakra-triggered and impact-triggered.
After Konan's tags began detonating, the other tags also followed in a chain of sacrificial explosions.
The Hokage Rock collapsing was just the beginning.
Genno had already turned the old street district into a zone full of explosive tags.
And now, the entire area was filled with Sarutobi clansmen.
The Third Hokage originally thought that if the entire Uchiha clan mobilized, then these clansmen would be the key to suppressing them.
But since the Uchiha hadn't left their clan grounds, the Third Hokage only deployed three squads to block the breach and annihilate the incoming enemy.
From the moment the distant explosive tags triggered to when the ones in front of them exploded, only a few seconds had passed.
About seventy people stationed there were doomed, most didn't even have time to react.
With a loud roar, more than ten people were instantly blown to death.
Dozens more suffered severe injuries.
Everyone else was injured to varying degrees…
"AH AH…"
"Why are there explosive tags…"
"Ah… my leg… my leg…"
"I can't see…"
"My hand AH!…"
The scene was full of crying and wailing, and the pain of lost limbs was something not everyone could endure.
Even the Sarutobi clan was the same, the smell of burnt flesh and bloody limbs was smeared all over the ground.
In an instant, over half of the seventy-plus people had lost their combat ability.
At that moment, out of the smoke of the explosion, Hyuga Koshin was the first to arrive at the scene.
"How could this be?", Koshin showed a shocked expression, but in truth, his eyes hid the pleasure of revenge.
"Hurry and save people! The lightly injured, stand up and gather the severely injured!"
"The medical unit will arrive soon! Everyone hold on!"
"Quick! Listen to Elder Koshin! Save the wounded first!"
With a backbone to rely on, the Sarutobi clansmen quickly sprang into action.
In the chaos, no one thought to question why Elder Koshin of the Hyuga clan arrived here so quickly, and alone.
No one thought to ask why the Hyuga clan, supposed to monitor the whole village, hadn't discovered these explosive tags.
The Sarutobi only felt reassured and quickly began gathering the severely wounded together, waiting for the non-existent medical unit.
After all, they were all shinobi, the lightly injured could still move quickly to help others.
In a short time, over seventy people were gathered. More than twenty were seriously injured, missing arms or legs.
Another fifty had lighter injuries, at least they still had all their limbs.
Sarutobi Ryogen and Hyuga Sota hurried over at this moment.
The former had just led others to seal off the village walls.
The latter had been on standby in the clan. Once a Tailed Beast Bomb erupted in the village, the nature of the situation changed completely.
After receiving the news, the two immediately rushed over.
They saw limbs all over the ground, and Hyuga Koshin directing rescue efforts.
Sarutobi Ryogen and Hyuga Sota were both stunned.
Immediately after, Ryogen burned with anger, "Elder Koshin! Why did this happen? Isn't the Hyuga clan in charge of monitoring Konoha?"
"Why didn't you discover these explosive tags?"
Koshin was helping a Sarutobi clansman with a broken leg to the gathering point.
As he walked toward the lightly injured, he replied, "How could we not notice? My clansmen had long reported the tags to me."
"But the Main House wouldn't report it to the Hokage, what could I do?", Koshin's calm words spread out, and even the severely injured Sarutobi forgot to cry out in pain.
Because in the next moment, Koshin opened his clothes, and underneath were layers of explosive tags.
And those explosive tags had already begun to sizzle.
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
Koshin stopped pretending. He burst out laughing, his face ferocious, "Years ago, Hiruzen made my lord Hiashi take the blame and die! THIS IS MY REVENGE!"
As he spoke, Koshin leapt toward the center of the lightly injured group.
A huge sense of dread filled Sota's eyes.
He didn't even have time to exchange a few words with Koshin, just locked eyes with him once.
Then—
BOOM!!
A massive explosion sent a huge cloud of dust into the air, and the ground trembled violently.
The enormous blast and flying steel nails caused body parts and blood to fly everywhere nearby.
The seriously injured were splashed full in the face.
"Ah… it hurts…"
"My leg…"
"I can't see…"
"Ah, steel nails…"
The lightly and seriously injured camps were adjacent, and Koshin's self-destruction was clearly well-prepared, he even brought a large amount of steel nails.
The explosion and the flying steel nails sent more than twenty people straight to the afterlife.
Many of the lightly injured lost arms and legs.
Even those who escaped the explosion were struck by the flying nails and turned into severely wounded.
Sarutobi Ryogen broke out in cold sweat as he turned to Sota and said, "Thank you. Sota."
If Sota hadn't pulled him back during his leap, Ryogen might already be dead.
Sota wasn't acting out of compassion, he had read the final expression in Lord Koshin's eyes.
He needed a mouthpiece to spread his message.
Sota's face was pale, but he had hidden all his sorrow.
He shook his head and said, "This matter is troublesome. Let's save people first. I need to go report, please excuse me."
Ryogen looked at the groaning clansmen all over the ground, his heart aching to the point of suffocation.
If it were just injuries, they might recover.
But with lost limbs, they would have to withdraw from battle forever.
No wonder Hyuga Koshin had been so passionate about directing the rescue.
When he died, he dragged even more wounded Sarutobi clansmen down with him.
Koshin's final self-destruction directly affected over fifty people.
This revenge was nothing short of ruthless.
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