Chapter 333 The Last and the Last

From the day I became a ninja, fighting became the essence, for the country, the village, the family, and the companions...

Along the way, my hands and even my whole body were soaked in blood so thick that it could never be dissolved. There was no right or wrong, and there was no need to think about right or wrong. This was the mission.

The word death, or this phenomenon, gradually became commonplace in the process of war and missions.

On the road paved with blood and corpses, I have seen countless faces showing different expressions before death. From the initial clarity, to being covered and blurred by new images, some have disappeared, and more , it was blurred into one piece.

All the faces, even if they are blurred, even if they disappear, when the things expressed by those expressions converge to the end, they have the same thing that remains, and that is fear, the fear of imminent death and imminent departure from this world.

After killing countless people... he should also end up being killed.

As long as you are still a ninja, as long as you are still fighting for the village... this ending will come only sooner or later.

So, I am about to usher in this moment, right? However, I didn't feel any fear at all. It wasn't because I was used to seeing the expressions of countless enemies before they died, so I was numb, but... I had already realized the consciousness called dedication and sacrifice.

Kakashi, it seems that I can’t wait until you get married and have children... But fortunately, I should have fulfilled my responsibilities as a father before meeting this moment, right? Right, Kakashi?

The blurred faces were torn apart by the light, and a familiar female figure was looming in the light.

"It's time to come to you. Before that, wait for me a little longer. Just a little while is enough. Wait until I use up the last bit of my strength."

With a low roar, he cut off the tree roots and iron ropes that imprisoned his body, and used his last strength to slash the last remaining light of his life towards the scorpion!

In the distance, Ye Zi's pupils shrank sharply. He didn't expect that Shuomao could still swing the knife in this situation.

"scorpion…"

At this moment, he could only watch this scene, unable to do anything.

"Obviously poisoned...!?"

Facing this knife, Xie did not despair. He was shocked that Sakumo was still able to move and had already made preparations to escape.

The last knife fell on Scorpion's body, and endless brilliance bloomed suddenly, forming a bud-like light group that enveloped Scorpion's body. Wind and thunder surged at this moment, tearing Scorpion's body into countless pieces, but at the same time, it was imprisoned in In the light group.

With this last slash, the last bit of strength was drained away.

Since the beginning of the war, Sakumo's always indifferent expression gradually relaxed, and his eyelids slowly drooped as if helplessly. At the last moment before facing the darkness, Kakashi held the short sword and turned around with an excited smile.

I'm done here...I'll leave the rest to you.

Bang!

The light ball formed by the wind and thunder exploded in vain, and the countless coin-sized fragments trapped in it exploded like fireworks and scattered in all directions. At a glance, they looked like a group of dancing butterflies.

The arm holding the knife fell weakly, and then, the bloody body slowly fell forward and was submerged into the flying debris.

The strong man of Konoha...Hatake Sakumoge, his glorious life stopped here and he fell.

At this moment, a tree root quietly came up, snaked up from his feet, and wrapped around his body. At this time, he did not fall to the ground like this.

Ye Zi walked forward step by step, stretched out his palm, caught a fragment flying in it, slowly held it in his hand, and then came to Shuomao's side.

At this time, all the flying fragments fell to the ground.

"Perish together?"

Ye Zi turned his head and looked at Shuomao, who had his eyes closed tightly, with a complicated expression. He slowly opened his fist, revealing the fragments in his palm, and then turned it over, letting the fragments fall to the ground.

That last slash revealed Hatake Sakumo's will.

For the sake of Konoha Village, we have achieved this level. Although our positions are different, the awareness and efforts are the same. You...you are doing it for the village, and I...

"I'm not dead yet." At this time, a voice came from the side.

Ye Zi's thoughts changed and he looked in the direction of the sound with slight shock. A broken puppet slowly stood up.

This puppet has lost one arm and one leg, but at least the entire torso is still there, which is in better condition than the puppets scattered on the ground.

"If I hadn't acted quickly, I would have been dragged into hell by White Fang." The Scorpion Queen's fearful tone was clearly evident, and she controlled the broken puppet, hopping on one foot, and came to Ye Zi's side.

Ye Zi looked at the puppet in front of him, his eyes passing by the circular core with the word 'scorpion' painted on it, and he suddenly became enlightened.

Sensing Ye Zi's gaze, Xie looked at Shuomao's body and sneered: "Yes, at the last moment, my core separated in time, otherwise it would have been torn into pieces."

"As long as you're not dead, can you still continue fighting?" Ye Zi said.

"No." Xie shook his head slightly. With his current state and chakra, he had lost the ability to fight.

It is equivalent to saying that Sakumo, in a certain death situation, used his last sword to kill one of Akatsuki's powerful combat forces, which also relieved a lot of pressure on Konoha's companions.

After Xie answered Ye Zi's question, he continued to stare at Shuomao and said calmly: "Although I won't win with force, I won in the end."

On the side, Ye Zi watched silently, thinking that with Xie's style, the final result of Shuomao's body would be to be used by Xie to make a puppet.

Subconsciously, Ye Zi was opposed to Scorpion's approach, but thinking that he would be reincarnated in the dirt and regard Shuomao as one of his combat forces, he laughed at himself in the bottom of his heart. What qualifications did he have to oppose Scorpion's approach?

"It's a pity that I died... I can't make an adult puppet. The purpose of the paralysis poison is to keep the enemy alive. I didn't expect you to be able to..." Because it is an ordinary puppet, it can't even make a normal expression, but at this time , Scorpio's mood is extremely complicated.

As an enemy who killed his father and mother, he actually developed respect for Sakumo, which is really ridiculous... So, the difference between humans and puppets lies in this.

"Ye Zi, I don't have any fighting power right now, so I don't have the energy to support anymore." Xie avoided Sakumo's body and jumped on one foot towards the remains of the third-generation Fengkage puppet. Forget about the other puppets, the third-generation Fengkage Shadow's puppet was made with great difficulty, so we always wanted to see if there was any possibility of repairing it.

After collecting the remains of the Third Wind Shadow Puppet, he looked at Ye Zi and said, "Next, I need to find a safe place and recover my body first."

Now that this place is not far from the battle circle, he must first ensure his own safety, and then personally create a human puppet as a host body.

"Okay." Ye Zi nodded.

"I'll leave the rest to you." Xie said, then turned and left.

Seeing this, Ye Zi was slightly stunned, and asked in a strange tone: "Why, don't you want to use White Fang's body to make a puppet?"

Xie stopped with his back to Ye Zi and said coldly: "After this battle, I understand that no matter how many puppets there are, it is useless. Compared with quantity, quality is the key. White Ya is dead and does not have the ability to make puppets." The conditions of a human puppet, even if his corpse is made into a puppet, it will be an ordinary puppet at best."

"Now, I don't need such a puppet."

After saying that, Scorpion walked away into the distance. In this battle, the scene of Sakumo easily destroying many puppets has been deeply ingrained in his mind, and it also made him fully understand that the power of the puppet master is not based on the power of the puppets. Quantity wins.

From now on, he will no longer make ordinary puppets. The puppets he wants to control can only be human puppets made by living people, and they must be made by strong people!

Looking at Xie Xie's leaving figure, Ye Zi's eyes showed a complicated meaning. Is it unnecessary? Still don’t want to? It doesn't matter, the next step is to immediately support others.

Ye Zi looked at the place where the wooden clones were fighting. Suddenly, his face changed slightly. In the distance, the strong trees were growing at a crazy speed.

"The tree world is coming...have you used it?"

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Konoha Village.

On the quiet residential street, five boys and girls walked side by side, divided into Kakashi, Obito, and Lin from Class 7, as well as Kai and Kurenai who were from Class 9.

The five of them lined up in a line and walked towards the commercial street. The reason was that Akai had just completed an S-level mission and received a lot of reward, so he decided to treat everyone to a barbecue.

There is free barbecue to eat, so no one will refuse it.

Obito put his head in his hands and kept trying to find ways to talk to Lin, while Kakashi put his hands in his pockets with a lazy look on his face, turning a deaf ear to Obito's muttering words.

Kurenai would sometimes interject a few words into the conversation between Lin and Obito. As for Kai, he was walking upside down, but it was not training, so he maintained the same speed as everyone else.

At this moment, it seemed as if a powerful arm slowly reached towards Kakashi's back, pressed on it, and pushed gently.

Kakashi's body, which was walking at a constant speed, suddenly leaned forward, took several steps, and passed the people beside him.

His lazy expression turned into confusion.

Kakashi's sudden move made others stunned. They stopped and looked at Kakashi with a puzzled look on their faces.

Akai, who was walking upside down, turned over and jumped to Kakashi's side. His strong palms pressed on the shoulders of Kakashi, who was bewildered. A big smile appeared on his face, revealing a pair of shining white teeth.

"Kakashi, can't you wait to eat the barbecue I invited you? I'm so touched, don't worry, when you get to the barbecue restaurant, feel free to eat!"

Obito immediately pointed at Kakashi and mocked: "Kakashi, I don't see you being so active in eating meat. Is it because this is a treat? I didn't expect you to be such a person."

Kakashi ignored the two of them and frowned slightly. After a moment, he relaxed his brows, glanced at Obito, turned his face, let out a low sigh of disgust, and then slowly raised his head and looked into the sky.

A gust of breeze came, carrying several green leaves, floating from his sight, and a graceful green figure came into his eyes.

Seeing Kakashi's disgusted sigh, a crossroads suddenly formed on Obito's forehead.

Lin quietly looked at Kakashi who was staring up at the sky, with a trace of worry in his eyes.