"Finally... finally got rid of him..."

In the underground base of Root, the vast dark space was in chaos. Looking at the three circular giant pits where everything in front of them had been swallowed and sealed, the remaining Root Ninjas finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's not in vain to sacrifice so many Ninjas..."

"Finally got rid of the threat of Scarlet Yu..."

Seeing Yu and all the Devil Puppets being sealed into corpses by his three Ninjas, Danzo on the other side also breathed a sigh of relief. Sacrificing so many Root Ninjas finally removed the thorn in his side, Yu.

"Terai, dispose of these corpses. I'm going to the Hokage..."

After ending the battle, Danzo picked up the white bandage from the ground, intending to instruct his ninjas subordinates to clean up the devastated Root base.

Crackle!!

Before he could finish speaking, Danzo trembled all over, his eyes widened in disbelief. A black hand, gathering violent electric currents, pierced directly through his heart from behind.

"Zi zi zi..."

It sounded as if thousands of birds were constantly chirping. The dazzling blue-white lightning illuminated Danzo's face with an expression of unparalleled sharpness.

"You..."

Suddenly, his heart was pierced and crushed by the Lightning Release: Chidori.

Danzo turned his head with some effort to look at the white-haired youth who appeared out of nowhere behind him. The expression on Danzo's face seemed like he wanted to devour him alive!

"How does it feel?"

"Surprised? Astonished?"

Coming out from Kaio's alternate space and launching Chidori directly through Danzo's heart, Yu looked at Danzo's twisted expression with a smirk spreading across his face. "Knowing full well about my Space-Time ability, yet still sacrificing the lives of so many ninjas just to gamble on that slim chance of killing me. I really can't decide whether to call you naive or foolish..."

"You damn brat... Aaargh!!!"

Immediately, the wildly violent electric currents of Chidori spread throughout Danzo's body, relentlessly destroying every cell. The intense pain combined with his anger, causing Danzo to finally burst into a hysterical roar.

"Danzo-sama!!"

The remaining ninjas around were all shocked by the sudden turn of events.

"Die! I'll seal you into a corpse, then disappear into the void of dreams!!"

Long-suppressed anger filled Danzo's heart. The lone Sharingan on his pale arm began to spin, and the Reverse Four Symbols Seal inscribed on his body erupted in an instant. The black Four Symbols Cursed Seal emerged around him and Yu.

"Tch..."

Sensing Danzo's intent, Yu unleashed the full power of his S-rank Lightning Release Ninjutsu Chidori, directly shattering Danzo's body. "You think you can seal me into your corpse, use Izanagi to revive yourself, and then let me disappear forever with your vanishing body? Don't be naive, old man!!"

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Whoosh!!

However, the Reverse Four Symbols Seal had already erupted. The power of Danzo's terrifying Sealing Jutsu unleashed by this move was incomparable to the Root ninjas from earlier.

"All they felt was a flash of black light, and in the blink of an eye, the entire central hall of the Root underground base was completely swallowed and sealed away by a massive black sphere. Everything disappeared without a trace, leaving only a circular pit hundreds of meters in diameter in the middle.

"You guys keep going! Kill him at all costs!"

However, after utilizing Izanagi to turn his own death into a dream, Danzo reappeared with his Sharingan already deactivated on his right arm, his face turning pale with rage. Having experienced the battle just now, he knew that Yu, who possessed Space-Time abilities, wouldn't be easily defeated by him. So he decisively gave orders to the remaining ninjas present and then used Body Flicker to escape outside himself.

Yu's formidable tactics kept coming, and his strength had completely exceeded Danzo's expectations. Having narrowly escaped death by sacrificing two Sharingan to activate Izanagi, Danzo no longer had confidence in winning this battle.

"Heh, sending his own ninjas to their deaths while he himself flees in fear of death..."

Indeed, just as Danzo fled, the next moment, a large air gate opened in the center of the circular pit before him, and Yu slowly emerged from Kaio's alternate space. Seeing Danzo's actions, Yu sneered with disdain.

Just as he was about to pursue and kill him, the remaining Root ninjas present received Danzo's command. They fearlessly rushed forward, embracing the idea of dying together, attacking relentlessly instead of defending, successfully halting his footsteps for a moment.

"Water Release: Hard Vortex Water Blade!!"

Kicking away several ninjas who had approached him with Explosive Tags ignited on their bodies, intending to engage him in close combat Taijutsu, Yu quickly condensed a piercingly roaring Hard Vortex Water Blade in his hand. The destructive waterspout erupted, fiercely blasting them all away.

"So, this is Root..."

Watching the ninjas around him fearlessly charging forward, still willing to die alongside him, Yu found himself unable to comprehend their mindset.

Danzo's actions undoubtedly treated them as disposable tools and pawns at any moment, yet these ninjas seemed to have no fear as if they lacked any thoughts at all.

Was Danzo's brainwashing so successful?

Did they truly believe, as Danzo said, that they were the shadows secretly protecting Konoha?

Yu couldn't understand, but his actions of killing never paused. No matter what ideals and aspirations these Root ninjas had, if they stood in his way, they could only meet death.

In just a few moments, Yu swiftly dealt with all the remaining ninjas present as if they were crumbling ruins. Watching the direction Danzo fled, he immediately activated Lightning Body Flicker to pursue.

However, upon reaching the underground exit of the Root base, Yu noticed that both sides of the long corridor were covered with countless densely packed Explosive Tags.

"Setting traps here to hinder my progress and attempting to kill me... How absurd..."

A disdainful curve formed at the corner of his mouth. Faced with numerous Explosive Tags at the exit of the corridor, Yu's Lightning Body Flicker erupted with full force, accelerating instead and directly bursting out.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"

Countless Explosive Tags were detonated simultaneously, deafening explosions rang out incessantly, causing the exit of the Root base to collapse, stirring up billowing smoke.

"What a bunch of despicable scum..."

"Just to save his own live and that slim chance of killing me, he would bury alive so many of his surviving ninjas subordinates..."

In the swirling dust, Yu's figure gradually emerged. Occasionally, flashes of dazzling lightning streaked across his Armament Haki-blackened body. At the critical moment, just before all the Explosive Tags exploded, he dashed out with his own speed.

However, soon, Yu's gaze sharpened because his Observation Haki sensed that over a hundred ninjas had gathered around him, with even more ninjas continuously rushing towards this location.

"Hmph, so they went to fetch reinforcements..."

"But even if the Six Paths Sage were to resurrect today, they wouldn't be able to save you."

Yu snorted coldly. He knew that the commotion caused here, along with the signal Danzo sent out, had attracted countless Konoha ninjas rushing to this location.

With that thought, Yu's gaze turned cold, and his figure gradually disappeared into the emerald green alternate space opened by Kaio.

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