Chapter 250 The Brainless Masked Man
Having figured this out, Haruko slowed down as she left, quickly analyzing the situation in her mind.
It seems that either this masked man is weaker than Minato Namikaze, or his true identity is connected to Minato Namikaze.
Before Haruko could sift through the people around Minato Namikaze to identify suspects, the masked man made his move.
As they approached the masked man at the door, Minato and Haruko positioned themselves to flank him from the left and right, creating immense psychological pressure on him.
Seeing that they were about to reach him, the masked man trembled and threw the baby behind him. As Minato Namikaze rushed to catch it, he activated his eye technique on Haruko.
Haruko's pupils contracted sharply when she met the blood-red Sharingan eyes.
That's the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan!
This masked man is actually a member of the Uchiha clan!
The truth was so chilling that Haruko couldn't dodge it immediately and fell into the illusion.
The next second, she quickly activated her pupil technique, breaking the illusion and regaining her senses. A ball of light, which had turned from pale yellow to fiery red, was approaching her.
It's a bomb!
With a deafening roar, Haruko only had time to raise her hands to protect herself before being thrown from her spot by the powerful explosion.
On the other side, Minato Namikaze, who had just landed on the ground, hadn't even had time to feel relieved that the child was alright when his fingers, which were holding the swaddled baby, suddenly touched something that shouldn't be there.
This is... an explosive tag!
The runes on the explosive tag emitted a faint glow, causing the surrounding air to tremble.
Minato Namikaze's expression froze. Just as the explosive tag was about to detonate, he unwrapped the baby and threw it away, tightly protecting the child in his arms as he was blasted away by the blast wave.
The ground shook violently, and the wooden house that served as a makeshift delivery room collapsed from the inside, with wood chips and rubble flying everywhere, and the shock of the explosion spreading outwards in concentric circles.
As the explosion subsided, the once sturdy wooden house was reduced to a chaotic ruin, with only the approximate base remaining.
As the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, Haruko, who had been blown out of the house and was lying on the lawn, was revealed, along with Minato Namikaze, whose leg was injured in the distance. Ignoring the stinging pain, he bent down to check if the child was alright.
Haruko struggled to sit up, inwardly cursing the brainless masked man.
Was it really necessary to use so many explosive tags just to deal with the two of them?!
The amount he used was enough to blow up Konoha!
After regaining some strength in her limbs, Haruko struggled to her feet. Not seeing Kushina in the delivery room, her heart sank. It seemed the masked man had already taken her away.
"Lord Hokage, I'm going after the enemy!"
After nodding to her, Minato Namikaze pulled out the wooden splinter embedded in his calf, wrapped his arms around the child, and used the Body Flicker Technique to return to the pre-marked home.
In the middle of a deep blue expanse of water, a rock lies still, and above it hangs a red-haired woman, creating an inexplicably eerie scene.
Black curse marks extended from Kushina's limbs, transforming into terrifying, hard chains of cursed runes that tightly bound the massive stones standing on either side.
Kushina had not yet recovered from the weakness after giving birth, and cold sweat kept seeping from her forehead.
She managed to utter a strained, breathy voice: "What...are you going to do..."
With no one threatening him, the masked man's voice became noticeably calmer as he uttered sinister words: "Drag the Nine-Tails out of your body and destroy Konoha."
Kushina, her head bowed, stared at him in disbelief, her pupils dilating in surprise. "What...did you say?"
"Instantly moving from one space to another from the space marked with the technique is Minato Namikaze's Body Flicker Technique. That mark is also drawn in your sealing technique."
The crimson three-tomoe symbolizing the Uchiha clan began to swirl in his eyes. Without saying a word, the masked man used the eye technique he had learned to project it into the consciousness space where the Nine-Tails resided.
In a warm and harmonious world of consciousness, a bewitching and terrifying nine-tailed demon is nailed to a massive stone at the very center.
Taking advantage of the Jinchūriki's weakness, it struggled and thrashed about in an attempt to escape the seal, but its mind was suddenly controlled by the Sharingan, and it immediately unleashed a violent howl.
With the Sharingan activated, the chains and nails binding Kurama gradually melted away.
However, the seal slowed down when it was halfway melted, and no matter how much chakra the masked man increased, the chains could not be completely broken.
"Damn it! What's going on!" The masked man couldn't help but feel impatient.
Haruko, who had been running all the way, arrived here and saw Kushina, who was being held in the middle of a rock, her eyes unfocused and unable to even scream in pain.
Her pent-up anger finally erupted: "Let Kushina go!"
As she charged toward the masked man, Haruko kept forming hand seals, unleashing a barrage of deadly attacks like a tsunami.
Interrupted by her sudden attack, the masked man barely managed to dodge the attack and broke out in a cold sweat.
It's over, the Nine-Tails has only broken half of its seal!
His concern wasn't that the Nine-Tails wouldn't be able to emerge; on the contrary, half of his chakra was enough for the Nine-Tails to take human form. What he was truly worried about was that the contract would be broken, and the Nine-Tails would be out of his control!
A dense jumble of thoughts swirled in his mind, and the masked man, momentarily distracted, had his foot severed by an extremely sharp stream of water.
"Aaaaaah—!"
He collapsed to the ground in pain, his hands reaching out to grab his remaining left thigh, but then he froze in mid-air, gripped by fear.
Almost simultaneously, the Nine-Tails' domineering aura swept across the surroundings, forcing Haruko to retreat. The immense impact forced her to lower herself to resist.
A wave of powerful chakra swirled in the air, condensing into a substantial body.
Under the cold moonlight, nine orange tails grew like wild vines, blotting out the sky. The Nine-Tails roared, its sharp pupils reflecting Kushina, who had collapsed after being stripped of her tailed beast.
Konoha, still living in peace and tranquility, was unaware of the approaching danger.
On the streets bathed in the night, scattered figures mingled, and noisy chatter emanated from the izakayas, creating a warm scene where even stray cats dared to roam freely.
"Why don't we just settle this with rock-paper-scissors today?"
Kakashi Hatake, hands in his pockets, gave a perfunctory look to the person who had followed him the whole way.
"Again? Can't you have a more exciting match?!" Matt Kai accuses him indignantly. "Is this even considered my opponent?!"
Not understanding why his passion had remained so strong all these years, Kakashi Hatake, with dead fish eyes, made excuses to avoid him.
"We have to get up early tomorrow, so it's okay if we don't compete today, right?"
Because of this bodysuit that kept bothering him, he had even less rest time than usual. Kakashi Hatake was lost in thought.
I wonder if I'll be lucky enough to find her today...
"Don't use the mission as an excuse! Right now, I'm just bursting with enthusiasm and have nowhere to vent!"
Might Guy's surging passion was still being unleashed nearby, and a bad premonition inexplicably arose. Kakashi Hatake stopped in his tracks, his sharp gaze sweeping over his surroundings.
"Putting Kai aside for now, have you noticed that the air seems to have gotten a bit colder?"
Feeling brushed off, Matt Kai yelled wildly, "It's your attitude that's getting cold! Youth is only for now!"
"..."
Kakashi Hatake's dead fish eyes look even worse.
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