Chapter 227 - 225: Pain’s Attack

Chapter 227: Chapter 225: Pain’s Attack

Sasuke went straight to Kano and grabbed her collar... Kano was dressed poorly and generously, lacking a collar... He casually pulled off the large orange coat Naruko was wearing, draped it over Kano, and then grabbed her collar!

"How could you do that to Naruto! He is your teammate, doesn’t your conscience hurt?! Are you even human!"

While with Orochimaru, Sasuke knew that Kano had been capturing people for Orochimaru to perform gender-reassignment surgeries. At the time, he thought it was none of his business. After all, they were strangers, and Kano could do whatever she wanted.

But this time, it was their teammate Naruto. He had only gone out to clear his head, and in that time, Naruto had undergone gender-reassignment surgery! If he had still been at Orochimaru’s base, he absolutely would have stopped such a thing!

"Kano, I really misjudged you! I originally thought you were a loyal and righteous person, but I didn’t expect you to modify Naruto just for your own selfish desires! You are inhuman!"

"Sasuke, calm down, listen to my sophistry! Naruko, come help me explain!"

Naruko grabbed Sasuke’s hand.

"This was all voluntary, it has nothing to do with her! If you have the guts, come at me, don’t you dare hurt Kano-chan!"

"Fine, just because she likes you, you intend to let her take the blame for you, right?"

"Listen to me, it’s because Naruto learned the Land of Demons secret art—" "I’m not listening!"

Regarding Sasuke’s refusal to listen to others, Kano frowned.

"Damn it, still acting all self-righteous. Haven’t beaten you in two years, and you’ve gotten cocky again, huh."

This wasn’t some frustrating female-oriented novel; if someone doesn’t listen when you’re trying to reason with them, you just make them kneel and listen to your reasoning.

Two minutes later, Sasuke was beaten black and blue, kneeling on the ground.

"Do you know you were wrong?"

"Wrong your mom."

Another two minutes later, he was beaten until he couldn’t get up.

"Do you know you were wrong?"

"Wrong your grandma."

Kano rubbed her forehead; Sasuke’s stubborn, unyielding personality was hard to change. Forget it, for the sake of being teammates, she would forgive him.

"Anyway, I didn’t want Naruto to become like this either, but unfortunately, she acted on impulse and used the secret art to change, and I couldn’t save her back, so I had to accept the current situation. Besides, I have already agreed to date her now."

Although Sasuke refused to admit it verbally, he already knew the whole story and would no longer blame Kano. He had originally wanted to surprise Naruto and Kano, but he didn’t expect them to give him a scare first.

More importantly, he didn’t expect that after two years, he still hadn’t surpassed Kano. No, it was because he had just gone through a major battle and wasn’t in good condition, which was why he didn’t beat Kano. Next time, when he was in peak condition, he would definitely win!

By the way, Kano had already sent the Shadow Ninja to clear away Moryo’s infinite tentacles. As for that bad guy Yomi, Sasuke had already taken him out earlier. That was why they had time to chat here.

Kano leaned down to heal Sasuke, her hands emitting a healing green light that looked very warm.

"Let me heal you; it might be a little stimulating. Naruko, help me hold him down."

"You got it."

Sasuke, with his limbs held down, panicked. He remembered the miserable state Kakashi had been in at the hospital before and began to struggle frantically. He had asked about it afterward; it was a Pain that could leave psychological trauma.

Kano’s approaching figure and smile were very creepy.

"No need! I admit I was wrong! Kano, no need to heal me! I’m fine, these small injuries don’t need healing, ah!... Huh? It doesn’t seem that painful?"

Watching Sasuke clench his teeth with his eyes closed, Kano covered her mouth and snickered. Kano was just intentionally scaring him because he was being stubborn.

"Nonsense, it’s been two years, surely I’ve made some progress? It’s nothing major, just some flesh wounds. Sakura, you come over and help with the healing too."

"Okay, thank you, Kano-sensei."

Sakura was truly grateful that Kano was willing to give up the good deed of healing Sasuke.

"Big Sister, is this Moryo? It doesn’t feel that strong, does it?"

Karin had been watching from the side for a long time and even took a Kunai up to slash at it a couple of times. It felt like, at this level, it could be taken down by sheer numbers.

Just like Big Sister’s army of Shadow Ninja, they were directly pinning Moryo down and beating it; Yomi’s corpse had been beaten into nothingness before it could even be recovered.

"This isn’t Moryo’s full power; this is just the strength of its soul body. A complete Moryo needs to fuse with its body. However, I don’t know how strong its complete form is, but since it could be sealed away back then, maybe it isn’t that strong. The most troublesome point, however, is this guy’s immortality. Currently, even I don’t have a good way to kill it. Even if the Shrine Maiden of the Land of Demons came, it would just be re-sealing it."

"So there’s no way to kill it?"

"There probably is, it’s just that I’m too weak to kill it."

Nagato should be able to do it, but when is he actually going to arrive? Just as she was thinking this, Kano heard a faint shout from the sky.

"Shinra Tensei!"

Everyone else hadn’t reacted yet, but Kano instantly broke into a cold sweat and hurriedly shouted: "Get down!"

The other Shadow Ninja had already been sent out to clear the tentacles, leaving only a few Shadow Ninja in reserve. These Shadow Ninja quickly jumped out from the shadows to protect Sakura and Sasuke, and the Shadow Dragon jumped out to shield Karin with its wings.

In the end, there were simply no more Shadow Ninja that could be deployed, and there wasn’t enough time; the shockwave had already arrived! In the nick of time, Kano used the Hunting Horn to cover Naruko. And in the second before being enveloped in darkness, Naruko saw Kano get blown away by the shockwave.

"Kano-chan!"

The sudden disaster caught everyone off guard. Even Kano hadn’t anticipated it.

The moment she confirmed Naruko was safe and was then blown away, Kano swapped places with the shadow bug back home.

But she inevitably suffered some minor injuries, and the orange coat she was wearing, as well as the Ninja tool pouch hanging at her waist, were all blown away and couldn’t leave with the teleportation.

This could be considered Kano’s life-saving passive: a reflex that allowed her to return home the instant she took damage.

But the situation this time was very bad; she had reacted a little slowly. In her sensing, all the Shadow Ninja had been killed in that blow; the only one that survived was the pure stat-monster Shadow Deer Tube, but even it was in bad shape and was currently at critical health.

The damage from this big attack was just too high! Kano was very anxious now; a fight might break out over there. She still had a half-hour cooldown before she could go back, and if Shadow Deer Tube was also killed, she wouldn’t be able to return!

She had to think of a way to get back quickly! It would definitely be too late to rush over; the time to fly from Konoha would certainly exceed half an hour. Furthermore, the Shadow Dragon had already been killed, and more than half of her combat power was gone.

Kano now realized just how high-attack and low-defense Ninjas were; even Shadow Hiruzen and Shadow ōnoki had been one-shotted by the big attack when caught off guard.

Wait, besides the critically injured Shadow Deer Tube, it seemed there were two others who hadn’t died? They were the type whose health bars were at the bottom, but locked at one HP. If they hadn’t moved a little, Kano really wouldn’t have noticed them.

Shadow Hidan and Shadow Orochimaru? These two bastards are truly hard to kill!

That’s great, no need to worry about not being able to go back later.

...

On the other side. Pain Deva Path slowly descended to the bottom of the crater, followed by five other Pains.

"Boss, there are people down there; wouldn’t it be bad if we just used a big move without notifying them?" Zetsu crawled out from the ground and said eerily, but Deva Path felt disdain for this.

"Mere Konoha Ninja, if they die, they die." Nagato hadn’t forgotten that his parents were killed by Konoha Ninja, "Besides, they aren’t dead yet; they’re quite lucky."

Deva Path glanced at the badly injured Konoha group, then focused his gaze on the pitch-black thing writhing on the ground, and the pitch-black deer-headed monster holding a water pipe in the distance.

"Is this the monster Moryo you spoke of? I want to see how it can be unkillable. Banshō Ten’in!"

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