Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 279: Just a Clone
The Third Mizukage was injured, so Jianchuan Tachibana naturally would not miss the opportunity.

Jianchuan Ju, who was out of the attack range of the water whip, dived down directly.

He flashed continuously in the air and turned into an afterimage, avoiding the water bullet attack of the Third Mizukage who tried to intercept Jianchuan Tachibana.

At this moment, Jianchuan Tachibana had already rushed in front of the Third Mizukage.

However, before Jianchuan Ju could make any other moves, a large amount of water suddenly gushed out from the thin air beneath his body, instantly turning into a spiraling water column that enveloped Jianchuan Ju.

"Water Style* Rapid Stream Formation!"

The person who launched the attack was naturally Yagura Karuta, who had been planning in the dark for a long time. He used the Third Mizukage to attract firepower and attempted to launch a fatal blow at the critical moment.

But who would have thought that the attack that Gotachibana Yagura thought was perfectly timed would actually miss.

The 'Jianchuan Orange' in the sky-high spiral water column actually exploded into countless feathers burning with white flames. After the spiral of the water flow spread out, it froze the entire water column into ice.

At this moment, Jianchuan Ju, who used the "One Life*Feather Dance" to dodge the attack, curled his lips in disdain.

"You want to do it again? Idiot!"

After landing, Jianchuan Ju squatted down and kicked the Third Mizukage in the chest with an upper kick, causing him to spit blood and fly backwards. Large pieces of white ice crystals quickly condensed on his chest.

At the same time, Jianchuan Ju also took advantage of the thick icicle that had already formed behind him to block the flow and quickly formed a seal with one hand.

"White Release*Ice Flame Clone!"

The white flame instantly separated from Jianchuan Ju's body, and after falling to the ground, it quickly condensed into ice, turning into a clone that was exactly the same as Jianchuan Ju.

Although the 'Ice Flame Clone' cannot inherit the properties and most of the exclusive 'characteristics' brought by 'acupoint pressing', it consumes a lot of chakra.

However, because it has physical properties similar to the 'wood clone' and is enhanced by the White Release, when Jianchuan Ju activates the doubling of chakra, the amount of chakra contained in each clone is still enough to maintain basic combat, and the combat power is still considerable.

From the perspective of Karatachi Yagura, after his attack missed, the Third Mizukage behind the ice pillar flew backwards, and Kanegawa Tachibana also rushed out to chase him.

But before Goji Yagura could move around the icicle, two more 'Kanchuanju' with white flames all over their bodies rushed out from the left and right behind the icicle.

"Ice clone?"

Before Goju Yagura had time to think about which one was the real body of Jianchuan Ju, the two Jianchuan Ju had already rushed in front of him, and the two daggers, one above and one below, blocked all of Goju Yagura's movements.

"Dang~"

Karuju Yagura held the iron hook in front of him and blocked the two attacks.

However, this is not the end. The two Jianchuanju cooperated with each other tacitly and moved forward.

The dagger was swung continuously, forcing Karutagi Yagura to retreat repeatedly.

As a last resort, Karuta Yagura could only throw the iron hook in his hand at the "two people", while quickly retreating and forming hand seals to release ninjutsu.

"Water Style* Waterfall Technique"

A huge spiral stream of water spit out from the mouth of Goju Yagura, rushing straight towards the two Kanagawaju, intending to force the 'two' to retreat.

However, this action also made Jianchuan Ju's eyes light up.

I saw a large amount of white flames erupting from under the feet of Jianchuan Ju on the left. He jumped into the air to avoid the impact of the waves, and at the same time, white flames erupted from his back again and he leaned over and rushed towards Goju Yagura.

And Jianchuan Ju on the right simultaneously formed a seal with one hand, released "fine snow", and exhaled a ball of cold air that quickly froze the waves in front of him into ice.

As he swooped down, Jianchuan Ju quickly formed seals with his hands. When he rushed in front of Goju Yagura, a somewhat crazy smile appeared on his face.

"White Escape*Absolute Zero"

Unlike in the past when Jianchuan Ju's original body had to consider using the magic gun as a medium to release absolute zero, the absolute zero of the clone 'Jianchuan Ju' actually exploded directly around the body.

There was a loud "Boom~" sound.

Countless pale flames exploded instantly and shot up into the sky.

The next moment, the white flames quickly dissipated, and a small iceberg with two pointed little hands stood above the ground, while the figure of Goji Yagura was frozen in the center of the iceberg.

Jianchuan Ju, who was on the right before, looked at the funny-looking iceberg and muttered with a weird expression.

"Art is Patrick?" However, just as Jianchuan Ju looked up and sighed.

"Pfft~"

A sharp spiral water knife pierced directly from behind Jianchuan Ju. Although the water knife was instantly frozen into ice by the white flame, it still passed through Jianchuan Ju's chest.

At this time, the sinister voice of Goju Yagura came from behind Jianchuan Ju.

"The one who can release a ninjutsu of the Great Waterfall level is not necessarily the real one."

Although the water knife in his hand had been frozen, and even his right hand holding the knife was covered with white frost, Karuta Yagura still declared his victory boldly.

"What a pity, you originally..."

However, before Karuju Yagura could finish his words.

"Pfft~"

There was another sound of the knife tip entering flesh.

Goju Yagura looked down at his chest in disbelief, where a snow-white knife tip with a cold glow was sticking out.

At this time, the voice of Jianchuan Ju also came faintly from behind Goju Yagura.

"It's nothing to be ashamed of, Yagura-senpai."

As Jianchuan Ju's words fell, pure white flames rose from the blade and quickly spread to Goji Yagura's body. Wherever the flames passed, they were instantly frozen into ice.

After seeing how quickly the freezing spread on the body and confirming that this was the real body, Jianchuan Ju's eyes were filled with indifference.

With the full output of chakra, the flames exploded again.

Without even having the chance to utter his last words, Karuta Yagura was completely turned into an ice sculpture.

He shook the blade lightly, pulled out the magic spear and inserted it back behind his back, and Jianchuan Ju just left a cold sentence.

"No one has stipulated that one of the two must be the real one."

After dealing with Karatachi Yagura, Tachibana Jianchuan no longer paid attention to the ice sculpture on the spot, but looked at the Third Mizukage who was fighting with another clone of his in the distance.

The sword and kick from Jianchuan Ju just now had already caused serious injuries to the Third Mizukage. At this moment, he was fighting back and forth with Jianchuan Ju's "Ice Flame Clone".

However, since the main means of the Third Mizukage are control-type ninjutsu, unless the 'Ice Flame Clone' can seize the opportunity and use absolute zero to kill the opponent together with him, there is no chance to take him down directly.

Of course, this result is not what Jianchuan Ju wanted.

In the end, even though the Third Mizukage relied on his own strength, he really showed Jianchuan Tachibana the diversity of water-style ninjutsu.

But after Jianchuan Ju's real body joined the battle, the balance of victory still began to tilt uncontrollably.

After the clone once again used 'Hyogando Mu' to block the 'rain' of water bullets released by the Third Mizukage, Jianchuan Tachibana found the right opportunity and appeared behind the Third Mizukage.

With a wave of his hand, the scabbard of the divine spear hit the back of the neck of the Third Mizukage directly.

This time, the Third Mizukage was very considerate and fainted directly.

After watching the Third Mizukage fall to the ground cleanly, Jianchuan Tachibana finally breathed a sigh of relief.

'What a dreadful old fellow!'

To be honest, after deleting and rewriting these two chapters, there are probably seven or eight thousand words.

These two chapters were originally yesterday’s drafts, and I was supposed to write a new chapter today, but the response to yesterday’s chapter after the protagonist got humiliated was somewhat negative, so I didn’t write anything today and was only revising the text.

I was originally planning to take a leave, after all, tomorrow is Saturday. I will have a day to rest at home and adjust myself, and maybe I can also revise the previous chapter.

But after revising these two chapters, I found that I could no longer tell the good from the bad.

Sometimes I write one or two thousand words and then delete the entire paragraph.

Finally, I thought I should stop wasting time here and not ask for leave, and just update as normal.

If the problem is really serious, we will talk about it later.
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(End of this chapter)