Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"By the way, aren't you worried that Orochimaru will use our resources to do something that will only benefit him, Rei?"

In the territory of the Terumi clan, Mei Terumi, who had changed into normal clothes, walked beside Rei Kaguya, who was also wearing daily clothes, and asked with some worry:

"That guy is someone who can even betray the village where he was born, grew up, and made great achievements... And you also opened up two precious materials, Hinata Makoto and Uchiha Shisui, to him. You really trust him so much. Is it good?"

"As long as he can fulfill my commission well, I can just turn a blind eye to this matter, as long as that guy doesn't go too far."

Kaguya Rei yawned and said nonchalantly:

"If you want a horse to jump well, you must first give it enough grass. Orochimaru's scientific research level can be regarded as a first-class talent in the entire ninja world. In addition to the normal remuneration, you can also give the horse enough grass." He will be more willing to maintain long-term cooperation with me if he can get some visible benefits... Besides, he has been working as an outsourcer for me conscientiously for so long, so it is only right that he gives me something good to show his appreciation."

"Not to mention the Byakugan and Sharingan, even your own blood was given away. Isn't this reward a bit too exaggerated?"

Terumi Mei pinched the soft flesh around Kaguya Rei's waist in dissatisfaction, and whispered into his ear, complaining: "I haven't even gotten your blood..."

"What do you want my blood for?" Kaguya rolled her eyes speechlessly, and pinched Terumi Mei's waist back with the same movement, "Firstly, you are not a scientific research lunatic like Orochimaru, and secondly, you do not believe in evil gods You idiot, what do you mean by casually asking for other people's blood?"

"Eh!? You, you, are pretending to be stupid again!" Terumi Mei exclaimed, and escaped from Kaguya Rei's attack range in a blink of an eye, and then looked at Kaguya Rei with wide eyes, angry. He said loudly: "You clearly know that I use blood to refer to other things..."

"What is it? Why don't I know?" Kaguya Rei's eyes wandered, and she began to seriously observe the special decorations made by the ninjas of the Terumi clan on their houses.

"Aren't we boyfriend and girlfriend, Rei!?" Terumi Rei blushed angrily, while weakly acidic steam was coming out of her head, she gritted her teeth and pointed at Rei Kaguya, who was pretending to be dumbfounded, and said: "Hey, how can there be a couple who has been in a relationship for almost two years, but in the end, they haven't even done anything more than holding hands?"

"...I know you are in a hurry, but I really can't rush this."

Kaguya sighed, shook her head at Terumi Mei with a complicated expression, and said in a regretful tone:

"I'm sorry, Ming. You can blame me as much as you want on this matter, but at least for now, you really can't go any further."

"...What's the reason? Can't you tell me clearly?"

Terumi Mei looked at Kaguya Rei who was indeed apologetic, but also had a firmness that she could not shake. She bit her moist lips and asked in a low voice:

"Even I, who have shared so many secrets with you, can't know the reason behind this?"

"I just don't want you to think wildly. After all, I don't know when I will be able to solve this thing -"

Before he finished speaking, Kaguya Rei turned around suddenly, looking in the direction of the village with solemn and suspicious eyes. After turning on the sage mode and sensing it carefully, he disappeared in Terumi in a blink of an eye. In front of Ming's eyes, there was only an apology that gradually disappeared:

"Sorry, I'm going to take care of things in the village. I'll be back soon."

Terumi Mei reluctantly reached out, wanting to let Kaguya Rei take her, the Mizukage assistant, to deal with the incident in the village, but when she thought about her own sight, she couldn't even make Kaguya rei turn around. After catching up, she didn't sense anything unusual in the village at all. She looked lonely and reluctantly put down her hand, letting out a long sigh.

The gap has become wider than before.

Obviously, he has been practicing hard after work, while Lian not only has to deal with various affairs in the village, but also has to be distracted to conduct those strange experiments and research, but why, the strength gap between the two parties has not narrowed. A little bit, but it has become even bigger than two years ago?

Is there really such a huge gap between the bloodline of the Terumi clan and the Kaguya clan?

Or is it because... when I was seeking strength, I failed to make enough sacrifices?

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Kaguya Rei has no time to care about Terumi Mei's concerns, because now, he is looking at the clawed animal in his laboratory, with sharp wooden spines on half of its body and gray bone spurs on the other half. It is growing crazily while growing wildly. The deformed monster that keeps destroying itself has its brows furrowed into a "Chuan" shape.

"I gave you the laboratory that Kirigakure spent a lot of money to configure to complete the project. Is this how you repay me, Orochimaru?"

Orochimaru, who was covered in wet mucus and had an ugly skin that looked like a peeled snake skin lying next to him, did not answer Kaguya Rei's questions. He just made a few more seals to summon psychic snakes and lowered his voice. shouted:

"The evil snake snakes!"

Suddenly, several huge psychic snakes appeared out of thin air. They opened their ferocious mouths and entangled and bit into the deformed half-tree and half-bone monster, not caring that their bodies were being scratched by wooden and bone spurs. Full of blood, he just wants to inject his deadly venom into the monster's body to suppress the monster's actions.

But what disappoints Orochimaru is that the venom that successfully suppressed the combination of Hashirama cells and Kaguya Rei cells two years ago and suppressed their abnormal development did not have any effect on the monster in front of him. , on the contrary, the psychic snakes he summoned fell to the ground in pain because the gray bone spurs scratched their bodies. Centered on the wounds caused by the bone spurs, one after another quickly appeared, turning their flesh and blood into ashes and dissipating. Huge void.

Looking at this scene, Uchiha Shisui, who relied on his excellent eyesight and teleportation skills to avoid the first wave of attacks from the half-tree and half-bone monster, and successfully rescued Mitarai Anko and Hyuga Makoto, felt a little scared. Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he subconsciously touched the black red cloud robe on his body.

Near the waist and legs, the areas punctured by gray bone spurs have turned into holes similar to the wounds on the psychic snake.

"Is this...the power of the Yondaime? It's as if it's going to destroy everything."

"...Is that so, Lian-kun?"

Uchiha Shisui's sighs and Orochimaru's complicated questions reached Kaguya Rei's ears. He sighed softly and moved nimbly towards the deformed monster whose body's collapse had gradually exceeded its growth rate. Rushing forward, the whole person was like a willow blowing in the wind. He easily dodged the wooden spikes and gray bone spikes fired by the monster at him, and then used the gray bone blade that broke out of the palm of his hand to strike with one blow. The monster's left side covered with wooden thorns was stabbed through.

squeak--

The half-tree, half-bone deformed monster let out a piercing shriek from its vocal organ that was unknown where it was located, and then moved at a faster speed than when it killed the psychic snake before, under Kaguya Rei's gray bone blade. It completely collapsed and turned into ashes all over the ground. Together with the remnants of the three destroyed large petri dishes around it, they formed the current mess.

"You can remember what you just saw, but you are not allowed to speak out, not even a word."

"I think you should know what this means."

Kaguya Rei turned around, with an extremely rare seriousness and coldness on her face, and ordered in a tone that did not allow any rebuttal.

Although at this time, his right hand that had just wielded the sword was still trembling slightly abnormally, but even though he was as unruly as Orochimaru, he did not dare to utter even a word of doubt or rebuttal at this time.

With Orochimaru protecting him behind him, Kabuto Yakushi, who looked frightened, took a deep breath and looked at Hashirama's cells, which he had clearly been dead for decades, but the cell tissue in his body was still glowing with a disturbing and strange vitality. , and then looked at the sword that had just been wielded as if it could destroy everything, but the young body trembled uncontrollably because of it, and the end of the long black hair instantly turned into a lifeless pale white Kaguya Lian, swallowed slowly.

He saw death and rebirth.

But it's in two individuals who shouldn't be like this.

Quan Qinjun, he has not fallen yet, HE is still alive! HE is still alive!