After getting rid of Danzo's summoning beast, Mirai turned his attention to Danzo who was fleeing.
Sensing the bone-eviscerating chill behind his back, Danzo's quickened his speed even more, and immediately formed four shadow clones.
Together with the main body, they all ran in different directions using the smoke of the technique as a cover.
He wanted to use this to confuse Mirai, however, this move caused Mirai to sneer.
"It seems that you still don't know. Techniques such as, transformation and clones have no effect on me."
He raised his right index finger, and a small silver snake swam out from his cuff and condensed into the shape of a small ball on his fingertip.
[Railgun]
A blue arc of thunder flashed past.
*Boom*
Danzo's expression suddenly changed.
His eyes widened to the brink and tremblingly moved downward. What he saw was a huge hole as thick as a bowl had suddenly appeared on his chest, and blood was flowing out.
"How is it possible? ...My shadow… clones..."
Before even he finished speaking, his body disappeared again like a mirrage.
"Oh? The second time?"
Mirai, standing high above the ruins, had a hint of surprise in his blue eyes.
'It seems that Danzo has quite a stock on him?'
'However, this is fine.'
'It's just enough to torture him a little longer.'
'So, where will this resurrection be?'
Mirai looked around the ruins with a faint but cold smile on his face.
Danzo's [Izanagi] was obviously not comparable to an orthodox Uchiha.
'It seems that it lasts far less than that masked one.'
Sure enough, he soon sensed Danzo's bio-magnetic field in a corner.
At this moment, he was crawling in the ruins while suppressing his chakra, using the gravel to cover his body, and moving forward bit by bit.
If Mirai hadn't been able to sense his bio-magnetic field and had searched with his naked eyes, he might have been fooled by him.
'Hold on! I must hold on!'
Danzo, who was crawling in the corner of the ruins, ignored emotions such as humiliation and anger.
At this moment, he had only one thought in his mind.
That is to escape.
'Hiruzen and others must have noticed this kind of big movement and on their way here.'
'As long as I persist until they arrive, Hiruzen will definitely not stand back and watch me being killed by Mirai!'
'Humph! So what if the roots are gone?'
'As long as I am still alive, there will always be a day when I can make a comeback!'
Suddenly, his left hand that moved forward touched something like a footwear. Danzo's eyes froze and he raised his head tremblingly.
He saw Mirai bending his upper body and looking down at him with eyes that seemed to be looking at garbage.
Danzo felt agitated.
He was not willing to give up and die after coming so far.
His stock of three-tomoe Sharingan were only three in total, and now two had been consumed, if he dies again this time.
There would only one life left for him.
One of Mirai's foot was lightly lifted and stepped down on Danzo's head and it exploded like a watermelon, splattering red and white matter on the ground.
Almost at the same time, Hiruzen, Fugaku and others also rushed to their battle site.
The scene where Mirai stepped on Danzo's head was witnessed by Hiruzen. His pupils suddenly shrank, he felt dizzy and almost fell down from mid-air while jumping.
"Hokage-sama!"
The Anbu member beside him quickly supported him.
'Dead?'
'Danzo is dead?'
'He died by his head crushed by being stepped on by Mirai just like that?'
'Died in such a humiliating manner?'
Fugaku, Hiashi and other Konoha senior officials who came over looked at the tragic ruin and suddenly felt their breathing heavy.
'The whole Root was destroyed?'
'Danzo is dead too?'
There was no joy on Mirai's face, and right on cue, Danzo's body, whose head was just crushed by Mirai, disappeared.
He squinted and continued to sense for the traces of Danzo.
'Judging from the aura of Sharingan on his body, this should be the last time.'
"Hiruzen! Save me!"
Hiruzen, who was immersed in the sorrow of Danzo's death, heard Danzo's weak voice coming from nearby.
Looking in shock, he found Danzo appearing near him out of thin air.
"Danzo, you're not dead?"
"I used a secret technique to save my life. It's my last life. If I die this time, I will really die!"
Danzo placed all his hopes on Hiruzen.
Hiruzen had arrived, as well as other high-level officials of Konoha. A large number of Konoha ninjas had also arrived around the ruins of the Root base.
As long as Hiruzen was willing to protect him, maybe he could really survive.
Hiruzen gritted his teeth and looked at Mirai's position and took a deep breath.
"I don't know how Danzo provoked you, but after destroying the Root like this and killing so many ninjas, your anger should be gone, right?"
"I can give you enough compensation, as long as you let Danzo go."
Hiruzen said sincerely.
The conditions he offered were already quite generous.
Not only did he not hold Mirai accountable for causing such a loss, but he was willing to bear everything and fully compensate the other party.
In his opinion, Mirai would agree to such a big concession.
But, just as he finished speaking.
He saw Mirai looking at him coldly, as if the offer fell to deaf ears.
His cold voice sounded echoing throughout the ruins. Danzo and the Anbu behind Hiruzen felt terrified when they heard the coldness in his voice.
"Sarutobi Hiruzen, can you afford to compensate my nephew who had his life threatened?"
Hearing these words, Hiruzen's heart skipped a beat.
'So, that's really the case!'
'Only something about Naruto can make Mirai so angry!'
He had been holding on to a fantasy in his mind before, hoping that Danzo had provoked him for other reasons.
But now, this illusion had been shattered.
"Danzo is the Hokage-assistant and a high-level elder in the village. As long as you don't kill him, you can make whatever conditions you want."
Hiruzen gritted his teeth and increased the offer.
Danzo behind him swallowed, his forehead already covered with cold sweat.
This was the first time in his life that he felt so close to death.
"Sarutobi Hiruzen, won't you like to take a good look at Danzo's right arm?"
Mirai sneered.
'Arm?'
Hiruzen was startled. Since arriving, he had been highly tense and had not noticed Danzo's arm at all.
After hearing Mirai's reminder, Fugaku and others who were around immediately looked at Danzo's right arm.
"This is!?"
Fugaku's pupils shrank.
"Uchiha clan's Sharingan?!"
Although the Sharingan on Danzo's arm had been closed due to the use of [Izanagi], Fugaku still recognized it very well.
Thinking back to Danzo's resurrection just now, everything became clear.
Pairs of Sharingan eyes lit up one after another, and the Uchiha members who came over were now staring at Danzo with bloodlust who was being protected by Hiruzen.
That look seemed to want to eat him alive.
Hiruzen's body trembled.
'He also understood what was going on instantly.'
'Danzo, you fucking idiot!'
Veins appeared on Hiruzen's clenched fist.
"Let me tell you, you can't save him today."
Mirai's cold voice spread throughout the place.
In the sky, countless metal sword blades appeared out of nothing, reflecting cold light, and the entire sky was filled with them in an instant.
"Otherwise, just his life won't be the only one that I will claim to quell my rage."
Hiruzen's expression showed that he struggling, his eyes full of pain and entanglement.
Finally, he sighed.
"Danzo, this is for Konoha."
He stepped aside heavily, as if he had aged several years in an instant.
Mirai moved his fingers slightly, and the sword blades in the sky flew towards Danzo.
[Mercury Flying Swords' Wrathful Descent]
"No! Hiruzen! You will regret it!"
Danzo's eyes were about to burst.
The body was crushed by the overwhelming number of sword attacks and turned into a shower of blood.
This time, he was not resurrected.
All of his Sharingans had been used up.
None of the Konoha ninjas who arrived spoke.
Silence, only silence shrouded the ruins.
Mirai walked towards Naruto's position and gently wiped the tears from Naruto's face with his blood-stained fingers.
"Naruto, let's go. Uncle will take you home."
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