Danzo's chakra was nearly depleted. To survive Kirito's devastating punch earlier, he had been forced to drain what little chakra remained to activate the First Hokage's cells in his right arm and unleash a desperate Wood Release defense.
Though he narrowly escaped instant death, it was clear, even survival had come at too steep a cost.
Now, even having evaded that strike, Danzo could no longer endure the relentless onslaught.
"Lord Danzo!"
Fū had just arrived, his expression one of alarm. On the other side, Asuna, still bound by the six-pointed seal, had collapsed, unconscious.
Fū had gambled everything on using her as a hostage. But when she fell and his threat was nullified, the deeply conditioned loyalty embedded in his mind… no, the rewritten will enforced by Kotoamatsukami, drove him to make one final sacrifice for his master.
"Good, Fū! Come, help, huh?!"
Danzo's eyes widened in disbelief. A sharp blade pierced through his chest from behind.
He turned his head with difficulty, only to see the impossible: it was Fū, the very subordinate he trusted to the end, who had just stabbed him through the back.
"Wha… how…?"
Danzo's hoarse voice trembled. He hadn't truly trusted anyone. What he had trusted was the unshakable effect of his right eye, Kotoamatsukami. It should have made betrayal impossible.
But now, that very assurance was crumbling before his eyes.
Fū looked down at his blood-soaked hands, face dazed.
"Eh? Wh-what's going on? My body… it moved on its own…"
His hands trembled, yet the blade in his grip only drove deeper into Danzo's back.
"Grragh!" Danzo coughed up blood.
"Fū… You dare betray me?!"
"No! Lord Danzo! It's not me, I swear!"
Fū screamed in panic, his voice breaking.
"I didn't do this… I don't know what's happening, AHHHHH!!"
But denial meant nothing now. No words could undo what had been done.
Danzo's eyes gleamed with fury. With a thought, the suicide curse seal he had implanted in Fū activated. He had placed it long ago, in anticipation of betrayal.
"AAAAHHHH!"
Arcane runes crawled across Fū's body like living flames. From the inside out, he began to burn, violently, painfully, until nothing remained.
Yamanaka Fū, a top-tier ANBU who had loyally served Danzo for years, died screaming, consumed by his own body.
"Hmph… That is the fate of traitors… Guhhh!"
Danzo vomited blood again. The wound was severe, by any standard, fatal. Only the Hashirama cells within him barely kept him from collapsing. But even that miracle would not last. Not if things continued like this.
And yet, Danzo still didn't understand what had truly happened.
Why had Fū betrayed him?
And more importantly, why didn't Kirito, despite having the perfect opportunity after Danzo was stabbed, finish the job?
Then realization dawned.
"My hand…?! What the hell is happening?!"
His remaining left hand slowly lifted… and clamped itself tightly around his own neck.
"I… can't stop… This… it was you! You did this!"
Danzo finally understood: Fū hadn't betrayed him. Kirito had manipulated him with genjutsu, without any sign, without any seal. He had turned Fū into a puppet… and now, Danzo himself was under the same control.
Killing a subordinate meant nothing to him. Whether betrayal was real or not, if someone posed a threat, they were to be eliminated.
But this time… he was the one being controlled.
Kirito stood motionless, his face blank, those glowing blue-white eyes radiating unnatural power. Whatever this eye technique was, it surpassed even the Mangekyō Sharingan. The ability to silently overwrite a person's will… to control their every action… it was a power far beyond comprehension.
"Stop!"
The Konoha shinobi had finally grasped what was happening. Some among them, especially the elders, understood Danzo's true identity. Even though his actions had long been secretive and morally questionable, his right arm embedded with Sharingan, his shoulder grafted with the face of Hashirama Senju, he was still one of the village's pillars.
And now, after the recent collapse of the village and the loss of the Third Hokage… if Danzo, Konoha's most feared hawk, were to die as well, it would plunge the village into unprecedented weakness.
The fall of Hiruzen had already emboldened enemy nations. Without a remaining Kage-level force to act as deterrent, war was inevitable.
It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when.
Yet Kirito remained still.
His expression cold. His eyes, glowing with ruinous light, ignored all pleas and warnings. He regarded everything beneath him with absolute disdain, as though his own inner darkness had been magnified into something divine.
Ignoring their protests, Kirito's eyes gleamed once more.
Danzo's hand, still under Kirito's control, continued to tighten around his own throat.
"Grrk!"
Danzo's face turned red, then purple. His own fingers were crushing his windpipe.
"If that's how it is…"
One of Konoha's elders finally spoke.
They had no choice.
"Then we'll stop you by force!"
If Kirito refused to listen, if he insisted on bringing down one of Konoha's few remaining pillars, then they would have to intervene, even if it meant going against him.
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