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Hōzuki Gengetsu never expected that this deal would be flatly rejected.
He scanned the other forces and found that no one objected.
"This brat, his deterrent power is so strong?"
His estimation of Akira's importance increased, and Gengetsu's expression changed.
"Old man, you just want to use us. Do you think we're idiots?" Baki scoffed.
"What did you say?"
Gengetsu squinted his eyes, his tone tinged with anger.
"The Hōzuki clan was indeed a great clan in the past, but now... haha!" Pakura added a critical hit.
"Very good, you Sand Shinobi are very good!"
Being ridiculed by the two juniors, Gengetsu laughed out of pure frustration.
Then, he looked at Akira again.
"Little brat, you need to think carefully. If you refuse to cooperate with me, the consequences will be very serious!"
As his voice fell.
Akira looked astonished.
"You just said the consequences are serious?"
"That's right!" Gengetsu's tone was overtly threatening.
His threat successfully made everyone laugh.
"Haha... Is this old man senile?" Killer B laughed out loud.
"Maybe he thinks he can beat all of us," Ay said coolly.
"It seems that the village has been closed for too long, and he thinks this is still a previous era," Kitsuchi shook his head and commented.
"In that case, I think it's necessary to kill you to let you recognize the reality."
Akira rubbed his chin and made up his mind.
Step!
At this moment, Hōzuki Gengetsu stepped forward with his left foot.
Mockery, contempt, and madness were plastered on his face.
"Right now, a mechanism is under my foot. As long as I exert a little force, the entire mountainside will explode!"
"I might as well tell you: there are hundreds of thousands of Explosion Tags arranged here!"
"What?!"
Hearing these words, the others were terrified.
Hundreds of thousands of Explosion Tags?
This quantity was enough to level this place.
No, it was enough to destroy the entire area.
"What? Scared? Scared?"
"Where is your momentum from just now?"
Seeing the expressions of terror on the group of juniors, Gengetsu felt incomparably satisfied.
"I am old. If I can be buried with all of you, I will be very content."
After speaking, he looked towards Akira, trying to see the kid's terrified expression.
But what puzzled him was that:
This kid is actually calm?
"Aren't you afraid?"
"Afraid? Why should I be afraid?"
Akira shook his head.
Then he said: "I bet you, you won't be able to step down with that foot!"
Akira's words made the people around him tremble.
"Hey! Don't provoke him! Maybe he really will detonate it, and we'll all be wiped out," A hurriedly persuaded.
"Akira, if it really explodes, we're all going to die," Baki also advised.
"You can just promise him," Kitsuchi echoed.
Faced with the threat of explosion, they all chose temporary compromise.
Seeing this scene, a smile crossed Gengetsu's mouth.
"Do you see now? Fear is the basis of cooperation!"
"Little brat, I will give you one more chance!"
"Do you choose to cooperate, or die together?"
The field.
All three enemy forces were waiting for Akira's answer.
This time, Akira's expression finally showed a change.
It was an expression of impatience.
"Didn't you understand? I bet you can't step down!"
"You—"
Gengetsu's eyes widened, unable to comprehend the kid's choice.
Does he want to die?
"Perfect for you."
Next moment.
Madness flashed across his face, and his left foot stomped fiercely towards the ground.
"It's over!"
"Gah! Akira is going to take us all to die!"
"It's going to explode!"
Several people looked desperate.
"Wood Release: Multiplying Wood Technique!"
Suddenly, Akira put his hands together and shouted in a low voice.
In an instant, two bucket-thick branches broke out of the ground, and directly coiled up Gengetsu.
Swoosh!
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he was suspended in mid-air.
"This is... Wood Release?" Ay looked shocked, his mind reeling.
"He actually has Wood Release?" Baki was dumbfounded.
"Wood Release? He used Wood Release near the Kannabi Bridge?" Kitsuchi immediately drew more conclusions.
Minato Namikaze, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but smile, tucking the kunai back into his sleeve.
"These people are really making a fuss. With Akira and Sensei around, how could it possibly explode?" They all looked calm.
From beginning to end, they never panicked.
"Hmph... These ninjas don't have the mental fortitude we do," Anko muttered, rolling her eyes.
"That's what you say, but I was still very nervous just now," Rin patted her chest.
"Spend more time with Akira in the future; it will definitely make you more courageous," Yūgao Uzuki suggested.
Hearing this suggestion, the three women nodded simultaneously.
The branches quivered.
Hōzuki Gengetsu hung in front of Akira.
"You know Wood Release? Are you from the Senju clan?"
At this moment, Gengetsu no longer had the imposing aura from before, replaced by fear and bewilderment.
How could such a kid possess Wood Release?
"You talk too much nonsense."
Akira didn't bother to respond and called out to Obito.
"What?" Obito trotted over.
"Take out the kunai."
"Huh? Oh."
Obito pulled out a handful of kunai.
"Come on! Every ninja from the other villages, stab him once," Akira gestured.
The Killer B brothers were stunned.
Kitsuchi and his confidant looked at each other blankly.
But Baki and Pakura understood instantly and walked over. After all, they had experienced this once, and this time they were considered to be familiar with the drill.
"You bloody invaders, just wait! You will face Kirigakure's revenge!"
Seeing that he was about to be stabbed, Gengetsu cursed.
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Sand Shinobi, Rock Shinobi, and Cloud Shinobi took turns stabbing the Hōzuki elder to death.
The three factions originally thought this would be the end.
But what they never imagined was that—
Akira turned his face.
"Tsk tsk tsk... You three Ninja Village factions are so cruel! You actually ganged up and beat an elderly man?"
"And you stabbed him to death?"
"As a righteous Konoha Shinobi, I am determined to rid the world of you scourges!"
Akira spoke righteously and sternly, exuding a majestic light of justice from his body.
This moment.
People from all three enemy parties were completely dumbfounded.