Seeing this, Ryun felt a sudden sense of enlightenment.
No wonder he had been captured so easily by Danzo. It turned out his Illusion-Release Seal and Flying Thunder God Technique had never even come into play.
Who would have thought it was Anko who made the move? Could her poisoning method still be planting the toxin at point B?
Ryun wasn't angry, just sighing with emotion. His imagination regarding the shinobi profession was still too meager.
If he had to be wary of everyone around him, life would be truly exhausting. Fortunately, he had his system to provide early warnings.
What remained was finding a solution. Ryun chose the guidance option, then calmly continued thinking.
With Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen determined to move against him, even fabricating charges in the present moment, trying to break the situation from within Konoha in this particular simulation was impossible.
Ryun's strength wasn't sufficient yet, and the countermeasures he had prepared were actually outside of Konoha and still needed time to develop.
They couldn't resolve the difficulties Ryun encountered in the simulation.
However, this simulation itself was launched to answer the questions in his heart. Now that Ryun knew the answer, he might as well just go all out and wreak havoc.
Regarding Danzo, Ryun actually didn't have much of an opinion.
He was the scapegoat king of the shinobi world, and Konoha's darkness.
As the spokesperson for the moral low ground of the shinobi world, nothing he did would ruin his persona. That was a kind of reputation.
But what about you, Sarutobi Hiruzen?
At least so far, Ryun hadn't wronged Konoha, nor had he shown him disrespect. How could this guy strike so ruthlessly?
Had he already been fooled into lameness by Danzo?
Ryun didn't quite understand this question, nor did he particularly want to understand it.
On one hand, this was a simulation. On the other hand, he was about to die anyway, so why bother understanding him?
Come on, it was time to display his full power!
Let Konoha of now understand exactly what they had missed out on again!
After Ryun finished inputting the guidance, the simulation began once more.
Just as you were expecting yourself to expose Anko's plot, the Dragon King smiles, wanting Anko to regret it for life, the subsequent developments left Ryun utterly dumbfounded.
[That night, Anko came to you. You habitually enjoyed the pleasure of union, and just as three Root ninja were about to move against you after you were poisoned, Anko broke through the Root ninja encirclement with you. She decided to defect, taking you with her.]
Huh?
Ryun looked at the text before him in confusion. Had Anko undergone such a major change?
What exactly was the reason this time? It definitely couldn't be because Anko was pregnant.
In the previous simulation, Anko had also left Ryun with offspring, yet she still moved against him.
That seemed to leave only one remaining answer.
[With Anko's strength, it was naturally difficult to withstand the attacks of the Root ninja, and at that moment you took action. Relying on powerful monstrous-strength–series ninjutsu, coupled with your immunity to genjutsu, you cooperated with Anko to repel the encircling Root ninja.]
[You were fortunate. Among Konoha's jōnin at the moment, only Yūhi Kurenai and Sarutobi Asuma were on leave and could mobilize immediately.
Kakashi, Guy, and other jōnin were out on missions, so you and Anko successfully escaped the village.]
[Konoha's peaceful night was also shattered. Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately mobilized personnel to begin your capture. Danzo was also given a severe scolding by him, and the furious Danzo personally led the remaining elite Root ninja into action.]
[You and Anko were fully aware of all this, but with the Flying Thunder God Technique you were not nervous at all. In contrast, you were more curious about why Anko had made this choice, and you voiced the question in your heart.]
Ryun also watched the text curiously, waiting for the answer that was already quite clear in his heart.
[Anko hugged your arm, happily saying: You treated her as family, wanted to build a big family with her, wanted her to become the mother of your children, so she naturally treated you as her only relative.]
[You had said you could leave Konoha, so she would follow you out of Konoha. Whether you two would be captured and brought back, or whether you would be executed, Anko, already pregnant with your child, couldn't care about that anymore.]
Ryun looked at the simple text before him. Anko's answer did not come as a surprise to him.
Yet even though the process wasn't twisting and turning and the emotions weren't bizarre, as long as the feelings were sincere, they could still touch the heart.
Ryun understood he couldn't refuse a woman who sacrificed herself for him like this.
Previously, Uzuki Yūgao had been like this, and now Mitarashi Anko was also like this.
The difference between the two was that in reality, Uzuki Yūgao had distanced herself from Ryun, but Mitarashi Anko still closely followed him.
Ryun rested his chin on his hand, thinking he should treat Anko a bit better in reality from now on.
After all, this woman played with snakes. Treat her well and she's a caring good woman; treat her poorly and she'll bite back.
Compared to being bitten by Anko, Ryun preferred to be the one doing the biting.
Ryun did not choose guidance, instead continuing to watch the simulation.
Unlike Anko's outward happiness but inner despair, his simulated self was probably quite calm.
He was now instead curious about just how big a commotion his simulated self would cause.
[The two of you traveled day and night towards Iwagakure to escape. Although you told Anko you weren't a spy from Iwagakure, just an ordinary civilian, with nowhere else to go you thought going to Iwagakure was fine too.]
[You were familiar with the road to Iwagakure, so it wasn't until you two reached the border of the Land of Fire that Konoha's ninja finally caught up with you. Danzo's Root members took the lead in launching an attack on you, but were repelled through your and Anko's combined efforts.]
[Finally having had enough, Danzo stepped forward, cursing Anko as being birds of a feather with Orochimaru as his disciple.
Anko was so angry her face lost all color, but she couldn't refute it, because now she was indeed a missing-nin too.]
[You told Anko, if endurance was no longer possible, then there was no need to endure anymore. You launched an attack against Danzo.]
Seeing this, Ryun's spirits lifted. He could finally test Danzo's true capabilities.
Although Danzo made an utterly disgraceful spectacle in his fight with Sasuke, that was against a Sasuke who had opened Susano'o, and with Obito watching from the sidelines.
What kind of performance Ryun himself could achieve against Danzo still had to be seen in the fight.
But just as Ryun had expected, to defeat Danzo, he first had to get past Danzo's underlings.
[Aburame Torune stood before Danzo, pretending to be an ordinary Root ninja, facing your monstrous strength head-on. Yamanaka Fuu prepared in the shadows, ready to use the Mind Body Switch Technique on you at any moment.]
Well now, Danzo's two henchmen appeared the next second.
Yamanaka Fuu needs no further introduction, having fought Ryun in simulations more than once.
In Ryun's view, Aburame Torune was an even more heavyweight and troublesome shinobi than Yamanaka Fuu.
As his name suggests, he was from the Aburame clan and could manipulate parasitic destruction insects in battle.
Aburame Torune was the son of Aburame Shikuro, and his poison insects were more powerful than those of ordinary Aburame clan members, being nano-scale poison insects carrying potent venom.
The toxicity of these poison insects was extremely fierce. Anyone contaminated by their toxins would die from the destruction of their body's cells. Of course, such powerful poison insects weren't without flaws.
They could only exist within biological cells, reproducing by destroying cells. Once the host died, the bugs died as well.
This was why Aburame Torune stood before Ryun. He wanted Ryun to die from poisoning due to his own punches.
It was just a pity that although this was Ryun's first time seeing him, Ryun was intimately familiar with his intelligence.
Ryun believed his simulated self would not fall for it.
[Without hesitation, you punched Aburame Torune squarely in the face. Aburame Torune flew out like a cannonball, and the poison insects seized the opportunity to crawl onto your arm.]
[But you showed no fear, nor did you stop. These poison insects seemed to have no effect on you at all. It turned out you had already coated your body surface with a layer of chakra armor, a chakra shape transformation imitating the Lightning Release Chakra Mode.]
The real Ryun slightly froze, focusing his mind as chakra adhered to his body surface, then shook his head.
He could indeed perform this move, but its defensive power was barely stronger than corrugated cardboard.
Without the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, this move was only useful specifically for dealing with Aburame Torune and held no practical combat value.
The simulated battle continued.
[Yamanaka Fuu was about to use the Mind Body Switch Technique on you, but Anko's Dragon Fire Technique forced him away from you. The remaining Root ninja all joined in, but against you, whose every strike seemed to shake heaven and earth, they were utterly helpless.]
[Danzo finally could no longer restrain himself, beginning to undo the seals on his body, while issuing an order for everyone to capture Mitarashi Anko. Facing you, he slowly opened his mouth, initiating the first dialogue between the two of you.]
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