After leaving the Hokage Building, Danzo returned directly to the Root base.
He was in a pretty good mood.
'Calculating the time, Torune should have already started to act.'
Torune, his most proud right-hand man, a rare ninja even among the Aburame clan.
The nano-level poisonous insects he controls have far more lethality and concealment ability than ordinary parasitic insects.
With just a slight touch, the nano-poisonous insects in Torune's body would invade the enemy's body and destroy the flesh by poisoning them at the cellular level.
This kind of injury was almost irreversible.
Once get inflicted by it, and only death awaits.
In order to maximize this terrifying ability, Torune specially improved his transformation technique.
Even the members of the Root who were good in perception-ninjutsu finds it almost impossible to see through his disguise.
'As long as there was an inadvertent touch when passing by... Namikaze Mirai will...'
Danzo's smile could hardly be restrained.
When he thought of Mirai, who was still dominating the atmosphere in the Hokage Building a second ago, and would die in an unknown alley the next second.
Danzo couldn't help but feel excited.
Just as Danzo was about to think about the climax, a member of the Root came in to report.
"Danzo-sama..."
The Root member's eyes were evasive, and there was a rare tremor in his words.
"What? Is Torune back? Has his mission been completed?"
Danzo asked with a triumphant expression.
A meticulous plan, nano-poisonous insects that would kill on contact, Torune was indeed his most proud arm.
Such a member was too much to his liking.
"No, Torune-sama…"
The Root member's voice paused a little.
"He failed..."
Failed?
Danzo's pupils trembled, and he immediately became furious.
"How is it possible?! How could he fail with those nano-poisonous insects? What happened?!"
The reporting Root member mustered up his courage and continued in his trembling voice.
"Da-Danzo-sama… you'd better go and see it yourself."
...
In a hidden room in the Root base, Torune's body was lying flat on a bed, and his Root uniform had been completely stripped off, leaving him naked.
There were no eyeballs in his eye sockets. Two dried purple-black bloodstains were flowing from his empty eye sockets.
There were a lot of dried purple-black bloodstains in his nostrils, ear holes, and even his mouth.
This made his current appearance very scary.
Danzo looked at Torune in this state, and the pupil of his left eye was trembling.
His chest seemed to be pressed by a huge rock, and he couldn't even breathe properly.
"When we arrived, we only found his body. All the cells in his body were destroyed, and all of the nano-scale insects he had had died. In addition, we also found that there were extremely high concentrations of iron in his blood..."
Danzo gritted his teeth, his almost bloodshot eyes confirmed the anger in his heart.
He couldn't figure it out!
He couldn't figure it out at all!
How could Torune, who had nano-scale poisonous insects, lost so badly?
All the nano-scale poisonous insects died, and even now, in his blood, there were still a lot of iron.
'Wait?!'
'Iron?'
Danzo's body almost fell back.
It seemed that he suddenly remembered something.
"Back off!"
Almost at the moment he shouted, Torune's body, which was lying on the bed, suddenly swelled up like a balloon, expanding at a very fast speed and in the blink of an eye, it reached its limit.
"Protect Danzo-sama!!!"
This drastic change in his body was reflected in the eyes of the surrounding Root members.
They had been completely brainwashed, and almost instinctively reacted, rushing towards Danzo's position.
The next second.
*Boom*
The corpse that had swelled to the limit exploded.
The viscous plasma mixed with the stench of blood splashed everywhere, like a scarlet flower blooming at the Root, and the spreading red petals instantly engulfed the entire secret room.
The walls, the floor, and even the entire ceiling were all splashed with scarlet blood.
The entire secret room instantly turned into a bloody purgatory with blood and flesh scattered all around.
Danzo's pupils were trembling, trembling crazily.
His body had been stained red by Torune's blood. On his bloodstained face, a tiny drop of blood dripped down the eyelashes of the one-eyed man and fell onto the floor, which was also stained red.
"Dan-Danzo-sama, are you, are you okay?"
The Root member standing beside him asked with a trembling voice.
This sudden scene was completely beyond their expectations.
"Ahhhhhh! Namikaze Mirai! I will never be forgive you! Never!!!"
Danzo's angry roar mixed with hatred echoed in the room.
"Quick! Medical team! Check Danzo-sama's body!"
"Where is the medical team?! Come quick!"
The Root members began to riot.
Helping Danzo leave the room, many members went crazy looking for medical ninjas.
Panic, riots... spread out from this room in an instant.
Until now, they didn't understand how Mirai did it.
They had clearly checked Torune's body in advance, and no abnormalities were found except for the excessive iron concentration in the blood, so how did he do it?
In the chaos, the room where Torune's body was placed was gradually forgotten.
Only the blood stains on the walls were left, telling of the tragic scene happened not long ago.
A few minutes later.
The blood remaining on the walls and floor changed.
At first, only a small amount of silver appeared from the blood stains. Then, more and more bright silver appeared, forming tiny silver droplets.
Until, they converge into silver streams, converging from all directions towards the middle.
At the location where Torune's body exploded, the silver fluid gathered more and more, gradually taking on a human form.
A pair blue eyes glanced at the empty room.
"It seems that it was successful."
[Mercury Clone]
After Mirai killed Torune, he left a backup in his body.
A part of the [Mercury] was not withdrawn into his body, but stayed in his blood in the smallest volume possible. This was also the reason why the iron concentration in Torune's blood was found to exceed the normal standards.
The explosion just now was just to lure them away.
While the Root was in turmoil, it's the best time for him to act.
"It's a pity… To avoid being detected by the Root members, I needed to leave some chakra for the follow-up plan, and so the power of the explosion can only be reduced..."
There was a trace of regret in Mirai's eyes.
If all the chakra was concentrated in the explosion, it might be possible to kill Danzo directly.
Of course, it was still too difficult.
The Root was Danzo's lair. Even if he suffered serious damage, there would be countless medical ninjas to desperately treat him.
Moreover, he had a vague feeling that Danzo was not as easy as he seemed.
Maybe he still had some more special life-saving abilities.
"It's time to act, while the Root base is in chaos..."
Mirai's blue eyes flickered slightly.
There's no better opportunity than this.
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