Chapter 187: Assassinating Yagura, the Mangekyo's Ability
Konoha 44, late August, in the commander's tent of the Eastern Army.
"" Kyosuke, after reading Hiruzen Sarutobi's personal letter, was silent for a moment, then picked up another letter. This was a letter from the Uchiha clan.
After a quick read, Kyosuke's fists subconsciously clenched.
The content of this letter was very simple. Under the pressure of the Konoha high command, almost the entire Uchiha clan, except for the elderly elders and women and children, had been deployed to fight against the Stone ninja, including Uchiha Nagisa.
The Second Elder, worried about his granddaughter, had personally led the clan members to the battlefield as the leader.
Although this letter did not explicitly state anything, Kyosuke understood the Second Elder's meaning. He hoped that he could go and protect the clan members.
Upon learning of this situation, a surge of anger rose from the bottom of Kyosuke's heart.
It had to be said that although the Second Elder was not yet so old that he couldn't move, he was still much older than Hiruzen Sarutobi. Kyosuke really wanted to ask him in person how he felt about sending such an old man to the battlefield.
"Sigh," he sighed. Kyosuke knew that the matter was irreversible. The top priority now was to quickly deal with the Mist ninja's trouble and then go to support his clan members.
He picked up Hiruzen Sarutobi's secret letter again. Kyosuke pondered for a few seconds, then called in the few Anbu who were in charge of delivering the letter.
Soon, five ninja with masks and extraordinary auras walked in.
He waved the envelope in his hand and said to the five of them, "Do you all know about this mission?"
"We do," the leader replied.
"Very good," Kyosuke nodded. He looked up at the sky outside the tent, pondered for a moment, and said, "You go and rest for a while. We'll set off in two hours."
After the five had left, Kyosuke called in another person. "Tonight, I will go and assassinate the Mizukage. You make preparations for support."
"Assassinate the Mizukage?!" This subordinate's body trembled slightly, and then he asked in a low voice, "Commander, who will be participating in the assassination?"
"I have an idea. You just make the preparations for support," Kyosuke said in a low voice.
"Yes, sir."
After his subordinate had left the tent, Kyosuke made some calculations and then got up and went back to his own tent to make some preparations.
Although he was confident, assassinating the Kage of a village was no small matter. It was always better to be fully prepared.
As for why Kyosuke had made such a move at this time, it was all because of a secret order from Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Given Kyosuke's previous successful infiltration experience, and Orochimaru's act of assassinating a jinchuriki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, in order to completely eliminate the threat of the Mist, had no choice but to choose such a risky method.
Of course, those five Anbu, or rather, Hiruzen Sarutobi's Kage Guard members, were here to help Kyosuke complete the assassination mission.
In fact, even if Hiruzen Sarutobi had not given the order, Kyosuke had had this idea in his mind.
After all, the Mist and the Sand were different. The Mist Village was full of factions, each acting on its own. Once the supreme leader died, without the suppression, their first thought would definitely not be revenge, but to start a frenzied internal strife.
So, assassinating the Mizukage was indeed a viable way to resolve the current crisis.
The question now was whether Kyosuke could successfully complete this crucial assassination mission.
Soon, two hours had passed. Kyosuke, leading the five Kage Guard and his two clan shinobi, quietly set off.
After several hours of a forced march, the group successfully arrived at the small island where the Mist unit was stationed.
Looking at the not-so-heavily-guarded island in front of him, a cold smile appeared on Kyosuke's face.
In his opinion, the Mist had no intention of starting another war. The reason they had sent troops again was nothing more than to drag the Eastern Army's ninja to this battlefield. He was sure that the Third Raikage and Onoki had paid a great price for this. Otherwise, Yagura would not have come to this island.
But the Mist had never thought that Konoha would dare to attack them, let alone assassinate the Mizukage. So, the defenses on the island were not particularly tight. At most, it was just for show.
The facts proved that Kyosuke's view was correct. The few of them, by entering the body of a small snake, had almost effortlessly infiltrated the Mist unit's camp.
At this time, it was already early in the morning. Besides a few ninja on routine patrol, there were no other pedestrians in the entire camp.
The small snake slithered along the edge of the tents and soon arrived outside a unique tent. It was clear that this was the Mizukage, Yagura's tent.
Without letting the small snake sneak in easily, Kyosuke signaled the others to be patient, and then he chose to sit down cross-legged on the spot.
After a while, Kyosuke successfully entered Sage Mode. From the aura emanating from his body at this time, it was a few shades more severe than before.
Through this period of training, his Sage Mode had successfully been raised to Level 2. Not only had the bonus in strength been greatly improved, but even the previously short duration had also been significantly improved.
From the original thirty seconds to... sixty seconds, which was one minute.
Although it was still very short, the improvement in Kyosuke's endurance was still great. This was also an important reason why he dared to come and assassinate Yagura.
Receiving Kyosuke's order, the small snake suddenly stood up, and with its mouth wide open, Kyosuke, surrounded by a snake shadow, appeared outside Yagura's tent.
Before the Yagura in the tent could react, Kyosuke directly released the Sage Art attack that he had already prepared.
"Sage Art: Wind and Fire Gilt."
Boom!
The bright flames of the assassination instantly engulfed the tent in front of him and also lit up the entire night sky.
Ignoring the clamor from all around, Kyosuke said, "Buy me time," and then he charged straight at the figure who had walked out of the flames.
"U! CHI! HA! KYO! SU! KE!" The scorched Yagura, looking at him with murderous eyes, said, enunciating each word.
"Die, Mizukage," Kyosuke said in a cold voice.
The moment his words fell, he brought a beautiful green afterimage in the night sky, and his entire body directly charged at Yagura.
Originally, Yagura had already seen Kyosuke's swordsmanship. Logically speaking, he should not have chosen to engage in close combat. But his eyes flickered, and ignoring Kyosuke's sharp sword, he resolutely swung his staff at Kyosuke's chest.
This scene was almost a complete repeat of their previous clash.
Yagura's purpose was clear. It was to trade injuries for injuries. As long as your strength was damaged, you would probably have to stay here today.
Kyosuke was very clear about his purpose, or in other words, this was the scene he wanted.
The moment Yagura's coral staff was about to hit him, the three-tomoe pattern in Kyosuke's eyes suddenly changed.
In its place was a pair of diamond-shaped shuriken patterns.
Mangekyo Sharingan, activate!
With the circulation of his visual prowess, the ability of his left eye was instantly used.
"Distortion."
Yagura suddenly found that the coral staff, which was originally sweeping at the enemy's chest, had, for some unknown reason, suddenly deflected to the side, as if an invisible hand was controlling it.
What really made him terrified was that in reality, there was no external force interfering. It was "himself" who had chosen to shift the attack elsewhere, as if that was the original purpose.
This situation was naturally caused by the ability of Kyosuke's left eye.
"Distortion" was very similar to Uchiha Shisui's Kotoamatsukami, but there was also a great degree of difference.
Kotoamatsukami was to change a person's thoughts, making them act according to the user's will.
And Kyosuke's ability was not to change the original intention of a thing, but to change the final object of that thing according to his own will.
Simply put, the "cause" of the matter did not change, but the corresponding "effect" did.
For example, Yagura was preparing to sweep his staff at his chest. This attack action would not change, but Kyosuke could distort its attack target, that is, he could distort the "effect" of the original sweep at his chest into a sweep at the air beside him.
Under the intervention of this ability, the enemy could notice the abnormality. But just like the Yagura before him, even if he noticed that something was wrong, it was not so easy to retract his attack.
Of course, this ability was not without its limitations.
First, in order to activate the ability of distortion, the "cause" that he wanted to change must be clearly reflected in his eyes. In other words, if it was an attack launched from a distance or from behind, Kyosuke could not distort it.
Second, the activation of this ability had a distance limit. Kyosuke had found through experiments that this distance was about thirty meters. Beyond this distance, the ability of distortion would be greatly reduced.
Finally, using this ability would greatly consume his visual prowess. And according to the "quality" and "quantity" of the things to be distorted, the consumption of visual prowess would also be multiplied.
To put it this way, if the current Eight Gates Guy were to use a "Night Guy" to kick at him, Kyosuke's eyes would probably be blind from overuse and he would not be able to deflect the attack.
Overall, although the ability of his left eye was not a move like "Amaterasu" or "Tsukuyomi" that could directly cause damage, Kyosuke was already very satisfied. After all, with Sage Mode and Susanoo, he did not lack powerful moves. A support-type ability would be more suitable for him.
As for why he had awakened this ability, Kyosuke guessed that it was probably due to his special experiences.
From the day he had transmigrated to the Naruto world, he had wanted to change himself, to change the predetermined fate of his surrounding clan members and friends. And the ability of "Distortion" was naturally born from this.
And the ability of Kyosuke's right eye had a very strange name, "Ukemochi."
This was also a support ability. The difference from his left eye was that it was a "passive skill."
As long as Kyosuke activated the Mangekyo, his taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu would all be enhanced to a certain extent. This enhancement would be continuously strengthened with the training of his visual prowess.
This ability, Kyosuke guessed, was probably because he had always hoped in his heart that he could use his ability to change everything, which was why he had obtained this enhancement-type visual jutsu.
In addition, with the third ability, "Susanoo," Kyosuke was confident that he could complete the mission of assassinating the Mizukage alone.
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