What does it feel like when a kunai pierces your body?
First, you feel not pain, but as if something has hit you, and only then comes the pain.
Inoyue isn't afraid of death, but she's afraid of pain! People born in peaceful times are rarely unafraid of pain. Inoyue is very afraid of pain; in her previous life, she was even a little scared of injections.
So, the kunai that struck her back made Inoyue break out in a cold sweat from the pain.
Three Sand Ninja have already been eliminated. These three were Genin; Inoyue killed one, and Uchiha Suien killed two.
Uchiha Suien had two knife wounds on his leg, and while protecting Inoyue just now, he was hit by another kunai. The kunai struck his shoulder, which wasn't a vital spot.
None of the Jonin or Chunin among the Sand Ninja had made a move. Their captain, Goto, wanted them captured alive, so only the Genin had attacked.
Capture them alive, and then torture them to death!
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"You're quite capable, aren't you?" Goto smiled cruelly, showing no emotion at the casualties among his subordinates. It was as if, in his eyes, regardless of whether they were comrades, if they were Genin and not strong enough, then their deaths were simply their deaths.
"Let me play with you!" With a chuckle, Goto licked his lips, as if he couldn't wait.
With a Shunshin, Goto kicked away the already exhausted Uchiha Suien, then appeared before Inoyue with incredible speed, startling her.
Suppressing the pain in her back, Inoyue leaped backward to maintain distance. However, Goto showed no intention of attacking. Instead, he greedily inhaled at the spot where Inoyue had just stood, a satisfied expression on his face: "Such a fragrant scent!"
Thump, Inoyue's heart pounded. This Goto was a complete pervert. She absolutely could not fall into his hands, even if it meant suicide.
"Hehehe… let me guess what you're thinking now." Goto chuckled maliciously, and without waiting for Inoyue to react, he continued, "You're thinking you'd rather kill yourself than fall into my hands, aren't you?! Hahahaha…!"
With a flick of the kunai in her right hand, Inoyue unhesitatingly plunged the kunai towards her own throat. Perhaps death truly was a release now!
With a bang, she felt her body involuntarily fly backward, and an immense pain shot through her hands and body. Inoyue, attempting suicide, was kicked away by Goto, and the only kunai in her hand flew off to the side.
Inoyue's mental strength was very strong; aside from mental stimulation, it was extremely difficult for her to faint.
Her ribs seemed broken, her right hand was temporarily unusable, and she spat out a mouthful of blood. Her overall condition was very poor; even attempting suicide now seemed difficult.
"Haha…! You want to die? It's not that easy. I've played with so many women, but I haven't played with an eight-year-old loli like you yet. How could I let you die?!" Goto's perverted laughter rang out.
"I'll kill you!" Uchiha Suien, who had been kicked aside, struggled to get up. After just two steps, he was pinned to the ground by other Sand Ninja. His Three Tomoe Sharingan glared fiercely at Goto, his teeth grinding audibly.
"Oh! Is she your little girlfriend? Haha, well, that makes it even more interesting, doesn't it?!" Goto cackled, looking as if his desires were about to be unleashed.
Inoyue looked at the restrained Uchiha Suien, then stared intently at the arrogant Goto.
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If looks could kill, Goto would have been killed by Inoyue countless times over.
"What kind of look is that? I'm so scared! Hehe…! But, truly, how adorable!" Goto stared at Inoyue, teasing her with a smirk. The dozen or so remaining Sand Ninja also wore cruel smiles on their faces.
Amidst the unrestrained mockery of the crowd, Inoyue's eyes changed. Dark gold filled the entire whites of her eyes, and within her black pupils, a red door seemed to open. A chilling aura immediately leaked from her eyes. At that moment, the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became somewhat eerie.
The Sand Ninja present suddenly stopped laughing, because they all shared a common feeling—a very ominous one. It was as if something very bad was about to happen immediately. They looked left and right, searching for the source of the ill omen.
Most of the Sand Ninja felt this, and Goto, as an Elite Jonin, felt it even more so. The sudden ominous feeling made him immediately look at Inoyue on the ground.
"Not good!" Goto cried out inwardly, immediately using Shunshin to move out of Inoyue's line of sight. However, the Sand Ninja around him, including the Jonin, were not so lucky.
"What's going on?!" They shrieked in terror, their voices trembling, their expressions horrified. For their hands were slowly rising, and the kunai in their hands were pointed at themselves.
A wet thud, then another, as the kunai in their hands pierced their own throats, deeply slicing through their necks.
Horrific screams rang out one after another, and blood continuously gushed forth. Any Sand Ninja within Inoyue's line of sight experienced this phenomenon. It was as if someone was controlling their bodies, forcing them to commit suicide while fully conscious.
"Die, I want you all to die!" Inoyue gritted her teeth, muttering inwardly. This was her only thought now.
From her perspective, in this black, white, and gray world, the light converging on these individuals was forcibly controlled by her eyes. The human forms gathered by the light performed an action, and in reality, these Sand Ninja followed suit, performing the same action: suicide.
The Genin died very quickly, almost without resistance, at their own hands. The Chunin still resisted a bit, struggling slightly; the Jonin, however, were different, resisting constantly, as if fighting against their body's will, but they too died within a few seconds.
Inoyue turned her head, instantly locking onto Goto, who was sneaking up from behind. This time, Goto maintained his charge, and was completely locked in Inoyue's sight before he could react.
"What kind of ocular jutsu is this?!" Goto was terrified; the kunai in his hand was slowly rising, but he resisted, his entire body trembling uncontrollably, cold sweat streaming down his face. For he felt the aura of death, an aura that seemed to belong only to the Mind's Eye after death.
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"What's going on?" Karura, sensing something was wrong, returned and saw Goto struggling to commit suicide.
Inoyue slightly turned her head, looking at Karura.
Karura's heart suddenly jumped with alarm; a bad premonition instantly arose. The sand on the ground surged upward, forming a sand wall that blocked Inoyue's line of sight.
The sand wall rose, but in less than two seconds, it quickly dispersed, as if it had suddenly lost its connection with Karura, just like something dead.
Karura continuously dodged, while sand walls rose. After moving fifty meters away from Inoyue, the extremely ominous feeling in her heart finally lessened somewhat.
"What kind of ocular jutsu is this?" Karura looked at Inoyue, fifty meters away, in surprise, asking the same question.
Goto was still struggling, the kunai slowly piercing his skin, then deepening little by little. He was resisting, but he was also terrified; his face was already distorted. Whether from exerting too much force or seeing some terrifying sight, this Elite Jonin of the Sand Ninja was slowly waiting for death in fear.
"Ah! Pfft… Ah…." It seemed like he wanted to say something, perhaps beg for mercy. The kunai finally pierced Goto's throat. His eyes widened, his tongue lolled out, and his entire body crashed to the ground, his already distorted hand twitching a few times.
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Goto died a truly miserable death. Yet, Inoyue covered her mouth with her left hand, sitting on the ground, sobbing.
She had killed people, many people. Not just the surrounding Sand Ninja, but also old men, women, and children.
This time her Mind's Eye awakened, a memory seal in her mind seemed to break. The memory of that B-rank mission, which she hadn't gone to the battlefield for, completely unfolded before Inoyue.
It was a B-rank mission to eliminate mountain bandits, where they encountered a rogue Ninja. This rogue Ninja's strength was not just Chunin level, but directly approached that of a Jonin.
Due to incorrect intelligence, this rogue Ninja was not accounted for. Minato Namikaze was waiting for them in the town and did not go with them to execute the mission. So, after Sixth Squad attacked the mountain stronghold, they were repeatedly in perilous situations.
There were many people in the mountain stronghold, mostly bandits, but bandits also had families, so there were old people and children in the stronghold. Sixth Squad was surrounded by these people, watched by them, as if they were not the first Ninja to be killed by the leader.
Facing a rogue Ninja with Jonin-level strength, Inoyue's Mind's Eye awakened while she was unconscious and on the verge of death. All enemies within her line of sight, just like today's Sand Ninja, committed suicide.
Although she was almost unconscious at the time, the expressions of those who were forced to commit suicide later reappeared one by one in her mind.
The ordinary children, women, and old people—their deaths caused Inoyue's emotions to collapse.
Minato, who arrived, witnessed all of this firsthand, and so he used Sealing Jutsu to seal this memory of Inoyue. However, this awakening completely shattered the seal.
The recovered memories impacted Inoyue's heart. It turned out that her self-named Mind's Eye truly was the Mind's Eye, and it had already awakened. The conditions for its awakening were a resolute will to die and a large number of sacrifices.
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