Naraku is a Buddhist term, which means "infinite hell".
In the absence of certainty as to whether "hell" really exists, what Naraku refers to in daily language is nothing more than the scene a person least wants to experience.
The D-level illusion technique, Naraku no Jutsu, can make those avoidable scenes appear very vividly in front of people's eyes.
In other words, the power of this technique depends on how strong the individual's own fear is.
Uchiha Flame used the Sharingan to use this enhanced surgery on Giyu, completely bringing Giyu into the most terrifying hallucination, and making him completely forget his current identity.
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"Monjiro (Tanjiro)! That's a middle-parted gown. Don't you recognize him?"
Giyuu was knocked away by Tanjiro who had absorbed Kibutsuji Muzan's cells, and his claws tore his flesh and blood, but that was not the source of his pain.
[Obviously we have won, we have obviously killed Kibutsuji...]
[Why did Tanjiro become a ghost and overcome the sunlight——]
Yiyong knelt on one knee, leaning on the blade to support his body, looking around desperately.
Beside the broken limbs and broken arms of the members of the Demon Slayer Corps everywhere, Yu Xingming sat in the wall smashed by his body with his head lowered in mourning.
Inside Ihei minibus, Kanroji Mitsuri was motionless in his arms and had stopped breathing.
Although Immortal Sakawa Saneya is still alive, judging from the panicked expressions and movements of the hidden tribes around him, I'm afraid the situation is not much better.
【The only one who can move in the pillar is me.】
【Already...no one can defeat him anymore!】
Tomioka Yoshiyuki's heart was shaken as a pillar.
At this time, the pig-headed boy who went up to stop Tanjiro was wrapped around the throat by a thick bone chain, and was slammed to the ground——
Under the gaze of those cruel and terrifying blood-red vertical pupils, he was smashed into a pulp one after another. Only the empty pig headband was thrown out, and he rolled bloody to Yiyong's side. He was no longer a human being.
previous shape.
"Roar!!!!!"
Tanjiro, who had fangs, got down on all fours like a beast, looking up to the sky and roaring. The huge shock wave swept away the surrounding corpses, and countless cold, warm, and hot blood stuck to Giyuu's numb face.
Tanjiro faced Giyuu with a ruthless face, seemingly already deciding on his next target to kill.
【Have you really forgotten everything? Tanjiro...】
Tomioka Giyong felt so sad that his body could not move at all under the gaze of those eyes.
He lost one arm, and could no longer hold a weapon with his other hand. He had multiple fractures all over his body. In addition, he lost too much blood and could not even stand up.
He seemed to have returned to that night many years ago. He could only open his mouth helplessly as he watched his junior brother, whose hands were stained with blood, crawling toward him with a bloody nose and meaningless grunts.
【finished?】
Tomioka Giyuu closed his eyes.
[I'm really useless, I'm sorry...Lord, Master, Nezuko, and everyone else who has sacrificed their lives.]
[A weak person like me is really not qualified to be a pillar.]
Just as he was preparing to meet his death, shouts rang out from all around.
"Protect the water column! Protect the water column!"
It was the voice of Murata and other surviving team members.
Yiyong opened his eyes again.
"We can't let Mizuhata be killed by Tanjiro!"
"Stop Tanjiro! Lord Mizuho, this is our last hope!"
"Stop him quickly!"
The remaining dozen team members immediately separated from the wounded who had just been treated, picked up the nearest Nichirin sword, and rushed towards Tomioka Giyu.
"Water Breath·One Type·Water Slash!"
"Breath of Wind·Three Types·Singlan Wind Tree!"
None of them were Tanjiro's enemy. Their throats were torn out, their spines were torn off, and they were thrown all over the floor like garbage.
Tomioka Giyuu saw that after all the dozen or so ordinary team members died, the Anbu people who didn't even know how to breathe rushed forward to block the crazy Tanjiro for him.
The few remaining people held his arms, dragged him into a corner where he was not easily found, and returned to the battlefield.
One of the hidden members stayed behind, and she took off her mask, revealing the face of Tsutako (Tomioka Tsutako)'s sister.
"Yongyong, Yongyong, can you hear me?"
My sister looked at him with gentle eyes, just like in her memory.
"What's wrong with you? Why aren't you moving?"
"Can you still understand me, Yiyong?"
"Giyu, you are the only one in the Demon Slayer Squad who can defeat Tanjiro now, hurry up and take action——"
Before she finished speaking, Senbai's shadow flew over from the battlefield, and a ferocious sharp bone pierced her sister's heart.
But Tomioka Giyuu was still speechless.
He shed tears, but could do nothing but watch this familiar scene happen again.
"Yoyong..."
My sister's warm hand suddenly turned cold and slid down his cheek, "We must live."
The long bone spur was like a scorpion's tail, dragging my sister's lifeless body back.
The footsteps sounded, calm and unhurried, even a little leisurely.
At some point, Tanjiro had resumed walking upright, but he was wearing Kibutsuji Muzai's black suit, that fancy top hat, and a frivolous smile on his face.
He put his arms around Sister Tsutako and carried her on his right shoulder. There was also a corpse on his left hand and left shoulder.
Yiyong opened his eyes wide, feeling tired and his body shrouded in deeper fear.
The remaining two people are Qiaotu and Nezuko.
Their bloodless faces were full of disappointment, as if they were condemning the righteous heroes.
Even they were brutally killed by the demonized Tanjiro.
"Why are you showing such an expression?"
Tanjiro looked at Giyu condescendingly, and said in the voice of Demon Dance Tsuji Muzan: "I have said it before, ghost hunters have brain problems, and they actually want to deal with me."
He wiped away the tears on Giyuu's face with the bone stained with Tsutako's sister's blood, leaving a red trace.
"Wouldn't it be better to think of me as a flood, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption? Is there anyone who wants to retaliate against natural disasters?"
"Obviously, as long as you think in a different way, you can live easily. It's not difficult at all to find a part-time job and live a good life."
"What's the result now? You have nothing left except your own life. Almost everything important and everyone you know has become nothing. To be honest, seeing you in such pain makes me sad.
I can’t bear to kill you."
Having said this, Tanjiro paused, seemed to have thought of something, and grinned a very evil smile.
"Oh, I forgot, there is another person very important to you who seems to be still alive."
Giyuu's heart stopped for a moment, he knew who the person Tanjiro was talking about.
【It’s Master Lintaki!】
"oops."
The demonized Tanjiro glanced at the corpses of Usagi and Nezuko with his scarlet eyes.
"I didn't send a apprenticeship gift back then, but I just made up for it now. His old man will be very happy when he sees these two gifts. After all, they and I are the children that Master Lintaki cares about the most."
As he said that, he turned around and took steps in the direction of the rising sun. That was the direction of Mount Samagiri.
"Of course, I will tell him that I owe this gift to you thanks to your help.
"Just live like this, Tomioka Giyu.
"Always protected by stronger people, always able to survive in battles, obviously the luckiest one, but he still has to live with the unluckiest face.
"That's it. Just live with me forever and ever!"
【Tanjiro!】
Giyuu watched in shock as Tanjiro walked further and further away, crying out sadly in his heart.
【Please! Wake up!】
【Please! Kill me! Don’t disturb Master Lintaki!】
Tanjiro seemed to feel something and turned around slightly.
But this time, Giyuu saw clearly that it was no longer Tanjiro's face, but the proud Kibutsuji Muzai himself!
He showed a mocking expression and continued to move forward with the three corpses.
【It’s that guy! It’s that guy!】
[Yes, if it was gentle Tanjiro, how could he do these things?! 】
【This damn disaster!】
Tomioka Giyu's eyes widened, and the furious flames rushed towards his limbs, helping him regain control of the remains.
He stared intently at Kibutsuji Mukai's back, his mouth and nose were like factory chimneys, with endless white smoke pouring out.
[Absolutely not, let him hurt Master Lintaki.]
He walked to Murata's broken arm and connected his knife-holding arm to his own broken arm, and it was unusually successful (because it was in an illusion).
[We must never let him take away Qiu Usagi, my sister, Tanjiro and Nezuko again——]
【They are all my family!】
Murata's blue nichirin sword seemed to sense his determination, and a surge of water suddenly burst out.
It has the same desire as Yiyong, even if it exhausts all its strength and vitality, it still wants to deliver the final blow to the enemy twenty meters away.
"Breath of Water·Ten Forms..."
Oniwu Tsuji Muzan seemed to sense something and turned around in surprise.
"Do you still have the strength?"
He threw the three corpses on his body out, making Yiyong even more angry.
"Then let me play with you!"
As he made a series of strange movements with his hands, the surrounding buildings collapsed and stood between the two of them.
The bodies of the demon slayers along the way were trampled again, and the imaginary screams completely dyed Giyuu's eyes blood-red.
"Life and death flow!"
Accompanied by a terrifying dragon roar, the ferocious water dragon rushed towards the building blocking the road like a speeding train.
Yiyong had never felt that he was so powerful. He rotated his body to restore the blade, and the water dragon swept out its giant tail, blasting the obstacles in front of him into large and small pieces.
And every time it spins its body, the water dragon's roar will get louder, its body will become more solid, and its two empty eyes gradually light up, as if there is a living soul living in them.
One, two, three, four, five walls——
Each one was more completely destroyed than the last, especially the last three-meter-thick ruins, which were directly smashed into powder by the dragon's head!
Fear finally appeared in Ghost Dance Tsuji Muzan's eyes!
He suddenly jumped up high, trying to avoid the giant mouth of the dragon head, but how could Yiyong let him go!
His feet smashed the ground violently, and the blue sword blade and the dragon's head flew into the air together. The face that was called facial paralysis showed an expression even crueler than a ghost!
In his anxiety, Onibatsuji Muzan made various movements with his hands and breathed out a large ball of flame, but it was instantly extinguished by the spray of water, and the rising steam was of no help at all.
When Yiyong turned around for the last time, the giant dragon opened its mouth and was about to kill the evil enemy on the spot——
The sun in the east suddenly turned into dozens.
Each sun became red, grew strange magatama patterns, and rotated slowly.
The next moment, Uchiha Giyuu woke up.
He was "flying" in mid-air at the moment, but he was surrounded by six or seven Shisui with three Magatama Sharingan eyes open.
【What am I doing?!】
Giyuu didn't have time to think, and he wasn't quite sure what happened just now, but he knew that Shisui was a friend, so he quickly dissipated the chakra condensed in his hand and stopped the sword movement, but blood overflowed from his mouth.
The fifty-meter-long water dragon suddenly turned into raindrops flying all over the sky to water the trees. Yiyong also completely lost his strength due to a temporary change of tactics and fell towards the ground.
In mid-air, all Shisui blocking him disappeared instantly.
Just when Giyuu was about to make contact with the ground, Uchiha Shisui's body suddenly appeared directly below, just in time to hold him in his arms.
Over there, Uchiha Yanhuo, who had barely survived, was sitting on the ground sweating profusely.
After using large-scale earth escape and several fire escapes and high fireballs, his chakra was almost used up.
He had never seen a water dragon bullet that could turn corners and protect the caster, but he was in mid-air and couldn't even use the Substitute Technique.
Especially the expression the other party looked at him at the end, with such deep disgust and hatred, made him unable to help but feel frightened.
[What is the thing that the kid is most afraid of...]
But before he could recover, Uchiha Shisui put down his heroic spirit and appeared in front of him in an instant.
"Sorry, I can't let you remember this."
Shisui stared at Uchiha Yanhuo's eyes, and the three magatama in his left eye turned five or six times, until it started to transform, and then he succeeded in making Uchiha Yanhuo fall over.
He just modified some small details in his memory. There is no need to use the kaleidoscope technique, the simplified illusion technique is enough.
When Uchiha Enka wakes up, he will forget that Giyuu has the Sharingan, and will regard the water dragon bullet as Shisui's masterpiece.
As long as his eye power cannot surpass Shisui, the original memory cannot be revived.
After doing all this, Shisui returned to Uchiha Giyu in a flash.
"Xiao Yiyong, you really impressed me this time."
Shisui carefully took away the ninja sword from Giyuu's hand and threw it far away, then pointed behind him, "Of course, it won't be easy for me to deal with the aftermath later."
Yiyong turned his head, his eyes widening in disbelief.
The originally neat center area of the performance venue has turned into a muddy ruin.
The arc-shaped tunnel more than two meters wide ran through a full distance of twenty to thirty meters. The training ground seemed to have been plowed by a huge plow, not to mention the broken stones around it...
"Did I do this?"
he asked hoarsely.
He saw Sasuke slumped on the opposite side of the tunnel, breathing heavily, as if he had seen something terrible.
It's just that Yiyong is exhausted now and has no extra energy to go over and comfort him.
"Ah, have you completely forgotten?"
Shisui patted Giyuu on the shoulder, "You defeated a quasi-Jounin head-on. You did this on the first day of practicing chakra extraction. You are really amazing."
【Although I don’t think anyone else can do it.】
He carefully observed Yiyong's face, filled with curiosity.
He wanted to know what was going on with the water escape that was even more difficult to deal with than the water dragon bullet?
The water dragon, which cannot be evaded and whose power is constantly increasing, can also move forward with the caster, and can even change the attack direction at will along with the physical skills. It is not considered an A-level ninjutsu.
Let’s not talk about speed, but at least it looks much more spectacular than Kakashi-senpai’s Raikiri.
The most important thing is that this technique does not require any seals!
And Yiyong's sharp knife skills for chopping large earth flow walls, could it be cultivated by chopping vegetables in the kitchen?
Shisui, who thought he had seen a lot of strange things, was really shocked by Giyuu's performance today. It was a pity that Itachi wasn't here, otherwise he would have seen his expression.
Didn't you see Sasuke over there and was already frightened?
[I really should take a photo of him with a camera and show it to him when he grows up...]
Giyuu felt nothing about Shisui's praise, instead he lowered his head in depression.
【It would be great if I had such power at that time.】
He looked at his painful and hot right hand and knew that he was in a genjutsu state. Like the previous genin, he subconsciously mobilized chakra to cover the muscles near the acupuncture points in his hand, which was why he was able to cause such great damage.
As for the ninja sword, it was just a fill-in.
Although this power surprised him, it came too late.
Another thing that bothered him was that he had lost control just now and almost killed the child.
"Where are the other three?"
Glancing at the soundly sleeping Uchiha Flame over there, Giyuu remembered what happened to the other three Uchiha genin.
If such a big movement affects the three of them...
"You kids are too kind. Why don't you teach them a lesson? I won't bother you again in the future."
Seeing Giyuu's face getting paler, Uchiha Shisui quickly pointed to the three people hanging neatly on the tree over there, "Don't worry, everything is fine. The most seriously injured person here is you."
He looked a little more serious and said to Yiyong: "Remember, you must not use up all your chakra and physical strength at once in the future. Otherwise, you will die."
Yiyong sensed his body and found that it was exactly what Zhisui said.
The chakra refined in the morning has been completely exhausted, but there is still unconverted [physical energy] left, but not much, reaching the edge of danger.
It seems that the circulation of such great power comes at a price.
"I see."
Giyuu stood up holding his shoulders, "Take me to Sasuke."
"No need, someone will bring him here."
As soon as Shisui finished speaking, Giyuu saw Itachi's figure appearing next to Sasuke.
Itachi first looked at the messy ground in bewilderment, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then asked Sasuke a question, but Sasuke just stared ahead with an ugly expression.
He seemed to be frightened.
There was no other way, so Itachi had no choice but to carry him on his back and walked towards Giyuu and Shisui.
Seeing Itachi's questioning expression, Shisui shook his head slightly and said, "Let's send these two children home first. We'll talk about it later when we clean up here."
Itachi glanced at Giyuu's swollen right hand and knew that Shisui was right and that he had to treat the injury first.
He created two shadow clones, one as Shisui's "helper" and the other as a volunteer.
Then Itachi's true body nodded gratefully to Shisui, and left with the two brothers, Giyuu and Sasuke.
The shadow clone came to Zhisui and listened to him talk about what just happened.
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The three brothers—including the doppelgangers, there were four brothers—did not speak during the entire journey.
Itachi could feel Sasuke's whole body being cold, while Giyuu was visibly exhausted. Unfortunately, Shisui's clone had not been released yet, and he didn't know what happened specifically, but he could guess some things.
The dragon roar just now and the traces on the ground were probably caused by water dragon bullets.
But Shisui does not have water-type chakra.
Uchiha Flame was a potential enemy that could cause trouble. Itachi also knew his situation, and he was also not qualified to release large-scale water release ninjutsu.
So the only possible answer...
Uchiha Itachi sighed.
Too many things happened today, and each one of them made him, a young man, feel very troublesome.
Fortunately, my father didn't know much.
He lurked there when the three brothers started to have lunch. He asked the jounin of the clan to attract Uchiha Flame. He wanted to use his bad temper to make the two brothers suffer a little bit, so as to inspire Yiyong to learn tolerance.
The power of technology.
After all, how many children can tolerate being bullied? Even if Giyuu doesn't take him seriously, what about seeing Sasuke being bullied?
In his father's opinion, although this move is a bit despicable, it is already a better choice. Otherwise, he would have to work with the jounin in the clan to find a solution, and then Giyuu would truly lose his freedom.
After thinking about it for a while, Itachi decided to reach an agreement with his father, and both sides would take a step back.
First, my father hid the story of Yiyong from his tribe.
Secondly, Itachi will induce Giyu to learn ninjutsu, especially to get Giyu to agree to go to a ninja school.
Third, Itachi promised his father to take part in the Chunin Examination next month, and later joined the ANBU as arranged by his father and became a spy placed by Uchiha in the Hokage.
But what he never expected was that the higher-ups in the village had exactly the same idea.
After returning home, he carried Sasuke and Giyuu to the room and let them rest for a while. He personally went to find a familiar medical ninja to treat Giyuu - he had used shadow clones too many times today, and there was not much checking left.
Carat.
In the empty room, only Sasuke and Giyuu were left. They had similar faces and similar expressions.
After a long while, Giyuu reached out to Sasuke. He felt that any child would be frightened when they saw that scene, so it was best to comfort him like Nezuko.
What he didn't expect was that Sasuke turned around and gave him a firm hug first.
"Yiyong, from now on, I will never make you cry again."
He remembered the words of a general described in the Little Man's Book.
If a person who you thought would never cry suddenly cries so desperately, he must be experiencing great pain.
Compared with the strength shown by the bravery, those tears were more shocking to Sasuke.
Giyuu was stunned for a moment, then put his uninjured hand around Sasuke's shoulder and said nothing.
