Chapter 48: Chapter 48
Boom, boom, boom!
Violent explosions roared toward Might Duy, dragging searing heat and blazing fire in their wake.
In Jinpachi Munashi’s mind, this one attack should have been enough to blast that thick-browed, bowl-cut, green-spandex freak into pieces.
What happened next, however, left him staring in disbelief, almost questioning reality itself.
"Daytime Tiger!"
Might Duy roared, clenching his right fist before driving a high-speed straight punch toward Jinpachi.
The force of the strike slammed into the air itself, compressing the space in front of him to an extreme degree until it formed the shape of a vivid white tiger.
Roar!
The tiger’s cry shook the forest, as though the true king of beasts had descended.
In that instant, Jinpachi felt a terror that seemed to pierce straight into his soul.
"This... this can’t be..."
He desperately wanted to deny it, but reality crushed that fragile hope without mercy.
Roar!
Wherever the Daytime Tiger passed, whether it was the surging shockwaves or the raging flames, everything was swallowed in an instant and reduced to nothing.
Then, under Jinpachi Munashi’s despairing gaze, the white tiger consumed him as well.
Boom!
A giant mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
The terrifying energy instantly erased the massive trees and boulders it touched, then turned into a storm-like shockwave that tore outward in every direction.
Towering trees were ripped from their roots, and rocks the size of millstones were sent flying.
If Kiriya had not been protecting the three kids, they would have been blown who knew how far away.
By the time the dust settled, all they saw was a crater over ten meters wide where the white tiger had landed.
At the bottom of that crater, only a puddle of mangled flesh remained.
"So... so strong."
Genma Shiranui’s mouth hung open.
He did not even notice that the senbon he always kept between his teeth was gone.
"We... won?" Ebisu’s face was full of disbelief. "We... survived..."
For a moment, the two boys collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down their faces.
Then they hugged each other and began sobbing uncontrollably.
Kiriya did not laugh at them, did not scold them, and did not say a word.
Gods knew, even if they were already ninja, that did not change the fact that they were only teenagers.
In another world, children their age should have been laughing freely at school, enjoying their youth, or acting spoiled in their parents’ arms.
These boys, however, had been sent onto a battlefield and forced to become killing machines.
The fact that they had held themselves together until now already proved how strong their wills were.
After walking once along the edge of death, what was wrong with breaking down and crying?
Of course, there was one person here whose feelings were completely different from the others.
Might Guy.
"Dad won?"
His father, the eternal genin everyone mocked for only catching cats, walking dogs, and running errands for wealthy ladies, had actually killed one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist!
And he had done it in a single blow!
"Gulp."
Remembering that insane strike his father had just unleashed, Guy could not help swallowing several times.
Then came the pure joy.
"That was amazing! Dad, you’re incredible! You’re really, really incredible!"
Guy shouted and sprinted straight toward Might Duy, throwing himself at his father with so much force that he knocked the older man rolling across the ground.
"Uwaaaaaah!"
Might Duy let out a shrill scream.
Guy, still in the middle of his excitement, was so startled that he froze.
When he saw his father’s eyes squeezed shut, his forehead drenched in cold sweat from the pain, tears immediately sprang to his eyes.
"Dad, what’s wrong? Don’t scare me!"
As he spoke, he kept shaking Duy, desperately hoping his father would respond.
"Your dad was probably fine at first, but if you keep shaking him like that, who knows."
A helpless voice rang out, snapping Guy out of his panic.
"Please save my dad!"
Guy immediately grabbed the corner of Kiriya’s clothes and begged him.
"What do you think I came here for?"
Kiriya rolled his eyes, crouched down, and placed a hand on Might Duy’s body before using Yang Power: Everflowing Vitality.
A soft emerald light rose, and pure life force flowed through Might Duy’s entire body.
Might Duy immediately stopped screaming.
He even let out a comfortable groan, which sent goosebumps crawling across Kiriya’s skin.
Kiriya hurriedly pulled his hand back.
"What incredible medical ninjutsu."
Might Duy opened his eyes and looked at Kiriya with open admiration.
The Eight Gates could grant tremendous power, but that power came with a high price.
One of those costs was the enormous strain placed on the body. The more gates one opened, the heavier the burden became.
By the Seventh Gate, the tearing pain that surged through the body in that instant was like a tsunami, powerful enough to destroy a person’s reason.
Only someone like Might Duy, whose body and will had been tempered through endless training, could endure it and continue fighting.
But once the battle ended and the nerves that had been stretched tight finally relaxed, the pain that had been forced down would erupt like a volcano.
That was exactly what had happened to Might Duy just now.
Originally, Duy thought he would need at least a day or two of rest before returning to normal.
Yet after Kiriya’s medical ninjutsu, more than half of the side effects had vanished.
He even felt confident that he could open the Seventh Gate another two times.
’This kind of miraculous technique might not even lose to Lady Tsunade’s.’
He could not help thinking that.
"Keep it low-key. It’s just a small trick, nothing worth mentioning."
Kiriya’s calm and casual attitude made Might Duy admire him even more.
Powerful, mysterious, humble, and modest.
This was practically the perfect image of a genius.
Might Duy had already made up his mind.
He absolutely had to kidnap—cough, convince—this outstanding young man to join Konoha’s warm and loving family!
"Still, young man, you saved my life and the lives of these children. I must repay such a great kindness somehow. How about coming back to Konoha with me? I’ll treat you to a proper meal."
That was what Might Duy said, but in his heart, he was already planning how to report this to the Hokage and keep this genius in the village.
Kiriya could practically hear the man’s mental abacus clacking from across the entire Land of Fire, and he was left rather speechless.
’Dude, I’m from Konoha too!’
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