Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

No wonder.

Looking at the unfamiliar knight, still in the posture of tearing apart the sticky venom and bathed in purple mist, a knowing glint flashed in Uchiha Gin's eyes.
He finally understood why Hydrangea had traveled so far to Konoha to study; it turned out that Hanzo's Transformation Driver was a legendary life-saving item.

It is impossible for an ordinary human body to control it. If the body is not transformed into its current inhuman state, it is likely that after a few transformations, it will become a beach warrior and be forever integrated with Mother Earth.

"This is not scientific."

Watching Hanzo transform using the power from his abdomen, Senju Hisana fell into deep self-doubt.

"How could an ordinary human possibly control this power?"

During her time as the second Nine-Tails Rider, she faced many clone riders who came to collect the tailed beast's chakra, and she was deeply impressed by the abdominal openings on their waists—a strange type of organism that converts the host's life force into power.

On one occasion, after defeating the Clone Knight, her professional instincts kicked in, and she prepared to remove his abdomen for research. However, the moment her hand touched it, a large mouthful of life energy was sucked away, causing her to recoil in fright.

And the abdomen, thanks to the energy she delivered, successfully activated the teleportation, sending the half-dead host back to his hometown.

After that battle, she conducted a special study on the abdomen. Unfortunately, Senju Hisa didn't know that the clone knight army had been wiped out in the Land of Rain. She excitedly prepared more than a dozen capture plans, but before she could implement them, the clone knights seemed to have vanished into thin air and never appeared again.

In the end, she had no choice but to regretfully seal the data away. At the same time, under pressure from the Third Hokage and others, she handed over the authority of the Tailed Beast Riders back to the village.

Are there any normal people among the knights?

Uchiha Gin couldn't help but roll his eyes upon hearing this. "Try finding an ordinary person to be a knight these days," he thought, "they definitely wouldn't survive three episodes."
"That's not what I meant. I've studied that transformation device. It uses the life force of the person transforming as fuel for combat. Only my brother's physique can handle it. Anyone else would have been drained into nothingness during the transformation process."

"That's because it hasn't met a man of steel."

"You curly-haired guy, you're supposed to be a professional, how can you say such amateurish things?"

Upon hearing Uchiha Gin's emotionally charged remarks, Senju Hiiro rolled her eyes with a style even more orthodox than the Hyuga clan.
“I’m not wrong, he is indeed a man of ‘unyielding integrity’ in the literal sense.”

With a slight shrug, Uchiha Gin pointed his chin at the purple knight making his debut not far away, his face full of innocence.

In a literal sense?
You mean to say...

After a brief moment of bewilderment, Senju Hisami seemed to realize something, and her eyes widened in horror.

"Hanzo specially modified his body to fit that transformation device?"

"It's also possible that the aftereffects of the transformation were too severe, forcing him to make this choice."

Seeing Senju Hishima understand so quickly, Uchiha Gin nodded in satisfaction. It was so easy to talk to a professional. If it were someone as intelligent as her sister, no matter how hard he tried, it would be like talking to a brick wall.

"No wonder he only had a very weak life force. I thought there was something wrong with my perception."

After learning the inside information about Hanzo's body from Uchiha Gin, Senju Hisama's furrowed brows relaxed slightly.

This answer at least proves that her sensory ninjutsu had not been neglected due to her long-term stay in the club.

"and many more!"

Suddenly, a few seconds later, Senju Hisami realized something was wrong, her eyes widened, and she abruptly turned to look at Uchiha Gin beside her, coldly questioning him.

"How did you find out about this?"

"This is a long story; it started last year during the Chinese New Year."

Under Senju Hisa's righteous gaze, Uchiha Gin took a deep breath, picked up a novel, and began to carefully read the previous chapters.

"Stop, stop, stop! Get to the point!"

Seeing that Uchiha Gin was about to embark on another lengthy flashback, Senju Hisa tore the trashy novel in his hand to shreds and raised her hand to make a big X.
"Dare to spread rumors, and I'll kill you!"

"Um... I have a student."

"."

"and then?"

Senju Hisama, who had been waiting anxiously for several minutes, frowned and pressed for an answer when Uchiha Gin showed no sign of speaking.
"Just like you."

"Huh? I'm not your student."

Although she had received guidance from Uchiha Gin, the teacher-student relationship was a bit too cliché, so she decided to skip it.

Senju Hisa pouted and urged them impatiently.
"Please continue."

"I already said it's the same as yours, I don't have any down there."

Do you want to die?

It took Senju Hishi for several seconds to react. Her face flushed red with anger. The gender-swapped thing was a stain she could never wash away for the rest of her life.

That is, Uchiha Gin. If it were anyone else who knew about this, she would guarantee that they would not even be able to meet the Sage of Six Paths and would simply disappear from this world.

"Wasn't my explanation sufficient?"

"You mean, the person who modified Hanzo's body was your student?"

After calming down, Senju Hisa analyzed the situation briefly and instantly arrived at the correct answer.

"That's right, he's a guy who's just as smart as you."

Uchiha Gin nodded, his gaze unconsciously sweeping over Senju Hisami's impressive curves, silently comparing her to Ookabe no Ryouchi, and discovering that the two were surprisingly evenly matched in certain areas.
"Tell me honestly, who is the other person?"

Unaware of Uchiha Gin's strange gaze, Senju Hisa's eyebrows furrowed.
You curly-haired bastard, how dare you casually pass on the village's patent to foreigners! If it weren't for your sister's sake, I would have charged you with colluding with foreign enemies.

"Sorry, I did receive payment."

"Rogue ninja Uchiha Gin, confess and you will be treated leniently, resist and you will be punished severely. Confess honestly and try to go home for the New Year."

In the temporary base at the rear,

"drop!"

"Lord Hanzo! Lord Hanzo! Can you hear me?"

After Hanzo finished transforming, his teacher, unaware that Hyakki Yako was about to become a rogue ninja, nervously pressed the call button.
"Beep beep. Beep. I'm here."

As the long busy tone ended, Hanzo's lifeless voice echoed within the base, instantly eliciting excited cheers from the surrounding staff.

"We made it!"

"Get back to your workstations and turn on the body monitoring devices at full power. From now on, you must record Lord Hanzo's real-time data without missing a single detail."

Fortunately, Hydrangea remembered that Hanzo was currently fighting the enemy, and coldly reprimanded the staff in the base.
"Yes, Lady Hydrangea."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately perked up and returned to their workstations to continue performing their duties.

"Lord Hanzo, have you sensed anything unusual?"

Hydrangea maintained communication with Hanzo, her eyes glued to the screen filled with a purple halo, and asked aloud,

"I feel great now." This was actually Hanzo's first transformation since modifying his body. His original physical body had suffered irreversible damage after his first battle with Komurasaki.

Not only were his internal organs weakened to the point of near collapse, but his muscles had also prematurely aged to the level of someone in their seventies. This cruel truth once led the guardian deity of the Rain Kingdom to contemplate suicide.

At that time, Hydrangea received guidance from Chiyo and resolutely went to Konoha alone to study.

Ultimately, upon her return after completing her studies, she became the last hope for Hanzo and even the entire Amegakure.

Fortunately, Uchiha Gin's technology was indeed far superior. After a year-long modification experiment, Hydrangea successfully rescued Hanzo's soul from his former decaying body.
The current Hanzo, except for his original brain and heart, has all his other metal parts stamped with "made in bo" on them.

And this new body became a new cage for that half of the abdomen.

Unable to absorb life energy from the steel body, and unable to obtain the purple toxin that fascinated it, the half of its abdomen transplanted to its new home almost became depressed.

However, it has finally gotten its wish. The core made from the poison sac inside Hanzo's body is now hanging in its mouth, and its abdomen is greedily absorbing the rich energy within, transforming it into heavy armor and giving Hanzo even more magical power.

"Purple, what do you want to do?"

Hanzo's transformation was indeed stunning, but Han, as the opposing side, was more concerned about the unusual behavior of his companion. Seeing Komurasaki grinning maliciously as she pulled out a Tailed Beast Card from her robes, he quickly spoke up to warn her.

Have you forgotten the rules?

"Rules? I'm laughing so happily precisely because I know the rules all too well."

Xiao Zi shook her head, her gaze never leaving Hanzo after his transformation.

"You mean this is a battle of knights?"

Han frowned and thought for a moment before speaking hesitantly.

"Is that even a question?"

The rules didn't specify the categories of knights. In Xiao Zi's opinion, from the moment Hanzo shouted "henshin," the other side had already declared war on them as knights.

click!
As she spoke, Xiao Zi had already fastened the driver to her waist, her eyes filled with fighting spirit.

"henshin!"

"Four-Tails! Four-Tails Son Goku! The enraged Monkey God!"

A colossal, four-tailed, dark red lava golem rose from the ground, only to be smashed apart from behind by a red figure.
"Bring me the stick!"

As Xiao Zi, transformed into the Four-Tailed Knight, clasped her fists together, golden lava gushed out and transformed into a thick lava staff that landed in her hand.

"Old Sun, your chance for revenge has arrived!"

"Go, Little Purple, teach this despicable guy a lesson!"

Inside the Tailed Beast Card Space, the bald, pink-skinned Four-Tails roared, releasing its Tailed Beast Chakra as if it were free, seemingly determined to make Hanzo, who had shed his fur, pay the price.

Feeling unprecedented support from the Four-Tails, the long staff in Komurasaki's hand instantly expanded to waist-thickness, seemingly as heavy as a thousand pounds, yet he felt no weight at all.
"Take this from Old Zi!"

Learning from the Four-Tails' catchphrase, Komurasaki raised her thick giant club high and chopped it down at Hanzo.

"Bah!"

Several streaks of lava and sparks erupted in the darkness, and Xiao Zi successfully struck Hanzo, who stood frozen in place.

But things didn't go as smoothly as he had hoped. Under the thick, massive club, Hanzo crossed his arms and firmly withstood his powerful blow.

"What?!"

Not only that, but watching the giant club gradually being lifted up, the little purple mask revealed a face full of astonishment, and she even began to doubt her own people.
"Old Sun, you didn't hold back, did you?"

"Idiot, I wish I could beat him into an anime character with a stick."

Four-Tailed roared, its beastly eyes, radiating a heavy aura, fixed on Hanzo's greedy belly. No matter how many times it encountered this thing, it always gave it a sense of crisis from the depths of its soul.

This is actually quite normal. The raw material for making the belly comes from another Ten-Tails that Isshiki had kept hidden away. It comes from the same source as the nine tailed beasts.

Each Ten-Tails is an independent individual, and from the day it is born, it is extremely hostile to other Ten-Tails. If two Ten-Tails are in the same space, the outcome will be a fight to the death. This is why the tree-planting team of the Otsutsuki clan only brings one Ten-Tails with them each time.

"Boom!!!"

During the brief exchange between the man and the beast, a mechanical rumbling sound emanated from Hanzo's body beneath the giant club, and purple steam spewed out from each of his joints.

"Boom!"

The next second, Xiao Zi felt a lightness in her hand; the giant staff was actually being held around her waist by Hanzo.

"you"

Before he could utter a word of doubt, Hanzo suddenly assumed a stance of perfect balance, lifting him and his staff into the air.

"Reciprocity is key."

As Xiao Zi adjusted her landing posture in mid-air, she suddenly heard Hanzo's cold voice. She turned her head in surprise.
He noticed that the other person had suddenly leaped up, now towering over him by more than a body length, and a size 42 shoe sole with "made in bo" printed on it was getting closer and closer into his field of vision.

"purple!"

On the ground, Han, seeing Hanzo posing for a flying kick above Xiao Zi, didn't bother to examine the rules and simply pulled out his driver and fastened it to his waist.
"henshin!"

"King Mu! Five-Tailed King Mu! The Sonic Divine Steed!"

He transformed into a white lightning bolt and shot into the sky with zero frames, but it was too late.
"Oh!"

Hanzo's flying kick struck Komurasaki in the chest, the terrifying force rendering him speechless. His internal organs throbbed with excruciating pain, and dark red blood flowed uncontrollably from his mouth and nose.
"Little Purple!"

Seeing that Komurasaki's life was in danger, Son Goku roared and poured all his chakra into the driver at his waist. As fiery red energy surged through the veins of his armor, Komurasaki's fading will was reactivated.
"Newcomer, don't underestimate the veteran's resolve, Monkey God."

Sensing the two scorching energies converging in her fists, Xiao Zi roared as she fell, her fiery red energy surging to its limit.
"start up!"

The eyes of Hanzo, who was closest to him, began to flash rapidly, and various danger alarms popped up one after another. Hydrangea's anxious voice also echoed in his ears.

"Lord Hanzo, the enemy's chakra levels are skyrocketing, and the surrounding temperature is increasing at a rate of 300 degrees Celsius per second. We recommend taking cover as soon as possible!"

"Boom!"

Hanzo looked at his increasingly deformed thighs and replied coldly.
"It's too late."

Han, who was still some distance away from the two, stared in shock at Xiao Zi, who was enveloped in red light. He seemed to recall the Third Hokage mentioning this situation in class, something like "opening up a cheat code".

"boom!"

The next second, before the red light had completely dissipated, Han saw Hanzo's figure fly backward in a disheveled manner, the leg that had just used the flying kick twisting in a bizarre S-shape.

"Don't underestimate my fists, or you'll regret it!"

At this moment, the light dissipated, revealing a knight with a body as bulky as a bucket, plummeting at an incredible speed. He wore a pair of heavy, powerful gauntlets covered in intricate, dark red patterns resembling meridians.
"Croak~ It's open already?"

Seeing the Four-Tails Knight in its new form, Monkey God Komurasaki, Gin Uchiha couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, unable to suppress the smile on his lips.
This is the kind of Knights battle he wanted to see!
Meanwhile, Senju Hisa, utterly shocked, swallowed hard. Feeling her mouth dry, she instinctively picked up the iced lemonade in her hand, which had melted from the heat emanating from Komurasaki, and took a sip.
Slurp~
"What's going on, Curly? Did you also take money from Iwagakure?" (End of Chapter)