Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 230 Orochi (she) Hime
boom! !

The colossal rock statue's massive fist, blotting out the sky and carrying destructive wind pressure, slammed down on the tiny people below!

The ground cracked and collapsed under the terrifying force, and the billowing dust obscured everyone's vision!

"Yumujin!"

In the distance, the Fourth Raikage's expression suddenly changed, and he instinctively wanted to go to the rescue.

"Hmph! What are you looking at?!"

Obito's cold voice rang out, and the skeletal arm of Susanoo mercilessly punched the Fourth Raikage!
"Get out of my way!" The Fourth Raikage roared, his remaining right arm wreathed in raging lightning chakra, as he fearlessly unleashed a punch.

Boom!

The lightning and the bone fist collided fiercely once again, producing a deafening roar, and the violent shockwave forced both of them back several steps.

The Fourth Raikage's face was ashen, his eyes blazing with fury as he stared intently at the Susanoo that was hurtling towards him again, and he said hatefully, "You're asking for death!"

Just as the Fourth Raikage was burning with anxiety, Orochimaru's snake-like eyes narrowed slightly on the chest of the half-stone statue in the distance.

His senses were connected to those of the half-body colossus, so he could clearly feel a slight recoil after his giant fist slammed down.

Even my knuckles felt a little numb.
"what happened?"

A sense of surprise and doubt arose in his heart. He slowly manipulated the giant rock statue and raised its huge stone fist.

As the stone statue raised its giant fist, the billowing dust slowly dissipated.

The scene below was clearly presented before Orochimaru's eyes, causing his gaze to narrow.

Within the deep crater created by the giant fist, a semi-transparent, semi-circular protective shield stood, its surface shimmering with a soft, water-like light, protecting the area below.

Inside the protective shield, Kakashi Hatake knelt on one knee, his wakizashi 'Jealousy' stuck in the ground, his chakra almost completely drained, and he was breathing heavily.

But at this moment, he raised his head, staring intently at what was in front of him, his face filled with unbelievable astonishment, his mouth slightly open, and his eyes wide open!
Yugito and Yagura Karatachi were now fully transformed into their tailed beast forms, and had clearly prepared for defense. However, they were both stunned and their gazes were fixed on the same spot.

But in front of them, another figure appeared.

A figure suddenly appeared in the area, Orochimaru with his back to the giant rock statue.

Orochimaru could only see a head of long, flowing black hair that reached her waist, as if moonlight were flowing down. It wasn't styled in any particular way; it was simply tied up casually with a twig hairpin, revealing her elegant neck.

He wore a perfectly tailored, spotless white robe with intricate gold embroidery on the cuffs and collar.

"you……"

Kakashi Hatake's eyes nearly popped out as he stared intently at the figure's face, as if witnessing the most unbelievable sight in the world.

Shock, bewilderment, disbelief—a mix of emotions swirled in his eyes.

Just then, the figure finally spoke.

The voice was a woman's voice, clear and calm, carrying an all-knowing rationality.

“Interesting.” Her gaze swept over Kakashi Hatake and the two tailed beasts in front of her. “It seems I was wrong. The ‘parallel world theory’ has some merit.”

Her voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears, and then she slowly turned around.

As she turned around, the pair of small, exquisite snake-shaped earrings on her ears, which were connected end to end to form an "∞" shape, swayed gently, shimmering with a warm luster.

And when she turned around, when her face was fully revealed to Orochimaru.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

On the chest of the giant rock statue, Orochimaru's golden snake eyes suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, and the smile on his face froze.

Instead, there was an unprecedented sense of horror and stunned silence.

That face...

That face... clearly bore a striking resemblance to him!

The same facial contours, the same jawline, even the slightly upturned corners of the eyes.

However, it is even more perfect and exquisite than him.

Wearing silver-rimmed round glasses, his features seemed sculpted by a master craftsman, yet they had no artificiality, only a harmonious and natural charm.

Her skin was so fair and delicate that it was almost transparent. It was not sickly, but rather like the finest white jade, with a faint, warm glow and extremely fine golden lines flashing by within.

He looked to be around twenty-five or twenty-six years old.

She just stood there quietly.

It lacks that cold, sinister, venomous viper-like aura; instead, it possesses an indescribable intellectual, rational, and gentle quality, completely at odds with the bloody violence of the battlefield.

Underneath the white lab coat was a close-fitting black turtleneck sweater, which accentuated her beautiful and upright figure.

He wore a badge with a snake coiled around a tree on his chest, as well as a very conspicuous identity plaque.

—Director of the Konoha Academy of Sciences.

At first glance, it seems to be an existence formed from the very essence of reason and life, inspiring awe that one dares not profane, yet also bringing peace because of the gentle warmth flowing around it.

An intellectual beauty that transcends gender.

(The character design generated by the AI ​​in the image above can only reach this level at most.)
"you……"

Orochimaru lost all his composure and madness, leaving only an incredulous, dry, and hoarse voice as he asked, "Who are you?!"

The woman's deep, clear golden vertical pupils swept lightly over the half-body stone statue and Orochimaru.

Orochimaru inexplicably felt a strange sense of being completely seen through from the inside out, yet also enveloped by an indescribable sense of acceptance.

"I?"

Her lips seemed to curl upwards at the interesting discovery, but she lacked Orochimaru's madness and greed.

"I am Orochi (she) Hime."

Her tone was calm and idealistic, as if stating an objective fact, and she smiled as she said, "I think your name is Orochimaru."

"I am you, and you are me."

"..."

Orochimaru's throat bobbed involuntarily; the intense sense of absurdity and incongruity almost made him think he was under a genjutsu.

However, the perfectly functioning chakra within his body was telling him something.

What we see before us is reality.

"A chakra aggregation similar to a 'shadow clone'?"

Orochimaru ignored Orochimaru's distraction and confusion, looked at her own body, and then followed that faint connection to look at Kakashi.

"Kakashi Hatake, you're still alive in this world." Her gaze shifted downwards, landing on the sword in Kakashi's hand. Her eyes flickered slightly, and she subconsciously adjusted her glasses, saying, "What a peculiar and domineering power, completely brooking no refusal."

"Is it because the distance between our worlds is too great that we can't sense the existence of the 'Flying Thunder God coordinates'?"

She was conducting experiments at the research institute when her consciousness was forcibly pulled here.

While it was a pleasant surprise to be able to verify the "parallel world theory," the feeling of being constrained was far from comfortable.

She could sense that she would leave once Kakashi severed the connection or his chakra was exhausted.

"If Kakashi Hatake maintains his current chakra output power, the estimated stable residence time of this projection in this 'World 2' is..."

She raised her arms in front of her, stroked her chin, and whispered in thought.

At the same time, Kakashi Hatake suddenly came to his senses.

Although the feminine and unusually charming "Orochimaru" before him filled him with suspicion, the threat posed by the real Orochimaru was the most pressing concern.

"Orochi... Orochi Hime!"

He suppressed his shock and doubt, pointed at Orochimaru on the giant statue's chest, and asked urgently, "Do you have any way to help me get rid of him?"

Orochi Hime's thoughts were interrupted. She slowly raised her eyes to look at Kakashi, her golden vertical pupils gleaming.

“I am a researcher,” she said calmly. “My power depends on external energy supply and available resources.”

Why did you conclude that 'I am capable of independently dealing with this high-threat target'?

However, the moment she finished speaking, as if realizing something, her gaze returned to Orochimaru on the giant rock statue.

This time, she frowned slightly.

"Ah..." She let out a soft sigh of realization, a hint of understanding at discovering a variable, and an undisguised...disdain?
"I see." Orochi's voice was clear and calm. "Does my behavior pattern in this world tend towards 'forced fusion of non-essential external substances into living organisms'?"

She glanced at the body, which was forcibly embedded in the rock and was a jumbled mess, and frowned slightly. "It's a very peculiar ability, but its form is ugly and its energy utilization efficiency is low."

Upon hearing this, Orochimaru snapped out of his daze.

Looking at that feminine face that resembled his own yet was full of rationality, and hearing those cold words that sounded like they were judging a failed experiment, an inexplicable anger rose within him.

"Kakashi!" his voice was hoarse with anger. "What did you do to me?!"

"Can you be quiet?" Orochi-hime's voice was calm and even. "Your voice is unpleasant, simply unbearable."

"You!!" Orochimaru's eyes twitched violently, his rationality snapped, and he controlled the rock giant, raising his fist and smashing it down on the seemingly fragile semi-transparent protective shield below!
"Watch out!" The voices of Yugito and Yagura came from within the bodies of Matatabi (Two-Tails) and Isobu (Three-Tails), instantly putting them on high alert and preparing to withstand the attack.

Bang! !

The giant fist slammed solidly into the protective shield, yet the surface of the shield only rippled with gentle, water-like waves.

That terrifying power, capable of shattering mountains, was absorbed and dissolved silently, as if a clay ox had entered the sea. The protective shield remained completely still, without even a crack appearing.

"What, what is this?!" Yagura Karatachi blurted out.

"An application of the basic properties of Water Release chakra," Orochi replied calmly, "a barrier constructed based on the principle of 'nonlinear stress response of Water Release chakra fluid'."

"Wh-what fluid?" The two Yuki-chan cats stared wide-eyed, looking completely bewildered.

Orochi sighed softly, her expression like that of a teacher facing a student who couldn't understand basic physics.

"That is, a special chakra fluid state in which the relationship between shear stress and shear strain rate is a non-linear function."

She paused, seemingly worried they might not understand, and added, "The vast majority of biological fluids, such as lymph, cyst fluid, and semi-fluid matrices like cytoplasm, fit this definition."

If Hyuga Kumokawa were here, he would understand that what Orochimaru was talking about was actually the so-called "non-Newtonian fluid".

However, Yugito, Yagura, and Kakashi couldn't understand.

Looking at Kakashi, who still looked bewildered, and the two tailed beasts who remained silent, Orochi-hime habitually adjusted her glasses.

"When the external force is applied slowly, the particles inside the fluid move gently, the particles are tightly bound together, the friction is small, and the fluid exhibits low viscosity and is easy to flow."

"When an external force is applied violently and rapidly, the particles inside the fluid are forced to move at high speed, the gaps between particles increase, the friction between them intensifies, and the fluid exhibits extremely high viscosity, or even exhibits solid-like rigidity."

Kakashi struggled to process these unheard-of concepts, barely grasping the core: "You mean, the greater the force this shield receives, the stronger it becomes?"

"Mostly correct." Orochi nodded slightly in agreement.

"You said before that your power comes from external objects? Then this barrier..." Kakashi asked hurriedly.

Orochi-hime pointed to the badge on her chest, which featured an intertwined tree and snake, and replied succinctly, "Personal protective equipment unit of the Konoha Academy of Sciences. This is standard equipment."

Kakashi's eyes lit up immediately, as if he had grasped a lifeline, and he asked, "What is the defensive limit of this protective unit? How long can it last?"

"Unfortunately, based on your current chakra output power and energy storage..."

After quickly calculating in her mind, Orochi-hime replied, "The estimated stable running time is one hour and thirty-two minutes, with an error range of around three minutes."

Upon hearing this, Orochimaru, who was frantically attacking the protective shield, suddenly stopped, and Kakashi Hatake's eye twitched involuntarily.

An hour and a half?

This defense, which can withstand attacks from rock colossi without faltering, can actually be maintained for an hour and a half. And you call that "can only maintain"?
Kakashi took a deep breath, suppressing his shock, and pressed on, "Did you bring anything else with offensive capabilities?"

Upon hearing this, Orochi sighed softly, raised her hand, and removed the twig hairpin that held her hair in place. Her long, black hair cascaded down her back, reaching her waist.

"This is the only portable device I have that can launch an attack," she said calmly, flicking her wrist seemingly casually.

The inconspicuous tree branch hairpin streaked through the air like a barely perceptible stream of light, shooting towards the chest of the giant rock statue, where Orochimaru was located.

Orochimaru's pupils contracted almost instinctively as he manipulated the stone statue to raise its arm and block the branch.

puff!

With a barely audible click, the hairpin easily pierced the rock.

"You... pfft!"

Orochimaru was stunned for a moment when he saw this, and realizing that this was all there was to it, he couldn't help but let out a sneer.

But, the next moment.

Click! Click! Click!

Countless thorn-like spikes, gleaming with a cold light, suddenly burst forth from the point where the hairpin pierced the stone statue, spreading outwards in all directions!
Boom!

Half of the rock colossus's body was instantly blasted apart by a large number of ferocious spikes, and large pieces of rock flew in all directions, hitting the ground with a dull thud!
"..."

Orochimaru stared in utter horror at the thorns that were so close to him, almost grazing his body as they burst open. The chilling aura of death instantly froze him.

What is this?
Wood escape?

Judging from what that guy was saying, this thing is meant to be used on humans?!
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