Mayuri Kurotsuchi Card Game, starting from Naruto

Chapter 92 The Deal with Kakuzu [Part 1]

"You want to control me?"

Having lived for decades, from the First Hokage to the Third Hokage of Konoha, the elderly Kakuzu, who didn't seem like a typical ninja, was very perceptive and immediately recognized something amiss.

Do I need you to do a heart transplant? Does that mean I'll have to be subservient to you from now on just to survive?

"You've not only insulted my skills, but also my character," Lu Nie said, squinting. "This is a matter of technique, not a matter of me trying to control you."

"Is there a difference between the two?" Kakuzu countered. He now trusted no one and was uninterested in everything except money!

"The difference lies in the fact that the heart cannot be replaced freely, which is a technical problem," Lu Nie corrected. "But technical problems can be improved and upgraded in the future."

Once the problem of your heart not being able to be replaced freely is solved, this deficiency will naturally be filled.

"Would you really be that kind?" Kakuzu's face was full of distrust.

"I pursue technology and am obsessed with research, while you pursue power and are obsessed with money. Isn't it better for us to each get what we need? If I want you to do something, I will pay you," Lu Nie replied bluntly.

"Payment is fine." Kakuzu felt a strange sense of relief, looking at Shiranui's young face, which finally wasn't so unpleasant. "I'll give you a higher priority."

"Since you like this clean and efficient business relationship, that's much better." Lu Nie clapped his hands and handed him a stack of papers with great delight.

"What is this?" Kakuzu took the large stack of papers handed to him by Shinobi without a look in his eyes and began to flip through them casually.

After looking at just a few pages, Kakuzu's expression changed rapidly. The further he turned the pages, the more obvious the change in his expression became. In just a few breaths, his breathing sounded like a bellows.

"Your surgery and modification costs." Lu Nie's tone was light, seemingly quite satisfied with Kakuzu's changing expression.

"This has nothing to do with me!" Kakuzu stood up, trying his best to forget the numbers that had accumulated on the paper and made him dizzy.

"Being in debt is a bad thing." Lu Nie calmly looked at Kakuzu, who had stood up. "Besides, your current transformation is still in its infancy."

Without follow-up services, you'll struggle to even maintain your job as a bounty ninja.

Jiao Du wanted to teach Lu Nie a lesson, but a dangerous aura locking onto him from behind made him abandon the idea.

"I will pay it back," Kakuzu said softly. As for what he was really thinking, no one could be sure.

"We can deduct it from the fee you received for helping out, you don't need to actually pay, how about that?" Looking at Kakuzu's expressionless face, Lu Nie guessed that the other party might have his own little scheme. But he really didn't care about that.

Kakuzu nodded.

"Then the deal is done." Lu Nie smiled with satisfaction. "Now that the Earthly Grief within you has calmed down, you can control it with your consciousness, right?"

Then try out your newfound power!

Upon hearing Shiro's words, Kakuzu easily channeled and used the somewhat unfamiliar power within his body.

He felt his body suddenly become much harder, just like when he used the Earth Release ninjutsu to enhance his own protection.

It just feels easier now, and I don't need to form hand seals.

"What is this?" Kakuzu looked at his hand, feeling the power within his body.

"Bloodline Limit," Lu Nie said, then added, "Steel Release!"

Even though he was already certain in his heart, Kakuzu still felt a sense of unreality when Lu Nie said it.

"The so-called bloodline limit is when two types of chakra are used by one person at the same time, and at that time, the two types of chakra will be transformed into a new nature change."

This is the conclusion the ninja world has reached regarding bloodline limits.

Lu Nie's voice startled Jiao Du from his daze.

Composite ninjutsu refers to creating clones, or combining two nature-changing ninjutsu techniques at different times to release them together.

It is very different from bloodline limits.

"Did this guy really succeed?"

Kakuzu stared at Shikane in a daze. He had always thought that his mastery of Earth Grudge Technique had reached its peak, and that even the person who created this technique could not surpass him in his understanding of it.

But the Deer Nirvana before him was truly beyond his imagination. Without knowing the complete formula of the Grudge Torture Technique, it had performed an upgrade that even he found absurd, relying solely on the Grudge Torture tentacles within his body.

It worked!

Could it be that the Earthly Grudge Feast truly has untapped potential?

The moment the thought crossed Kakuzu's mind, he immediately shut it down and rejected it with reason.

Do not!

Even though he had only recently regained his mobility, Kakuzu could sense the changes in Jigure. After all, this technique had become completely integrated with him, and any subtle changes would be difficult to hide from him if he carefully perceived them.

It's not that its potential hasn't been tapped yet.

Its potential has been artificially expanded!

What's even more frightening is that, according to what I just heard, the current state is still not perfect and there is still more room for evolution!

"Currently, Earth Grudge Fear can only accommodate two bloodline limits. Steel Release already occupies one, so you can choose the remaining one yourself. Of course, it will cost money!"

After Lu Nie finished speaking, before Kakuzu could even make a choice, he continued, "Of course, everything is still very rudimentary at the moment, and there aren't many bloodline limits that can be used immediately."

"Right now, once you've adapted to Steel Release, the only techniques I can immediately transplant for you are Lava Release, Wood Release, and Fire Release."

"Wood Release?" Kakuzu wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. He had actually heard a bloodline limit that made him shudder.

"You want Wood Release?" Shika Nie looked at Kakuzu, not surprised by his astonishment, after all, Wood Release had been mythologized for far too long throughout the ninja world.

"You can transplant Wood Release into me?" Kakuzu suddenly felt that being captured and experimented on by this brat in front of him wasn't so unacceptable after all.

If we had Wood Release, who would need those five hearts with different elemental attributes?

"Don't even think about it. It can't be Wood Release at the level of the First Hokage." Shika Nie instantly saw through Kakuzu's thoughts and said to him, "Even if you transplanted a Wood Release heart, you can only use some simple Wood Release ninjutsu. The First Hokage's Wood Release is an exception."

Even if the technology development department has materials like the first-generation cells, given the current approach of using Yin Escape to stabilize them, where would Lu Nie find a pair of Eternal Kaleidoscopes to study them?

Kakuzu was still somewhat unwilling to give up.

"Once it's perfected, Mr. Kakuzu, you'll be able to accept a third bloodline limit heart, then you can choose Wood Release," Shikagure advised.

(End of this chapter)