Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 345 Danzo's Tragedy

He immediately arranged for someone to decipher the coded information left by Jiraiya, but they had no clue how to do it.

"We can only wait for Tsunade's side."

Danzo understood Jiraiya. Since even Root couldn't decipher the information he left behind, only someone Jiraiya knew could. He just had to wait.

"However... we can start preparing now."

Danzo's eyes flashed. He knew about the leader of the Akatsuki organization. Although he had only met him briefly back then and had not learned about him since, he could not possibly take the legendary eye technique, the Rinnegan, lightly. The information he had gathered about the other party over the years told him that Pain, the leader of the Akatsuki organization, was no ordinary person.

Jiraiya infiltrated the Akatsuki base and sent back coded intelligence.

Given that the target is one of the nine tailed beasts, it's impossible for them not to target Konoha's Nine-Tails.

It's likely that the Akatsuki will attack Konoha and steal the Nine-Tails soon.

This time, Danzo chose to remain on the sidelines, just as he had done before.

Every time someone attacks Konoha, the current Hokage dies.

The Fourth Hokage died during the first Nine-Tails attack.

Orochimaru, in alliance with Sunagakure, launched a second attack on Konoha, resulting in the death of the Third Hokage.

With the Akatsuki leader attacking, Danzo naturally hoped Tsunade would die. Even if she didn't, the responsibility for the village's attack was enough for him to remove Tsunade from the Hokage position.

At that time, who can stop him from becoming Hokage?

Thinking of the beautiful imagery, Danzo couldn't help but smile.

After years of hard work, Danzo finally outlasted all his competitors and saw an opportunity to become Hokage.

"Let's conserve our strength first!"

Pulling himself back to reality, Danzo looked up at the doorway, preparing to call his subordinates in and give them the order for Root to temporarily withdraw from Konoha.

But when he opened his mouth, no sound came out, and his gaze automatically moved downwards, even though his head hadn't moved.

"not good……"

As the tabletop rapidly enlarged in his field of vision, Danzo finally realized that he had been ambushed, but it was too late.

bump!

Danzo's forehead rested on the table, his gaze following it for a few moments. With his face pressed against the cold surface, his eyes could finally see his own body.

A headless corpse was sitting on a replica of the Hokage's chair, with blood spurting from its neck like a fountain.

Dark red blood stained the clothes on his body and the white cloth wrapped around his arms.

At that moment, Danzo realized that his head had been chopped off.

However, he died without ever seeing who had done it.

It was as if a ghost was hiding in this house and killed him.

Danzo's eyes were filled with astonishment and disbelief. Even in death, he couldn't believe that he had died like this, in the Root's underground base. He didn't even have time to think about why someone would break through the many barriers to come to his side before he lost consciousness and the ability to think.

After Danzo died, Li Yao appeared, reached out and took Danzo's soul, which was about to ascend to heaven, into his body, preventing him from having a chance to be resurrected, and completely killing this dark figure of the ninja world.

bump!

Li Yao casually tossed Danzo's corpse aside, picked up the head from the table, unwrapped the bandages, removed the Mangekyou Sharingan from it, and then used Flying Thunder God Technique to leave.

Two minutes after Li Yao left, the strong smell of blood wafted out of the room. The Root ninja guarding the door changed his expression slightly and asked Danzo. When he did not receive a response, he rushed in. Only then was it discovered that Danzo had been silently beheaded in his office at the Root base.

"Lord Danzo!"

"Lord Danzo!"

The entire Root base was in chaos, and everyone was at a loss. After a long period of confusion, someone finally remembered to report to the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade.

……

10,000 meters above the leaf.

Li Yao has already acquired the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyou Sharingan, but he did not obtain the Kotoamatsukami genjutsu chakra he desired.

This eye is ruined, it has suffered fundamental damage, and even if Li Yao injects more Wood Release cells, it cannot be repaired.

"Forget it, he's already copied the Kotoamatsukami genjutsu chakra that can change other people's will anyway, so it's fine if this Kotoamatsukami Sharingan is ruined."

After trying for a while, seeing that he still couldn't repair the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyou Sharingan, Li Yao stopped. He gouged out the eye, crushed it, and then used the Time Reset Chakra to reset his body, restoring it to its state before the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyou Sharingan was transplanted.

"Has Danzo ever used Kotoamatsukami on anyone in all these years since he obtained it?"

Li Yao was curious, so he focused his mind on the Danzo soul he had collected within his body and began to explore Danzo's memories.

Soon, as the memories of Kotoamatsukami in Danzo's soul were retrieved, Li Yao understood why Danzo, despite possessing the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyou Sharingan and having Wood Release cells transplanted into his body, did not use Kotoamatsukami when fighting Sasuke.

Some might say that Danzo kept Kotoamatsukami to deal with Obito, who was hiding in the shadows and whom Danzo feared even more.

But if it's not used even after the person has died, then that's a bit unreasonable.

Now Li Yao knows why Danzo stopped using him.

Because Danzo was unable to use the Kotoamatsukami Mangekyou Sharingan, he had no way to perform Kotoamatsukami genjutsu.

The Mangekyou Sharingan usually awakens one offensive and one defensive ability, or each eye has a different ability; even if they are similar, they are still different.

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan has one eye that can release Amaterasu flames and another eye that can cancel Amaterasu flames.

Although Obito's eyes both possess Kamui, there are still some differences.

Obito's Kamui Sharingan is more defensive in nature.

Kamui's intangibility is very difficult to counter. The only way to attack is to suck the enemy into the Kamui dimension, and it doesn't even directly damage the enemy.

Kakashi's Kamui Sharingan is geared towards offense.

While it lacks an unsolvable defensive mechanism against Kamui's intangibility, it can remotely distort space, twist matter, and teleport it into Kamui's space to inflict damage on enemies.

This attack is so powerful that even the Ten-Tails, which can withstand close-range bombardment from a Tailed Beast Ball with a diameter of over 100 meters, can have one of its arms snapped off.

Even the Bloodline Limit Seeking the Dao Jewel can be twisted open directly.

This demonstrates the immense power of this attack; as expected of a spatial ability attack, it is indeed unsolvable.

Both Kamui and Sharingan have offensive and defensive variations.

The Kotoamatsukami Sharingan, which also bears the name of a god, has some differences.

The Kotoamatsukami that Itachi took away possessed a powerful genjutsu capable of altering the will of others.

The Kotoamatsukami Sharingan that Danzo obtained possessed the ability to restore the will of those who had been affected by the Kotoamatsukami genjutsu.

This is truly ironic!

Danzo, who desperately wanted to obtain the illusion technique Kotoamatsukami that could change the will of others, ended up obtaining Kotoamatsukami that restored the will of those who were under its illusion.

It's no wonder that Danzo, despite having the Kotoamatsukami Sharingan for so many years, never used it on anyone. It wasn't that he didn't want to use it, but rather that he simply couldn't.

Otherwise, if he had used Kotoamatsukami even once against the Third Hokage or the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, he would have become Hokage long ago.

(End of this chapter)