XX-level Hokage

“Ha, so that’s not it.” Dimon laughed, mockingly.

Just then, a smoke grenade was thrown, instantly filling the air with smoke, and then a dozen fully armed soldiers rushed over. "Don't come any closer, you'll be killed!" Bagu shouted urgently upon seeing this.

"Bagu, you have ten seconds. If you don't run, you'll be turned into a honeycomb briquette. The commander has given orders that any cyborgs who leave the capsule must be killed on the spot." The leading soldier said to Bagu.

They were Boro's men, steadfastly carrying out his orders and absolutely forbidding Ada and Dimon from leaving their hibernation pods.

"Tch, we've been found out. What a nuisance," Cowd said impatiently. "You don't need to do anything. Perfect timing, you can watch closely," Ida said softly.

“The countdown is a complete waste of time. I'd say just wipe them all out in one fell swoop,” a soldier said, raising his laser cannon and launching an attack. “!”

The soldier's head exploded instantly, and he collapsed to the ground. "What?!"

The other soldiers all looked puzzled and surprised.

Cowder looked at the soldier lying on the ground, then at Ida, as if he had found something. Dimon, on the other hand, had a smile on his face.

"Damn it!" Another soldier launched an attack, raising his axe to chop at the group.

The next second, the axe vanished into thin air and then chopped into the soldier's head. "Hehe, bastard!" Dimon's laughter deepened.

"W-what's going on?!" The remaining soldiers were dumbfounded. Several soldiers had already started to scatter and run away, leaving only two soldiers still in place.

Dimon jumped off Cowd's back and kicked a soldier, who instantly fell to the ground.

“You brat!” Another soldier drew his katana and tried to attack, but his body was instantly split in two. “Was he deflecting his opponent’s attack?” Cowd asked.

“Once an opponent harbors murderous intent, the result will be reflected immediately onto the person who harbored the intent. The greater the murderous intent, the stronger the reflection. You must be careful, Codd,” Ada replied.

“This is tricky,” Codd said seriously. “Yeah!”

Dimon excitedly gave Ida a "yes" sign.

"Let me formally introduce him. He is my other knight, and also my younger brother, Dimon," Ada said softly. Seeing this, Bagu instantly became frightened and tried to sneak away.

But Dimon noticed, jumped up instantly, tackled him to the ground, and punched Bagu in the stomach.

"Where are you sneaking off to, you old geezer, Bagu? It's been so long, and you're being so cold," Dimon said, displeased.

Ada, Dimon, and even Cowd and Kawaki were all brought to Shell and raised there from a very young age, and those responsible for taking care of them...

That was Bagu.

"Damn it, that's why I didn't want to release this guy," Bagu thought to himself with dissatisfaction.

"Phew!" "Nani?"

Dimon looked back.

“It looks like it started automatically, unrelated to the user’s consciousness,” Cowd said, four claw marks spreading across his body.

Just now, while Dimon was disciplining Bagu, Kaud suddenly unleashed a claw attack on Dimon's back, but the claws bounced back onto Kaud himself. "Hey, Kaud, you bastard, what do you mean by this?" Dimon said, clearly annoyed.

"This is my ability to move freely between claw marks." As he spoke, Kaud's hand emerged from the claw marks on the ground, grabbed Bagu, and instantly pulled him into the claw marks, bringing him to Kaud's side.

“You can also bring other people to me like this, but only one at a time. Demonstration is more intuitive than verbal explanation,” Codd continued.

Ada: I have clairvoyance and charm.

Dimon: I have murderous intent. Reflexes. Calder: I have claw marks.

Mashiro: Go ahead and tell me, I'm listening.

Chapter 269: Gray

"That ability is so cool, I love it!" Dimon said excitedly upon hearing this.

“Thank you for the compliment. If it’s convenient, could you tell me more about your ability mechanics?” Cowd asked. “Hmm? You…” Dimon was about to say something when Ida interrupted him.

“Dimon, shh, are you hesitant? We can’t reveal our hand so easily,” Ida whispered, putting her index finger to her lips. “Oh dear, I really am untrustworthy,” Calder said with a hint of helplessness upon hearing Ida’s words.

“Didn’t I already explain it to you? Dimon can deflect other people’s attacks. That’s enough for you, at least for now,” Ada said calmly.

"You really don't play by the rules," Kao De said in a rather calm tone.

“I hope you’re not upset, Codd. We’ve only just met, and building trust takes time. Now is not the time to lay all our cards on the table,” Ada said softly as she walked silently behind Dimon.

“With your clairvoyance and charm, I certainly wouldn’t say that knowing these things means I know everything about you, but you don’t have any other abilities hidden, do you?” Kaud asked seriously.

"Guess?" Ada didn't answer, but calmly asked in return. Meanwhile, in Konoha, in Mashiro's room...

Now it seems that thing is not in the ninja world, at least not now. That makes sense. According to Isshiki's style of doing things, he must have hidden the Ten-Tails larva in a place that only Ootenki can reach, which is... "Muttering to himself, Mashiro gradually found a direction in his mind.

"Haven't found it yet? Mashiro, do you need me to come with you tomorrow?" Hikari spoke softly beside Mashiro. She didn't know about the Ten-Tails' larvae, only that Mashiro was currently searching for something extremely important.

"No need, I already know where it is. Go to sleep early, Hikaru." Mashiro smiled, gently stroking Hikaru's hair, and said.

"Mmm." Hikaru nodded, snuggled closer to Mashiro, and then closed her eyes. After a moment, Mashiro glanced thoughtfully at the ceiling panel, then also closed her eyes.

Meanwhile, in Ada's room at the base in the Snow Country, Ada put away her Clairvoyance.

After returning to her room, washing up, and changing into her pajamas, Ada began using her clairvoyance. After hesitating for a while, she started observing Mashiro until Mashiro closed her eyes and went to sleep.

Ida didn't like watching television. To her, the actors' poor acting or the unrealistic scripts were nothing compared to the lives of others that she could see.

So before going to sleep, she likes to observe what other people are doing or look at their past.

"Going to bed so early? I thought I'd see something interesting," Ada muttered to herself, as the scenes she had witnessed earlier flooded back into her mind.

Ada's face flushed slightly.

Everyone Ada encountered, whether they were the cyborg soldiers guarding her or members of the "Zero" organization, were all ascetics influenced by Shiki, and these were the very people she usually observed, so she had never seen such a scene before.

"Otsutsuki Mashiro, what an interesting person," Ada murmured to herself. She remembered that the entire Otsutsuki clan were ascetics, so why...?

With that thought in mind, Ada activated her clairvoyance once more. This time, she planned to look into Mashiro's past.

As the blue light in her eyes shone, Mashiro's past began to unfold before Ada. "Auntie? How could this be?" Ada suddenly asked in confusion.

In her search for Mashiro's past, she only reached the time when Mashiro appeared in Konoha. Beyond that, she encountered enormous resistance and could not continue her search.

“She doesn’t seem to have a past? No, her past was before I was born, which means she seems to have traveled back from the past,” Ada said, frowning.

Ida's clairvoyance allows her to see anyone's present and the past fifteen years, because she cannot see what happened before she was born.

But when facing Makoto, she could only see these few months, which could only mean that Makoto's past was fifteen years ago. "She's getting more and more mysterious," Ada murmured.

After hesitating for a moment, Ada froze the timeline at this morning, specifically the scene of Mashiro and the blooming of the lilies.

As the scene that made her blush appeared, Ada became increasingly engrossed in watching it, and her face grew redder and redder, with a peach-pink hue spreading across her entire fair skin.

Trembling, Ida's hand unconsciously reached into the blanket.

Suddenly, they came across a paradise, with fragrant grasses and falling cherry blossoms. There was a small opening in the mountain, which was initially very narrow, and the water shimmered. The next day, Mashiro arrived in another dimension.

The alternate dimension is a space that exists independently of the real world. All Otsutsuki can open a portal to the alternate dimension through their Rinnegan. As they landed on the ground, black shadows began to spread everywhere.

Compared to the real world, the alternate dimension is very small, barely the size of a ninja village.

There are many other dimensions; Kaguya can connect to five after activating Amenominaka. Mashiro came to this dimension because it's the one Isshiki visits most often.

An hour later, the Shadow Legion delivered the information Mashiro wanted. With a light laugh, Mashiro disappeared into the shadows.

A moment later, they appeared in a somewhat dilapidated base.

In front of the base stands an altar, upon which sits a burly middle-aged man with the Roman numeral III tattooed on his face.

He was one of the inner circle members of the "Kara" organization, the founder of the Otsutsuki cult, and had many followers. His cult had bases in many places in the ninja world.

Because of Isshiki's death, and the new leader Kaud's discovery that he had disobeyed Isshiki's orders, Kaud banished him to this alternate dimension through the White Karma to guard the Ten-Tails' larvae within the "Kara" organization. (White Karma: A variant of Karma, possessing the same Otsutsuki power as Karma, but unable to be reincarnated as a "vessel")

"Who are you? How did you get here?" Upon seeing Mashiro suddenly appear, Boro shouted sharply. [Name: Boro]

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“Boro? A member of the Shell organization?” Mashiro muttered to himself.

Naruto also shared the information provided by Amado with Mashiro, so Mashiro now has a fairly comprehensive understanding of the "Kara" organization. "Melting Force: Starburst Break"

Boro launched an attack on Mashiro instantly.

Yellow, concentrated acid shot out of his mouth like projectiles.

Mashiro deftly dodged the attack, and the concentrated acid fell to the ground, causing a bizarre explosion. Liquid then splashed out, melting the stones and metal on the ground.

"No matter who you are or how you got here, get out of here now!" Boro said sternly.

Mashiro didn't speak, but extended a finger. Instantly, Boro's body split in two.

But in just a moment, the two halves of the body glued together again, then stared at Mashiro in utter terror. "Who are you?!" Boro asked in shock and anger.

Mashiro still didn't answer, only muttering to herself, "Has her body undergone special modifications? As expected, those who possess technology have a power even greater than forbidden techniques. An indestructible body, I wonder if it can withstand being burned."

Seeing this, Boro launched another attack.

A cloud of black mist billowed from his mouth. Mashiro easily dodged it once more.

But after Mashiro flashed by, Boro also revealed a confident smile.

Mashiro didn't launch another attack, watching him with great interest. Ten minutes passed, and Boro's expression was filled with disbelief. "This, how is this possible?!" Boro exclaimed.

"You mean your cell virus? Too bad, it has no effect on me," Mashiro said, shaking his head. Boro could release a fast-acting virus in the form of dark mist; this was his greatest killer, Copper.

But what Boro didn't know was that for Mashiro, who was an Otsutsuki, his virus was just like the White Zetsu's spore technique back then, and was instantly devoured the moment it entered Mashiro's body.

Upon hearing this, Bo Luo immediately turned and ran away.

But it was too late; a ball of black flame engulfed him completely. After a while, Boro turned into ashes.

"As expected, once it turns to ash, it can't be restored." Mashiro muttered to herself.

Chapter 270: Eight Divine Arts

Deep inside the base, in a huge room, Mashiro saw the Ten-Tails larvae impaled on the ground by black rods.

"This Ten-Tails is quite different from what I remember. It has actually developed emotions, which is really unexpected." Mashiro said softly, looking at the giant single eye of the Ten-Tails' Rinnegan.

Upon seeing Mashiro appear within its sight, the Ten-Tails larva let out a piercing roar. Its pale blue Rinnegan activated, and a long, silvery-white ribbon appeared around Mashiro.

He stretched out his right hand towards the ten-tailed juvenile in front of him, and his long, silvery-white long arm emitted a silvery-white light.

The Ten-Tails let out a pitiful cry. "Ten-Tails larvae have been connected."

As the system notification sounded, the Ten-Tails larva transformed into a ball of pure white chakra, which flowed into Mashiro's body through the long ribbon.

Mashiro used the Decaying God to transform the Ten-Tails' larva into chakra. According to the operating principle of the Decaying God, the transformed chakra could not enter Mashiro's body and become Mashiro's own chakra. However, under the system's effect, the Ten-Tails' larva's chakra defied the principle of the Decaying God and was injected into Mashiro's body.