bdsm-fiction Chapter 149 Tearing Up the Script
Chapter 149 Tearing Up the Script
Chapter 149 Tearing Up the Script
Gamabunta's several leaps had successfully torn apart the enemy's formation; Konoha's morale had also been greatly boosted.
Based on Minato Namikaze's past experience, the battle could basically be declared over at this point.
The rest of the time should be Konoha's harvest time!
Based on his past experience, this is how the situation should have been.
But now, an exception has appeared out of nowhere!
"Earth Release·Yellow Spring Marsh!"
The vast swamp restricted Gamabunta's movements, causing him to complain.
"Minato, your enemies this time are a bit tough. Who exactly are they?"
Meanwhile, the Konoha squad that was assisting him in the attack also occasionally let out screams of astonishment.
"Ah! Damn it! Why are these people still resisting? Why haven't they collapsed yet?! Ahhh! My hand! My right hand!"
For a moment, Minato Namikaze surprisingly felt a bit tired.
"They've already killed over thirty key members, why are they still fighting to the death?"
This was unlike any of the battles he had experienced before.
Reluctantly, he paused for a moment and began to observe and think.
Minato was never stupid, and this observation quickly led him to find part of the key reason!
"Their command system is different from ours, no, it's different from that of any other ninja village!"
In the past, Minato Namikaze always faced enemies in ninja squad mode.
The biggest problem with this model in large-scale warfare is the unclear division of command authority!
The captains of different squads are of equal rank.
Each ninja squad is an independently operating combat unit. Once a squad is lost, the surviving captain cannot intervene to command the survivors in other squads.
Even though there are different ranks among ninjas, there are only three ranks in total: Jonin, Chunin, and Genin.
It might be enough in small-scale local conflicts, but once it reaches the frontal large-scale battlefield, if the situation becomes chaotic, it can easily collapse into a pile of loose sand!
Minato Namikaze himself often used this technique in the past.
He moved freely in and out of battle, specializing in hunting down enemy Jonin captains and key members.
At that time, as long as he killed most of the enemy captains on a battlefield, the remaining squads of ninjas would naturally collapse and would be unable to regroup in a short period of time.
The Hidden Stone Village had been repeatedly defeated by his solo breakthroughs like this.
He has been targeting this characteristic with decapitation strikes in the past, but has never reflected on the systemic flaws behind this problem.
Until today—he has witnessed the Akatsuki's war tactics, which are completely different from those of traditional ninja villages!
These people seem to have ranked everyone in the team into different ranks from the very beginning of the war, and everyone clearly knows their place in the ranking!
Even if Minato Namikaze kills a high-ranking Akatsuki member, another person will quickly step forward and take over command in order, allowing the entire force to continue operating and fighting smoothly!
This was completely different from the ninja squad model he had seen before, where the team members had nowhere to go once the captain died!
After observing for only a short while, Minato Namikaze felt a chill run down his spine.
"They're practically a team built from the ground up for war!"
This discovery startled, bewildered, and left him with a slight sense of revulsion.
Influenced by his master Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, despite being a battlefield commander, secretly hated war.
"Such an extreme war machine deserves to be destroyed!"
The next moment, filled with an inexplicable sense of mission, he launched another surprise attack!
A kunai was thrown at the Akatsuki member who appeared to be the tallest in the field of vision.
"Commander Kenshiro, watch out!"
But the next moment, a ninja stepped forward and bravely knocked away the kunai from the target he had chosen.
However, Minato Namikaze's kunai were never simple hidden weapons!
The Flying Thunder God Technique is activated in the next moment!
He instantly appeared in front of the Akatsuki ninja, unleashing a Rasengan without any hand seals.
At this moment, the ninja's weapon had not yet been retracted, leaving him with absolutely no room to react or maneuver.
This is the Flying Thunder God Technique, starting with zero frames, it's utterly unreasonable!
Just a moment before the execution was completed, Minato Namikaze vaguely seemed to see a smile on the face of the person in front of him.
He's laughing? Why?
Oh no, something's wrong!
Before he could think any further, the Rasengan was already imprinted on the opponent's chest.
Then, with a deafening "boom," a tremendous explosion rang out!
The next second, Minato Namikaze was thrown out of the blast radius in a sorry state, suffering his first accidental injury since the start of the battle.
"Are these people all crazy? They're covering themselves with already lit explosive tags!"
Not long ago, Minato Namikaze heard his Konoha ninjas complain that the Akatsuki members were all lunatics.
At the time, he thought it was just an exaggeration, a psychological shadow created by repeated failures.
But now, he suddenly realized that this was actually an incredibly realistic description!
He had never seen such a crazy ninja before. Even the Root organization established by Elder Danzo in the past rarely saw such fanatical terrorists!
While he was shocked, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.
"Are you all so obsessed with war? What does that guy named Shiba Kiyokawa value his life for?"
He was angry, he was questioning, just like a gentle, righteous, and compassionate protagonist in an anime torturing an ambitious and indifferent villain.
Unfortunately, reality isn't anime.
Shiba Kiyokawa never liked to play by the rules, and his subordinates seemed to have inherited his fine tradition.
Kenjiro, the battalion commander of the assault battalion, looked coldly at Minato Namikaze and only let out a cold sneer in response to his anger.
"You say we're obsessed with war? Did we start this Ninja World War?"
"The Land of Rain has suffered from war for so many years, and your Konoha has contributed a lot in terms of manpower and resources, hasn't it? Now you're accusing us? You're truly shameless!"
Minato Namikaze was stunned by what he was told.
The flames of anger that had been rising in my heart out of a sense of justice and responsibility were instantly extinguished, leaving me as weak as a candle in the wind.
"What did you say?"
"I say, you have disappointed me greatly, Lord Minato Namikaze. I thought the Yellow Flash, renowned throughout the ninja world, would offer more insightful opinions, but I never expected that your shallowness and shamelessness are no different from those of the past Konoha ninjas."
At that moment, Minato Namikaze's protagonist persona completely crumbled.
The Akatsuki organization under Shiba Kiyokawa has once again torn apart the clichéd and conventional anime script!
"We, the people of the Land of Rain, understand the pain of war better than anyone else!"
We fight because we firmly believe we are doing the right thing!
We are willing to die for our leader because we trust him and believe he can change this messed-up world!
Our leader said that our voices and names will one day be forgotten, but the cause we fought for will be remembered by this land forever!
Lord Minato Namikaze, you may be able to kill me today, but you can never defeat the Akatsuki!
Because we are fighting for the Land of Rain! Fighting for a bright and beautiful blue tomorrow! We will ultimately prevail!
This battle—
At that moment, even though the mid-to-high-level commanders had been heavily wounded by Minato Namikaze; even though Konoha's attack was massive; even though the future was uncertain; even though life and death were unpredictable!
But across the entire front, all the surviving Akatsuki members still shouted in unison, responding to Kenshiro's oath with unwavering fervor.
"Victory is assured in this battle!!!"
At that moment, a tremendous sense of fear and unknown panic swept over Minato Namikaze!
It was as if some belief that had always supported him had been brutally and directly shattered!
His usually impeccable confidence showed a rare moment of wavering.
Although it was only for a very short moment, it was a feat that even the AB combination of the Hidden Cloud Village had never accomplished before!
However, he was ultimately the dazzling yellow light of the sun, Minato Namikaze, and his momentary hesitation was quickly suppressed.
But time had already passed by quite a while without us realizing it.
When Minato Namikaze gripped the kunai again—
The sound of paper wings beating against the air could already be heard from the horizon!
(End of this chapter)