“You!?”
Seeing the mysterious masked man appear in front of her once again, Tsunade stopped in her tracks and exclaimed in astonishment.
For some reason, she did not feel much hatred toward him.
Just moments ago, her only remaining relative, Uzumaki Mito, had died after losing the Nine-Tails as its jinchuriki.
Yet Tsunade did not blame the masked man for her death, because even if the jinchuriki transfer ceremony had succeeded, her grandmother would still have died.
Moreover, Tsunade had never understood what this masked man was actually trying to accomplish.
Why had he saved her grandmother and Kushina at the Senju Shrine earlier?
“Stop here, Princess Tsunade.”
Yusuke used chakra to distort his voice, making it hoarse and difficult to determine even his gender.
“Why are you going? Hasn’t Konoha already treated your Senju clan badly enough? You repay evil with good. Do you really think those people will be grateful to you?”
In the original story, when Pain invaded Konoha in the future, he had nearly destroyed the entire village.
It was only thanks to Tsunade’s Slug Technique that Konoha avoided its worst possible fate.
Now that Yusuke’s goal was to cripple Konoha, he naturally would not allow Tsunade, the strongest healer in the Naruto world, to interfere.
Tsunade’s expression changed dramatically, and her entire body froze in place.
Several years ago, shortly after the Second Shinobi World War had begun, one of Danzo’s mistaken decisions had resulted in the deaths of her parents, Nawaki, and more than ninety percent of the shinobi of the Senju clan.
After that, Tsunade had developed a serious rift with Konoha’s higher-ups.
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s response had been to strip Danzo of his position within the Council of Elders.
But in reality, he had merely removed Danzo’s title on the surface.
His actual power had not been reduced in the slightest.
From then on, Tsunade had seen clearly just how dark Konoha’s upper echelons truly were.
“Looks like you agree with what I’m saying.”
Seeing Tsunade hesitate, a hint of amusement entered Yusuke’s voice.
“If that’s the case, then just go back. Find some excuse afterward and brush the whole thing off. No one will dare blame you.”
Tsunade gritted her teeth, caught in hesitation for a moment.
But then she suddenly remembered the words her grandmother, Uzumaki Mito, had spoken to her before her death—
She had told Tsunade to protect Konoha.
“Get out of my way!”
Remembering her grandmother’s final words, Tsunade clenched her fists and shouted at the masked man.
She had been utterly disappointed in Konoha’s higher-ups, but she had not become completely disappointed in Konoha itself, the village founded by her grandfather.
She had to save the village!
“Seriously…”
Seeing that Tsunade refused to listen, Yusuke could only draw the ninja blade from beneath his black robe.
“Don’t force me.”
“Haah!”
Tsunade shouted angrily and charged toward Yusuke with her fist.
“As long as I stop her from using the Slug Technique, that’s enough.”
Yusuke thought to himself.
Without using the Hatake swordsmanship or Lightning Release, he had no confidence in defeating Tsunade.
But he didn’t need to defeat her.
As long as he prevented her from using the Slug Technique and causing trouble, that would be enough.
In the span of just one minute, their fists and blade collided dozens of times.
The longer Tsunade fought, the more shocked she became.
The man before her wasn’t using any ninjutsu or genjutsu.
He was relying solely on swordsmanship to hold her back.
And his swordsmanship wasn’t even some special, advanced sword style.
He was using nothing more than basic sword techniques, yet he was able to block her monstrous punches.
So strong!
If she hadn’t personally seen Hatake Sakumo’s grave, she would have suspected that the man standing before her was actually Konoha’s White Fang in disguise, the greatest swordsman in the shinobi world.
“Who are you!?”
After the two had exchanged more than a hundred blows, Tsunade couldn’t help shouting.
By sabotaging the jinchuriki transfer ceremony and releasing the Nine-Tails to destroy Konoha, the masked man had naturally made Tsunade suspect that he was an enemy sent by Kumogakure or another village.
But if that were really the case, why had he gone out of his way to save her grandmother and Kushina?
And why had he tried to persuade her to leave?
If he were an enemy from another shinobi village, would he really bother wasting so many words?
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Before Yusuke could answer, continuous explosions rang out from all across Konoha.
One mushroom cloud after another suddenly rose into the sky throughout the village.
It was the Nine-Tails’ barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs!
In less than half an hour since the Nine-Tails had been released, nearly half of the vast Konoha had already been destroyed!
This was the power of the fully manifested Nine-Tails!
“Hahaha~ Now that’s impressive.”
Yusuke looked around at the chaos engulfing Konoha and laughed.
“How about it, Princess Tsunade? Doesn’t it feel like you’ve finally gotten your revenge?”
The Hokage Administration Building and even the Hokage Rock had been completely destroyed.
At least a thousand shinobi defending the village had also died.
Without a doubt, Yusuke had achieved his objective.
Konoha was now in a severely crippled state!
“…Get out of my way!”
Tsunade neither refuted nor agreed with him.
She merely coldly uttered two words.
“That won’t do.”
Yusuke once again revealed his ninja blade with a smiling expression.
“Damn it. This can’t continue. I have to use the Slug Technique quickly…”
Looking around at the corpses of Konoha shinobi scattered everywhere, Tsunade was frantic with worry.
She bit her finger and prepared to summon Katsuyu.
“Don’t even think about it.”
Yusuke suddenly charged forward.
Don’t even think about using the Slug Technique.
Not enough people had died yet.
A few more needed to die before he could finally feel at ease!