The mutated pregnant women could no longer suppress their craving for blood.
Ignoring Shu and Tsunade, they raised their drills and lunged straight toward the young nurse on the floor.
“Help me!!” The nurse screamed in despair.
“If they can’t be saved, then we’ll just have to kill them!” Shu vanished from where he stood.
Bang!
Before the nurse could even react, the nearest mutated woman took a brutal side kick to the chest and was sent flying backward.
Shu immediately wrapped one arm around the nurse’s waist and leaped backward, carrying her cleanly out of the encirclement.
‘Not gonna lie, even though she’s scared out of her mind, this little nurse is pretty cute…
and surprisingly soft.’ The woman Shu had kicked climbed back to her feet.
Despite taking such a heavy blow, there was no sign that the impact had harmed her pregnancy.
Instead, the attack only seemed to drive her deeper into a frenzy.
Her strength surged, and her mouth grotesquely transformed as a sharp proboscis pushed outward.
Thick saliva dripped from the twitching mouthpart as she lunged forward again like a starving wolf.
“Stay back and don’t get in the way.” Shu casually tossed the nurse out through the doorway, then pulled out a kunai and slashed without hesitation.
“Tsunade!
Move!
Don’t leave a single one alive!” Slash!
Blood sprayed from the severed mouthpart of one mutated woman, splattering across Shu’s clothes.
These monsters weren’t actually weak.
After being fully corrupted by the curse, their strength, speed, and durability had all risen far beyond those of ordinary humans.
But against a trained shinobi like Shu, monsters that only knew how to lunge and bite on instinct posed very little threat.
After all, ninjas were superhuman combatants.
Even as a mere Genin, chakra allowed Shu’s body to unleash bursts of terrifying speed.
Before transmigrating, Shu had once read plenty of Naruto power-scaling posts online.
Some ridiculous claims insisted that even Genin could move at Mach 5.
Shu had always scoffed at that.
Mach 5 was roughly 1,700 meters per second, or around 6,120 kilometers per hour.
At that speed, someone could travel from Beijing to Shanghai in about ten minutes.
And people seriously claimed an ordinary Genin could do that?
If that were true, being a ninja would be the most absurd profession imaginable.
In the original series, perhaps Rock Lee after opening at least the Fifth Gate, or the Fourth Raikage while using Lightning Release Chakra Mode, might approach that level.
But!
Even if Mach 5 was complete nonsense, a properly trained Genin enhanced by chakra could still reach around Mach 0.5 in a short burst.
That was roughly 170 meters per second.
A terrifying speed by any normal human standard.
So the whole “Genin can move at Mach 5” claim was nothing more than exaggerated nonsense.
And apparently, the rumor had started from Naruto shooting his mouth off in the first place.
Swish!
Swish!
Swish!
Inside the hospital room, Shu practically turned into a blur.
His kunai flashed through the darkness, and every flicker of steel was followed by another monster collapsing to the floor.
After cutting down several of them, Shu suddenly realized something was wrong.
There was no movement behind him.
“Tsunade?” He turned around in confusion, and his heart immediately sank.
Tsunade’s face was pale as paper, completely drained of color.
Her entire body trembled uncontrollably.
Cold sweat rolled down her skin, and her eyes had gone unfocused.
Shu slapped his forehead.
‘How the hell did I forget about this?!
Tsunade hasn’t overcome her hemophobia yet at this point in the timeline!’ At this stage of the story, Tsunade was still suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing Nawaki’s horrific death and Kato Dan dying on the battlefield.
Her condition manifested as extreme hemophobia.
The moment she saw a large amount of blood, she could instantly lose all ability to fight.
And this hospital room, thick with the stench of blood, had triggered her symptoms perfectly.
“Hissss!” While Shu was cursing himself, the last two or three mutated women had already rushed toward Tsunade with their barbed mouthparts extended.
“Damn it!” Tsunade absolutely couldn’t die.
‘If she dies here, who the hell is supposed to carry us through tomorrow’s typhoon?!’ Shu cursed under his breath as chakra exploded beneath his feet.
Using the Body Flicker Technique, he instantly appeared beside Tsunade.
Slash!
Slash!
His kunai flashed several times, slicing open the throats of the monsters before they could reach her.
Shu looked at Tsunade and sighed helplessly.
“Looks like I can’t count on this princess for the rest of tonight.” He lifted her onto his shoulder and walked out of the room.
The young nurse he’d rescued earlier had already disappeared somewhere.
Shu activated his Sharingan and scanned the building.
Through his crimson vision, he could clearly see numerous dense clusters of gray-black curse energy scattered throughout the entire hospital.
‘There are quite a few.’ There were probably many more mutated pregnant women roaming the building.
Searching for them one by one would be too troublesome.
‘Better to lure them all out and wipe them out in one shot.’ To attract the monsters, Shu deliberately stomped heavily through the hallway and even smashed several windows along the way.
The loud crashes echoed throughout the hospital.
“Hissss!” Hearing the commotion, mutated women poured from rooms and corridors in every direction, rushing toward Shu.
Still carrying Tsunade over his shoulder, Shu began circling through the hospital’s spacious lobby.
Using his superior speed, he kept a safe distance between himself and the pursuing horde.
Before long, several dozen mutated women had gathered into one dense group behind him.
“That should be enough.” Shu suddenly stopped.
He tossed Tsunade into a corner of the lobby and turned to face the incoming swarm.
His hands rapidly formed seals.
Snake—Ram—Monkey—Boar—Horse—Tiger!
The instant the final seal was completed, Shu drew in a deep breath.
Fire-nature chakra compressed violently inside his mouth.
“Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!” BOOM!
A massive fireball erupted from his mouth.
Roaring flames swept forward with overwhelming heat, instantly swallowing the tightly packed group of mutated women.
“Screeech—!
Aaaagh!” Shrill cries echoed from within the sea of fire, but they were quickly drowned out by the violent roar of the flames.
The temperature inside the lobby surged.
Even the floor tiles began cracking under the intense heat.
After a while, the flames gradually died down.
All that remained in the center of the lobby was a broad patch of black ash giving off an acrid, burnt stench.
At the same time, the Main God’s notification rang out.
[Ding!
Reincarnator has successfully eliminated a concentrated group of heavily cursed mutants: Mutated Pregnant Women.] [Reward: 1 C-Rank Side Plot and 2,000 Reward Points.] …