MSIN: Chapter 174

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Haori initially refused to kill Manda. You can't just make him kill something, after all. It was Orochimaru's pet. Even if you're going to hit a snake, you have to look at the owner.

But Manda was a summoning beast with a terrible personality. After crushing a building, it was now really opening its bloody maw and attacking indiscriminately.

At first, it was eating Kirigakure ninjas. Haori didn't say anything. You could say he was helping the Konoha ninjas. He even admired this purple-skinned snake.

Later, Manda actually swallowed a Konoha ninja in one gulp. Haori still didn't say anything. He just furrowed his brows, thinking it was an accidental injury.

Then, later, Manda charged directly at him. And those eyes, it definitely saw him as food!

So, the question was, would Orochimaru mind if he killed this thing?

Although the Sannin's summoning beasts could speak, this one clearly didn't want to have a good chat with Haori… At least, it should ask the person being eaten for their opinion before eating them, right?

Using Manda to test out the new Samehada he had just gotten seemed like a good idea… Haori thought about it, but he decided against it. He wasn't used to using Samehada yet.

But he wasn't worried about the approaching Manda. He was quite experienced in dealing with large summoning beasts, and now he didn't need to capture it alive. He would do whatever was most damaging. He wouldn't feel bad about killing it.

Haori stabbed Samehada into the ground, and the lightning on his body dissipated. Then, he began to pull out scrolls from his ninja tool pouch behind him.

Should he use the Outer Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu? No, that was too brutal. The key was that the range of effect was too large. There were a lot of Konoha ninjas crammed into this stronghold.

Using the Outer Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu would definitely finish off Manda, but it would also definitely involve his own people… Thinking about this, Haori moved his finger away from the scroll of the Outer Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu and moved it one space to the right, pulling out another scroll.

He took out a scroll with a red cover. Then, with a flick of his hand, he unrolled part of the scroll. Then, he swiped his right hand across the sealing formula on the scroll that read "sword."

A giant kunai, as tall as his shoulders, appeared in his hand. He decided to try another Shadow Clone Jutsu with the kunai to see what Manda's defense was like. But considering its size, ordinary kunai would probably be like scratching an itch. So, he decided to switch to a 6XL size.

Manda moved over, tilting its body. Haori could just throw the kunai at an upward angle. He didn't have to worry about accidentally injuring his own ninjas.

He quickly formed hand seals. The huge, densely packed shadow kunai instantly attacked from an angle, at high speed.

With Manda's size, it was impossible to dodge all of the sudden attacks.

"Thud, thud, thud" the sound of sharp objects piercing flesh echoed. Manda hissed in the air, spraying its blood.

The attack of the shadow kunai was fleeting. To dodge this attack, Manda raised its body even higher. It glanced around and immediately spotted the one who had launched this attack.

So, from a height of tens of meters, Manda's head slammed down towards Haori without a word.

"Hey, won't that give you a concussion? … And, do you really have to expand my diet?"

Haori muttered to himself.

This was a bit ungrateful. After being injured, shouldn't it return to the summoning space obediently? Why did it have to keep fighting?

Unfortunately, Manda was a very temperamental snake. It had hormonal imbalances and a bad spleen. So, it was easily angered. How could it return to the Dilong Cave with an injury and lose face?

At the very least, it had to swallow the human who dared to injure it.

"I wonder how grilled snake meat tastes. High heat kills parasites and makes it crispy on the outside and tender on the inside…"

Looking up at Manda's head slamming down, Haori quickly retreated, engaging in mental interaction, and the hand seals in his hands were already complete.

"Boom!"

Although it didn't hit Haori in front of him, the giant snake head slammed into the ground. The ground trembled, making Haori feel unsteady on his feet.

But the hand seals in his hands remained motionless.

Taking a deep breath, Haori's abdomen expanded dramatically, like a frigatebird during a certain period.

Then, he blew a puff of fairy-like breath towards Manda's head, which was less than ten meters in front of him… Although it was a bit hot.

Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!

The blazing flames directly buried the front half of Manda in a sea of fire.

Manda let out a shrill cry, then fell silent.

You could vaguely see its struggling body in the flames.

Was it dead?

But that was impossible. Haori's unamplified Fire Dragon Flame Bullet couldn't even cover Manda's huge body. He was only burning its head.

The head wasn't exactly accurate. Because as the flames gradually dissipated, Haori discovered that what was burning was just a giant snake skin.

Skin-shedding skill? It was indeed very effective. But where did Manda go?

Haori cautiously searched for Manda while walking towards Samehada.

As soon as his right hand grasped Samehada, he instinctively held it horizontally in front of him.

Manda's head burst out of the ground in front of him!

If Haori hadn't blocked it, Manda would have definitely rammed into him directly. Even now, after blocking it, Haori was forced into the air by the impact.

Fortunately, this could dissipate the force. Although he was thrown very high and the impact made it difficult to breathe, there weren't any other major problems.

In mid-air, Haori raised his sword above his head with both hands, ready to use a Musou Ichi-dan on the Manda that followed behind him. But something strange happened. He had just gotten into position, and then, with a "poof," the Samehada in his hand disappeared.

Samehada disappeared? What the hell?!

Haori didn't have time to think about it. Below him was Manda's gaping maw.

Should he cut off half its mouth? No, Haori changed his mind and gave up resisting. He just fell directly into its mouth.

He dodged the thick, pillar-like snake tongue and raised his hand, striking with Chidori Sharp Spear. The lightning blade pierced through Manda's upper jaw without any obstruction, hitting its left eye with perfect precision!

Eyes are just bubbles that burst with a single poke. Could they possibly block Chidori Sharp Spear?

Impossible.

The miserable cry almost knocked Haori unconscious in Manda's mouth. The twisting and shaking body almost threw him out of its mouth.

Haori's casualness was evident in this place. Since the mission was complete, he had nothing better to do. There was a snake that wanted to eat him, so he ignored the Kirigakure ninjas and decided to kill the snake first.

Although this snake was basically on the same side as him, he didn't care.

Orochimaru's snakes didn't have the right to be so picky.

So, Haori didn't retreat but pressed forward. Instead of taking the opportunity to escape, he charged into Manda's body.

"That should be enough, right?"

When he estimated that he was in the right place, he reached out and touched the wound on his waist. After getting blood on his hand, he quickly formed hand seals.

Ninjutsu: Summoning Jutsu.

From the outside, Manda's body suddenly expanded violently, instantly becoming several times thicker.

The slug was summoned by Haori from inside its body.

"Big Sister!" This respectful address, along with the feeling of being bound, made the slug instantly understand what to do.

If you were to ask which of the Three Great Sanctuaries' summoning beasts had the most flexible and diverse attacks, it would be Mount Myōboku's toads. After all, regardless of how many fingers they had, at least toads had four limbs.

As for slugs, they were medical summoning beasts, not specialized for combat… But that didn't mean they couldn't attack. They had one very sharp attack.

Highly corrosive acid was instantly secreted in large quantities and then spat out.

Want to eat people? Here's a bottle of Mrs. Buer's Oral Solution. Let's see who digests who first.

Manda was really unlucky. There were some things it was destined to not be able to consume. Not only that, in the intense heat, the sizzling sound, and the smoke caused by the corrosive mucus, its belly was burned through.

Although some things look white and tender, very hygienic and delicious, please note that this thing should never be eaten indiscriminately… Attacking the enemy from the inside is nothing new. Why couldn't it be a little more careful?

With a "boom," Haori felt the light of day again.

Manda finally couldn't withstand the corrosive attack and fled back to the summoning space.

"Is it still alive?"

Haori was both muttering to himself and asking the slug. He hadn't expected the corrosive effect to be so strong. It was like pouring hot oil on a pile of snow.

"Haori, were you just in…?" The slug didn't answer, but asked this question instead.

"In Manda's belly…"

The slug: "…"

So, it had unknowingly almost killed Manda, or perhaps killed it completely?

"As for Manda, that amount of mucus wouldn't be enough to kill it… probably." The slug wasn't sure. Burning someone's belly, it hadn't done this kind of work before. It lacked experience and judgment.

"I also poked out one of its eyes."

"…"

What else could the slug say?

Then, Haori said in a regretful tone, "You can't guarantee that it's dead… But, since it returned to the Dilong Cave, why weren't we taken there with it?"

Haori was regretful that he didn't have the opportunity to visit the Dilong Cave.

"First, because its belly was burned through, we can't be considered to be inside it…"

"Second, because of my summoning contract, summoning us to the Dilong Cave would require a lot of chakra…"

"Finally, it was running away. There's no reason for it to run away with the enemy."

The slug explained.

"Okay…" Haori had to admit that Big Sister was right. But he continued to ask, "So, the question is, where did my Samehada go?"

Why did Samehada suddenly disappear from his hand? Did it run away on its own? That was obviously impossible. If it could have run away like that, it would have done it long ago. That sudden disappearance was more like it was summoned away.

But asking the slug about this, how could it possibly know.

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