Unfinished Transaction
"The place beneath my feet is the grave of you and Momochi Zabuza."
Lin Ke calmly stated, looking at the gloomy pretty boy before him.
Bai wasn't surprised. He had been prepared since he saw the battered Executioner's Blade.
Rather, in the Pure Land, when the other party repeatedly harassed him, he had been thinking about the present world after hearing those stories and regaining consciousness. He wondered how Zabuza-sensei was doing.
In the end, the only conclusion he could reach was defeat.
Naruto and the others... are strong.
"I heard from Naruto and Sasuke," Lin Ke continued, "that Momochi Zabuza died for you in the end."
Zabuza-sensei...
Bai's expression changed slightly, not easily believing others' words.
"Well then, see you later." Lin Ke canceled the Summoning Jutsu.
Good, with Bai in hand, that meant Momochi Zabuza was also in hand—
That Hidden Mist Village rogue ninja had such a huge weakness.
The elite Jonin who could go toe-to-toe with Hatake Kakashi ended up shedding tears and admitting he couldn't become an emotionless ninja in the face of Bai's death and Naruto's talk-no-jutsu.
Lin Ke formed the hand seals again, directly broadcasting the Summoning Jutsu: *[Momochi Zabuza, Bai is in my hands.]*
After a few seconds of silence, a rough voice pulled him into a private chat: *[What are you saying?]*
*[I said, Bai is here with me,]* Lin Ke repeated, the inability to lie making his words particularly credible.
He didn't give Momochi Zabuza any room to think, directly canceling the Summoning Jutsu.
Just like he had been telling stories to lure ninjas to come to him, as long as they actively contacted him, they were already captured.
Forming seals, releasing, Rashomon.
Lin Ke reached out and pushed the gate open, then used the Body Flicker Technique to appear on the Executioner's Blade. Soon, the two who had just communicated passed through the vortex one after the other, returning to the present world as incorporeal bodies.
"?!"
Momochi Zabuza had just come out and wanted to question the mysterious person who had called him, when he saw Bai following closely behind.
"Zabuza-sensei," Bai looked sideways, "I'm sorry, as a tool, I wasn't able to successfully protect your life."
"Bai," Momochi Zabuza's face, covered in bandages, didn't show any expression. He didn't even look at the boy next to him, just called out the boy's name, then stepped forward and said, "To think you'd even try to use the dead, you bastard—"
He had already started to refine Chakra, wanting to attack. Using Bai to threaten him had crossed his bottom line.
He was still the first person summoned by Rashomon who didn't think about helping at all, but instead wanted to turn against the person who summoned him.
"You should know very well that you can't hurt me, right? You'll be dragged back by Rashomon."
Lin Ke let his hands hang down. He wasn't worried that the summoned dead would attack him. As long as he had a thought, Rashomon would drag the dead back, and any action would be stopped in an instant.
"Zabuza-sensei." Bai silently followed behind as usual, looking at the enemy opposite him, equally prepared for battle.
"I heard from Naruto that you cried and shouted about friendship or something at the end, then rushed over and killed Kado," Lin Ke said with a smile, "just because Kado kicked Bai's corpse, right?"
"You also forcibly killed Kado with your hands crippled, and that's how your life ended, right?"
Momochi Zabuza couldn't hold it in anymore, his eyes narrowed, and he said arrogantly: "What the hell are you talking about? This great one is the Demon of the Hidden Mist, Momochi Zabuza—"
"Then, say it, prove it to me." Lin Ke still maintained his smile. "Say that Bai is just a tool you can discard at any time."
"..."
Momochi Zabuza was silent for a moment. He now felt that the little brat's smile was too annoying.
"Zabuza-sensei." Bai's palms quietly clenched, his expression unchanged, but his eyes showed joy.
He knew clearly that if what the other party said wasn't a true event, Zabuza-sensei wouldn't suddenly fall silent, much less have that expression.
They had been together for so many years, and he couldn't know the other party any better.
"You're really too talkative, brat." Momochi Zabuza couldn't say anything in the end, looking over with a more fierce gaze and killing intent, but he dispersed the gathered Chakra.
For him, this Demon Man who constantly said 'I this' and 'I that', admitting that he cared about his subordinates was just too embarrassing.
So embarrassing that the initial anger and killing intent began to dissipate.
Speaking of which, this Executioner's Blade feels pretty good to step on, and the height when it's stuck in the ground is just right...
Lin Ke thought to himself and said, "I can let you return to the living world to meet each other, in exchange for you fighting for me."
"What do you think of this deal?" The deal was not reached.
Lin Ke commanded the shadows to throw Momochi Zabuza and White's already decaying corpses, along with the soil, into the sea, to prevent Orochimaru or Yakushi Kabuto from snatching them in the future.
Huh, wait, speaking of which, can Yakushi Kabuto still use Ninjutsu in the future?
Having been hit with the Five Elements Sealing, unless he changes bodies like Orochimaru, he won't be able to form hand seals, so he definitely won't be able to use Impure World Reincarnation, right?
The dead-people brawl in the Fourth Shinobi World War seems to have been directly changed by him.
Back to the deal, Momochi Zabuza didn't immediately agree, and White didn't express an opinion either. Of course, Lin Ke didn't urge them, but just gave them some time to chat alone.
Controlling the dead to fight for oneself is not an easy task.
He believed that if Naruto summoned these two, they would probably help happily. When they were reincarnated by Impure World Reincarnation in the Fourth Shinobi World War and saw Kakashi, they would also ask about Naruto's situation as soon as possible.
In Momochi Zabuza's heart, Naruto's position was strangely high.
Uchiha Fugaku and Maki were willing to fight for Lin Ke because they both had things they couldn't let go of in the living world, so they were willing to be used.
But Momochi Zabuza and White had nothing to worry about. They only cared about each other. With both of them dead, sleeping in the Pure Land was what they hoped for.
The living world didn't bring them anything good. The living world of the Naruto World is pure hell.
So, if he wanted to use them, he could only take it slowly, constantly using Rashomon to bring them back to the living world and rebuild their bonds. When the time comes, whether they desire to continue seeing each other or want to return to the living world again, he would always be able to take advantage of it.
He could also simply use threats to control Momochi Zabuza, a sentence like "You don't want White to..." would probably make the Demon Man fight unwillingly, just like in the Fourth Shinobi World War.
But that was only a last resort. Lin Ke's choice to summon them both out with Rashomon implied this operation, but he didn't say it outright.
He believed that Momochi Zabuza would understand. With such a premise, and then with gentle means and rhetoric, he wouldn't have to worry about the two of them not being used by him.
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