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Chapter 144 144
Utatane Koharu's words were completely ignored by the Daimyo.
"Ugh…"
There was nothing she could do. Even though she was terrified, Utatane Koharu could only force herself to quiet down.
"Shiki, I can give you a chance. Marry into my Daimyo's palace!"
Her tone remained arrogant, as if allowing Shiki to marry into the Daimyo's palace was some great favor bestowed upon him.
On Shiki's side, however, the shinobi who had come with him could barely suppress their laughter.
Especially after getting a good look at Princess Chiba's pig-like physique…
Hiss—
They all sucked in a breath.
They wanted to laugh.
But they didn't have the guts to do so.
Shiki didn't care about the Daimyo's palace at all.
In fact, he didn't even have the slightest intention of acknowledging it.
Pointing toward the Daimyo, he glanced at Nara Shikaku beside him.
"Is that fat pig the Daimyo of the Land of Fire?"
"Uh… yes."
Within the Land of Fire, Shiki was probably the only one who dared to directly call the Daimyo a fat pig.
But at this point, there was no room for reconciliation anyway.
If he called him a fat pig… then a fat pig he was.
"You…!"
The corpulent Daimyo, upon hearing Shiki's words, had a flicker of anger appear on his usually placid face.
"Boy, it seems I need to properly teach you a lesson before you become my daughter's husband!"
"…"
Shiki didn't respond, and neither did the shinobi accompanying him.
Instead, they all looked at the Daimyo with strange expressions.
Was this guy always this brave?
Teach Shiki a lesson? What a joke. Maybe there were people in the shinobi world who could say such a thing now but it definitely wasn't the Daimyo's palace, which had nothing going for it.
Shiki was done wasting time. One hand rested on his sword hilt, while the other lifted slightly.
The shinobi behind Shiki, seeing his movement, immediately went on alert.
"Move out. Eliminate everyone except the Daimyo."
Shiki intended to deal with that fat pig of a Daimyo himself.
"Yes!"
At his command, over a hundred figures hidden among the trees vanished at once, rushing in unison toward the samurai in front of them.
Shiki's actions completely enraged the Daimyo.
"Hmph! Attack!"
With the Daimyo's command, the several thousand samurai of the Daimyo's palace surged forward as one.
"Defeat them!"
"A bunch of stinking shinobi—what's so great about them?!"
"It's only about a hundred people! How could they be our match?!"
"Hahaha! Witness the might of us samurai lords!"
…
Perhaps because they had spent too long basking in the Daimyo's favor, watching shinobi bow and scrape before him, these samurai had long since started looking down on shinobi.
Simply put, they were frogs at the bottom of a well.
They had never truly witnessed the power of shinobi and were still frozen in the bygone era of samurai.
"This…"
Utatane Koharu wanted to speak up.
But when she caught sight of the Daimyo's seemingly confident expression, she couldn't force the words out.
To be honest, even if she had to bow to the Daimyo, Utatane Koharu herself didn't believe that these samurai—already phased out by the times—would be of any use.
Especially when their opponent was the man known as the Golden Lion.
No, I have to run!
Utatane Koharu was already planning her escape.
Originally, she had come to the Daimyo because she thought Shiki would be wary of the Daimyo's status.
But who would have thought that Shiki would actually dare to act directly against the Daimyo?
Without the constraint of status, Utatane Koharu didn't believe for a second that the Daimyo's palace could be a match for Konoha.
Just as Utatane Koharu was plotting her escape, thousands of shouting samurai had already surrounded Shiki and his group.
The difference in numbers was overwhelming—but the difference in strength was even more so.
"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Lightning Release…!"
Brilliant ninjutsu light flared one after another across the Daimyo's palace grounds.
Compared to that, the samurai charging with katana in hand simply had no way to resist.
These weren't genin. Every shinobi Shiki had brought was jōnin-level.
A single jutsu could take down a large group of samurai.
Shiki didn't even bother to look. There was no need.
Samurai had been phased out by shinobi for a reason—the gap was simply too large.
Even with several thousand samurai, they could never be a match for the hundred-plus shinobi Shiki had brought.
Instead, Shiki glanced over at Orochimaru beside him with mild curiosity.
That's right—Orochimaru had also come along on this mission.
"I didn't expect you to actually have time to come out," Shiki remarked.
He hadn't called Orochimaru. Orochimaru had come on his own.
That was why Shiki was so curious.
At this time, shouldn't Orochimaru be buried neck-deep in his research on immortality?
How did he have time to leave his lab?
To that question, Orochimaru replied casually, "There's no helping it… research needs people. And the Daimyo's palace has quite a lot of people."
"I get what you mean now."
Shiki chuckled lightly.
Hunting down test subjects one by one for his immortality research was too troublesome.
With so many people gathered here at the Daimyo's palace, this was simply a one-stop solution.
Shiki believed that as long as Orochimaru brought a batch of people back from the Daimyo's palace, he wouldn't have to worry about experimental subjects for the next few years.
While Shiki and Orochimaru were talking, thousands of samurai had already fallen.
Not all of them were dead, some were still alive.
But now, every one of them looked at Shiki and the others with terror in their eyes, completely unable to accept how their thousands of samurai had been defeated so easily.
"Then, Shiki-kun, I'll take care of those who are still alive."
Orochimaru's lips curled into a sinister smile.
It wasn't that he was plotting anything in particular—Orochimaru just always looked like that.
"Mm."
Shiki nodded, offering no objection.
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