Reborn into Naruto World with Tenseigan-Novel

Chapter 655: Orochimaru’s Trump Cards

Bang, Bang!

Two coffins appeared out of nowhere, with the words ‘Sho’ and ‘Ni’ written on the lids.

“Edo Tensei of Shodaime and Nidaime Hokage?” Homusubi grimaced as she saw the two coffins. Are they your trump card  Are you certain they’ll be able to handle Danzo?”

Homusubi has already confronted the two Hokage while using the Fujin Clone a few months back… The two Hokage in the Edo Tensei form, as far as she knows, aren’t too weak, and their strength should be slightly higher than Kage rank, but that’s it…

Shodaime Hokage and Nidaime Hokage in their present Edo Tensei form would not be enough to fight Shimura Danzo, who now has seven Kekkei Genkai, including the Wood Release and Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

Orochimaru grinned and remained deafeningly silent. He’d much rather have his masterwork demonstrate it to Homusubi via action than through words.

With a sigh and a shake of her head, Homusubi expressed her dissatisfaction with the situation.

She has no idea how things will turn out now; all she knows is that she hopes it doesn’t get out of hand.

Tuk… Tuk…

Two individuals with dull faces and cracked bodies walked out of the coffins step by step as the lids of both coffins slid off.

Homusubi’s pupils shrank as soon as she noticed the two of them with her Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan…

“Orochimaru… he.. How did he do it in such a short amount of time?”

The chakra fluctuations she was sensing from the bodies of the two former Hokages, particularly the Shodaime Hokage, were exceedingly powerful, far more so than the ones Fujin had felt from them during his last combat with them.

It’s not impossible for an Edo Tensei to have such strength; Uchiha Madara’s strength in the fourth great shinobi war is clear proof of this; however, the possibility of them being able to show such strength at this point in time should have been next to impossible, but… this is no longer the case, and it can only mean one thing, and it’s extremely surprising.

Danzo inhaled deeply and mumbled to himself, “Is that… Sensei?” as he glanced at the two familiar figures with a puzzled expression.

Danzo hasn’t fully recovered his mind, but he did know the two figures, Shodaime Hokage and Nidaime Hokage.

“Shodaime Hokage-sama, Nidaime Hokage-sama,   I believe it is appropriate to reminisce about the past days at a later time; just now, the Konoha Village and the entire shinobi world are in peril…”

Shodaime and Nidaime both turned around and gazed at Orochimaru with a puzzled expression on their faces.

“First, this guy conspired against Sandaime Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and forced him to step down from the position of Hokage, and about a month after taking the power of Konoha Village in his hands, he ordered nearly fifteen hundred high ranking Konoha Shinobi to secretly assemble outside this Volcano,” Orochimaru said, pointing at Danzo.

“For a war?” Tabirama asked, frowning.

“If it was merely for a war, then the Konoha Village and the entire shinobi world wouldn’t have been imperilled by his acts,” Orochimaru explained, shaking his head. ” He gathered those fifteen hundred Konoha shinobi outside this cave for the goal of absorbing their chakra and life force while performing a ceremony.”

“A ritual?” Shodaime was perplexed this time. “What type of ritual are you talking about?”

“A ceremony to climb into a God,” Orochimaru continued. ” If he succeeds, he will become a God, and I don’t suppose I need to explain what it takes to become a God, the life of the fifteen hundred Konoha shinobi outside this cave. We attempted to stop him ourselves, but the strength he has already acquired is far greater than we can bear… As a result, I had no choice but to extricate the two of you from the underworld.”

Nidaime Hokage’s expression darkened after hearing Orochimaru’s explanation…

Shodaime Hokage sought to sense the condition outside the cave at the same moment, and he did detect over 1500 Chakra signals… Many of them were already dead, some were barely surviving, and the remainder were on the verge of death as they spoke. Shodaime’s face became sombre as he realised there was some truth to that statement.

Although Nidaime didn’t totally trust Orochimaru’s words, he couldn’t help but be suspicious when he felt the evil chakra encircling Danzo and saw people dying all around him. “Danzo… did you really do all of this?” he wondered. “Did you truly plan to sabotage Hiruzen?”

“You were mistaken, Sensei…!  Hiruzen… he’s not deserving of the title of Hokage! I am the only shinobi who has been it and will be worthy of the title of Hokage… Only I have the ability to take Konoha to new heights…!”said Danzo with a roar as if to add weight to his words.

The current Danzo lacks the mental capacity to comprehend the circumstances… Instead  of responding appropriately to Tobirama’s query, he uttered the ideas that had always been hidden in his heart.

Rather than sprinkling water on the fire that Orochimaru was attempting to start, Danzo added more oil to it.

“Tobirama, this pupil of yours has lost his head in the desire of power,” Hashirama stated casually as he rubbed his brother’s shoulder. “Such a person cannot be allowed to remain Hokage because he would wreck Konoha… We must put an end to him at all costs.”

Shodaime Hokage went so far as to kill Madara for the sake of Konoha, so how can he spare simply a Danzo?

Tobirama drew a deep breath and stayed silent; he had not anticipated the day when he would be forced to murder his own apprentice…