Chapter 108: The Shinobi World’s Bizarre Behavior, the Monster Inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss

The staggering figure that walked out had long, dull red hair.

It was Karin’s mother.

Mūi’s instincts immediately screamed danger, and he quickly retreated!

The next moment!

Karin’s mother moved at an astonishing speed and pierced straight through the abdomen of the sheep-masked Hidden Grass elder.

The elder had not even had time to react. Looking at the red-haired woman right in front of him, blood poured from his mouth as his eyes widened in disbelief.

"What a pity. You actually managed to dodge it."

Karin’s mother casually pulled out her blood-covered arm and shook it, her expression carrying a trace of regret.

The sheep-masked elder coughed once before collapsing to the ground.

A massive amount of blood flowed from the hole in his abdomen.

He quickly lost his life.

Even until his death, he had no idea what had happened.

The revival of the Hidden Grass Village had clearly been right before his eyes!

The expressions of Mūi and the others changed drastically.

What kind of monster was this?!

Was this really the timid woman they knew before?

What exactly had the Box of Ultimate Bliss released?!

"Looks like you’ve figured it out."

Karin’s mother let out a strange, delighted laugh.

Her body rapidly transformed.

In an instant, she became a demonic-looking monster with a pair of wings spread behind her!

It had wings growing from its back, slender limbs, and a body covered in black feathers!

The monster’s wings flapped as it hovered in the air, its bloodshot eyes staring down at the people below.

"After so many years, I’m finally out!"

"To celebrate, I’ll send you all on your way first."

Boom!

The prison cell door was violently blasted open.

Light once again poured inside.

Karin, who had been curled up on the ground, barely opened her eyes.

After adjusting to the light, she finally saw the person who had arrived.

It wasn’t one of the prison guards.

The person was surrounded by a strange golden skeletal phantom.

Inside was a handsome young man who looked around thirteen or fourteen years old.

Karin opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but discovered that her throat had already gone hoarse.

"Are you Karin?"

With the Grass elder under genjutsu leading the way, Reiji had crossed the sea and arrived directly at Hōzuki Castle on the island.

Reiji slowly walked over.

Through his Kagura Mind’s Eye, he sensed this strange chakra aura.

Its strength wasn’t particularly great, but it possessed considerable vitality.

Seeing that Karin couldn’t even speak, Reiji curled his lips and placed his hand into Karin’s mouth.

"Bite it yourself."

Karin’s eyes moved slightly, and she didn’t understand what he meant.

However, she soon discovered that her chakra and physical strength were rapidly recovering!

This...

Wasn’t this an ability that only she and her mother possessed?

Why could this big brother do it too?

"Can you stand?"

Reiji’s tone remained emotionless.

Karin stretched her limbs.

She quickly stood up.

The feeling of weakness she had experienced earlier had completely disappeared!

"Do you want to live?"

Reiji continued.

"Yes!"

"...Um... could you please go save my mother?"

Karin spoke timidly.

"Your mother... might already be too late. Let’s take a look."

Reiji turned his head toward another direction.

Within the perception of his Kagura Mind’s Eye was an extraordinarily sinister chakra.

Recalling what the Hidden Grass elder had said earlier, Karin’s mother had probably already been sacrificed to the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

Reiji vaguely remembered the plot of the movie Blood Prison.

The Hidden Grass Village had schemed against Naruto and imprisoned him in Hōzuki Castle, intending to use Naruto’s Nine-Tails chakra to activate the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

However, after the Box of Ultimate Bliss was finally activated, Mūi, the lord of Hōzuki Castle, made a wish to see his son, Muku.

It turned out that Mūi had previously sacrificed his own son, Muku, in order to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

However, after doing such a thing, Mūi regretted it.

Compared with any ambitions he might have had, he felt that his son was more important.

In the end...

The monster "Satori" inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss was released.

The Box of Ultimate Bliss...

Just from its name, it didn’t sound like anything good.

A treasure that could grant any wish?

Such an enticing claim couldn’t possibly lead to anything good, could it?

Of course.

The strangest one of all was Mūi.

He had his own son provide chakra to the Box of Ultimate Bliss, only for his son to be swallowed by it immediately afterward.

Then Mūi regretted it and decided that his son was more important.

After another round of trouble, he wished for Muku to be resurrected, only to release the monster inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

It was simply absurd!

What had he been doing in the first place?

What kind of person behaved like this and still deserved to be a father?!

However, Reiji thought about it from another angle.

There were plenty of fathers in the Naruto world who behaved just as ridiculously.

The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, had attempted to assassinate his own son, Gaara, in order to test whether Gaara could control the power of the Tailed Beast.

Fugaku Uchiha had sent Uchiha Itachi onto the battlefield to kill people from a young age, directly leading Itachi down the wrong path and eventually turning him into a notorious filial son of the shinobi world.

Even Minato Namikaze was no exception!

He had placed the entire burden of the future on his newborn child.

Didn’t he know what kind of situation a Jinchūriki would face inside the village?

He claimed to have confidence in his child, but if Naruto had already been an adult when he said that, it might have made sense.

But Naruto had just been born at the time!

And then there was Mūi, who had killed his own son and later regretted it, wanting to resurrect him.

The shinobi world was truly full of bizarre behavior.

However.

Now that Karin’s mother had become the substitute sacrifice, Mūi’s son had managed to escape this disaster.

Boom!

The ground ahead suddenly exploded.

Reiji grabbed Karin by the back of her clothes and quickly retreated.

A gigantic monster flapped its wings and slowly rose into the air.

Satori let out a wild, grotesque laugh as it looked at Reiji and Karin.

"Two more little bugs. And they’re both such young little bugs."

Reiji looked the monster up and down and shook his head.

"Ahem... Quite ugly."

The monster had a spherical head with fangs, while its chest, abdomen, and limbs were all long and thin.

Satori’s flapping wings suddenly paused.

Ugly?

Was he talking about him?!

Did this little bug understand the situation?!

Instead of thinking about how to escape with his life, he actually had the time to judge Satori’s appearance?!

"No!"

Satori was just about to erupt in anger when he suddenly sensed something.

Its ferocious face immediately revealed a look of shock.

"Why can’t I sense any fear from you?"

"Fear? You think you’re worthy of it?"

Power surged through Reiji’s eyes.

Susanoo instantly transformed from its initial form into its second form.

Three magatama appeared in Susanoo’s hands, spinning rapidly as they were hurled directly toward Satori!

Yasaka Magatama!

"At this distance, try dodging this!"

Reiji stood inside Susanoo without making any attempt to retreat.

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