Chapter 187: Improved Reaper Death Seal
"Kabuto-senpai, ninja jutsu are powerful, but our bodies are just too fragile. If a ninja wants to break through their current limits…" Ino patted her severed arm. Jirōbō's severed arm, as if conscious, even shook her hand.
"This... perhaps this is the direction of future development."
If Ino said these words to ordinary ninjas in the ninja world, they would definitely think she was crazy. Hōzuki Castle Great Prison would welcome someone like her.
But Kabuto wouldn't think that way. In name, he was still Sasori's subordinate, and he was very clear about many of Sasori's human modifications and philosophies.
When Ino unwrapped another sealing scroll, like a child showing off a fun toy and inviting a new friend to admire it, he was finally taken aback.
This was Jirōbō's corpse, but not entirely a corpse.
The original Jirōbō was 1.9 meters tall and weighed over 90 kilograms. Now, just by looking, this guy was over two meters tall and weighed at least 150 kilograms.
The current Jirōbō was dark red all over, as if he had entered Curse Mark Stage Two.
Many of the muscles and bones in his body had been replaced with metal. Vine-like tendrils, resembling blood vessels, wrapped around his entire body. His head had completely disappeared, replaced by a huge pitcher plant growing from his neck. Within the vividly colored flower, there seemed to be countless dense, eye-like organs.
Yakushi Kabuto couldn't help but focus his gaze, and then he noticed all the "eyes" looking at him.
If his previous surprise, panic, and fear were all feigned, this time he was genuinely astonished.
Was this the Jirōbō he knew? He didn't know what mental pollution was, but a feeling of unease and confusion did arise.
Young lady, compared to Sunagakure Village and even Lord Orochimaru, the underworld clearly needs your talents more!
Sasori, Orochimaru, and now the Yamanaka clan girl before him... Yakushi Kabuto felt his perspective had been too narrow!
Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension is the way.
He could never have uttered such a profound statement. He believed his own ideological liberation hadn't been thorough enough, and he was still too bound by traditional moral concepts!
"This experimental subject actually failed completely. It's too cumbersome, and the strange natural energy within him is difficult to eliminate. It should be a problem with the experimental subject... However, Kabuto-senpai, you can have this guy. I think if you undo the Impure World Reincarnation, you could try this kind of body?"
No, thank you very much! I'm quite alright as I am! Kabuto flatly refused.
Ino didn't say anything more. If he didn't want it, so be it. This Jirōbō with a flower blooming on his head had lost most of his combat ability, greatly reducing his value. However, she could keep him to continue making improvements.
Kabuto was, after all, Kabuto, and he quickly shook off his discomfort.
He thought seriously for a moment. This body, with one-third mechanical, one-third flesh, and one-third plant components, did indeed possess chakra. Because of the plant aspect, it could also absorb external natural energy like a Curse Mark. Perhaps it could be used as a body for Lord Orochimaru?
It didn't even need to be used permanently, just as a temporary vessel. Once Orochimaru had enough chakra, he could use his own Orochimaru-style Body Replacement Technique.
Mechanical Orochimaru? It didn't seem entirely impossible.
Kabuto wanted her technology, but Ino wasn't willing to give it away for free.
Kabuto said that when he returned, he could help organize Orochimaru's information on human puppets. In reality, Orochimaru hadn't really researched that much about them. He looked down on Sasori's methods – it was a clash of ideals.
It didn't matter; Kabuto had collected a lot of information from Sasori that he could use to fulfill his end of the bargain.
He and Ino parted ways.
A quarter of an hour later, he drugged Mitarashi Anko, Orochimaru's former disciple, by putting medicine in her red bean soup and knocked her unconscious. After examining her Heavenly Curse Mark, he found that its actual function was quite similar to Kimimaro's Earthly Curse Mark; at least, he couldn't see any difference.
Currently, kidnapping people in Konohagakure Village was too difficult, so he temporarily abandoned the idea of obtaining the Heavenly Curse Mark from her.
Two days later, he went to find Ino again and gave her a scroll containing information about human puppet techniques, all obtained from Sasori.
Kabuto still used Orochimaru as a cover: "I could only gather this much information. After all, I'm not a spy, just a ninja with no particular talent... The rest... I can only rely on you."
What he truly wanted was the Impure World Reincarnation.
Ino smiled and nodded, finding this game with "Kabuto-nii-san" increasingly interesting.
She guessed that Kabuto probably obtained the Sage heritage of Ryūchidō and a series of ninjutsu, including the Impure World Reincarnation, when he threw the severed limbs of the Yamata no Orochi into a juicer and frantically extracted its essence after Orochimaru's death.
It could only be said that Sasuke didn't have the good habit of looting corpses. After killing Orochimaru, he left with incomparable swagger to show off, getting nothing good, all of which benefited Kabuto.
Now, Kabuto was showing interest in the Impure World Reincarnation ahead of schedule, but with Orochimaru dead, he could only turn his attention to Konohagakure Village.
He couldn't get it from Ino either.
Previously, the Third Hokage had treasured the Book of Seals immensely. Now, after Orochimaru's rampage, news of the Impure World Reincarnation had long spread throughout the ninja world, and Jiraiya would certainly not leak these ninjutsu.
Specifically, how this technique communicated with Yomi, how it summoned the deceased back to the living world, no one knew.
Ino had no intention of helping him with the Impure World Reincarnation.
On the contrary, she was lacking a tool to use the Reaper Death Seal, and Kabuto had conveniently delivered himself to her door. She had no intention of being polite.
The Reaper Death Seal was a double-edged sword. The Death God's idiotic way of thinking and ability to handle matters were completely different from humans. You could call Him stupid or mechanical, but you couldn't use human thought patterns to fathom this being.
Once the Reaper Death Seal fell into the hands of an enemy, and that enemy targeted Ino with the technique, she would definitely be hoisting herself by her own petard.
If that idiotic Death God really attacked her, she wouldn't be able to stop it.
Current summoning techniques should actually be called summoning jutsu. They involve using chakra formulas to bring a certain object or living being to one's immediate vicinity.
Only five and a half techniques truly relate to souls and have the traditional Western fantasy connotation of summoning.
The Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique was either the King of Hell's ability or the power of the Rinnegan. Ordinary ninjas could train their entire lives and never master this technique.
The Creation Rebirth seemed more like using chakra to exchange for vitality, with very little involvement of the soul, counting as half.
The Living Corpse Reincarnation was Orochimaru's signature technique. Although it could only be used on himself, it still counted as a soul-related ninjutsu.
The remaining four were the Reaper Death Seal, Impure World Reincarnation, Soul Transformation Technique, and Mind Body Transmission Technique. Wouldn't you know it? Ino actually knew all four of these techniques, or at least parts of them.
Among the living in the current era, no one understood the soul better than her!
Ino began to ponder and research methods to improve the Reaper Death Seal. Ninjutsu were created by humans. If the predecessors could do it, she could too. With her current Ninjutsu level at 10 and Intelligence at 8, and possessing the learning scroll for the Reaper Death Seal, she could naturally make modifications.
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