"Aoba, you must pay attention to safety," Under Aoba's three-inch non-rotting tongue, Uzuki Yugao still agreed to his plan of entering Kusagakure alone.
"Mm, I will pay attention," Aoba nodded.
"If you are exposed, or encounter a dangerous situation, immediately ignite the signal flare, we will rush over at the first moment," Uzuki Yugao also helped Aoba place the signal flare in an easily triggered position.
Aoba gave her a reassuring expression, "I will, I'm going now!"
As the words fell, his figure disappeared in front of Uzuki Yugao and Kurenai Yuhi.
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Aoba used Transparent Escape Technique to easily infiltrate the interior of Kusagakure.
He directly activated Mind's Eye of Kagura, enveloping the entire Kusagakure within it.
In an instant, the layout of the village's ninjas was clearly understood by him.
With this ability, the so-called reconnaissance mission was as simple as eating and drinking water.
Very quickly, he found two very special chakras.
One of them was like a candle in the wind, the other was full of vitality.
Seeing it this way, it should be the mother and daughter, Karin and her mother.
In the original work, it was not mentioned when Karin's mother died.
However, if inferred from the scenes, it should be around this one or two years.
He walked toward the center of the village.
Eventually, he stopped in front of a relatively dilapidated house.
He could clearly sense the chakras of the two people inside.
Aoba pushed open the door and directly walked in.
The interior decoration of the house was very simple, only a table and a bed, not even a chair.
At this moment, lying on the bed was a red-haired young woman.
On the ground was kneeling a little girl, lying on the edge of the bed, watching the young woman on the bed with pear-blossom-in-the-rain-like tears.
Looking at the situation of the young woman, it was extremely chilling. The exposed skin all over her body was full of teeth marks.
The whole body was dying, with little vitality left.
Being from the Uzumaki Clan, she had huge chakra and extremely strong recovery ability.
But Kusagakure only treated her as a blood pack to be bitten at any time.
The teeth marks all over her body were from this.
In the original work, she died from excessive chakra depletion.
After that, her daughter Karin also inherited her fate.
When Aoba pushed the door and walked in, both of them were startled.
Then they were confused, and immediately afterward, their hair stood on end, feeling a burst of fear.
'Why... the door opened by itself... and then closed again?'
'There must be something unclean in the house!'
Karin, a little scared, climbed onto the bed, and the young woman also forcibly supported her body and pulled Karin into her arms.
Eyes filled with terror, looking around.
Seeing this scene, Aoba canceled the effect of Transparent Escape.
His figure appeared in front of the two.
Only, when the two saw him, they were obviously startled again.
Karin subconsciously wanted to scream, but was timely covered by the young woman.
When the other party completely quieted down, she slowly loosened her hand.
"Please don't hurt my mother," Escaping her mother's control, Karin immediately spread her arms and blocked in front of her mother. Although her face was full of fear, she still stood firmly.
"Mother... Mother is about to die, if you want to bite, then bite me! I also have the same ability as mother!"
Aoba's expression was helpless. He was being treated as a bad guy.
"Karin... Karin," Karin's mother tightly hugged Karin in her arms, looking at the child who wasn't much older than her own daughter, and asked with a terrified expression, "You shouldn't be a Kusagakure ninja, right?"
'So pitiful.'
Aoba sighed in his heart and nodded.
Karin's mother's expression clearly relaxed.
"Let me treat you first," Aoba walked over, stretching out his right hand, emerald green chakra enveloping his palm.
He kept his Kagura Mind's Eye activated, the whole Kusagakure was within his perception range, and any situation, he could respond to in time.
"Mystical Palm Technique?"
Karin's mother looked surprised. The boy in front of her actually already knew the Mystical Palm Technique.
Only, she was very clear about her own condition. The Mystical Palm Technique could not achieve much.
Still, she nervously thanked him.
"Th-thank you!"
It had been so long, yet it was the first time she had felt kindness from another person.
Aoba returned Karin's mother a warm smile.
In Karin's red pupils was also reflected Aoba's smiling face.
This was the first time someone showed such a warm smile to their mother and daughter.
Visibly, Karin's mother's bite wounds recovered quite a bit, only some teeth marks remained, difficult to eliminate.
But she was still extremely weak.
Aoba frowned.
"This... ninja-sama, although the Mystical Palm Technique can heal internal and external injuries, my weakness is because of severe chakra deficiency and loss of vitality."
"The effect of the Mystical Palm Technique is not big."
Karin's mother explained with a sorrowful look. She could feel that her life might not last much longer.
But Karin...
Immediately after, she looked at Aoba with pleading eyes, "Sama, if possible, could you please save my daughter? She is still young, her body has no problems, she will definitely be able to help you in the future!"
Although the other party could also be a bad person, in her view, any place was a million times better than this hellhole Kusagakure.
"Mother!"
Aoba pondered for a moment, his eyes slightly brightened, "Is it enough to replenish enough chakra?"
Karin's mother was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "It would have some effect, but it would only be a relief, vitality..."
"Hmm? Wait a minute, someone is coming this way," Aoba warned.
"W-what?", Karin's mother's face changed.
Aoba again hid his figure, "You two stay calm, I'll handle him."
Seeing Aoba suddenly disappear, the two were dumbfounded.
Immediately after, a Kusagakure ninja with a bandaged arm kicked the door and walked in.
Without a word, he directly walked toward Karin's mother.
Karin desperately shielded her mother behind her.
But the Kusagakure ninja had barely walked two steps when suddenly in the room there came the sound of chains clashing.
The Kusagakure ninja had no time to react. His throat was entwined by a chain.
The sudden change made him instinctively want to scream.
Only to see him straining to open his mouth wide to shout, but he felt something hard was stuffed into his throat.
He experienced an x-throat moment.
A devilish whisper sounded.
"Deep breath—"
"Dizziness is normal."
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