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The giant snake tilted its head and swallowed Yamato in one gulp.
The scattered smaller snakes quickly reorganized, and although Kakashi was wielding a kunai, he only managed to cut a few.
"Damn it!"
After a few small snakes were cut in half and scattered, Kakashi's arm was trapped in the mass of snakes.
The thin, white snakes, layer upon layer, devoured Kakashi's body. The two of them were about to be swallowed whole by the giant snake.
Hatake Kuroshi had just teleported back to the rubble where he had been before. There was too much clutter here, and teleporting was actually slower than walking.
Taking advantage of the fact that the giant snake had just swallowed Yamato and Kakashi hadn't been fully swallowed yet, Kuroshi took a deep breath and pressed his shoulder.
He extended his thumb and measured the position of the two.
Hatake Kuroshi's hand suddenly curled into a claw shape, and the eyes behind his blindfold became slightly serious.
A pale blue gas suddenly appeared above the severed small snakes on the ground.
Kakashi struggled, turning his face to look at the severed snakes that suddenly floated up.
His pupils constricted sharply.
It wasn't just them, there was someone else here!
Having someone else here at this time, they were like fish on a chopping board, and they could be killed at any time.
Kakashi scanned the surroundings with his Sharingan.
There was no sign of chakra flow.
Although the pale blue gas on the ground looked a bit like it, it was clearly not chakra, even with his Sharingan closed, he could see it clearly.
"Kuroshi!"
As Kuroshi roared, the small snakes stained with blue gas on the ground instantly collided with the giant snake.
Although they were just severed snakes, they were extremely fast and had great impact force.
The giant snake's body instantly spread out like ripples in water, and countless small, dead snakes fell down.
"Hiss!"
The giant snake's golden vertical pupils quickly looked to the side, lowered its body, pressed against the ground, and rolled around, pinning the severed snakes to the ground.
Hatake Kuroshi raised both his hands slightly, and the pale blue gas covered the entire giant snake, like pale blue flames spreading over its entire body.
Then, Kuroshi clapped his hands lightly, and all the smaller snakes that made up the giant snake collided with each other in a bizarre way.
"Crackle!"
All the snakes instantly squeezed together, making a series of crisp cracking sounds, and their heads immediately turned into a bloody mess.
The white giant snake quickly turned red, and this impact seemed to only affect the upper half of the snake.
The small snakes entangled around Kakashi, however, were not disturbed and separated from the main force.
Kakashi pulled his arm hard, flipped over, and jumped back.
He clearly heard a clap just now, and he turned around and threw the kunai in his hand towards the source of the sound.
No matter who it was, anyone who could use such a strange jutsu should be stopped!
Kakashi drew his long sword, cut and flung away the remaining small snakes on his body.
"Ding——"
The kunai nailed itself to the empty wall, where there was no one.
"No one?!"
Kakashi looked at the rubble in surprise.
Then, a strange and familiar sweet fragrance suddenly wafted past his nose, and Kakashi instinctively took a step back and touched his nose.
He sniffed again, and it was still the stench of decay and earthiness in the base.
"What's going on?!"
There must have been someone there just now, his hearing couldn't be wrong.
And what about that strange, fleeting fragrance.
Kakashi couldn't help but frown.
"Bang!"
But before he could think further, with a loud bang, the upper half of the giant snake exploded like fireworks.
The scattered snake body fell to the ground with a clatter, forming small blood pits on the ground.
In an instant, the giant, strange snake was squeezed to death.
Yamato fell out of the broken snake body, his hands still tied behind his back.
Being swallowed by a snake wasn't pleasant, Yamato lowered his head and coughed violently.
Kakashi, not bothering to check those strange things, rushed to Yamato's side.
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In the darkness, pale green light illuminated a man's face, making it look particularly sinister.
The man's face was pale and sickly, and his eyes were surrounded by purple eyeshadow, long and eerie.
His golden, elongated vertical pupils looked at the darkness in front of him, their expression uncertain.
Several sheets of paper covered with information scattered from his hands.
A hoarse, low laugh echoed faintly in the darkness, like a sound crawling out of hell, murmuring.
"Is there actually such an interesting person there?"
Hatake Kuroshi landed steadily in the forest not far from the village, his farthest distance so far.
"It's a good thing I didn't bump into that idiot."
Kuroshi patted the dust off his clothes and looked back at the base.
Kakashi, as he rolled off the giant snake, brushed past Kuroshi, who had just teleported out.
He could even feel a piece of clothing brushing against Kakashi's nose.
But luckily, he didn't bump into his arrogant little brother, otherwise, Kakashi would be sulking for at least half a month.
And explaining it to him would be quite troublesome.
Just as Kuroshi was about to tidy up and go home, a rustling sound suddenly came from the forest.
At this time? Who would be in this place near the edge of the village?
Hatake Kuroshi curiously parted the leaves, and several children, eight or nine years old, were sitting scattered on the ground.
Facing him was a dark stone propped up between the branches.
The writing on it was extremely long and thin, looking like it was carved out of stone, and it was crookedly written in large characters.
"Hatake Sensei's True Face Discussion Meeting!"
Hatake Kuroshi raised an eyebrow, looked up and down at the writing on the stone, and made sure he wasn't mistaken.
What is this?
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