Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Confession
For a ninja, especially a ninja in this era, there is no shame in running away.
Unless it's a feud or a family life-or-death battle, even if it's an important commission, there's no shame in running away.
Except for those few ninja families, most ninjas have no sense of honor. Whether they will give up their commission and escape depends on the size of the benefit and the degree of danger.
For samurai, they would not talk about escape and even retreat.
But for ninjas, escape is an option that can be explained openly at any time.
Just like now.
If they continue to consume tens of thousands of rats here, they will definitely die without a burial place, so running away is a natural choice.
However, how to escape is also a skill.
Just like the one before, he broke away from the team and ran away without authorization. The result was that he was chased and entangled by Kaito, and then killed by Kaito, and no one else could even support him.
So even if you want to escape, you must escape with a plan and preparation.
Maintain the overall formation and maintain a distance where each other can support each other.
Facing the six people who were escaping, Rat did not stop him. He still methodically controlled the rats to harass and attack according to the previous rhythm.
"Run away, run away as much as you want, the rats will attack you continuously until they eat you up." The rats fell far away while harassing them with words.
Maintaining formation while escaping is a kind of knowledge, and it cannot be accomplished by simply tapping your head.
These people are considered elites among ninjas. Maybe they can still do it when they are full of energy, but at this time they are all in a state of exhaustion. It is really difficult for them to escape, defend against enemies, and maintain their formation at the same time. .
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"The sky is so blue..." Senju lay on the grass and looked at the high sky in fascination.
The armor on his body was in pieces, and one leg was twisted out of shape. There was a bloody hole in the knee, and the bones were exposed to the air, with rat teeth marks on them.
It hurts so much, my whole body hurts.
But what hurts more is his heart. The nine people he brought out all died. They had their own relatives and friends, as well as fans who trusted him. However, now they have become rats' rations.
Ah, he also had a newborn daughter and a gifted nephew. He died here like this, never to see them again.
"You are the last one." Kaito came over and looked down at him.
Fortitude is the other of the two earth-bending ninjas. He is proficient in earth-bending hardening, and ordinary ninjutsu cannot break through his defense.
However, it was a pity that he was exhausted, not a single chakra was supplied to his body, and a large piece of his knee was chewed off by a rat.
"You can't run away anyway, so why don't we have a chat." Kaito said, squatting on a stone nearby.
"Why did you start fighting when you came up? If you had communicated with me from the beginning, maybe we wouldn't have started fighting. That way, you wouldn't have ended up like this."
"What's there to say to you, a man-eating monster?" Senju said with a sneer.
"We can still communicate. No matter what the situation is, it's always good to communicate first. If we can't reach an agreement, it's not too late to fight." Kaito shook his head, not agreeing with the point of view of fortitude.
"You attacked me and my rats because they eat humans, right? But, I just let them steal the corpses, and I never actively hunted humans."
"Regardless of whether you kill people or not, monsters that feed on humans deserve to die." Senju said angrily, not showing any sign of submission.
"No, no, no..." Kaito shook his finger...his front toes.
"From a rational point of view, or from a perfect law, eating a corpse can only be regarded as a crime of desecrating a corpse, but it is much lighter than a crime of murder. Not to mention that you don't have a perfect law yet, and you also use corpses to do it. All kinds of inhumane experiments, aren't they?" (Why the Second Hokage was able to create the reincarnation of the dirty land, the social atmosphere at the time must have allowed it.)
"Look, you humans are killing each other, and we are just picking up the slack. For you, it's almost like stealing some money. You don't have to fight and kill as soon as you come up."
"Maybe this is not in line with your moral code or philosophy of life, but if you act based on these alone, society will be in chaos... Well, your society is indeed in chaos. ... If the rat tribe continues to develop, maybe wait until they start If you are smart, it will be like this... It is better to have a powerful person." Kaito said, falling into thinking and mumbling to himself.
"Anyway, in my opinion, instead of being taken back and buried in the ground to rot by you humans, it would be better for me and these rat pups to benefit from these corpses."
"If cooperation can be achieved, such as criminals who should be executed, people who died of illness, or enemies killed on the battlefield, if these corpses are given to us or sold to us, they can also form an alliance with us and help us during the war. It's okay for you to contribute a little bit."
"Maybe we can make an exchange. For example, you can use human corpses as food for us, and I can use rat corpses as ingredients for you. I can even let those rat cubs eat some spices and herbs before they die. If you remove the fishy smell and add in the smell, it might become good meat for you humans."
Kaito was talking to himself. When he got excited or felt interesting, he couldn't help but jump off the stone and walk back and forth.
"Bang!" Kaito raised his paw to catch the resolute fist, and the hardened bodies of the two collided like a steel impact.
Kaito looked at Senju's angry expression and the way the other party insisted on launching an attack to interrupt his speech. He scratched his head and sighed helplessly.
'In other words, after ten years, it seems that I am really different from humans. Maybe what I just said is really too much for humans. ' When Kaito thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
Ten years is too long, and a lot of things can really change.
No..., maybe his mind has changed since he first gnawed on a human heart ten years ago.
Why?
"Oh, actually I don't want to either." Kaito shook his head.
"If possible, I don't want to eat people." As Kaito said, he couldn't help but think of a sentence he had seen somewhere in his previous life: I'm sorry for eating people alive.
"But there's no other way. If I want to live, I have no choice but to do this." Kaito seemed to want to talk as much as he could once he caught the person he was talking to. Even if Gangyi attacked him, he didn't stop talking.
"Humans are an inherently superior race. If only I were a human being when I was reincarnated into this world, then why should I do this?"
"You are born to live for hundreds of years. Even in the midst of war, even in the short-lived profession of your ninja race, the average lifespan is thirty years. Then do you know how many years I could live? Three years, just three years."Kaito pursed his lips and gestured.
"I have thought of other ways. I want to absorb natural chakra, and I want to practice magic, but I don't have that talent. I want to find treasures from heaven and earth. I am just a little mouse. How can I find them? There is no way. This is the last solution I thought of, and it is also the only solution."
As Kaitospoke, he swung his tail randomly, and his tail like a steel whip hit the ground, stones, and tree trunks.
"Huh..." Kaito took a few deep breaths and calmed down again.
Senju had already bled too much and could hardly open his eyes. The impulsive blow just now shortened his life again.
"Thank you for listening to me. I'll send you on your way now." Kaito said, coming to Senju.
"I will accept your heart."
Pfft——!
The sharp claws penetrated the resolute chest and pulled out a bright red heart that was still beating.
Kaito opened his mouth, stuffed the heart into his mouth, and then swallowed it.
The rich vitality penetrated all the bones and immersed into every cell. Kaito could feel that his vitality became more surging, and the life span of this body was increased by two years.