"Hm?"
Suddenly, Akira's Observation Haki sensed something more than a thousand meters ahead. He immediately used his spiritual perception to confirm it again.
Then the corner of his mouth lifted, revealing an intrigued expression. "Now this is interesting. Even at this point, there are still people preparing to hunt me for the bounty? There really are no shortage of people seeking death!"
In the forest ahead, he sensed over a hundred people in total.
Among them, the strongest one had actually reached Kage level. Moreover, there were five chakra hearts of different attributes inside his body, and his entire body was supported by some strange black substance.
"Kakuzu?"
With such obvious traits, Akira immediately matched them to the other party's identity. "At this point in time, he doesn't seem to have joined Akatsuki yet. Interesting."
On the other side, Kakuzu, who was hiding among the bounty hunter group, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. For some reason, an ominous feeling suddenly rose within him.
"What's going on?"
Kakuzu was somewhat confused inwardly as well.
On Akira's side, from over a thousand meters away, he flipped his hand and took out two chakra metal coins. Lightning began coiling around his hands as the coins started spinning faster and faster.
At the same time, Akira shot into the air and rapidly flew toward the front.
In just a few breaths, he had already crossed several hundred meters.
"Not good! We've been discovered! Scatter!"
Naturally, the bounty hunter group had sensory-type ninja among them. Otherwise, they would not have been able to locate Akira's position so precisely.
When they sensed the terrifying chakra fluctuations coming from Akira's direction, along with his rapid approach, how could they not know that they had been discovered?
Several of them immediately shouted in alarm, then took the lead in fleeing into the distance.
The ambush had already failed. They had underestimated Akira's sensory ability.
Or rather, they had never expected Akira to possess such a powerful sensory ability at all.
"Trying to run?"
"Eat my Railgun!"
Akira grinned ferociously and swung his hand. An orange rainbow light tore through the sky.
With a "boom," it smashed into the forest several hundred meters away.
A mushroom cloud rose into the air, leaving behind a pit over a hundred meters in diameter on the ground.
All the trees inside the pit vanished completely.
"Ahhh!"
"No!"
Mud, shattered wood, and severed limbs flew everywhere. Dozens of bounty hunters who had failed to escape in time and were within the attack range were either blown to pieces or left with severed arms and legs.
Those who had not died could only remain where they were, clutching their incomplete limbs and wailing miserably.
At the same time, endless regret filled their hearts.
Why had they come?
A target with a five-hundred-million bounty was obviously someone extremely powerful and dangerous. What kind of madness had possessed them to think they could come here and take a share of the reward?
"Run!"
Kakuzu was also startled by the terrifying attack. Without even thinking, he began fleeing.
What kind of joke was this? If he was hit by that, one of his hearts would definitely be ruined, right?
"Rip!"
However, at that moment, Akira threw out the other coin in his hand as well.
Another rainbow light tore through the sky and crashed into the ground with a "boom," blasting out a huge deep pit. Dozens more bounty hunters nearby once again followed in their comrades' footsteps.
Even Kakuzu was caught in the aftermath and suffered some injuries.
Fortunately, he had Earth Grudge Fear, so this level of injury was nothing.
Right now, he only hated that he had not grown two more legs as he began desperately fleeing.
What kind of joke was this?
This brat looked far too brutal.
Who the hell opened with two ultimate moves before even showing their face?
Wasn't everyone supposed to first test each other with shuriken or something, exchange a few words, brag a little, and then start fighting?
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
At that moment, a series of air-tearing sounds rang out. Dozens of Flying Thunder God short swords were precisely thrown by Akira toward the surviving bounty hunters.
"Flying Thunder God Consecutive Slash!"
Akira instantly vanished from where he stood. A silver flash could be seen refracting dozens of times between the dozens of Flying Thunder God short swords. The entire process lasted only a few breaths.
All the remaining people had their throats slit by Akira and fell dead.
During this process, Akira also waved his hand and retrieved the Flying Thunder God short swords he recognized, wasting none of them.
Only then did he soar into the sky. After sensing briefly, he locked onto Kakuzu's escape direction and flew after him with a "whoosh."
In just a few breaths, he rushed ahead of Kakuzu and smashed down from the sky, directly cracking the ground beneath him.
Akira raised his head, looked at Kakuzu, and grinned. "Yo! Kakuzu, where are you going?"
Kakuzu hurriedly stopped in his tracks. Chakra surged within his body as he looked at Akira with a guarded expression and said hoarsely, "You actually recognize me? Should I feel honored?"
"I have no intention of making an enemy of you. Can you let me pass?"
He did not want to back down either, but he really felt that he could not win.
After hearing this, Akira smiled faintly. "It's not impossible!"
"Huh?"
Kakuzu had originally only been saying that as a formality. He had not expected Akira to actually agree.
"What are your conditions?"
Kakuzu continued asking.
If he could avoid fighting, that would naturally be best. As long as the conditions were acceptable, he did not mind paying some price.
Of course, he did not naively believe Akira would have no conditions.
There was no free lunch in this world.
After all, he had come here to hunt Akira.
"Tsk, tsk!"
When Akira heard this, he gave Kakuzu a thumbs-up. "Straightforward! I admire people like you who know how to read the situation!"
"There aren't any other conditions. From now on, serve me. How about it?"
Then, without waiting for Kakuzu to refuse, Akira continued, "Of course, I know you like money, and you like the process of making money even more. I can satisfy all of that!"
"You might not believe me when I say this, but I have quite a few good things in my hands. I've always wanted to establish factories, mass-produce these things, and sell them throughout the entire ninja world to earn a continuous stream of wealth. Unfortunately, I don't have enough manpower. More importantly, I lack a qualified executor and finance minister. I wonder if you'd be willing to become the executor and finance minister of my business empire?"
He was not entirely joking.
Over the past year or so, he had exchanged many times. Although not every exchange had given him good things that helped improve his strength, some items Akira regarded as ordinary actually held considerable value.
Putting aside everything else, things like Cola from the Pokémon world, various block-based items, and other things were already quite valuable.
There were simply too many good things.
Just the medical skills he obtained from Dr. Kureha alone included many useful things.
If he casually took out some of them and made nutritional supplements, potential-enhancing medicines, disease treatments, antidotes, and so on, a whole series of medicines would be enough to build a super pharmaceutical group.
After hearing this, Kakuzu immediately froze. Then he looked at Akira and asked, "Are you serious?"
Was this brat sure he knew what he was saying?
If he really had such things, why had he not taken them out earlier?
However, Akira did seem to understand his personality very well!
It seemed he had investigated him.
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