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The battle between Might Dai and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen was extremely short. After all, Dai had to finish his battle within the time limit of the Eight Inner Gates Formation.
He was at his peak the entire time. There were five elite Jōnin on the enemy side, and Dai only attacked five times, but each time was an instant kill.
After carving those words, Haori didn't say anything more. He fell silent.
He walked over to each of the enemy corpses, first checking to make sure they were completely dead, then picking up the swords beside them.
Haori had learned and seen many techniques, but there were even more unknown techniques. Even if someone seemed to have been crushed into a pulp, you couldn't be sure that they hadn't used a special life-saving technique to survive.
The possibility of confusion, of trying to escape when Dai's chakra had burned out, did exist.
But this was Haori being overly cautious and worried. No one among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen could withstand Dai's fatal blow in the Eight Gates state. Even if they really had some kind of life-saving technique, they wouldn't have time to use it with that kind of speed attack.
As for Dai, Haori didn't need to check. He knew the other person was also dead.
Regret? Pity? Sadness? A pity?
Haori's emotions were complex at this moment. They couldn't be explained with just one or two words.
If he had arrived five minutes earlier, perhaps things wouldn't have been like this. Perhaps the outcome wouldn't have been Dai and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen dying together.
But in the world of ninjas, there were no "perhaps" or "what ifs."
In this shinobi world where a single second could create completely opposite results and determine life or death, wanting to gain five minutes of time was inevitably a wishful thought.
It wasn't about right or wrong, nor was it about right or wrong. This battle was truly Dai's best testament to himself as a ninja.
Eliminating five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen single-handedly. What more could you say about this "Genin"?
For Dai in the Eight Gates, the Kirigakure Seven Ninja Swordsmen were a good match. Their individual combat power was that of elite Jōnin, and their combined combat power was even stronger. But after all, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen weren't named Uchiha, Senju, or Ōtsutsuki. So, even if they were stronger, they weren't beyond the norm. They were the perfect enemies for Dai.
No matter what, Dai's curtain call was prepared by the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
Although Haori had picked up the swords, he didn't intend to take them all.
After thinking for a moment, he sealed the Sewing Needle and Samehada, which he had gotten first, into a scroll, to prevent something like the previous situation with Samehada from happening again.
He was going to take those two.
Then, he took the remaining Lightning Blade, Exploding Blade, and Blunt Blade to the rock and began to carve a sealing jutsu on the ground.
The goal was to create a small-scale spatial seal to cut off summoning.
Haori was going to confine those three swords here… It wasn't to comfort Might Dai's spirit, nor was it to commemorate this battle. He didn't think that much.
The reason he left those three swords here was that he hoped Kirigakure would retrieve them soon.
No matter what method they used, to retrieve the swords, the people of Kirigakure would come to this nameless island, to this rock face, and then they would see the words Haori had written on it.
Haori used this method to tell Kirigakure that the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Kirigakure's most famous swordsmen, had all been killed by a nameless Genin from Konoha named Might Dai.
It wasn't to make Dai famous. The person was already dead. What good was a great reputation? Might Dai was always just a Genin.
Haori just wanted to tell certain people certain facts.
The Seven Ninja Swordsmen died at the hands of Might Dai. Whether they believed it or not, the facts were the facts. It was that simple.
He also left the battlefield as it was, without making any changes. He wanted the effect of "When I saw it, it was like this. When you see it, it will also be like this."
Although you could obtain a lot of information from the enemy's corpses, from Konoha's perspective, it was the right and unquestionable choice to retrieve the corpses of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. But even if it was right, it was only from Konoha's perspective.
Haori was considering the problem from his own standpoint. As someone who had witnessed this battle with his own eyes, he was more willing to make a judgment based on emotion than rational judgment.
Might Dai was worthy of admiration. So, Haori's actions were out of his own respect, not Konoha's rules and interests…
In fact, his actions were disqualifying for a ninja.
Leaving Dai's name behind wouldn't actually be classified as leaking information. Because the Seven Ninja Swordsmen were trying to infiltrate the Land of Fire to carry out a mission. For any mission of this kind, before execution, both the ninja themselves and the village had the understanding that they could be sacrificed. So, if the Seven Ninja Swordsmen didn't return on time, Kirigakure would naturally know that they had been killed by Konoha.
Now, the only extra information they would have was that the person who killed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen was a ninja named Might Dai. But this wasn't meaningful in terms of combat intelligence. Even if they knew Dai's name, if Kirigakure were to search for this ninja's information, they would discover that they had no prior knowledge of him.
Kirigakure had Haori's information. Whether it was ambiguous or accurate, they were indeed paying attention to ninjas like Haori. Because Haori had first fought against several elite Kirigakure ninjas, and then killed Killer Bee in the middle of a fight. So, he was a key target of their attention.
But for a ninja like Dai, who was the most inconspicuous, just a consumable Genin in the war, they knew nothing about him.
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Of course, if Kirigakure were to believe the words on the rock face, the only useful information they would get would be the jutsu, "Eight Inner Gates."
Unfortunately, it's unknown when the Eight Inner Gates will bloom completely again.
After making sure that his sealing barrier would function correctly and that something like the Samehada situation wouldn't happen again, Haori had finished everything he needed to do.
It was time to return to the Land of Fire.
Haori moved Dai's body in front of Yashamaru, then used the Summoning Jutsu. Then, he placed Dai and the half-dead Yashamaru on the back of the Yatagarasu and prepared to fly back to the front lines.
If it were just for convenience, Haori could have sealed Dai into a scroll. But he still decided to take Dai back like this, rather than sealing him up like an object.
"What about the enemy's corpses? Are you just going to leave the Seven Ninja Swordsmen alone?"
Yashamaru had seen the entire battle and Haori's subsequent actions. Although this was a matter between Konoha and Kirigakure, it had nothing to do with her as a prisoner. But before they left, she couldn't help but speak up.
You're just going to leave all the enemy corpses here? Even if you're not going to take their bodies, at least take their heads, right? Even if you're not going to take their heads, at least search them to see if they have any confidential information, right?
But Haori had only confirmed their deaths. He hadn't done anything else. This was clearly inappropriate.
"I just want to take our people back."
Haori said.
Dai's sudden incident had made his mind a bit chaotic. He didn't want to pay attention to anything unnecessary. If Yashamaru said anything more, he could throw her here too.
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Although Dai had stayed behind to buy time for Dai and the others, in reality, because the battle happened quickly and Haori was moving by flight, Dai had arrived before Dai returned to the front lines.
But this arrival, for Might Dai, could never be called a return.
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