#98 - Chapter 98 The Correct Way to Open the Caged Bird Curse

Caged Bird Curse Mark.

As a curse mark used by the main family to control the branch family in the past, after Hyuga Tianhao annihilated the main family, he obtained the technique of the Caged Bird Curse Mark from Hyuga Hizashi.

He is now the only person in the Naruto and Pirate worlds who can use the Caged Bird Curse Mark and decipher it.

Hyuga Tianhao is very clear about the power system of the pirate world.

No matter how bizarre a Devil Fruit is, as long as it encounters a powerful enough Haki, it can resist the effects on itself.

For example, Kaido and BIG MOM are not only immune to the cutting of the Op-Op Fruit, but even the effect of spatial displacement cannot affect them.

Similarly, Trafalgar Law is also like this, relying on Armament Haki to resist the disease-disease fruit ability of Doc Q.

In other words, if he wants to completely control Kalifa, Jabra, and Blueno with the Op-Op Fruit alone, it's not that it's impossible, but there is a possibility of being broken free from control, and the possibility is not small.

Therefore, from the moment he decided to take CP9 for his own use, Hyuga Tianhao had already customized a set of binding methods for Kalifa, Blueno, and Jabra.

A binding method that combines the power systems of the Naruto and Pirate worlds.

One alone is not stable enough, but a two-pronged approach is very stable.

"This, what is this thing?"

Kalifa could directly feel a strange sensation coming from her head.

"Caged Bird Curse Mark."

"Once upon a time, there was someone who told me this."

"Being engraved with the Caged Bird Curse Mark is not enough; only by letting the person who is engraved with the curse mark personally feel the power of the curse mark will loyalty and awe be engraved into their minds."

Hyuga Tianhao retracted his hand from Kalifa's head, did not immediately activate the Caged Bird Curse Mark, but asked Kalifa this question:

"I'll give you one chance to choose."

"Die here."

"Or, feel the power of the curse mark."

He said word by word.

Caged Bird Curse Mark.

When Hyuga Tianhao obtained this technique from Hyuga Hizashi, he was first amazed by the talent of the Hyuga clansmen who invented the Caged Bird Curse Mark, and then felt that the Hyuga main family was really stupid.

The Caged Bird Curse Mark, looking at Konoha, no, looking at the ninja world, is definitely one of the best techniques in controlling people.

But is this technique used on people of the same clan?

No.

It is used on people other than the Hyuga family.

Especially enemies.

In Hyuga Tianhao's view, engraving the curse mark on the heads of enemies is the correct way to use the Caged Bird Curse Mark.

However.

The Hyuga main family is like the Konoha F4.

They are incompetent in external struggles but experts in internal struggles.

When dealing with their own people, their ability points are full, their talent points are full, and their methods are full.

Once they encounter outsiders, they immediately back down.

"I choose to be loyal to you."

Kalifa answered almost without thinking.

Having reached this point, how could she turn back?

If she chooses to die now, then her bowing to Hyuga Tianhao just now would be meaningless, and as a CP9, she still has some confidence in her endurance.

Being struck by lightning, burned by fire, or cut into pieces can only defeat her body at most, but cannot defeat her will.

"I understand."

Hyuga Tianhao said, forming a hand seal with his right hand.

The originally confident Kalifa's expression changed drastically in the next second. The charming smile that had been lingering on the corner of her lips disappeared instantly, replaced by two cherry lips opening and closing, completely able to fit a duck egg.

Immediately afterwards.

She, who was originally kneeling in front of Hyuga Tianhao, directly "bang" put her head into the sand, as if only in this way could she reduce the pain and prevent people from seeing her ugly state, and also avoid making tragic screams as much as possible.

However.

"Ah!"

In less than three seconds, Kalifa hugged her head with both hands. Even though her entire face was printed in the sand pile, the creepy screams squeezed through the sand pile and reached Hyuga Tianhao's ears.

Seeing this, there was no surprise on Hyuga Tianhao's face.

This is the Caged Bird Curse Mark.

A technique that once made countless branch family members despair.

He himself had personally experienced it once.

Kalifa only lasted for three seconds, while he endured for a full thirty seconds.

If it weren't for his teacher Hyuga Hizashi's repeated pleas, it wouldn't be 30 seconds, but 60 seconds.

"Ah!"

"Pain!"

"Stop, stop, stop it quickly."

"Lord Tianhao."

What is CP9?

They are geniuses carefully selected by the World Government from countless children, and then cultivated step by step.

Proficient in Rokushiki and various intelligence skills.

With steadfast will and strong bodies.

This is CP9.

But now, facing the torment of the Caged Bird Curse Mark, Kalifa regretted her choice after persisting for 45 seconds, but her eyes inadvertently glanced over the unconscious Jabra and Blueno, and then thinking about using Haki to decipher the power of the curse mark, she gritted her teeth and forced herself to continue to endure.

What makes CP9 bow their heads is not some dark justice, but the lives of other CP9 members.

In the past, the World Government has been deliberately allowing CP9 members to build relationships with each other.

After all, killing machines without emotions are the easiest to lose control.

The existence of inseparable emotions between CP9 makes them easier to control.

60 seconds.

It's not fleeting, but it's also very short.

But for Kalifa, 60 seconds was even longer than the 15 years she had lived since she was a child.

When Hyuga Tianhao released the seal and retracted his palm, she was covered in cold sweat, and her clothes and pants were all soaked with sweat, as if she had been fished out of the sea.

Feeling the heart-wrenching pain gradually receding from her eyes and brain, her body softened, and she lay prostrate on the beach.

Her face, which she had carefully maintained with makeup from childhood to adulthood, directly stuck to Hyuga Tianhao's feet.

Then.

Her lips slowly opened, panting violently.

"Let me tell you something."

"No matter where you are in the world, whether you're at the entrance to the Grand Line or at the end of the Grand Line, as long as I want to, I can activate the curse mark on your head at any time."

"Don't think about using any methods to get rid of it."

"This is not a Devil Fruit ability, so Haki is ineffective against it."

Taking in Kalifa's miserable state, Hyuga Tianhao was not moved at all, let alone showing any compassion.

He didn't forget that this woman lying at his feet came to kill him.

If he, Hyuga Tianhao, didn't have his current strength, he wouldn't even have the chance to lie at Kalifa's feet to exchange for a chance to survive.

He would only be beaten half to death by CP9, then handed over to the World Government, and finally end up in a more desperate and painful situation than being engraved with the Caged Bird Curse Mark.

A CP9 who is covered in blood and harbors vicious thoughts.

Even if she is a woman, even if she is more beautiful than Empress, even if she has a G-cup breast size comparable to Tsunade, as long as she has malicious intentions towards him, he will not have any pity.

He will only retaliate with the greatest malice.

Just like now.

Either die here.

Or live and be engraved with the Caged Bird.

No.

Even if she is engraved with the Caged Bird Curse Mark, it is still not enough.

Hyuga Tianhao has not forgotten that he used the Op-Op Fruit to decipher the Caged Bird Curse Mark in the first place.

In the pirate world, there are thousands of Devil Fruits.

There is definitely more than one Devil Fruit that can decipher the Caged Bird Curse Mark.