Chapter 242 Nothing can happen to Konoha, and nothing can happen to you either

In the nearly closed cave, there was only Nohara Rin tied to a thick wooden stake. There were complicated and strange magic circles carved around her feet. After trying, Haruko found that there was no movement in the magic circle, so she rescued her first.

Without the ropes, Nohara Lin's body fell down. Haruko caught her in time, only to find that her consciousness was controlled by an illusion.

"untie."

Nohara Lin struggled to open her eyes, and what gradually became clear in her blurry vision was Haruko's pretty face that could not hide her worry.

"Haru...ko..."

"Are you okay, Lin? Do you feel any discomfort?"

Nohara Lin, who was leaning in her arms, shook her head slowly and gave her a soothing smile, "You saved me again. I am really useless..."

"People are meant to be useful. Don't say that about yourself."

Haruko helped her up, but kept looking around. Not finding anything else suspicious, she focused her gaze on the magic circle under Nohara Lin and tried her best to engrave it in her mind.

Following her gaze, Nohara Lin also looked towards the magic circle and explained to her: "The Mist Ninja performed a ritual on me before, but I was deprived of consciousness and can't remember anything."

"It's okay, let's go back to Konoha first."

Escaping from the sand castle was not as smooth as entering it. The chakra in Nohara Lin's body was disordered, and even the illusion she had cast was exposed.

"It's a ninja from Konoha, and the captive is with her!"

Hearing the enemy's roar from behind, Haruko pulled Nohara Lin and quickened their pace to escape.

The longer she was away from the cave, the stranger Nohara Lin felt about her body. Her brows were furrowed, but when she checked her body, she couldn't see anything wrong.

Out of caution, she still called out to Haruko, "Haruko, wait a minute, I feel like...something is wrong."

Haruko, who was in a hurry to get on the road, did not stop. She took care to take a detour to get rid of the enemy and asked her, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

"I can feel as if there is another creature inside me..."

"What do you mean?"

"I...can't go back to Konoha!"

Haruko was forced to stop by exerting force on the arm she was holding. When she turned around, she found that Nohara Lin looked very uncomfortable.

Haruko moved closer and whispered her name, "Lin?"

"Haruko!" Nohara Lin raised her head, her eyes full of determination, "Kill me immediately!"

The gloomy sky was covered with dark clouds, and the faint rumbling of thunder foreshadowed the coming disaster.

The layers of woods looked particularly dark under the cover of this haze, with dense leaves intertwined among them and the cold air impenetrable.

As if all the blood had been drained away by the knowledge in her heart, Nohara Lin's face turned extremely pale, but as it concerned the safety of the village, she forced herself not to show any fear.

Her short brown hair fluttered gently in the coldness, and she plucked a tremolo: "Kill me... Haruko."

I have guessed something from her state, but Qingzi is unwilling to accept this cognition. She forced a smile and said, "What are you talking about, Lin? Let's go back quickly."

"This is their purpose. When I return to Konoha, what they sealed in me will explode."

The trembling voice revealed the truth word by word. Nohara Lin used her eyes to carefully describe the girl who had been silently watching her, as if she could not see enough, and it was as if her vision was blurred by the accumulated mist.

Her slender body stood in the cold wind, and her smile, which should have been bright, looked fragile.

"Nothing can happen to Konoha."

The pain of the fingertips in her fist brought Haruko back to her tangled thoughts. She calmed herself down when she saw Uenohara Rin's encouraging yet sad look.

"Lin, don't worry, you'll be fine, there's no way you'll be in trouble..."

"Haruko." A soft voice interrupted her, and Nohara Lin stepped forward and hugged her gently, "I am happy to be killed by you."

In the darkness, Haruko couldn't tell whether the thumping heart was her own or her own. She only felt that her buzzing brain was interspersed with the torture of her heartbeat.

She didn't understand why there were always various crises lurking around the people she cherished.

The bond she was trying to protect with her life, why...

For a time, hatred and resentment towards fate overwhelmed her reason. After experiencing life after life, in the end... she still failed to protect everyone.

The wetness and clarity on her shoulder swept away the haze in her heart, and Haruko slightly pushed Nohara Rin away.

"I, I don't want to cry, it's just...just..." Nohara Lin sobbed and kept wiping away her tears with her hands.

Haruko was deeply hurt by the pretended strong attitude. Now was not the time for her to give up. She still had time to fight for a glimmer of hope for the future, didn't she?

Thinking of the sealing technique that she had not yet mastered, Haruko gritted her teeth and had to go ahead.

"Lin, you won't die." Qingzi activated her pupil technique and stared directly into her watery eyes. "I want to enter your consciousness now, is that okay?"

Distracted by the Floating Eye Technique that appeared in her eyes, Nohara Lin nodded blankly.

The next second, Haruko used her eye technique and appeared in a sea of ​​flowers.

It seems that this is Nohara Lin's consciousness space. Before Haruko could take a closer look, a loud noise not far away attracted her.

Surrounded by the dense sea of ​​flowers is a lake. A giant turtle trapped in the lake keeps roaring. Its body is covered with a hard shell and has countless spikes extending from it.

The attack caused the earth to shake. Facing such a huge monster, Haruko's face was solemn.

The strength of this big turtle may be comparable to Jiraiya's toad. Did Kirigakure try every means to abduct Nohara Rin just to make her a sealed body?

If they were planning to have Nohara Rin bring the monster to Konoha, then what exactly was this monster before them...

Before she had time to think, the giant turtle had already discovered her.

Dodging the water wave's attack, Haruko quickly formed a seal to release the Yin Seal on her forehead. Black patterns stretched out from the diamond-shaped mark until they spread to her arms.

"Sealing Technique·Vajra Sealing!"

The chakra that she had accumulated in the past few years gushed out at this moment, and together with the chains that flew out from her body, it wrapped around the giant turtle's body in circles.

“Roar, roar, roar——!” Feeling the restraints on his body, the big turtle resisted even more violently.

She had not yet fully learned the King Kong Lock, and coupled with the resistance of the giant turtle, the backlash quickly hit Haruko, causing her to bleed from her clenched teeth.

The bright red dripped onto the shaking chains, slid down the hard surface to the ground, and stained the bright flowers.

As time passed, the big turtle's struggle gradually weakened, and Haruko could no longer hold on to the high-consumption sealing technique.

Finally, the chains locked the giant creature tightly, pressed it down and imprisoned it in the lake, and peace and harmony were temporarily restored to the beautiful world of consciousness.

As soon as she returned to reality, Haruko found it difficult to swallow the urgency in her throat, and turned her head to spit out bright red liquid.

"Haruko?!"

Nohara Lin's pupils shrank, and she hurriedly checked her condition, wanting to use medical techniques to help her recover, but as soon as she used her chakra, the abnormal movements in her body began to play tricks again, causing her body to be excited.

"I'm fine." Haruko wiped the remaining blood from the corner of her mouth with her sleeve, her voice weak, "Hurry back and find Kushina."

"……it is good."

Nohara Lin suppressed the tears that were about to flow again, and this time she held Haruko's hand.

Pulling your most sacred care, rush towards hope.