Chapter 572: How to Deal with the Karma
The Karma used chakra as a data carrier. In terms of pure chakra amount, it wasn't much, but it was very resilient and was intricately entangled with Hayate Gekko's own chakra. Even with Wood Release, Ino couldn't eradicate this portion of chakra.
It seemed that killing Hayate was the best and most permanent solution.
But in reality? Killing him was impossible.
Even during the Third Hokage's era, the Third, as a feudal patriarch, couldn't kill a ninja in the village without any crime, let alone now, during the era of the Five Great Shinobi Villages alliance led by the Fourth.
Once Hayate was killed and the matter was exposed by the other four great ninja villages, Konoha's reputation would drop even further from its already low point.
What was Konoha's reputation like? In truth, Konoha didn't have much of a reputation outside the village; it was full of scandals.
However, in this era where everyone was competing to be the worst, Konoha's reputation was relatively good.
Killing a ninja in the village without a just cause would greatly damage the cohesion force of the village's ninja, shake Konoha's leadership position, and harm the prestige of Minato and the village's high-ups.
Ino was now one of the high-ups. For her own reputation, she couldn't possibly do such a thing.
"Lady Ino, can't we use a sealing jutsu to seal this part of the chakra?" Hayate asked.
Ino shook her head. "Unfortunately, this thing is now inside your cells. Once you extract and create chakra, and your physical and spiritual energy mix, the guy in your cells will get a chance to speed up the data decompression. The ultimate task of this data is to 'copy' you into him, to be revived through your body. At present, this decompression can only be slowed down, but it is irreversible..."
Hayate's face was full of anxiety. "Then I..."
"Don't worry. As long as we keep the decompression progress of this thing at a low level, I've calculated that as long as the decompression progress does not exceed 50%, he won't be able to revive. And below 50%, you can get a boost in some of your physical abilities and some unique abilities. At this stage, it's actually beneficial to you."
After Ino's persuasion, Hayate finally gave up the idea of suicide.
Ino was very interested in the Karma.
On one hand, she felt it was a good opportunity to understand the abilities of the Ōtsutsuki clan.
On the other hand, it really hadn't reached the point of slitting his own throat.
In a way, this Karma was like cancer.
Now that it had been discovered early, it could be controlled in time.
Ino gave an order to Arasaka. After Hayate returned to the village, he could go to Arasaka to have the lost cybernetics reinstalled. Before, she had been worried that his mind couldn't bear the burden. Now, with Urashiki Ōtsutsuki's Karma to help bear the mental burden, Hayate could install even more cybernetics and become Hayate... Smasher, if he wanted!
Hayate's own will, the mental hallucinations from the cybernetics, and Urashiki Ōtsutsuki's Karma could actually form a new balance. Three legs were definitely more stable than two.
Urashiki Ōtsutsuki could be revived in a human body through Karma replication. Could he still be revived in a robot's body?
Ino was very curious and wanted to see what would happen.
She ordered Arasaka to install a "bio-monitor" on Hayate, specifically to monitor the Karma in his body. Once the Karma showed signs of decompressing, they would immediately perform chakra "chemotherapy" on Hayate's cells.
A large number of human cells would definitely die, but the Karma's decompression progress would also be slowed to the extreme.
Ino believed this was the safest approach. Shizune also agreed with this plan and listed some drugs with the same effect.
If Hayate could use the Karma's abilities to a limited extent, his combat power would be comparable to an elite jonin like Asuma. From this perspective, the Karma was beneficial to him.
However, with a problem in his cells, being intimate with Yūgao Uzuki was definitely out of the question. Once they had offspring, Urashiki could get a new clone. Bodily fluid exchange had to be completely forbidden.
Konoha's five thousand-strong ninja army did not withdraw back to the village.
Ino had great autonomy. She directly led her people to occupy the original Rōran ruins and build it into a forward outpost for Konoha.
Rōran was located in the Land of Wind, which was previously the territory of the Hidden Sand Village. Now, her explanation to Temari was "temporary loan."
Temari's village still had a lot of messes to deal with, so she had no time to argue and could only acquiesce.
Previously, in order to find Minato's whereabouts, the Akimichi clan's stout members had already cleared most of the ruins in the city. Now that Ino was free, she used her Wood and Water Release, cutting off all life in the surrounding area, and Rōran barely regained the scenery of a desert oasis.
With the internal affairs more or less handled, she sent people to the Hidden Sand Village to gather intelligence.
Returning to this time, she found that she could no longer sense the seal she had left on Nagato's body.
The result was as expected. Obito had taken advantage of the chaotic battle between the Hidden Sand and Yahiko's group to successfully steal Nagato's body. As expected, he had already transplanted one Rinnegan.
The chaos in the Sand was still ongoing. It was not a good time to intervene.
Ino continued to station herself in Rōran, only sending a mission report to the village via a messenger hawk, with a special emphasis on the problems with Hayate and how to deal with them.
The opinion of the village's high-ups was relatively consistent: to do their best to save him. If he really couldn't be saved and a decision had to be made, it could only be made by the Hokage.
Undoubtedly, the blame had to be placed on the Hokage.
Konoha quickly stabilized. Kakashi, Choza, and Shibi were discharged from the hospital one after another and returned to their posts.
Tsunade continued to identify the remains of the Uchiha clan. Ino left the miscellaneous affairs of the army to Shikamaru and Fu Yamanaka.
She began to busy herself with her own private matters.
Studying under the Sage of Six Paths, she had learned a great deal of theoretical knowledge. If there were a theory exam now, ten Obitos tied together wouldn't be a match for her. However, to convert theory into actual combat power, the Rinnegan was indispensable.
Even Obito had a Rinnegan. Although she looked down on that fool's skills, she had to hurry up.
Originally, Ino's plan was to achieve Kekkei Mōra first, then the Rinnegan, from the body to the eyes. Now that she had obtained the golden Rinnegan, this order could be reversed. Moreover, the Rinnegan itself represented extremely concentrated Yin nature chakra in the bloodline. She felt that if she awakened the Rinnegan, the final piece of the Kekkei Mōra puzzle might be completed in the process.
Urashiki had the ability to upgrade by eating eyes raw. She didn't have this ability. Let alone eating it raw, even deep-frying it would be useless.
The visual power in the golden Rinnegan was too high-level. She tried her old method of using the Spirit Transformation Technique and connecting it to her chakra pathways to absorb the Sharingan's visual power twice, but found that she couldn't absorb it at all.
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