After Kirito got away, he came to a place where he could rest from the rain, and then closed his eyes to condense his chakra, speeding up the recovery of a large amount of depleted chakra for a bit.
He had just unleashed several powerful Ninjutsu in a row, and there was not much chakra left in his body. If it wasn't for the fact that the White Zetsu clone was able to automatically recover chakra, and the recovery speed was still very fast, he would not have been able to support the battle he just had by relying on the original amount of chakra in his body alone.
However, through this battle, he roughly understood the strength of the White Zetsu clone. Without the use of sealing techniques, relying solely on water release ninjutsu, the strength is still the strength of an elite jonin. In the Land of Rain, the strength can be improved by two or three levels.
Even if he encountered the current Konoha Sannin, he still had the confidence to retreat in one piece.
"No wonder Hanzo was able to earn his name as a demigod, in the Land of Rain, a battlefield filled with water, he is also proficient in Water Release Ninjutsu, his strength increase must be greater than the White Zetsu clone, and Hanzo is also proficient in using poison and swordsmanship, so it's understandable that the young Sannin can't defeat him."
Kirito at this time could not help but thought of Hanzo of the Salamander, this Ame-Nin chief and lamented.
Although the current Hanzo's strength had already declined due to old age, he was still very powerful, and it was because of him that the Amegakure village did not suffer a total defeat and succeeded in obtaining the surrender terms from Konoha without compensation.
Unfortunately, the defeat of Amegakure caused a great blow to Hanzo, his faith and ambition began to waver, and later, as he grew older, his strength continued to decline, completely lost the faith and ambition of the old days, and became the type of person he told Mifune in the first place.
After all, he was taught a lesson by the cruel reality.
Who dared not to challenge? He actually chose to challenge the strongest of the five ninja villages, Konoha, and took the initiative to trigger the Second World War. It can only be said that Hanzo back then was young and impetuous, and was a bit overconfident in his own strength and that of Amegakure.
Hanzo has the strength and ambition, but he was born in the Amegakure village, the insufficient foundation of the Amegakure village and Land of Rain could not support his ambition.
This was the root cause of his failure.
Speak of the devil.
A large number of souls suddenly appeared in the range of Kirito's soul perception and silently outflanked him, and relying on his perception of chakra by natural energies, he realized that there was a very powerful chakra amongst them, no weaker in magnitude than the Tsunade he had just met.
Unsurprisingly, the owner of this powerful chakra was Hanzo of the Salamander.
Faced with so many enemies that suddenly appeared, and even the possibility that there might be Hanzo of the Salamander among them, Kirito decisively used the Mayfly Technique to sneak into the ground, leaving only a shadow clone in place.
Soon, a middle-aged ninja with long yellowish hair, wearing an Ame-Nin forehead helmet and a respirator on his mouth, only revealing his eyes and nose, appeared in front of Kirito.
The person who came was none other than Amegakure Village's current leader, Hanzo of the Salamander.
By this time, the place where Kirito had taken shelter from the rain was already surrounded by a large number of Ame-Nin wearing respirators in their mouths.
When Kirito saw Hanzo, he put on his respirator without any panic and looked at the other party with a calm face.
"It's been a long time, Masanari, you've gotten much stronger."
Hanzo didn't choose to do anything right away, but instead greeted Kirito like he was seeing an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time.
At this, Kirito did not feel strange, Hattori Masanari was originally a partner who had played with Hanzo since childhood, and the two had once been close to each other, only to drift apart due to different philosophies and become the opposite of each other.
"Hanzo, I didn't expect you to find me so quickly, sure enough, I shouldn't have fought those guys from Konoha just now, what, you came here in person, did you come to kill me?"
Kirito said with an expressionless face.
"No, I didn't come here to kill you this time, I came to take you back, the village is in a bad situation right now, come back with me, Masanari, the village needs your strength right now, as soon as you come back, the village will revoke the warrant for you as a rogue ninja."
Hanzo shook his head and said something that surprised Kirito.
In the memories of Hattori Masanari that Kirito had absorbed, the Hanzo of the Salamander and Hattori Masanari could be said to be incompatible back then, or else Hanzo wouldn't have forced Hattori Masanari to carry out a mission that was almost certain to end in death by using great righteousness and hostages.
If not for the fact that Hattori Masanari was strong enough and not pedantic, he would have died long ago.
Now Hanzo actually came personally to invite Hattori Masanari back to the Amegakure village, and even promised to revoke the wanted notice on Hattori Masanari.
If it wasn't for Kirito hearing with his own ears that it was Hanzo himself who had said this, he definitely wouldn't believe it was true.
"Hahaha~"
Kirito froze for a moment, then burst into laughter, as if he had heard some great joke.
Seeing this, Hanzo was not annoyed, but just looked at Kirito in silence.
He knew very well why Kirito laughed, in his place, he would probably have laughed at himself for saying such words.
In the beginning, he was the one who single-handedly forced Hattori Masanari away with great righteousness, and now he personally came over to invite the other party back with great righteousness, it was indeed shameful and ridiculous.
But he was also helpless inwardly, Amegakure's current situation was really very bad, right now the only strong person Amegakure could take was him, the older generation had basically all been killed in this battle, there was a severe absence of solid force, and the younger generation of Amegakure had not yet grown up to be able to take on a big role.
The result of this situation was that the pressure Amegakure faced was almost all on him alone, leaving him somewhat breathless.
The eyes of all forces were also on him, preventing him from easily leaving the Amegakure village, causing him to be unable to fully utilize his powerful personal strength.
As a result, he desperately needed a strong companion to take some of the pressure off of him.
At this time, Hattori Masanari, played by Kirito, appeared, and as soon as he appeared, he defeated Konoha's princess in a powerful stance and retreated from two Sannin, which shows that his strength is strong enough.
As long as Hattori Masanari was able to sit in Amegakure Village, then he would be able to let go a little bit and have a big fight, so that the countries would once again be afraid of Amegakure and not dare to underestimate the current Amegakure.
However, he did not have the certainty to make Hattori Masanari go back to Amegakure Village with him.
However, he remained convinced from the beginning that Hattori Masanari loved Amegakure Village and was willing to make sacrifices for it.
Now, for the sake of the Amegakure Village, he, Hanzo of the Salamander, is equally willing to make sacrifices and bow down to Hattori Masanari.
It's funny to say that one of the biggest things this battle taught him was to bow down to reality.
But compared to the safety of the Amegakure and the Land of Rain, personal honor and disgrace were nothing.
In the face of Kirito's mockery, Ame-Ninja were not annoyed, but those Ame-Ninja behind him who were loyal to and immensely admired Hanzo couldn't stand it any longer, and each one of them was filled with righteous indignation, wanting to go up to Kirito and teach him a lesson, a rogue ninja who had the audacity to mock Hanzo.
"Stand back outside, you have no business here."
Hanzo held out a hand to stop his men, looking away from them, and shouted a rebuke.
When the group of Ame-Nin heard Hanzo's order, they had no choice but to hold their tempers and obediently withdraw, leaving the two of them, Hanzo and Kirito, alone.
"Hanzo, the current you really surprised me, it seems that this war has sobered up the arrogant you a lot, it's fine to let me go back, but you have to answer a question for me, as long as your answer satisfies me, I'll go back with you."
Kirito saw Hanzo's move, he quickly curtailed his laughter before snorting again and said coldly.
"Ask away."
Hanzo seemed to have expected this and said with a calm face.
"Have you awakened from your dream?"
Kirito stood up and stared dead into Hanzo's eyes, solemnly.
Hanzo was silent for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh with a disheveled expression,
"Ah, I woke up."