Hokage: Ryo’s Path Chapter 469

Yamanaka Ryo carried Deidara back to Otogakure and then unfroze him.
Deidara was a little confused at first, and immediately after seeing Yamanaka Ryo, he bounced off the ground, reaching for his pocket containing explosive clay.
Yamanaka Ryo did not stop him and let Deidara make a clay Body Clone out of explosive clay. The clay Body Clone rushed towards Yamanaka Ryo as soon as it was formed.
Yamanaka Ryo laughed and did not dodge and extended his hand to point to the brows of Clay Body Clone.
Deidara was so excited to see Yamanaka Ryo gonna be hit with a clay Body Clone, “Haha! Go to hell! ART IS AN EXPLOSION, UN!”
What Deidara didn’t expect was that his clay Body Clone didn’t explode but just stand still, motionless. Deidara tried to detonate the clay Body Clone again to no avail.
“Hey! What’s going on? Katsu! Katsu! Katsu! Shit! Yamanaka Ryo, what have you done?!”
Yamanaka Ryo laughed and said, “It’s very simple. I froze it, just like saving you just now. Before you are blown away by a clay bomb, I froze everything, including time and space around you. And then I used my ice to protect you from the explosion. You would’ve died by now if I didn’t do that. “
Deidara snorted, “Hmph! I didn’t ask you to save me. I dedicated myself to art. In the end, just a moment before my most gorgeous performance, you interrupted and ruined it.”
“Art does not have to be to die beautifully. Sometimes the beauty of art is in split-second moments, like your explosion. But sometimes, the beauty of art is eternal like Sasori’s Puppet. I don’t dedicate myself to art, but you are. It will be meaningless death because you gave up your own art to the jealousy of Uchiha’s Sharingan.”
Yamanaka Ryo’s words made Deidara a little embarrassed. He didn’t expect Yamanaka Ryo to recognize his art and knew his thoughts at that time.
“Why? Am I wrong? Or do you think it’s right to give up your own art?”
Hearing this, Deidara quickly said: “No, no, I haven’t given up my art, I will never give up my art!”
“Yeah! That’s right! Okay, you can go now. Don’t blow yourself up so easily next time. If you, the artist, are dead, who will show the world the art of explosion?”
“You let me go? Why?” Deidara stumbled again, “Why would Yamanaka Ryo just let me go so easily?”
“No reason. It’s just a form of my recognition for artists! Just go before I change my mind.”
Deidara nodded and left in a daze.
As soon as Deidara left, Anko and Yugao, overhearing all this time, came out from hiding.
Anko even said directly, “Tsk tsk, you never know that there’s someone like him that is interested in a guy like Deidara.”
“Nonsense! I just appreciate Deidara’s art. To be honest, I like explosions too.”
“You like that art is explosion nonsense? You really are something. To think that you are actually an explosion maniac… Yugao, don’t get too close to this kind of person.” Anko said that to Yugao as she was about to leave.
“Anko-nee, wait a minute. I have something else to ask! Ryo-nii, are you the one that made the ice in the village a few days ago?”
“Yeah, Now that you mentioned it, I remembered. Wasn’t that like, your ghost?”
Yamanaka Ryo nodded.
A few days ago, his Rinnegan, Korin’s power, and Hyoton just merged, and Rinnegan also transformed into ice blue. At this moment, Yamanaka Ryo has entered a special status.ꟷThis status is just like when he turned on Hyoton at the beginning. Everything around him couldn’t affect him. He is like an indifferent observer that watches everything in this world.
The difference is that Yamanaka Ryo now has the strongest power of Ninja World. With his thoughts only, everything he senses around him will instantly freeze, including the entire Otogakure.
If it wasn’t for Korin’s intervention to cancel out of his strength at the critical moment, Yamanaka Ryo’s ice would spread far away.
This experience frightened Yamanaka Ryo. Fortunately, this situation did not occur when the three powers were combined in the future. This calmed him down, and after he thought it’s safe enough, he left the laboratory.
“Ryo-nii, I saw two silhouettes before my consciousness was frozen by you.”
“Two silhouettes? How do they look?” Yamanaka Ryo’s expression became serious. No one should know what he did to Otogakure at that time. No matter who it is, it should be valued.
Yugao pondered later and said, “These two people emit a faint light around their bodies. They both wear white gowns with black toe embroidered on the neckline. One of them has Rinnegan, and the other has Byakugan.”
Hearing this, Ryo relaxed a bit and murmured to himself, “So it was them. It seems that they felt my Hyoton and decided to come to see the situation. If it’s them, it’s natural that I can’t detect.”
“They? Who? You seem to know who the silhouette Yugao saw.” Anko asked.
“One of them is Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, and the other is Ōtsutsuki Hamura. They are Rikudō Sennin and his younger brother.”
Yugao was startled hearing those names, “Rikudō Sennin! That was Rikudō Sennin?”
“Well, these two people have been dead for nearly a thousand years, and they can’t make any difference to this world. You just need to think of them as dead elders, who occasionally feel nostalgic.”
Yamanaka Ryo’s words relaxed Yugao a lot, and Anko’s expression was not as tense as before.
Seeing that they had calmed down, Yamanaka Ryo waved his hand and said, “Is that all you want to ask? If so, then I’ll leave first. There’s something I have to do.”
“Yugao, let’s go!”
“Yes! Goodbye, Ryo-nii!”
……….
After the two left, Yamanaka Ryo took Korin out of Ninja Tool Pouch.
“Ryo, You need me for something?”
“Did you hear what Yugao said just now? Did you sense the arrival of Rikudou Sennin’s brother that day?”
Korin shook her head and said, “I didn’t sense them, but I saw it. The status of these two is very strange. While Spiritual Strength cannot detect them, they can be seen through naked eyes.”
“Did they just come to see? They didn’t do anything else?” Yamanaka Ryo continued to ask.
“No, they didn’t even come to you or even Orochimaru’s Lab. They are just walking around the foundation.”
“Strange, what are these two guys doing?”
Korin twitched her lips and said, “Relax! With you now, even if they are resurrected, they pose no threat. What are you so worried about?”
Yamanaka Ryo laughed, “Yeah, Right! What even am I afraid of now!”