Kakashi decided to wait and see, observing the situation first. After all, Asuma Sarutobi was not the type to take a beating without fighting back or swallow insults, and his strength was quite good.
Rin Nohara agreed with Kakashi's decision to wait and see.
Meanwhile, Obito looked at Asuma Sarutobi, who was still grumbling over there, with a subtle expression.
Asuma Sarutobi was indeed not weak, but that didn't mean Shendai would fight him head-on.
Shendai was also notoriously underhanded.
Observing Asuma Sarutobi from the tree branch, Shendai revealed a sinister smile.
After Shendai performed hand seals, a mass of Sand Iron floated up and drifted toward Asuma Sarutobi.
Asuma Sarutobi had finished his grumbling and was preparing to go home.
When Asuma Sarutobi turned around, he looked ahead curiously as a mass of black stuff floated toward him.
"Bugs?"
This black mass landed on Asuma Sarutobi's shoulder.
Asuma Sarutobi frowned, touched the black substance with his finger, and rubbed it: "Hmm? Sand Iron?"
Shendai wore a sinister expression and performed hand seals again.
"Magnet Release! Sand Iron Mark!"
The Sand Iron invaded Asuma Sarutobi's body, and Asuma Sarutobi instantly lost the ability to move and collapsed to the ground.
"Who, who?!"
Only now did Asuma Sarutobi realize he had been ambushed.
Shendai jumped down from the tree branch and paced over to Asuma Sarutobi.
Asuma Sarutobi used all his strength to turn his head and saw Shendai clearly.
"It's you, guy!"
Shendai said with a smile: "Yeah, I, with my disabled legs, found you, who is completely paralyzed. We really are fated, aren't we~"
Asuma Sarutobi snorted coldly: "Let me go!"
Shendai spoke in a weird tone: "Yo yo yo, is that the tone you use when begging someone? Besides... I didn't even touch you. I haven't done anything, so you can't frame a good guy like me."
Asuma Sarutobi said angrily: "What exactly do you want?"
Shendai squatted in front of Asuma Sarutobi and threw the coin in front of him: "Here, you look pathetic, so I'll give it to you. Hurry up and pick it up and keep it."
Asuma Sarutobi's mouth twitched.
Revenge came really fast.
Asuma Sarutobi struggled to turn his head away again, refusing to look at Shendai or the coin on the ground, looking like he had given up on everything.
"Yo, what's wrong? You don't like this coin? You were the one who gave it to me. If you don't pick it up and keep it now, you're not giving me face. If you don't give me face, I won't be able to eat or sleep well. If I can't eat or sleep well, my mood will be unstable, and if my mood is unstable, I might resort to violence."
Asuma Sarutobi scoffed: "Heh, do you think I'm afraid of you? If you have the guts, remove my restraints, and let's have a proper fight!"
"Oh? Are you challenging me? Sure!"
Shendai directly removed the Sand Iron Mark from Asuma Sarutobi, and Asuma Sarutobi, regaining his mobility, immediately stood up.
Shendai stepped back a few paces and gestured provocatively at Asuma Sarutobi: "Come on then."
Asuma Sarutobi cracked his neck: "It just so happens I'm very annoyed right now, so I'll take it out on you."
Asuma Sarutobi rushed toward Shendai.
Shendai's smile was so wide it almost reached the back of his head.
Just as Asuma Sarutobi was about to reach Shendai, he stumbled and fell straight to the ground again.
Obito, Kakashi, and Rin Nohara, who were peeping, all slapped their foreheads simultaneously.
They knew this would happen.
Shendai's mouth is a lying ghost.
Believe it and something big will happen.
Asuma Sarutobi roared furiously: "You shameless guy!"
Shendai said sarcastically: "I'm shameless? Clearly, you're the shameless one, right? You said you wanted a one-on-one fight, I agreed, and then I used my ability—is that not allowed? I gave you a chance, but you're useless. Your skin is so thick, teach me how you trained it~"
"I'll give you one more chance. Admit defeat, then pick up the coin on the ground, and I, being a magnanimous person, will let you go. How about that?"
The veins on Asuma Sarutobi's neck and forehead bulged: "In your dreams!"
Shendai chuckled: "That's exactly what I was waiting for. We are still in the middle of a one-on-one fight. Since you won't admit defeat, the fight continues, and I will treat you well next."
Shendai used the Sand Iron to form a rope and hung Asuma Sarutobi upside down.
Asuma Sarutobi couldn't exert any strength in his body now and couldn't break free at all: "What do you want to do?"
"Do it!"
Shendai smashed a fist into Asuma Sarutobi's left eye.
"Ugh~"
Asuma Sarutobi groaned.
Shendai asked with a bright smile: "One last chance, will you beg for mercy?"
Asuma Sarutobi was very principled: "Absolutely impossible!"
Shendai's sinister laughter echoed through the woods: "I love your backbone. It just so happens I'm also holding in a belly full of anger, and I want to take it out on you too."
"Mmm~ oh~ ah~ eh~ hiss~"
Shendai began to beat Asuma Sarutobi in a variety of ways.
"Should we go and stop him?"
"Shendai is in the mood right now. If we go to stop him, he might play dirty on us and hang us up to beat us too."
"Then what do we do? Just watch Asuma get beaten by Shendai? Sister Pakura told us to intervene a bit."
Obito rolled his eyes, and a good idea suddenly came to him: "Watch me!"
Obito pinched his throat and shouted: "Sandaime? Why are you here?"
Hearing "Sandaime," Shendai immediately stopped. He was beating Hiruzen Sarutobi's son—if he were discovered, that would be terrible!
Shendai glared fiercely at Asuma Sarutobi: "Calling your parents for a fight—how shameless!"
Shendai just slipped away.
Seeing Shendai leave, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Asuma Sarutobi was saved.
Because Shendai left, the rope made of Sand Iron scattered into Sand Iron, and Asuma Sarutobi fell to the ground.
Asuma Sarutobi, battered and bruised, took a long time to recover before standing up.
Asuma Sarutobi wiped away the nosebleed that was flowing out and left in a rage.
However, Asuma Sarutobi was not going to take revenge on Shendai, but went home to find Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Why do you have to do such unnecessary things? Do you look down on me that much?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was drinking tea with Sarutobi Biwako, was stunned.
What unnecessary thing had he done?
Sarutobi Biwako looked at the battered and bruised Asuma Sarutobi with heartache and asked: "Asuma, what happened to you?"
Asuma Sarutobi was in a fit of rage and said annoyedly: "Even if I get beaten so badly that I'm lying on the ground and can't get up, I don't need your help!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi put down his teacup and said in a deep voice: "Although I don't know what happened, Asuma, you are really too immature, too unsightly!"
Asuma Sarutobi clenched his fists tightly: "I am immature, and I know you have a lot of opinions about me. No matter what I do, I can't satisfy you. I'm leaving Konoha to comprehend the Will of Fire on my own; I don't need your help!"
Asuma Sarutobi stormed out of the house and ran toward the gates of Konoha.
Sarutobi Biwako wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Hiruzen Sarutobi: "Perhaps it's a good thing for him to go out and walk around alone."
Sarutobi Biwako sighed: "You two have the exact same stubborn temper; both of you are so dishonest."
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