ACSP: Chapter 215: Instant Kill Kakashi!
"Ah~! Why did you break my secret technique..."
Jiang Chen's sudden, ruthless strike left Nangong Fei completely at a loss. A wave of hurt and confusion washed over her, and she was just about to turn her head to demand an explanation.
Who would have thought that in the very next second...
The Kakashi who had just been tightly restrained by her massive wall of serpents instantly destabilized. His physical form dissolved into a blinding, crackling flash of pure electricity and violently exploded.
As his body reverted into raw lightning, the several pythons coiled around him were instantly engulfed by dazzling, high-voltage currents, turning into a pile of charred, smoking remains in a fraction of a heartbeat.
"It's actually a Lightning Release Clone?!" Nangong Fei's expression changed drastically, all the color draining from her face.
Among all solid clones, the [Lightning Release Clone] was notorious for being the single most destructive variant. The moment the caster dispels the technique, or the clone takes fatal damage, it doesn't just pop into a cloud of harmless smoke—it violently discharges its stored energy into a powerful electric current.
If an opponent is in direct physical contact with the clone at the moment of detonation, they are immediately struck by the full force of the exploding Lightning Style Chakra.
Don't be fooled by the fact that it's a standard clone; the electrical energy packed inside its vanguard shell constitutes half of the caster's own maximum reservoir. Once a combatant is caught in that localized blast radius, the raw elemental damage received is easily on par with an S-rank Lightning Release Ninjutsu.
If it weren't for Jiang Chen's lightning-fast reflexes promptly severing the python vectors connecting her arms to the trap, that sudden surge of feedback electricity would have traveled straight up the snakes and sent Nangong Fei straight to the afterlife.
"That was really close just now..." Nangong Fei gasped, a cold sweat breaking out across her fair skin as she let out a shaky sigh of relief.
But her relief was entirely short-lived.
Before the smoke from the detonated clone could even scatter, another agile silhouette suddenly breached the blinding static, dropping directly from the blind spot behind the explosion.
Clang!
With a crisp, metallic ring, the real Kakashi drew the white light chakra sabre from his back with a single hand. He brought the blade down with absolute, crushing momentum, striking from above.
His targeted kill-zone was Nangong Fei, who was still recovering her balance at the absolute front of the eagle's crest.
Nangong Fei never anticipated that the real body would use his own exploding clone as a visual smoke-screen. It was this momentary lapse in focus that caused her to completely miss her window to dodge or weave a defensive seal.
Or rather, the opponent's raw attack velocity and tactical timing were so flawlessly synchronized that a level 69 Special Contractor simply didn't possess the reaction frames to answer in time.
Seeing the white-light blade about to cleave her skull in two, Nangong Fei squeezed her eyes shut in despair. But at that absolute, critical microsecond, a razor-sharp blade flashed vertically from the side, precisely intercepting the downward trajectory of the chakra sabre.
Clang—!
The metallic screech of steel grinding against steel echoed through the clearing.
"Trying to execute one of my people right under my nose? Kakashi, you're still a bit too green for that..." Jiang Chen sneered, his expression completely unbothered.
With a slight, controlled flexing of his wrist, he channeled a surge of raw physical force directly up the length of his Kusanagi Sword. The legendary blade bit upward, violently throwing back the young ninja who was completely devoid of mid-air leverage.
Kakashi was forced to execute several tight aerial flips to disperse the kinetic impact, barely managing to re-establish his footing on the swaying tip of a nearby tree branch.
The moment he retreated, the rustling foliage erupted. More than a dozen ninjas clad in standard Konoha flak jackets emerged from the shadows, seamlessly forming a defensive perimeter around the white-haired boy. Judging by their coordinated positioning, this was clearly the specialized tactical interception squad under Kakashi's direct command.
Come to think of it, did Kakashi actually bring a full vanguard detachment with him during this arc in the original lore? Jiang Chen mused, his eyes casually sweeping across the newly spawned Konoha forces.
But he didn't have the luxury to analyze the instance's narrative deviations right now. The moment Kakashi's gaze locked onto the comatose Rin Nohara resting securely in Jiang Chen's left arm, his disciplined composure completely shattered, panic breaking through his voice.
"Let Rin go immediately! If you harm her, I swear not a single one of you will leave this valley alive...!"
Hearing the young Jonin's desperate threat, Jiang Chen suddenly burst into a soft, mocking laugh. It seemed the old adage held absolute truth: emotion truly is the greatest anchor to a genius's tactical IQ. By barking out a frantic demand like that, wasn't he just completely exposing the extreme strategic value of the hostage directly to the enemy forces holding her?
Jiang Chen looked down at the unconscious Rin Nohara cradled in his arm, a highly specific, infamous internet meme format flashing through his mind.
Amused by the sheer absurdity of the scenario, the corners of his mouth curled into a dark, playful smirk. He looked back up at the trembling Kakashi, his tone dripping with deliberate, toxic provocation:
"You've got excellent taste, kid. This woman... is incredibly moist."
The second those words left his mouth, the entire battlefield fell into a dead, suffocating silence.
Everyone present was thoroughly struck dumb. Nangong Fei and Nangong Hong slowly turned their heads, staring at their absolute idol in pure, unadulterated disbelief, their faces completely frozen in astonishment.
This Jiang Chen had been the definition of serious and stoic the entire way here. How on earth was he suddenly, blatantly trolling the boss of this high-level secret realm?
"Damn, I didn't expect the Boss to be quite the player," Li Dala muttered. He had just caught up on his clay bird when those words echoed across the clearing, and his jaw nearly detached from his face in pure shock. "Saying the female hostage is 'very moist'... Did he actually sneak a hand in there while we weren't looking?"
Ronan's eyebrows shot straight into his hairline. He stared at Jiang Chen, completely caught off guard. He really hadn't pinned Jiang Chen as the type to drop unhinged, legendary-tier taunts in the middle of a tactical encounter. No wonder the guy insisted on personally carrying the unconscious Jinchuriki.
However, the team completely lacked the context to understand his play. Jiang Chen was weaponizing psychological warfare.
He knew the lore inside out. At this exact chronological juncture, Kakashi Hatake's mindset was far from the calm, detached captain he would eventually become. Even though he was universally hailed as a generational prodigy and had reached the rank of Jonin at a mere twelve years old, his emotional volatility was a massive structural flaw. Once a personal trigger twisted his nerves, he reverted right back into a hot-headed youth with zero rationality.
Sure enough, the moment the toxic provocation hit his ears, the collective trauma and desperation in Kakashi's chest ignited into pure, blinding fury. A suffocating, razor-sharp killing intent rolled off his small frame, actively displacing the ambient air.
"You are courting absolute death...!"
With a savage motion, Kakashi reached up and violently wrenched his Konoha headband aside, exposing the crimson, spinning [Sharingan] that his fallen comrade Obito had gifted him. His fingers instantly blurred into a frenzied, desperate sequence of hand seals, unleashing his signature high-tier technique. The sphere of raw, crackling electrical discharge roared to life in his palm—the lethal [Lightning Blade]—and he lunged straight at Jiang Chen without a single shred of self-preservation.
"Hook, line, and sinker," Jiang Chen whispered, the corner of his mouth twitching upward.
Instead of drawing back to maintain the aerial advantage, Jiang Chen pushed forward. He flooded the edge of his Kusanagi Sword with a brilliant surge of his own Lightning Style Chakra. In the next millisecond, he executed a high-speed displacement, vanishing from his position and materializing directly inside Kakashi's flank at a velocity that utterly broke the tracking limits of the naked eye.
"So fast...!"
Kakashi's instincts screamed. Showing the terrifying spatial awareness that defined his genius, he forcibly twisted his torso mid-air, defying his momentum to redirect the screaming trajectory of the [Lightning Blade] directly toward Jiang Chen's chest. If it were any ordinary high-level Contractor executing this raid, that freakish, split-second counter-pivot would have driven the lightning straight through their heart.
But unfortunately for the young Jonin, Jiang Chen was a definitive Naruto scholar. He knew every single frame of this genius's historical attack patterns.
Bang!
The exact microsecond Kakashi's backhanded lightning thrust pierced clean through Jiang Chen's chest, the physical form dissolved into a violent puff of white smoke.
"What? A Shadow Clone?!"
"Guessed right! Here's your prize—have a free sword strike!"
The detached, familiar voice echoed from the absolute blind spot directly behind his shoulder blades. Kakashi's pupils shrunk into pinpricks as he realized he had walked into a definitive bait-and-switch, but his kinetic frames were already completely spent.
Before his nervous system could even translate the intent to dodge, Jiang Chen's Kusanagi Sword sang through the air in a flawless, horizontal crescent arc, slicing his head clean off his shoulders.
Blood splattered violently against the canopy. Kakashi Hatake's head and body separated instantly in mid-air, dropping like stones into the undergrowth below.
[Secret Realm Alert: You have successfully executed the Konoha Interception Commander, Jonin Hatake Kakashi!]
[Global Progress Reward: +20% Mission Completion Rate!]
The crisp system chime echoed in his mind. Jiang Chen instinctively checked the tracking interface. Sure enough, the metric had instantly surged up to 30% Completion!
He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. When they had wiped out those two fortified frontier guard posts earlier, the system had only offered a microscopic 5% advancement. He hadn't expected that taking out a juvenile Kakashi Hatake would yield a massive 20% chunk in one go. The fact that the system explicitly triggered a global notification proved that Kakashi carried an immense thematic weight within the instance's logic. He truly was the legendary "Konoha Technician" who could go fifty-fifty with any entity in existence—making his early execution a massive shortcut for the party.
"My god... Kakashi Hatake actually got taken down that quickly?!"
"I distinctly remember the last time our five-man squad attempted this instance, it took us ages of coordinated cycling just to chip through his evasion mechanics..."
Nangong Fei and Nangong Hong's interfaces flashed with the exact same completion notification, but their minds were completely blown on the spot. They stood frozen on the giant eagle, staring down at the empty forest floor as the absolute realization of Jiang Chen's raw, terrifying output sank in.
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