As Aizen in Naruto and Joined a Chat Group Chapter 577: Eriri Gets Ready to Stir Things Up

Amegakure Village’s Angel: Law fusion, once you succeed, dear, will you enter a whole new realm?

This is an Actor: Mm. Once I succeed, I will become the embodiment of law. Though the process will take quite a while.

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: What does “embodiment of law” mean?

Doujin Artist: No idea. Any concrete point of reference?

This is an Actor: God in the Western Bible is an embodiment of law. He created the world in seven days.

Foul-Mouthed Mask Guy: Hold on, so BOSS is going to become God?! Oh, I have a request! Yes, a request of great importance to me! Could you make me one of the angels under your command? You know my image is perfect for the job.

Scarlet Lotus Fairy: ?

Lin Fengjiao: …

Machete Girl: Mr. Deadpool, please don’t. You’ll ruin the fine image of angels I hold in my heart.

In Katsura Kotonoha’s mind, angels were invariably handsome and dashing, with pure white wings beating at their backs, their whole bodies wreathed in holy, sacred radiance. Swapping that perfect image for Deadpool in his skin-tight leather suit gave her the sensation of heaven plummeting straight into hell.

She shook her little head hard, hurriedly banishing the picture from her mind.

“What’s wrong, Koto?” Seeing her shake her head, Janet wore a puzzled expression.

“N-nothing, nothing.” Katsura Kotonoha let out a breath. “I just had what I thought was a hallucination. An angel of heaven, dressed in a black-and-red bodysuit.”

Janet froze, then blurted, dumbfounded, “A bodysuit? Black and red? Impossible. That’s absolutely impossible!”

“That’s why I said it was a hallucination. Don’t dwell on it,” Katsura Kotonoha soothed.

“An angel would only ever wear tight little briefs! And pink ones, at that!” Janet’s eyes went grave, her gaze fixed on Katsura Kotonoha. “As a devout believer, I can promise you this!”

“Devout, my foot!” The corner of Katsura Kotonoha’s mouth twitched violently, black lines crowding her forehead. “What kind of angel wears nothing but tight little pink briefs? That’s a pervert, damn it!”

“W-well… maybe with a pair of fishnet stockings on top?”

“That’s even MORE perverted, hey! Even God would weep to hear you say that!”

“Oh, don’t mind any of that. God, He…” Janet’s words stopped abruptly mid-sentence as a pungent, rancid stench reached her nose. The smell was not unfamiliar to her. Those giant serpents!

Hssss hssss hsss.

The thought had barely formed in her mind when the shrubs all around them suddenly erupted in a chorus of terrifying hisses. The whole forest seemed to come alive, leaves and branches trembling softly.

“Koto, I think we’re surrounded.” Janet swallowed, her face tight with panic.

Those giant serpents had left very real scars on her psyche; the mere sound of rustling underbrush was enough to stiffen her entire body. At a time like this, only Kotonoha-chan’s soft little waist could soothe her…

Wait, where’s Koto?!

Janet spun around every which way, only to find that the girl beside her had vanished without a trace. Damn it, damn it!

The poor battle nun had gone completely blank. In that moment she was like an abandoned little beast, standing trembling on a plain ringed by wolves and tigers.

Shff shff shff.

And of all moments, it was now that the giant serpents, each over ten meters long, burst into her view. Just as in her memory, their scales bore a lattice of red-and-white patterning, their vertical slit pupils devoid of all feeling, brimming with cold savagery.

Hss.

Staring hard at the trembling Janet, the serpents raised their tongues high and lunged straight at her.

Humm.

At that very moment, a flash of silver light burst forth. The next instant, like a leaping flame, it drew thread after thread of silvery-white through the air.

Shiiing.

Before Janet could even react, Katsura Kotonoha, black hair streaming, appeared before her once more, her long blade completing its return to the sheath.

Space itself seemed frozen; time itself seemed stilled.

Serpents and nun alike, everything in this instant seemed held by a body-fixing spell, every body locked in a stupor.

Until the next moment.

Thud-thud-thud.

Wounds appeared across the body of every serpent, spreading rapidly over their entire lengths. Rancid, blackish-red blood sprayed as their mangled remains scattered in every direction under the churn of sword qi.

“Sorry about that. Their senses seem rather sharp.” Katsura Kotonoha blinked, a touch apologetic. “If I hadn’t stepped away for a moment, those beasts would never have shown themselves all at once.”

Hunting the serpents down one by one would have been far too much trouble, so Katsura Kotonoha had deliberately used Janet as bait.

“You…” At last the battle nun grasped the situation, gazing at her friend with her whole body trembling. Then she burst out crying with a “waaah.”

Seeing this, Katsura Kotonoha hurried over to comfort her, gently patting her back. Then, without the slightest hesitation, she snapped a photo of her, edited it into a short message, and sent it into the group with the title: SHOCKING! Why Is the Battle Nun of the Deep Jungle Wailing Her Eyes Out?!

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Pfft! Kotonoha-chan, your capacity for scheming black-heartedness is improving at a truly steady pace!

Foul-Mouthed Mask Guy: Release that girl at once, and let Angel Uncle comfort her!

Curly-haired Guy: Angel? Heh. The only thing you should be released into is a pile of dung!

Pretty Boy from Skull Island: If angels like you existed, heaven would probably collapse for real.

Lazy Kitten: Everyone’s saying Anzen-onii-san was only speaking in metaphor! His power merely rivals God’s, he’s not actually God!

Foul-Mouthed Mask Guy: I don’t care! Uncle’s angel slot is already reserved!

Amegakure Village’s Angel: Keep this up and I’m changing my screen name.

Doujin Artist: Hahahaha, changing the username, I’m dying!

Inside a spacious four-wheeled carriage.

The corners of Eriri’s mouth curled up beneath her cloak as she fought to keep from laughing out loud.

“Mr. Shinigami, have you truly decided to do this?” Across from her, Ashley’s eyes showed a flicker of worry.

“Mm.” Eriri nodded and said calmly, “To complete our great cause, this backward faith in divine authority must be torn down. Otherwise our ideological reeducation will never be finished.”

“I understand, and I agree with you.” Ashley was silent a moment before speaking. “But the War Church’s power is genuinely formidable. We must proceed carefully.”

“Relax. My initial plan is merely to infiltrate them,” Eriri said with a slight nod, her voice soft.