Chapter 364

The gap between himself and Senju was so vast,

it turned out that from start to finish Hashirama Senju had never regarded him as his opponent at all!!

Moreover, the ability Hashirama Senju had used,

he couldn't understand it at all either!!.

160. The Caizheng Force is about to be established — would you be willing to become its Minister of Finance?!

Kakuzu, gasping for breath, looked at Hashirama Senju,

even he himself hadn't expected,

that his battle against Hashirama Senju

would end in defeat so easily!!

Those attacks just now

had already been his limit!!

As for him now,

there was no strength left to spare in his entire body!!

If any ordinary person came along now,

they might be able to take his life with the greatest of ease!!

And in the battle just now,

Senju clearly hadn't even fought him seriously!!

So the outcome of this battle spoke for itself!!

"So this is your true strength…"

"What a fool I was to think I was already infinitely close to your power."

"Now it looks like… the difference in strength between you and me is more than a hundred and eight thousand li…"

Kakuzu tossed aside the kunai in his hand,

and said with a bitter smile.

Recalling the words he had spoken just now,

Kakuzu found them all the more ironic!!!

He even felt a stinging heat across his face,

Hashirama Senju's strength clearly far surpassed his own,

yet laughably he had thought Hashirama Senju was no match for him at all!!!

His behavior just now,

now in Kakuzu's own eyes, looked even more like that of a clown!!

"Mr. Kakuzu, please don't be too modest."

"Your strength has actually already far surpassed most of the ninja I know of."

"After obtaining the secret technique Earth Grudge… the vast majority of ninja in the ninja world are probably no match for Mr. Kakuzu…"

Hashirama Senju spread his hands and said with a faint smile.

And Kakuzu shook his head.

"Hashirama Senju, enough talk."

"When I took on the mission to assassinate you, I had already prepared myself for the mission to fail."

"Now that I've lost to you, kill me or dismember me — it's all up to you."

After saying this,

Kakuzu prepared to speak no more.

On the very first day he became a ninja,

he had already possessed such an awakening:

either kill the enemy or be killed by the enemy,

ninja are beings who tie their heads to their waistbands!!

What's more,

the mission he was carrying out this time was to assassinate Hashirama Senju.

When he came to carry out this mission,

Kakuzu had already prepared himself for the mission to fail,

and precisely because of Hashirama Senju's overwhelming strength,

that was why the higher-ups of Takigakure felt so at ease entrusting the secret technique Earth Grudge to him!!

Because from the very start they never thought he could survive at the hands of Hashirama Senju.

So now Kakuzu was also very open-minded about his own ending,

at worst he would simply die at the hands of Hashirama Senju,

and that was nothing remarkable either!!

Even if he had killed Hashirama Senju,

what awaited him after returning to Takigakure would surely be a vicious battle!!!

On this point,

Kakuzu himself also had a clear awareness!!!

If he hadn't learned Earth Grudge,

the higher-ups of Takigakure would still have believed they could control him.

Once he learned the secret art of Earth Grudge,

the higher-ups of Takigakure would no longer allow him to grow!!!

"Mr. Kakuzu… please rest assured."

"I bear you no ill will…"

"If I truly wanted to kill you, I would have already made my move — I wouldn't have waited until now."

"I still hold great admiration for Kakuzu's abilities…"

"I heard that besides Takigakure's missions, Mr. Kakuzu often takes on some private jobs of his own?"

"And among all the teams in Takigakure, the team led by Mr. Kakuzu… is the one with the most abundant funds and supplies…"

"I do quite approve of Mr. Kakuzu's money-management abilities…"

Hashirama Senju shook his head,

indicating that he had no intention of killing Kakuzu.

"You even know about this? …"

"Hmph… those bastards in Takigakure are always docking mission rewards…"

"A seventy-thirty split is way too high…"

"We ninja who hang our heads on our waistbands go carry out missions, but only get thirty percent of the pay…"

"That's clearly not fair, right…"

Kakuzu said, his face full of displeasure.

At the same time, he glanced at Hashirama Senju in surprise,

never having imagined that Hashirama Senju would actually bring this up with him.

Isn't this dragging things a bit far?!

Setting aside the ability to rake in money,

this was what Kakuzu considered himself most skilled at!!

He even believed that compared to being a ninja,

sometimes he was better suited for a profession related to money!!

But that was just something Kakuzu thought to himself,

because he found that, for most professions,

being a ninja himself was still the fastest way to make money!!

"Money is art…"

"These guys simply don't understand how to use money properly…"