27 Be my teacher!

After making sure that Haku and the cloud foxes were keeping mother and daughter under control, I prepared to test the unique weapon I possessed.

I entered the same machine room I used to move the Sky Island, but this time, I headed to a different control platform even though it shares the central battery.

This place was not only a safe location to have my home, but it could also be used as a weather weapon by causing different changes in the climate, as long as there was enough energy and the relevant knowledge.

I could even make it snow in the warm village of Sunagakure if I felt like it! That could give them quite a scare, added to the list of things to do another day...

I began operating the machinery, and the sound of thunder reverberated through the sky of Kusagakure as dark clouds began to emerge from the Sky Island like smoke from a chimney.

It's important to note that this was not only the same system that Enel's Ark had but had also been combined with other elements that elevated this creation to a whole new level, such as the weather knowledge from Weatheria.

It only took me about ten minutes to finish setting everything up since it was the first time I operated such a complex machine, and I had to make constant adjustments to get things back on the right track.

People on the ground looked on in confusion at the sudden bad weather; it was as if their day couldn't get any worse.

How wrong they were.

I had to supply a considerable amount of electricity because my goal was not to create a simple storm; I wanted thunderstorms with lightning bolts several meters thick instead of raindrops.

With my current capacity, this was impossible. So first, I charged the central battery to its maximum capacity and took a short break before preparing for the second assault.

Thank goodness Kusagakure was a relatively small village; otherwise, my current power wouldn't be enough, and the machinery would have to wait to be optimized by me in the future.

When the indicators surpassed the green line and started reaching the orange line, I placed my hand on the large red button after lifting the glass cover that protected it from being pressed accidentally.

The machine room was vibrating slightly, and when the indicator reached the red zone, I pressed the button with my thumb.

A large amount of electricity was discharged into the gathered dark clouds, and a massive electric sphere of considerable size, about thirty percent larger than the village below, began to form.

As the sphere descended slowly, the people below continued cleaning up debris and rescuing the wounded with medical ninjutsu. They searched for Mariko, and some even wanted to attack Karin given the desperate situation, but when they discovered that both of them had disappeared just like the supplies, they could only curse.

"I see a light," a badly injured ninja, missing an arm and seemingly having lost a lot of blood, raised his remaining arm to try to reach the light trapped in his vision.

"Don't go towards the light, stay with me!" shouted the medical ninja as he saw his patient seemingly worsening suddenly with hallucinations.

"It's not necessary," the injured ninja told him as he pointed to the dark sky. "The light is coming towards me, so beautiful..."

The medic suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Since when is the afterlife light so impatient that it has to move itself?

Where was its dignity as the unmovable and unreachable light until the last breath?

He had a palpitation and raised his head stiffly to look up at the same sky as his patient.

"We're screwed," were the last words he would ever say.

...One month later...

A piece of news spread through the ninja world, plunging the villages into chaos when the information was confirmed by their own people.

Kusagakure had been wiped off the map overnight.

In the place where the village once stood, there was now only a semispherical depression with a large number of burns and carbonized remains.

It took three days to discover the situation because a merchant who went to deliver goods to the village couldn't find it, thinking he had made a mistake. But after several rounds, he always ended up in the same desolate place, and if it weren't for some ruins deep within the depression, he might have thought it was all a dream.

Everyone was trying to figure out who the culprit was, how they did it, and, more importantly, how to prevent it from happening to them.

Some believed that due to its size, maybe a meteor had fallen from the sky and struck the unfortunate village, but they didn't find space rocks at the site, and the only strange thing was some reports from meteorologists that they ignored without a second thought.

Meanwhile, the true culprit was busy making adjustments to the uniforms. While everyone liked the design, Enel was not a professional designer, and even though the machine was excellent, some adjustments were needed in areas that turned out to be a bit uncomfortable.

The good part was that I only needed to correct those points about four times to reach the final version, which everyone received, including Mariko and Karin.

Enel deliberately stayed away so that he wouldn't be asked if they were dead. He didn't want to go through that again and let Haku and her positivity act as the village's guide.

Mariko was immensely relieved to see that she hadn't been deceived and took her new job as a teacher very seriously for teachings on chakra theory and fundamental knowledge like mathematics, reading, and writing.

For practical training, Haku had Pakura as a teacher, and Kimimaro was in the same situation with Ameyuri, who ended up approving of the boy's talent and determination. Seeing the situation, Karin gathered her courage to ask Enel to be her teacher, but both she and her mother were stunned when they heard from his lips that he had no chakra.

Mariko, in particular, almost went into shock because with her education, she knew that any living being had chakra. The fact that Enel didn't even have chakra pathways should have been impossible, but he was right there, eating an apple while lying comfortably in the clouds.

So how did he do those things?

Where did this cloud island come from?

The number of questions in her mind was huge, but curiosity is not always appropriate, so she wisely decided to bury her doubts deep within her mind.

Unexpectedly, Karin still insisted on having Enel as her teacher.

But not to become a ninja, but to learn medicine from him. It turned out that the moment he saved her mother was etched in her memory, and she thought medical arts were great.

In the end, Enel agreed to teach her about medicine while Ameyuri got another student.