Regarding Susanoo, Minato had heard the Third Hokage mention it before.
"The strongest power of the Uchiha clan, the sky-destroying, earth-shattering azure giant, that is the power Uchiha Madara possessed."
But "azure giant" and stuff… Minato always thought that was just exaggerated legend.
After all, in the ninja world, exaggerated descriptions of the strong, especially the deceased strong, were never anything rare.
Just like a lot of people still say the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, could clap his hands and summon whatever he wanted… Minato felt, how could something like that be possible.
Until today, when he personally witnessed the bristling, ready-to-kill Susanoo, its massive, suffocating body, and the nearly tangible oppression that came with it.
Akimichi Choza's mouth hung wide, "Hey… this kind of thing is actually real? Isn't it a genjutsu?"
Aburame Shibi didn't speak. He lowered his head and looked at the little bug on the back of his hand, curled up into a ball.
It was afraid.
"Sigh,"
A sigh appeared.
Inside that sigh was the kind of proud tone like a wife complaining that her husband bought too many designer bags, so many she didn't even know which one to take out when leaving the house.
The Queen of Roran softly said, "Everything you've done is within Crow's calculations."
"Invincible foresight, and an even more invincible power, you have no chance of winning. I'm advising you for your own good."
"We really don't want to cause trouble."
After speaking, she smiled again, shook her head, sighed, that expression, that attitude, was just like looking at a group of mischievous children.
"Trouble?"
Sara's slightly trembling voice cut off the Queen of Roran's arrogant sigh.
As a mother, she could tell, her daughter's trembling wasn't fear, but, an excitement she couldn't hide.
Sara pointed forward, "Who's the trouble?"
BOOM!
Everyone sharply looked at where she was pointing.
And they saw that the moment before, Ryosuke had still been floating in the air, but at some unknown point, he had already reached Susanoo's front.
That straight, heavy long blade tore through the Dragon Vein armor and Susanoo's defense like ripping apart cloth.
The Queen of Roran fell silent.
Minato and the others stared at the scene in disbelief.
Everyone's minds went blank, falling into a brief dead silence.
Amid that silence, Ryosuke slowly pulled out the Ruin Greatsword. The "zzz, zzz" scraping sound of the blade against the Dragon Vein armor was extremely grating.
'Spent three years just to make himself a turtle shell… definitely something Itachi would do.'
Ryosuke thought to himself.
He now had a rough idea of the hardness of the Dragon Vein armor and the complete-body Susanoo.
Susanoo was the Uchiha's strongest power.
The Dragon Vein was a power even Ryosuke had to handle cautiously when absorbing.
Plus the life force of over 100,000 people from Roran.
The product of these three combined, there's no way it would be useless.
The strike that pierced the Dragon Vein armor was the opening he created by activating time stop and working together with Star Platinum.
Even so, it was still slightly lacking, he was only a few centimeters short of wounding Itachi.
Plus, after Ryosuke pulled the blade out, the fracture on Susanoo and the Dragon Vein armor rapidly regenerated, disappearing in an instant.
Ryosuke came to a conclusion.
"A turtle shell with super-speed regeneration."
He glanced at Susanoo's Totsuka Sword and Yata Mirror and added, "And he's running a sword-and-shield build… low attack, high defense, high regen. Completely opposite of a ninja. Hard to deal with, but not impossible."
From round one of testing, Ryosuke already had an idea. His gaze passed through the not-yet-closed crack and met Uchiha Itachi's eyes.
Ryosuke slowly raised his hand.
Itachi instinctively shrank back, but no further attack came.
Ryosuke simply pointed at Itachi, then pointed upward.
"Let's fight outside."
The Queen of Roran had jumped straight into this pig-slaughter romance scam, but the people of the entire Roran Kingdom didn't need to pay for her stupidity.
Right now, the power of the Dragon Vein in a radius of hundreds of kilometers had already been drawn here.
If the fight continued, the aftershocks between Ryosuke and Itachi could very well detonate the Dragon Vein and blow Roran Kingdom into the sky.
Ryosuke's thought was very simple, 'Aren't you the one who wants to fight?'
'Haven't you been holding it in for three years?'
'Now that the three-year date is up, let's go outside, fight with real blades, real killing intent, whoever dies, dies. No excuses.'
But Itachi didn't want to go up.
Ryosuke and Uchiha Itachi both could control the Dragon Vein.
Ryosuke relied on the White Snake Sage's Dragon Pill.
Itachi relied on the control array (heart-shaped) the Roran Queen set inside his body.
After all, the ancient country of Roran had controlled the Dragon Vein for generations. Itachi's control would naturally be stronger than Ryosuke's.
His recovery and combat ability were at their strongest underground. Of course he didn't want to go up.
Except…
Ryosuke wasn't asking for Itachi's opinion.
"From this moment on… gravity is going to reverse."
"New Moon."
After a brief silence, this underground base suddenly erupted with a roar, the rock layers overhead shattered and collapsed.
The steel reinforcement structures securing the Dragon Vein armor twisted and snapped like crunchy biscuits.
A huge amount of machinery, documents, and clutter were swept up like they were caught in a violent storm.
Everything described above seemed to be grabbed by a giant hand, bundled around Susanoo, and blasted through the ground.
At this moment, the people of Roran witnessed a scene they would never forget in their lives.
Countless debris, stones, and Susanoo itself erupted from the earth like a volcanic explosion, shooting toward the sky.
A child standing on his balcony counting stars stared dumbfounded at the flying debris, slowly opened his mouth, and shouted into the house, "Mom! The ground…"
"Got diarrhea!"
Chaotic rocks and debris slammed into Susanoo, making Itachi's vision a mess. He couldn't tell where Ryosuke's next attack would come from.
Luckily, he still had his father's eyes.
Heavenly Transmission Technique.
The Yata Mirror suddenly lifted, blocking Ryosuke's downward strike.
A thunderous explosion echoed across the night sky, the shockwave blasting outward and shattering glass across over a dozen streets.
Whoosh!
Susanoo spread its steel wings, the howling wind blowing away the debris around it. A pair of orange-red eyes coldly stared at Ryosuke floating in front of him.
Heavenly Transmission Technique, lock-on complete.
Countless fragmented pieces of information flooded in, undergoing backstage deduction under the Mangekyō's ability, constantly updating Uchiha Itachi's tactical options.
"I see it now."
Uchiha Itachi held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other and said, "Ryosuke, from the moment you failed to kill me the instant we met, you already stepped onto the path of defeat."
Because he traveled through time, Heavenly Transmission Technique couldn't lock onto Ryosuke at all.
So Itachi couldn't know when Ryosuke would arrive, nor could he prepare tactics in advance.
But now it was different.
As they met, the time-space barrier gradually faded. The longer they fought and clashed, the more Itachi could deduce Ryosuke's every move in battle.
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