With a cruel smile, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki shattered the so-called invincible defense of the Susanoo.
If anyone had witnessed this scene, their jaws would have dropped in disbelief—
Did this mean the myth of Uchiha Kaede's invincibility had just been broken…?
Or so it seemed.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki frowned. "Such skillful use of space-time abilities!"
The moment he kicked through the Susanoo's head, Kaede had already activated a space-time escape.
The speed of his execution left Isshiki utterly speechless.
He too possessed space-time abilities—
In fact, every member of the Ōtsutsuki clan did.
But no one had ever been able to wield them to such a degree.
From what he knew of the original history, Kamui from Obito and the Flying Thunder God from Minato were truly broken techniques.
And now Isshiki realized something alarming:
At the speed Kaede displayed, even if Isshiki defeated him,
he might never be able to catch him.
The thought infuriated him. He had finally found such a perfect vessel for reincarnation, and now this!
Kaede floated up until he was level with Isshiki, looking at the ever-changing expression on his opponent's face.
"Are you performing a face-changing show for me?" he mocked.
Isshiki's expression darkened. "You're quite the escape artist."
"Only escaping?" Kaede smirked.
He extended his hand, and several kunai appeared between his fingers.
"Try this!"
The kunai turned into streaks of light, instantly reaching Isshiki's face.
But Isshiki easily sidestepped them all, letting out a mocking snort.
"Hmph, children's pla—"
Bang!
Before he could finish, deep dents appeared instantly on his face, shoulder, and arm.
"What is this?!" Isshiki's eyes widened in disbelief.
He had clearly dodged—so how was he injured?
Kaede's voice was cold. "Your understanding of space-time is still too immature."
Each kunai had been imbued with the power to slice through space itself.
Isshiki's body wasn't severed, but the impact still sent him flying.
"Damn it!" Isshiki roared in frustration.
Kaede resumed his stance, a faint smile on his lips.
"I wasn't even using thirty percent of my power just now."
With a swing of his sword, Isshiki quickly raised his black rod to block, mind racing.
He couldn't keep fighting here—there was no way to restrict Kaede's space-time techniques in this battlefield.
Decision made, he parried another strike, then willed his chakra into action.
Black rods pierced through Kaede's body.
For an ordinary man, it would have been fatal.
For Kaede, it meant nothing.
Before he could counterattack, Isshiki opened a space-time portal with the rods' chakra and dragged Kaede in—
and then stepped in himself.
...
Kaede blinked, finding himself standing on the ground of an unfamiliar dimension.
High above, Isshiki appeared, looking down with a smug expression.
"This is my personal dimension. Here, you can forget about using space-time abilities."
Kaede narrowed his eyes—then vanished.
Clang!
A black rod intercepted his blade from behind. Isshiki smirked.
"You've noticed it now, haven't you?"
Kaede's smirk matched his. "It's got some bite."
Here, using space-time drained over ten times the chakra it did outside—
and there was a strange resistance, forcing him to wait between uses.
It was like a game where even your basic attacks suddenly had cooldowns.
"But you think this can stop me?"
Kaede's Mangekyō eyes shifted into tomoe Rinnegan.
Before Isshiki could even be shocked, he realized—
he was no longer in his own dimension.
To be exact, Kaede had pulled him into a different space—
a dimension of Kaede's own creation.
This was his newly awakened ocular technique upon unlocking the Rinnegan: Mirror Space.
With that, Isshiki's advantage instantly vanished.
Kaede floated in mid-air, nine Truth-Seeking Orbs forming behind him.
"In this space, I control everything."
The space around Isshiki folded inward—Kaede intended to crush him outright.
"Not good!"
In the face of death, Isshiki shrank his entire body to the size of a thumb, narrowly evading total annihilation.
Then, using his space-time ability, he slipped away from the collapsing zone.
Kaede clicked his tongue. "Quick reflexes."
Isshiki's power to shrink himself and inanimate objects was indeed convenient.
But he could only run for so long.
Kaede extended his hand toward the area where Isshiki had fled—
and the space there began to collapse entirely.
Black cracks—spatial rifts—spread in the air.
In such turbulence, using space-time would mean being lost forever in the void.
"Damn it!" Isshiki was desperate now.
He had never imagined that when Kaede got serious,
he couldn't even last a single exchange.
This absurd level of strength… from a lowly native he had once dismissed?
"No… I can't die here!"
Blood gushed from his right eye as he tried to shrink the spatial rifts themselves.
And incredibly—he succeeded, reducing several by over tenfold.
The pressure on him eased slightly.
In a flash, Isshiki stepped out of the rifts and behind Kaede, restoring his full size.
"Die!"
Countless miniature black rods shot toward Kaede, surrounding him.
They began to grow, ready to tear him apart.
But Kaede simply summoned his Truth-Seeking Orbs to wrap around his body.
Formed from yin-yang and the five elements, they were a power even greater than Yin-Yang Release.
Before the rods could regain full size, the orbs shattered them all.
In this self-created dimension, Kaede could sense the rods' presence—
Isshiki's greatest trump card was now useless.
The orbs parted, revealing Kaede's cold, piercing gaze.
"Are you ready to die?"
(End of Chapter)
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