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Why is there such a guy?
Why can't he be killed no matter how many times he's slashed?
Why...
Are you blocking my way?
Uchiha Hikari stared straight ahead, at the figure obscured behind the azure void before her, her Mangekyo Sharingan, shaped like a pinwheel, constantly spinning.
The five aggregates are burning intensely.
For a girl who, from birth, had no choice but to pick up a Kunai and fight;
After her parents died, she was used as the ultimate weapon by her entire clan because she awakened a special Mangekyo Sharingan;
Not only did she lose the chance to be with friends, but she couldn't even keep her own name, and had almost never received an education until now—all the problems that appeared before her had only one solution.
Kill!
No battle, no survival.
However, when an irresistible enemy appeared before her, the fragility in the girl's heart, covered by extreme negative emotions, would gradually expose itself to others' eyes.
"Boom—!!!"
A delayed explosion suddenly erupted between 'Blue' and Susanoo.
Even the clouds high above scattered under this overlapping shock.
Straight up to the sky.
The pitch-black flames swirling around the giant's body fluttered like ribbons in the air, rising as specks of dark flowing light.
The Amaterasu sword-shield, which had collided with 'Blue', completely vanished into illusion along with the distorted blue hole the moment the explosion sounded.
This empty sensation made Uchiha Hikari's heart instantly panic. Her hands quickly formed the most familiar hand seals. As her body and the Susanoo giant retreated, she unleashed a massive amount of ocular power directly towards the direction in her memory.
"Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi!"
A blazing firestorm and black flames swirled together, suddenly covering an area of several tens of meters, engulfing large swathes of collapsing, loose rocks with extreme heat and scorching, from near to far.
However, in the girl's Mangekyo Sharingan, a blurry figure was suddenly captured.
Sawara Kiri's figure was almost parallel to the ground. He had somehow broken through the encirclement of the massive fire and showed a faint smile towards her.
His fingertips, like plucking a flower, held a point of blazing red light.
"Technique Reversal: Red!"
Crimson, suddenly burst forth.
Although it was only an inconspicuous Chakra reaction in her perception, Uchiha Hikari's heart erupted with immense fear at that moment.
The crimson light, which shot out like an arrow from a bowstring but lacked the immense power of the blue light from before, inexplicably possessed a terrifying destructive power in her eyes, as if it could shatter the entire Susanoo in one go.
"Kagutsuchi: Flame Shield!"
Pitch-black Amaterasu and Susanoo's arms were simultaneously held horizontally in front, like a mountainous giant tower shield standing on the ground, completely abandoning all weapons, trying with all its might to resist this seemingly fragile, spark-like blow.
To an outsider, this was an absurd scene, like an ant trying to shake a giant tree.
However, it was just such a blow.
"Bang—!"
This crimson light, representing the reverse side of Limitless's repulsive force, directly pushed the massive Susanoo back several hundred meters.
The gigantic figure, like a god, continuously sank, collided, and crushed boulders, carving a distinct path over that great distance.
Silently, without even a ripple.
Amaterasu, the tower shield, Susanoo's arm, the Karasu Tengu armor, the internal bones and muscles...
Everything that could serve as defense was utterly destroyed by this seemingly fragile blow.
From front to back, a straight penetration mark was carved.
It was only when the crimson repulsive force, unleashed with full power, was less than a foot from the girl's face that it slowly dissipated into nothingness, turning into scattered Chakra.
That astonishing penetration even made Uchiha Hikari instinctively widen her eyes.
This was a scene completely beyond her comprehension.
Neither the Senju, her long-standing rivals, nor the Sarutobi Clan, who cooperated with them, had ever been able to contend with the third power, Susanoo, to such an extent.
Sneak attacks, seals, assassinations, poisoning...
These were the methods those people usually used against her.
In the girl's memory, the only one who could confront her head-on was that Senju clan head from back then.
But now...
The girl didn't notice that as a large amount of ocular power was continuously consumed, her consciousness was gradually breaking free from that extreme negative state.
At least, she now possessed the rationality to feel fear.
"How terrifying."
"It couldn't even be shattered by that?"
"It's too strong."
However, before the girl could say anything, the young man opposite her, who still had his eyes closed, frowned as if somewhat dissatisfied.
This was only a third stage, at most a fourth stage, Susanoo.
No wonder the system's rating for him remained at 'S+'.
Was it because he hadn't truly reached the standard Kage-level, like Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara?
If he had to say, he should be at the strongest type of powerful Kage-level, equivalent to a Third Raikage who had been comprehensively strengthened and also possessed a killer move.
Probably?
Just this brief thought, and Uchiha Hikari had already come back to her senses.
Almost the instant she reacted from the daze of surviving a disaster, the girl immediately retreated, her expression becoming even more tense. The surface of Susanoo, under the extreme operation of Mangekyo Sharingan's ocular power, laboriously grew the rudimentary framework of a pair of wings.
At the same time, the armor and bones at its chest suddenly opened, revealing a single tomoe at the very center of its body.
"Susanoo: Ninety-Nine!"
In an instant, countless light arrows rained down, sweeping across the entire area where Sawara Kiri was located.
This alone was not enough.
The armored, dark-red giant's entire body ignited with black flames, while in its hands, Amaterasu condensed into a completely solid bow and arrow.
Pointing directly at Sawara Kiri.
"Hum—!"
Three arrows were shot in quick succession, tearing through the air.
Sawara Kiri's figure swept across the vast wasteland like a meteor skimming the ground.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Behind him were continuous explosions.
Although his eyes remained tightly closed, his Six Eyes were firmly locked onto the girl enveloped within Susanoo.
Faintly, he could even sense the Chakra surging like flames within her body.
Facing this situation, the only method he had for a one-hit kill was 'Hollow Technique'.
Under normal circumstances, just one use of 'Hollow Technique: Purple' would leave him completely drained and unable to fight.
Even in 'Full Power' mode, precisely controlling every trace of Chakra, this technique could at most be increased to two uses.
Because 'Full Power' itself didn't increase his total Chakra or life essence; rather, it temporarily upgraded his brain from a laptop to a desktop computer, significantly boosting his processing power.
For this very reason, the risk was also very high.
After all, an Uchiha with the Mangekyo Sharingan most likely also possessed the ultimate genjutsu called 'Izanagi', which could completely rewrite reality.
Besides that...
Since she had been sealed until now and hadn't died, and even the person who sealed her back then chose this method instead of directly killing her, there must be some reason he didn't know yet.
Sawara Kiri's thoughts also raced while he was sprinting, finally settling his mind.
Less than two minutes left on the time limit.
Give her one shot!
If that doesn't kill her, then immediately take Megumi and the others and run.
As the old saying goes, A wise man submits to circumstances.
However, just as he was thinking this.
"Ah, no, from Yuki to Tsunade, every time I gave you a strategy, why wouldn't you listen even once?!"
"Please trust me! Just trust me this one time, I'm really a legitimate strategy system!"
"Now, right now! You immediately use your ultimate move and rush up, give this ignorant little thing a 'chu', and she'll be done for, kiba!"
"Use love! You must use love to enlighten her!"
"This time it's a VIP customer! There are rewards!"
Sawara Kiri didn't even look.
With Yuki, it said to do 'bone-on-bone' in the entranceway; with Megumi, it said to 'kiss-kiss' immediately; with Tsunade, it said to quickly 'invade the widow's heart'...
Is this called a strategy?!
This AI's language skills must have been developed by a moron.
I'll believe you when hell freezes over!
"Boom!"
Sprinting, flipping, placing one hand on the ground, his body almost skimming the surface as he moved several meters horizontally, his ninja shoes leaving deep marks on the ground, continuously dodging two giant flying arrows.
The black flames that scattered from the sky like falling meteors drifted apart, turning into a mist that could burn a person to ashes if one wasn't careful.
Sawara Kiri rushed in front of Susanoo.
"Ha!"
The original bow and arrow, manipulated by Kagutsuchi, transformed into a long spear, which plunged straight down towards Sawara Kiri amidst the girl's shout.
Leaping up, landing.
Sawara Kiri acted as if he hadn't noticed the weapon's material, stepping directly on the black flames, rumored to ignite everything, and running straight up the Amaterasu spear shaft.
His figure rapidly approached.
Uchiha Hikari's expression grew even more tense.
That figure, rapidly closing the distance from far away, seemed to overlap with the figures in her memory, those who had charged up, screaming madly, wanting to cut her down.
Fear, hatred, panic.
All emotions reverted to instinct.
The blade wielded by Susanoo's other hand swept down as a heavy shield, but it was used as a stepping stone by that figure.
Neither Amaterasu nor arrows could leave any mark on him.
This suffocating sensation, as if her throat was being squeezed, made Uchiha Hikari even feel a sense of despair equal to the day she awakened her Mangekyo.
His speed became faster and faster.
Until finally, he suddenly appeared before her.
Plucking his fingertips.
A deep purple radiance suddenly gathered deep in his palm. The reversal and forward rotation of the technique converged simultaneously, and under the enhancement of Six Eyes, the Chakra was condensed to the highest degree, to a point where it could no longer be compressed.
Turning into a point that annihilated space.
"Hollow Technique: Purple"
Beneath the young man's tightly closed eyelids, Six Eyes burst forth with an ultimate brilliance.
At this moment, no matter how confident she was in Susanoo, Uchiha Hikari finally found it difficult to resist the intense fear, as if her head had already been severed.
Just standing before that deep purple radiance, her body became so stiff she could barely move.
Almost by instinct.
The moment that brilliant light shot out, the girl's body took the initiative to exit the mountainous Susanoo first.
Ejecting from the cockpit.
The next moment.
"Zing."
Like a fast-played string coming to a rest, or a sudden downpour stopping and dark clouds dispersing.
The world, which had been filled with various sounds just a second ago, seemed to suddenly fall into an inexplicable stillness at this moment. Everything before her eyes seemed to be decomposed into block-like particles, beginning to shift based on space.
Uchiha Hikari maintained the posture of falling backward as she exited Susanoo.
In the girl's Mangekyo Sharingan, the incredible scene before her was clearly reflected.
—On the torso of the god-like Susanoo standing in place, a tunnel-like void suddenly appeared, starting from the front of the raised tower shield and spear shaft, 貫穿 straight through to the back. Both the flames of Amaterasu and the body constructed by the third power seemed to have vanished into thin air, like strokes erased by an eraser.
It was as if it had been erased from the very fabric of space by some terrifying power.
The girl remained wide-eyed.
Inconceivable.
Is this really something a human can do?
Just as this thought suddenly popped into Uchiha Hikari's mind.
A figure suddenly appearing before her made her mind instantly go blank.
Sawara Kiri's eyes were still tightly closed, but his brows were furrowed, as if bearing some immense pressure. His large hand was firmly locked around the girl's neck, and he suddenly swept through several hundred meters in mid-air.
Dust billowed, tracing a path.
The two, carried at an unimaginably high speed across a great distance, finally slammed heavily into a distant, shattered mountain, which had been broken at some unknown time.
Uchiha Hikari, her neck locked, was already off the ground, her throat constricted, completely unable to breathe.
Even though her hands tightly clutched the man's arm, her palms, the moment they touched a certain inch, could no longer advance, to the point where she couldn't even feel the friction between her palms, unable to exert any force at all.
"Guh...Wahhh..."
Uchiha Hikari struggled to widen her eyes, staring fixedly at this nameless man.
Continuous Amaterasu was released from the void, but it couldn't even touch a single corner of his clothes.
The girl's slender legs kicked desperately in the air.
Damn it.
Am I going to die again?
Pain, despair, unwillingness.
Ultimately, it formed a fixed cycle between killing and being killed, repeating endlessly.
But, she couldn't resist.
It seemed that from the moment she awakened this cursed eye called 'Mangekyo', from the moment she lost her name, all of this became a fixed fate.
There was simply no choice.
For her, the only thing worth celebrating was that she had a lot of ocular power needed to cast Izanagi and alter reality.
That deep sorrow and pain surged into the deepest part of her heart like a tide.
Uchiha Hikari opened her mouth with difficulty:
"Izan..."
However, before she could finish casting the technique.
The young man, who was so close, maintained his chokehold. His expression seemed to hesitate for a long time, or perhaps only for a second or two.
For some unknown reason, he suddenly leaned down.
The next moment.
Something cool suddenly lightly tapped the girl's fair forehead.
"..."
"Eh?"
Uchiha Hikari's expression couldn't help but freeze. She looked blankly at the young man in front of her, her facial muscles seemingly stiff, gazing at him in disbelief.
Deep within those dim and crimson eyes was a sluggishness of countless incomprehensible thoughts intertwined.
Then she stared intently at him, as if to completely imprint this unfamiliar face into the deepest part of her memory labyrinth.
Why...?
That was clearly something only Daddy and Mommy...
At the same time.
Sawara Kiri also looked at her with a bewildered expression, his face subtle and complex, yet also as if he couldn't fully comprehend it at all.
If it weren't for that 'Hollow Technique' missing earlier, he wouldn't have resorted to that artificial intelligence's so-called strategy in such an extreme situation.
But now, looking at this situation...?
"Sawara Friend Account: Character 'Uchiha Hikari' absorbed"
"Bond Level Increased ↑"
"Uchiha Hikari Bond Level: Zero → Three → One → Three → ??"
"Uchiha Hikari's Shallow Emotional Entanglement (Completed)"
"Details: What does 'love' mean?"
"Emotional Entanglement Points +1"
"Obtained Special Item: All-Purpose Capsule x3"
"Information Localization Complete"
He looked at these lines of text, which scrolled across the screen like snowflakes, and for a moment, he was speechless.
No, System sis.
Is this damn thing you're talking about really a strategy?
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