Chapter 79:
"Devouring your own comrade to gain power and turning into this—you're practically a monster."
Naruto stared at the transformed Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki as he spoke.
Against Momoshiki's current assault, the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had no way to fight back. All they could do was dodge repeatedly. In the end, it still came down to Naruto and Sasuke's strength.
As for the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, their only option was to gang up on Ōtsutsuki Urashiki.
"Ridiculous. If we're talking monsters, then you and I are no different."
Momoshiki tilted his head to look at Naruto. Even though he was caught in a pincer attack from Naruto and Sasuke, he showed no sign of panic.
"Sasuke, you don't need to worry about the village here. Let's show him what we can really do."
"Mm."
In an instant, Naruto entered Sage Fox Mode, while Sasuke was cloaked in crackling blue lightning. At high speed, the two launched a joint assault on Momoshiki.
Each of them struck only once before swiftly retreating to give the other room to attack, forming a relentless barrage of attacks from both sides.
This kind of coordination was impossible without years of familiarity and teamwork.
"You bastards!"
Finally losing his patience from being suppressed, Momoshiki exploded with a surge of powerful chakra that blasted Naruto and Sasuke back. He then pulled out a long red spear.
"Keep going, Naruto!"
Sasuke unfurled a scroll, summoning a massive shuriken. This shuriken was sealed with the Third Hokage's secret technique—Shadow Shuriken Clone Jutsu.
"Yeah!"
Countless clone shurikens flew at Momoshiki, forcing him to dodge continuously.
After finally evading all the flying weapons, Momoshiki looked at Sasuke in front of him and said, "With attacks like that... wait, where's the fox?"
"Take this! Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!"
One of the shurikens embedded behind Momoshiki suddenly transformed into Naruto.
"Useless!"
Momoshiki spun around and reached out with his right hand to absorb Naruto's jutsu. But at the last second, the Rasenshuriken transformed into Sasuke—thanks to the space-swapping ability of his Rinnegan.
Sasuke thrust his longsword straight at the Rinnegan embedded in Momoshiki's right palm.
"Argh!" Sasuke's blade stabbed into the Rinnegan in Momoshiki's right hand, but Momoshiki endured the pain and grabbed Sasuke's shoulder with his other hand, throwing him aside. At the same time, he drew Sasuke's sword out of his palm with his left hand and launched a jutsu. "Inukaitakerunomikoto!"
A monstrous beast with a dragon's head and a serpent's body, formed from Earth Release chakra, lunged forward and sank its fangs into Sasuke, who had just been thrown.
"Die!"
Momoshiki slammed his hand onto the beast's back, sending a surge of Fire Release chakra into it. The flames flowed toward the creature's dragon head, which was biting down on Sasuke.
"Sasuke!"
Golden Naruto instantly appeared next to Sasuke, summoning a massive, gleaming golden Nine Tails that shielded him from Momoshiki's attack.
"You okay, Sasuke?"
Now it was Naruto's turn to cradle Sasuke and ask.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
Sasuke nodded and pulled himself up from Naruto's arms.
"The Nine-Tailed Fox is finally out. That power is mine now!"
"Saru-Iwa!"
Combining Fire and Earth Release chakra, Momoshiki created a towering, fearsome lava beast that now faced off against Naruto's gleaming golden Nine Tails.
"Keep dreaming!"
Despite Naruto's defiant words, his Nine Tails was immediately sent crashing to the ground by a massive left hook from the lava beast.
"Naruto, I can't handle this guy alone!"
Kurama's voice echoed inside Naruto.
"Naruto, I'll lend you the power of my Susanoo."
Sasuke placed his right hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"Armored Susanoo!"
The towering Nine Tails, now clad in Sasuke's Susanoo armor, rose from the ground. Protected by Susanoo, the Nine Tails not only withstood the lava beast's blows easily but retaliated, slamming the giant beast to the ground.
"You actually knocked down my lava beast... But can you handle two of them at once?"
The Rinnegan on Momoshiki's forehead suddenly turned red.
His forehead Rinnegan allowed him to copy his own ninjutsu and cast them again at no chakra cost. However, it couldn't replicate techniques endlessly—he could only copy a new one once the previous copied jutsu dissipated.
"Two lava beasts, huh..."
Naruto frowned as he looked at the pair of colossal enemies, especially the second one—it was noticeably stronger than the first.
"Looks like it's my turn." Shunhi straightened his back.
Finally, the item he drew back had come in handy.
With a lively la-la-la-la musical cue, a Dynamaxed Snorlax suddenly appeared. Shunhi stood proudly atop its massive forehead.
"Snorlax, let's go!"
This was Shunhi's first time showing off in front of the main characters, and he was thrilled. Ever since he transmigrated, this was the first time he felt even a shred of pride in being a transmigrator.
...But Snorlax completely ignored his command and just kept snoring.
"...Looks like S.H.I.E.L.D. is useless after all, Naruto."
Sasuke shook his head and looked at Naruto again. But even with Susanoo's help, dealing with two lava beasts was clearly pushing the Nine Tails to its limit.
"Hey! Naruto, have your Nine Tails wake Snorlax up!"
Feeling embarrassed after Snorlax humiliated him like this, Shunhi slid down from Snorlax's head and ran over to Naruto and Sasuke.
"...Alright, I got it."
Naruto hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Right now, the Nine Tails alone wasn't enough. As unreliable as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Snorlax seemed, an ally was better than nothing.
With Naruto's signal, the gleaming golden Nine Tails raised its fist and smacked the sleeping Snorlax on the head.
"You lazy lump! Wake up!"
Kurama, inside Naruto, also yelled.
Snorlax stirred, confused, then sat up in a daze.
"Thank goodness, Snorlax finally woke up."
"Snorlax, use your ultimate move—Body Slam—on those two rock monsters!"
Shunhi shouted excitedly.
"..."
Snorlax slowly got to its feet. Its stomach rumbled loudly. It rubbed its belly and looked around.
"Looks like... Snorlax is hungry..."
At this point, even Shunhi began to lose faith in Snorlax.
Yep, better let Snorlax stay in storage and gather dust from now on.
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