"Oh, oh, oh. If that's the case, then we can fight back, right, Ron?"
Gyuki was still gesturing wildly as it asked Ron, but Kurama turned his head, opened his mouth, and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Whoosh!
A dark-red energy sphere dragged a burning tail of light as it flew straight toward the fastest human-beast skeletal horse.
The skeletal horse's gaze darkened. Its body leapt high, grazing the edge of the Tailed Beast Bomb as it avoided it.
The dark-red sphere brushed past its skeleton and exploded not far behind it.
"Exactly the same as the one Ron fires. Could it be... in their world, this is a very common attack method?" The skeletal horse steadied itself in the air and muttered in a low voice.
"Hehehe..." Kurama grinned coldly, his fox eyes flashing with the light of someone who had just been released and was delighted to stretch his muscles.
It felt that Ron had considered things rather thoroughly. The moment it came out, he arranged such a wonderful warm-up exercise.
Whizz!
Whizz!
Whizz!
After Kurama missed with the first Tailed Beast Bomb, his mouth did not stop. He fired one after another.
Dark-red energy spheres wove into a dense net of firepower in the sky, pressing down on the three figures like a storm.
The distance that had originally been closing was forcefully pushed back, stretching farther and farther apart.
"Didn't Kurama already give you the answer, Gyuki?" Ron stood on the ground and said slowly.
"In that case~ then I'll~ make a move too~" Gyuki continued those incomprehensible gestures, like it was dancing to a rhythm only it understood. Then it opened its mouth and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Son Goku did not speak. It simply followed along.
Copying Kurama and Gyuki, it opened its mouth and fired one cleanly.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The scene suddenly became somewhat ridiculous.
The three tailed beasts were like three machine cannons that did not need reloading. Tailed Beast Bombs sprayed continuously from their mouths, so dense they resembled an endless downpour.
Dark-red points of light carved countless crossing trails through the air.
Just now, the human-beast skeletal horse had still thought that "Tailed Beast Bomb" might be a common attack technique to them. Now, they could confirm it. It really was... an extremely common attack technique.
But this "extremely common" attack from their world was, on this sea, definitely the level of a finishing move.
No, seriously?
In your world, do you use ultimate moves as basic attacks?
If that was truly the case... how absurd was that world?
Especially that orange fox and that octopus monster. Their firing frequency was too high and too fast. There was not even a gap.
Boom, boom, boom!
Endless explosions followed one after another. Rolling smoke covered the surroundings. The ground trembled violently, and shockwaves rippled outward in layers.
The earth was blasted into deep pits one after another. Cracks spread into the distance like spiderwebs. The ruins were overturned again and again, then crushed into even finer powder by the following impacts.
Ron stood behind the tailed beasts and watched the three figures firing wildly. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
At first, the three of them still aimed at people. Once the smoke rose everywhere, they were practically shooting at random.
Rather than attacking the Five Elders, Ron felt it was more like they had been locked up too long and were now venting all their pent-up anger.
However... even without aiming, such high-density bombardment still caused tremendous trouble for the three Five Elders.
Forget approaching Ron and the others. Facing Tailed Beast Bombs flying everywhere, if they were careless for even a moment, they would eat several.
They dodged, shifted, and flipped through the smoke, but they could not find any opening to counterattack.
"Hahahahaha!"
"Hoohoohoohoo!"
"Hehehehehe!"
Three completely different laughs reached Ron's ears, carrying a madness even greater than his earlier laughter.
Suddenly, Kurama turned his head slightly. His enormous fox pupils landed on Ron, and his tone urged him as if to say, 'Shouldn't you move too?' "Hey, Ron. Isn't it a little bad for you to just stand there and watch? We're all fighting for you."
"..."
Ron sneered. He did not even want to expose it.
They were clearly having the time of their lives.
"Come on, come on, Ron. Join us," Gyuki waved its octopus tentacles in the air, as if beckoning him.
What else was there to say?
Might as well join.
The moment that thought appeared, the golden Nine-Tailed Fox rose violently from the ground. Its enormous golden body burst with dazzling light in the smoke, and nine tails unfurled behind it.
Kurama looked at that golden figure and froze slightly. Why could Ron still call on his power when Kurama was no longer inside his body?
But that confusion lasted only a moment before it was washed away by a feeling of, 'Forget it, who cares? This feels great.'
Rustle, rustle.
Before Ron could join the Tailed Beast Bomb bombardment, the ground suddenly split apart.
The sandworm burst out from deep underground, its enormous body wrapped in rolling sand and broken stone. It opened its huge mouth and bit fiercely toward the golden Nine-Tailed Fox's leg.
But before its body fully emerged from the ground, Gyuki's octopus tentacles had already wrapped around it like snakes, coiling around it again and again, locking it tight before lifting it violently.
"Yo, yo, yo, got you," Gyuki hummed, all eight tentacles exerting force at the same time as if lifting a big fish caught on a line.
Almost at the same instant, Ron, Kurama, Son Goku, and even Gyuki itself all opened their mouths.
Four Tailed Beast Bombs condensed simultaneously, their dark-red light brightening from four different directions.
"Delivering yourself to us? Interesting," Ron's voice sounded from the giant mouth of the golden Nine-Tailed Fox.
Swish, swish, swish, swish.
Four Tailed Beast Bombs fired at the same time, converging on the same target from four directions.
The instant those four dark-red trails intersected, white light flashed between heaven and earth, and the world was bleached completely white.
That whiteness lasted less than a second.
Then...
Boom!
An earth-shattering explosion rang out across heaven and earth, as if something had been torn apart at the very center of the world.
The terrifying shockwave swept out like a tsunami, washing simultaneously toward the depths of the island and toward the sea.
The ground was shaved layer by layer. Remnants of buildings were swept into the air, then crushed into powder. Even the outline of the distant hills was reshaped in that instant.
More than half the island was flattened in a flash. The sea retreated in layers, as if pushed aside by an invisible giant hand, revealing the seabed and reefs below.
Huge waves piled up in the distance like towering walls of water, unable to close for a long time.
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