Drip.
Drip.
At some point, a light rain had begun falling from the sky again.
When it landed on people, it felt cool and icy, carrying a faint dampness.
But when it fell onto Ōtsutsuki Urashiki, it was directly shaken into mist by the aura of chakra surrounding him.
This lash—
Or rather, this hook—
Was far stronger than the one he had used against Jiraiya and Sasuke earlier.
Its speed was extreme.
Its power was terrifying.
This time, even if he had to exhaust real stamina, he would tear this strange, annoying brat in front of him—and the space around him—into pieces!
"Careful! There's something wrong with that hook!"
Seeing the familiar scene, Jiraiya immediately recalled how most of his senjutsu chakra had been stolen earlier and hurriedly warned him.
That ability to fish away another person's chakra and turn it into his own was simply too terrifying.
And what was even more terrifying—
He did not want to see this bastard using Uchiha Kai's abilities.
Otherwise…
Putting everything else aside, if that terrifying terrorist attack from earlier happened again, all of them would probably die here.
"Second Brother, watch out! Dodge it! That hook can steal your chakra, and once he puts it into his fish basket, it becomes his own ability!"
Seeing that his second brother had no intention of dodging, Sasuke struggled and staggered forward, trying to throw himself in front of Uchiha Kai.
The person in front was his second brother.
How could he just stand by and do nothing?
Even if it meant being killed!
But Sasuke was too exhausted right now.
So exhausted that after only two or three steps, he fell.
Just as he was about to hit the ground, his body suddenly stopped.
Or rather, his fall stopped in midair.
His entire body seemed to be supported by a gentle, warm force.
And at the same time, a stream of warmth was continuously flowing into his body, rapidly restoring him!
This was—!
Sasuke was deeply shocked.
He could clearly feel the chakra inside him recovering. Even his lost stamina was being restored!
That terrifying recovery speed—
Over all these years, he had only experienced it a handful of times.
Could it be…
Subconsciously, he looked down at himself.
Around his originally battered clothes, a layer of crimson chakra cloak had actually emerged.
"This… this is… It really is a tailed beast cloak… Don't tell me?!"
His mind trembled. He narrowed his eyes and quickly scanned the surroundings.
"Naruto? Did you come too?!"
"Naruto? Dad? This is… Dad's tailed beast cloak…"
Boruto reacted the same way.
The moment he saw this familiar crimson energy, he immediately thought of his father's technique.
But what surprised him was that, during this process, Lord Sasuke's aura had completely changed!
He was no longer weak and sluggish.
Instead—
His presence had become powerful and solid!
"Strange… Dad's tailed beast cloak can even restore chakra?"
"But Dad shouldn't be able to come here at all…"
The more Boruto looked, the more question marks filled his mind.
He could only subconsciously turn his gaze toward Uchiha Kai, who stood opposite Sasuke.
His thoughts became increasingly strange.
"No. Wait. That's wrong. Naruto couldn't have followed us here, so…"
After reacting, Sasuke subconsciously looked toward the second brother before him.
In his heart, that sea of emotions completely surged into towering waves.
How could his second brother possess a tailed beast cloak?
Not normal.
This was very abnormal!
Although his second brother was extremely talented and a genius of the Uchiha clan—
He had never been a jinchūriki!
In his shock, he even forgot that the Kai opposite him was facing the fish hook.
Pfft!
Almost at the same time he stood and looked over, the crimson hook directly pierced through Kai's body.
Passing straight through him!
"Second Brother!!!"
"Not good!"
Sasuke and Jiraiya's shocked cries rang out one after another, almost at the same time.
"Damn it. He still got tricked after all?!"
Jiraiya's eyes narrowed gravely.
If it was only his own techniques, there were still ways to deal with it.
But if it was Kai's…
He did not dare think about it.
His scalp only went numb.
As for Sasuke, he was simply worried.
After his chakra and stamina recovered, the scarlet tomoe in his eye surfaced once more!
Six-pointed star Mangekyō!
He was about to fire an Amaterasu at Ōtsutsuki Urashiki not far away.
But at that moment, Kai patted his shoulder and stopped him with a light laugh.
"Hey, after not seeing you for so long, are you still the type to throw Amaterasu at every passing dog?"
Sasuke: "?"
He seemed to remember something, and his cold, resolute features quickly flushed red.
Just as he was about to explain, he heard Kai continue from across from him.
"Relax. As for who exactly is the fishhook here, that's still hard to say."
Kai laughed casually.
Facing Ōtsutsuki Urashiki's hook, he had at least dozens of ways to dodge, all without any lingering consequences.
But—
He had not.
Or rather, from the very beginning, when he first saw Urashiki, Kai had never planned to dodge.
This was a genuine fat sheep!
A rare fat sheep he had finally encountered.
If he dodged this, where would he find another chance to track him down later?
Pop~
"Heh. I thought you were someone impressive, but sure enough, you're just an unknown nobody."
At the same time, Ōtsutsuki Urashiki opposite him flicked the fishing rod in his hand.
On the fishhook, a clump of golden and pitch-black chakra was pulled out by him.
It stretched into a thread as thick as a palm and drifted over.
However, after seeing the appearance of the chakra, he could not help feeling somewhat puzzled.
"Strange. This chakra… seems a little off?"
The color was wrong.
Usually, chakra was mostly a single color.
But this time, the chakra he had hooked seemed to contain quite a few colors.
What shocked him even more was that as the fishing rod pulled, the chakra on the hook seemed—
Endless!
No matter how long he drew it out, the chakra from the other side continued flowing like a conveyor belt, one layer after another without end!
Left with no choice, Urashiki could only control his fishing rod and swing it around.
Circle after circle…
Only after more than thirty circles did he finally manage to pull out that long chakra thread that looked like an endless milk-tea advertisement slogan.
Urashiki was completely dumbfounded.
"This chakra… is this right?"
"Gulp."
Boruto looked at the chakra that had almost covered the ground opposite him and swallowed hard.
"This amount of chakra… even a tailed beast can't compare, right?"
"This, this, this, this… how is that possible?"
Even Sasuke, who had become much calmer and steadier over the years, completely lost his voice when he saw such an enormous amount of chakra.
He considered his own chakra reserves far from small.
Even if he could not compare to monsters like Naruto, he still believed himself among the best.
But!
Urashiki only needed one hook to fish out his chakra.
Yet to fish out his second brother's chakra, wouldn't he need at least a hundred hooks?
In other words, his second brother's chakra reserves were more than a hundred times his own?
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
He took a deep breath, then suddenly turned toward Urashiki, wisdom shining in his eyes.
"It must be because this guy's fishing rod had problems after passing through the space-time turbulence!"
"So that's it…"
Boruto let out a sigh of relief.
At his young age, he finally regained a little calm.
Not only did the two of them believe it—
Even Urashiki believed it.
He lowered his head and looked at his fish basket, suspicion appearing on his face.
"Could it be… it really broke?"
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