Chapter 242: The Reality One Can Never Escape
What the hell is Killerdio?
Oh wait… that Dio? Okay, that explains everything.
After a brief mental turn, Shiromo understood the change in Killer B of this world.
"Brother, are my eight tails still not enough to fill the emptiness in your heart? Are my thick, powerful arms of the Lariat still not enough?! Why are you still looking for others?!"
After landing on the ground, Killerdio immediately burst into manly tears, his eight octopus tails swaying as he cried out to [Raikage A] with a face full of grief.
"Get lost! Put those tails away. They make me sick!"
[Raikage A] angrily kicked Killerdio aside.
Clearly, the [Raikage A] of this world was merely bisexual, not a furry enthusiast.
"Wait."
Seeing his brother looking pitiful as he actually prepared to retract his tails, [Raikage A] suddenly stopped him.
"Brother, have you changed your mind?!"
Killerdio was overjoyed.
"No. Now is the time to use your power."
[Raikage A] pointed at Shiromo and the other two, "The three of them stole the Two-Tails, caused Yugito's death, and even insulted me. Insulting me is insulting the Kumogakure Village. That is unforgivable!"
"What?! You brazen villains! How dare you insult my brother?! I'll crush you all…"
Killerdio erupted in fury, Tailed Beast chakra exploding from his body.
Boom~
Killerdio, who had just begun unleashing his chakra, was sent flying by a punch from Uchiha Hikari's Susanoo arm.
At the same time, she and [Konan] pursued him.
The moment her strike connected, half of her objective had already been accomplished.
The Yachihoko mark had been planted. What remained was absorption and conversion.
It was simply a rather lengthy process.
"Looks like you've divided the roles. You're staying behind to fight me? Don't you dare run!"
[Raikage A] covered himself in Lightning Release chakra again, and clenched fists.
"Forget it. As long as you don't run."
Shiromo waved his hand dismissively.
"What? …Hm? Wait!"
[Raikage A] had just begun to respond when he suddenly sensed something wrong.
On the other side, where his brother Killerdio had been knocked away for battle, why was everything so quiet?
Shouldn't a clash involving a Tailed Beast produce massive disturbances?
[Raikage A] hurriedly looked over.
All he saw was crimson Tailed Beast chakra raging wildly through the air.
Killerdio himself, who had long since mastered the Tailed Beast's power, was nowhere to be seen.
'They are stealing the Tailed Beast's power?!'
Shock and fury surged through [Raikage A]. He had not expected the enemy's ability to seize Tailed Beast chakra to be so effortless.
It was as if they were the natural nemesis of Tailed Beasts.
Killerdio couldn't resist at all?
So this was the kind of enemy Yugito had faced.
No wonder she had fallen so quickly.
"Dio, I'm coming!"
Without hesitation, [Raikage A] charged toward the direction Uchiha Hikari had gone.
Whoosh!
"Nani?!"
[Raikage A] abruptly halted mid-sprint.
In horror, he realized that after rushing forward at his unrivaled speed for several seconds…
…he had somehow returned to his original position.
"You've already fallen under my Infinite Loop forbidden technique. You will never reach the reality of leaving this area."
Shiromo sat down casually on the ground, speaking calmly to [Raikage A] not far away.
"Nani? Impossible!"
[Raikage A] unwilling to believe it burst forward again.
Time stopped.
Shiromo stood up, carried [Raikage A] back to his original position, returned, and sat down.
Then time resumed.
"Nani?!"
Seeing himself once more at the starting point, [Raikage A]'s fury shifted into fear.
What Shiromo had said…
…was true.
The opponent truly possessed such a terrifying ninjutsu?
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible!"
Refusing to accept reality, [Raikage A] signaled his idle right-hand men with a glance, then lunged directly at Shiromo.
"Lariat!"
As [Raikage A] attacked Shiromo, Darui and C received the signal and rushed toward Killerdio's location, attempting to provide support.
However…
"What?!"
"We…"
"Damn it!"
All three of them discovered they had returned to where they started.
"My apologies. You cannot reach the reality of attacking me either."
Shiromo spoke again.
[Raikage A] fell silent for a moment.
Then he turned and sprinted back the way he had come.
He was attempting to flee outright.
Yet once again…
…he returned.
[Raikage A]'s mental state was beginning to collapse.
He couldn't win.
He couldn't escape.
The opponent had not even made a direct move.
That meant the technique functioned like a sealing jutsu—once activated, it persisted indefinitely unless dispelled.
Was he destined to be trapped here for the rest of his life?
Shiromo had refrained from delivering a fatal strike from behind because a thought had occurred to him.
He wished to test a hypothesis.
Otherwise, no matter how formidable the Raikage's Lightning Armor might be, it could not withstand a punch layered with Shiromo's multiple abilities.
Time Stop itself was not frightening.
What was frightening…
…was that Time Stop was merely one of many abilities.
"Damn it…"
[Raikage A] was no longer thinking about rescuing Killerdio.
Nor about killing the enemy before him.
He only thought of escaping.
This cursed technique had to be broken.
Got it!
[Raikage A] immediately sent out a distress signal.
And not just any signal—the highest level of emergency, demanding assistance at any cost.
Thirty seconds later.
A figure appeared beside [Raikage A].
The two women in the Kumogakure spectator stands instantly recognized her.
"Mabui? Why is she here? Wait…was that the Heavenly Transfer Technique? Has it been modified in this world to transport living beings?!"
Yugito stared in astonishment.
The Heavenly Transfer Technique, the Kumogakure Village's secret teleportation art, was only supposed to transmit inanimate objects such as documents.
Living bodies would be torn apart.
Though there were exceptions.
The Raikage, protected by Lightning Armor, could use it.
Tsunade, with Creation Rebirth, could survive it.
But this world was clearly different.
Mabui possessed neither Lightning Armor nor the Strength of a Hundred Technique.
And thinking back carefully…
The Raikage's group arriving so quickly earlier must also have relied on Heavenly Transfer.
The Raikage made sense.
Killerdio, as the Eight-Tails' jinchūriki, also made sense.
But Darui and C?
How had they managed it?
Did Heavenly Transfer in this world truly cause no damage?
"That's just unfair…"
Samui stared at [Mabui] below, her gaze filled with resentment.
"What is?"
Yugito followed Samui's line of sight and immediately went speechless.
In this world…
Mabui possessed an even more impressive "front armor" than Samui did in reality.
No wonder Samui felt unbalanced.
Why did her well-endowed self from the real world become flat-chested in the Limited Tsukuyomi world…
…while Mabui, who wasn't small to begin with, had become even more exaggerated?
Where was the justice in that?
Why the discrimination?!
"Sorry, Mabui. Send me out."
[Raikage A] spoke with a grave expression.
"I understand."
From the spectator stands of the Amegakure Village, Orochimaru suddenly spoke.
He, too, was familiar with the Heavenly Transfer Technique.
And now, he had grasped the abnormality within the Limited Tsukuyomi world.
"The Heavenly Transfer Technique hasn't lost its damage…"
"…the damage has been converted into healing and amplification!"
(End of this chapter)