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BOOOOOOM!
Dark clouds pressed down. Muffled thunder rolled. A torrential downpour followed, washing over the ravaged earth of the Land of Rice Paddies.
"ROOOOAAARRR…!"
The Gedo Statue's roar was even more piercing in the rain.
Obito's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets. The Gedo Statue was the foundation of his Moon Eye Plan! He couldn't allow it to be damaged!
But Sasuke's arrow had been too powerful. It didn't just pierce the Statue—it left behind a twenty-meter-wide crater. A white, viscous fluid gushed out of it nonstop.
That was the Statue's life essence, containing its life force and the chakra of the Tailed Beasts. Every drop was precious.
Even if the Statue couldn't truly die, Obito couldn't just watch its power drain away.
So, facing Sasuke charging menacingly through the curtain of rain, Obito did something insane. He leaped onto the Statue's chest, trying to plug the hole with Wood Release.
It meant he couldn't enter his intangibility. It meant he'd become a sitting duck.
"You never learn…"
Sasuke saw it. He gripped his sword and charged.
Obito roared, "White Zetsu! Stop him at all costs!"
The White Zetsu army surged forward. Their power was linked to the Statue. With the Statue gravely injured, their Wood Release was unusable. Now, they could only wield kunai, using their flesh and blood to launch suicidal attacks.
Sasuke's Susanoo hammered the ground with its massive fist.
CRUNCH…!!
With each punch, White Zetsu turned to pulp. More were sent flying through the air.
Even so, they kept coming, fearless and relentless.
By this point, Sasuke's own chakra was running low. Another arrow attack like that was impossible.
But his resolve to end Obito burned fiercely.
BOOM…!!!
The Susanoo leaped high. A bow formed, its arrow aimed at Obito behind the lines.
Obito, busy repairing the Statue, glanced sideways. "A normal arrow. Not a threat…"
SWOOSH…!!!
The arrow tore through the air. Obito raised a palm.
—Almighty Push!
CLANG…!!!
The arrow halted against the repulsive force.
The Susanoo descended. Inside, Sasuke murmured, "So, he knows that move too."
SWOOSH!
He neared the ground. The cursed wings on his back snapped open. The Susanoo skimmed low. The White Zetsu army threw themselves in the way, only to be cut down by the Susanoo's swinging blades.
The Zetsu line was crumbling, but Obito didn't stop his repair work. Instead, he pushed his Hashirama cells even harder.
Not far away, a figure in a black cloak with a white, spiraled face stood. Tobi. He'd appeared at some point.
A white vine extended from the back of his head, connecting to the fleshy tendrils sealing the Statue's wound.
Obito didn't look up. "Can you hold him?"
Tobi replied, "If I borrow the Statue's power…"
"Do it!"
Tobi brought his hands together before his chest.
RUMBLE—!
Before the Statue, a colossal figure rose.
It had the body of Kannon and an oval plate on its back, from which hundreds of arms stretched out.
Sasuke had never seen this technique before. In his past life, when this Tobi had used it to toy with the Five Kage, he'd already been pierced through the heart by Madara, lying in a pool of his own blood.
But the clues were obvious.
"When the First Hokage described his final battle with Madara, he mentioned the 'True Several Thousand Hands.' This must be a degraded, non-Sage-Art version… Let's call it the 'Fake Several Thousand Hands.'"
The Fake Several Thousand Hands rumbled forward. Its wooden fists stretched out, elongating like a massive net to ensnare him.
"At this point, there's nothing left to hold back…"
Sasuke covered his left eye. The Yang Seal on his forehead activated, its markings flowing down into the eye itself.
FLASH…!!!
The Susanoo's left eye, now glowing gold, suddenly erupted with crimson light. Within that light, the pattern of a six-pointed star appeared.
—Magnifying Lens: Mangekyō Sharingan!
On Pale Moon Island, Itachi gasped. "Projecting the Mangekyō Sharingan onto the Susanoo itself…!"
Orochimaru chuckled. "Indeed. The 'Magnifying Lens Technique'—only usable when the Yang Seal is released. It magnifies both the visual range and scale of a dōjutsu. Itachi, Sasuke's inspiration for this came from your 'Blood Rama Manifestation'!"
Itachi sighed in awe. "Sasuke's mastery of the Susanoo is truly… divine."
Sasuke and his Susanoo's left eye focused on the sky in unison.
—Magnifying Lens: Amaterasu!
WHOOSH…!!
In an instant, a curtain of black flames unfurled across the sky. The descending wooden fists burned to ashes before they could even pierce the inferno.
Blood streamed violently from between Sasuke's fingers.
Orochimaru noted clinically, "However… this method of using a dōjutsu places immense strain on the optic nerves. Once Sasuke's right eye has fully recovered from being a Byakugan, it will be about time to transplant Fugaku's eyes."
BOOOOM—!!!
The purple Susanoo broke through the black flames, darting before the now-armless wooden Kannon. Its skeletal fist swung with all its might. At the same time, Sasuke layered on the Super Heavy Rock Technique—and Explosion Release.
KABOOOOOOOM—!!!
An earth-shattering blast. Devouring flames erupted. The Fake Several Thousand Hands was instantly blown to splinters.
Sasuke landed forcefully on the Gedo Statue, and the Susanoo winked out.
Tobi severed his connection to the Statue. A spear of wood shot from his hand—Wood Style: Cutting Sprig!
SHINK!
Sasuke drew his blade, cold and swift. The Kusanagi, wreathed in lightning, swept horizontally.
SHIIIING…!!!
Tobi was cut in two at the waist, collapsing to the ground.
"Damn it!"
Obito, having finished patching the Statue, staggered to his feet. The side effects of overusing his Hashirama cells made his head spin. He nearly fell.
Sasuke moved to close in and finish it, but his step froze mid-stride.
He frowned and looked back.
There… Tobi, now only a torso, was gripping his ankle with a death hold.
From his spiraled mask, the bottomless black void of its eyehole stared at the disheveled man.
—"Go!"
Obito gritted his teeth.
He had no choice left.
"Tobi… I'll never forget you. When the Infinite Tsukuyomi is complete… let's meet again in the world of dreams!"
FWIP!
Obito mustered the last of his strength. Kamui activated, pulling him into the void.
The Kusanagi sword Sasuke hurled… was a fraction of a second too late.
POOF!
With Obito's retreat, the Gedo Statue vanished in a puff of white smoke.
Gloop… gloop… gloop…
The remaining White Zetsu sank into the earth, leaving behind the corpses of tens of thousands of their comrades.
The rain fell harder now, washing over the brutalized battlefield.
"In the end… I still couldn't keep him here."
With Sasuke's weary and rueful sigh, the Ninth Bout drew to a close.
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