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M-B's left hand pressed down. The Sage-Enhanced Tailed Beast Bomb, condensed within the Asura Path's arm cannon, shot toward Sasuke with devastating force!!!
Sasuke saw it. He moved.
A frantic, backward leap.
"Hahahaha!! MUDA, MUDA!" M-B roared. "You can't outrun the blast radius! Not without space-time ninjutsu! Your shunshin is worthless!!!"
Whoosh…!
In the split second before the bomb and Sasuke's figure overlapped, M-B caught a glimpse of a flash—purple.
"Susano'o. Useless. It's not the complete form…"
BOOM!
A golden tsunami of fire erupted from the ruins of the Valley of the End, roaring skyward. The shockwave hung in the air, refusing to settle.
M-B hovered in the sky beyond the valley. His gaze, too, was anything but calm.
"Sasuke… you shouldn't have made an enemy of me."
Whoosh!
When the storm finally subsided, the very earth of the Valley of the End had collapsed into a chasm.
And within that chasm… was a sight that stole M-B's breath.
Sasuke stood, unharmed. The purple aura of his Susano'o, though not fully formed, stubbornly flickered around him.
He had actually blocked it. Blocked a Sage-Enhanced Nine-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb fired from the Asura Path… with just the ribcage form of his Susano'o.
M-B's pupils trembled. "A month ago, on the wasteland of Konoha not far from here, I witnessed the unusual strength of his Susano'o. By my calculations, that strength should have been far from enough to stop this! But he did it."
"Only one explanation. In this short month… his Susano'o's defensive power has reached another level. Not quite the Complete Body… but close. Hah! The bastard… What is he planning, fortifying the base form to such an extreme?"
"Strength. Speed. Defense. Regeneration. The Gedo Mazo core…" Sasuke mused, utterly satisfied with his new Susano'o's performance. "It has comprehensively elevated all four pillars."
Crack! Crack!
No need for Sasuke to expend chakra. The Gedo Mazo's core pulsed, automatically repairing the Susano'o. Ribs reforged. Sasuke's eyes narrowed. The second form's tendons and muscles swiftly wrapped around the skeletal frame!
THOOM!
The Susano'o's right arm drew back, forming a massive bow. Its left hand condensed a shimmering arrow of pure chakra.
M-B watched from afar. His interest, his battle-lust, flared anew. The more Sasuke exceeded expectations, the greater the thrill.
"Oh? A bow for ranged combat. Distinctive, among the Susano'o I've seen. Hahahaha…"
He laughed, waiting for Sasuke to draw. But then he saw it. Dark purple threads of Jiongu tendrils, linking with the bowstring. They coiled around the bow's outer rim. Coiled and coiled, endlessly, forming… a pulley wheel!
"What… is that?"
M-B's smile vanished. He'd never studied composite bow mechanics, but he could see the terrifying principle at work.
"Using Susano'o-materialized threads to modify the bow… multiplying the string's tension tens, no… hundreds of times?! He's insane! How does he plan to draw it? It'd require power on par with a Tailed Beast!!!"
KRAK…!
Under M-B's incredulous stare… the Susano'o reached out. Its massive fingers closed around the bowstring.
—Bone Pulse Infusion!
CRACK!
Within the Susano'o's skeletal frame… the power of Shikotsumyaku surged, amplified by a force called 'bone spirit', flooding every strut and joint.
—Outer Path Power!
ZING…!
Within the Susano'o's belly, at the base chakra wheel… the Gedo Mazo core ignited with a storm of chakra flames!!!
KRK-KRK-KRK-KRK-KRK-KRK-KRK…!!!
Then, amidst the heart-stopping screech of cord against pulley, the bow… was drawn!!!
"!!!" M-B's mind blanked with shock.
Sasuke partially covered his right eye. The Mangekyō in that eye had shifted, without him even realizing, back into the Byakugan.
Yes, the Byakugan's power hadn't vanished when the White Cursed Seal was absorbed; he could now switch to it at will.
And now, he needed that Byakugan to aim.
This arrow… its power was too great, its speed too monstrous, its range too vast.
To have everything perfect and miss because of aim? Unforgivable.
CRACK!
On the other side, pinned by the arrow's intent, M-B shattered the Asura Path's mechanical arm. Nine-Tails chakra exploded around him as he shot toward the horizon!!!
He chose to flee.
Yes!
He was arrogant, not suicidal!
That attack… a direct hit meant death. Absolute, certain death.
He had to dodge!
He glanced back mid-flight…!
Sasuke's compound bow was at full draw. The arrow's killing tip was trained directly on his fleeing back.
Yet it hadn't been fired… Sasuke was taking his time, ensuring the shot.
Hope flickered in M-B. He accelerated, weaving an erratic, serpentine path through the sky.
Sasuke tracked him with the Byakugan, the arrowhead minutely adjusting. He murmured, "I've faced opponents ten times faster than you, Madara. I delay this shot… hoping Naruto might sense the danger and awaken. It seems… the timing isn't right."
His gaze hardened. Bow and arrow parted.
—Super: Amatsu no Kagoya!
—
SHWOOOOOOM…!!!
The arrow tore through the air!!!
In that instant… every hair on M-B's body stood on end!!!
"NO!!!"
No time. No time to form any defense. The only move, the instinctive, life-preserving reflex his body could conjure, was that one technique.
—Super: Shinra Tensei!!!
HMMMMMMMM…!!!
White light engulfed the world.
The overwhelming force field, the usually invincible Super Shinra Tensei, held the arrow back… for a span of time shorter than a millisecond!
POP!
In the blinding white of Madara's vision, a patch of transparent vacuum appeared.
His mind exploded.
"The force field… was pierced?!"
That was his last coherent thought. What followed was beyond his control.
There's a world of difference between a force field withstanding an impact and one being pierced. The consequence of a piercing was a complete field destabilization—a chaotic, unpredictable, and uncontrollable torrent of reversed force that sent M-B careening through the sky like a firecracker.
By sheer, terrifying luck, he tumbled past the arrow. Then, following a trajectory even he couldn't predict…
He slammed into the earth!!!
CRRRRUUUMBLE…!
In his dazed senses, M-B only vaguely registered scraping through earth and rock for what felt like an eternity, before finally coming to a stop in an open space.
"Ugh…!"
Pain receded. He opened his eyes.
Tatami mats. The Uchiha stone tablet…
The underground of Konoha. The Uchiha Clan's… Naka Shrine!
—What the hell… How did I get here?!
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