Screech—
After cutting apart all the Daikokuten cubes with his Storm Release light sword, Nagi frowned.
"This is troublesome."
Inside a strange dimensional space, Isshiki stepped into a hidden chamber.
Originally, he had planned to use Nagi to cultivate a God Tree and harvest a chakra fruit.
"But if I can obtain Nagi's body… the fruit doesn't matter anymore."
In front of him lay a gigantic monster.
It had ten tails, a single eye, and that eye was a crimson Rinnegan with seven tomoe.
It was enormous and terrifying.
Chat Reactions
Madara Uchiha:
"That's… the Ten-Tails!!"
Obito Uchiha:
"It does resemble what you described, though its size seems much smaller."
Ōnoki:
"So that's the Ten-Tails… It certainly has an overwhelming presence."
Fourth Raikage (A):
"Is that eye a Rinnegan?"
Killer B:
"Yo! Gyūki says it's definitely the Ten-Tails, but its power hasn't fully recovered, yeah!"
Rasa:
"Hm. Its pressure is many times greater than Shukaku's."
Shukaku:
"Rasa, you bastard! Watch what you're saying!"
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki:
"Isshiki, so you raised a Ten-Tails as well. But you intend to absorb its power, don't you?"
Isshiki Ōtsutsuki:
"Tch. Stop talking so much."
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki:
"Heh. A dying man still trying to act tough? In the screen you've already forced your resurrection—your lifespan is nearly gone. Absorbing the Ten-Tails' power now will only burn through what little life you have left."
"I'm curious whether you'll die from exhaustion… or be beaten to death."
Isshiki Ōtsutsuki:
"..."
The Screen Continues…
Isshiki raised his hand and began absorbing the Ten-Tails' chakra.
After a while, he stopped.
"Tch… my body can only withstand this much?"
"Whatever. It's enough."
He then opened a portal and left.
Behind him remained only a several-meter-tall Ten-Tails, lying on the ground, exhausted and sluggish.
Rōran Ruins
Nagi suddenly looked to his left.
"He's coming."
A black-red portal opened nearby, and Isshiki stepped out.
But this time—
Isshiki's confident expression had returned.
"This time… your body will be mine."
Nagi smiled lightly.
"Ah, I'm afraid I must refuse."
"That's not your choice."
Isshiki instantly used the Body Flicker Technique, appearing before Nagi and reaching out to grab him.
Nagi stepped back, narrowly avoiding the grab.
At the same time, he tilted his head to dodge a suddenly enlarging black rod.
Nagi swept his leg toward Isshiki's face.
Isshiki blocked with his left hand.
"Right now… I am invincible."
He grabbed Nagi's ankle and punched toward his chest.
Nagi pushed off with his left leg, lifting his entire body to evade the strike.
He spun midair, breaking free from Isshiki's grip, and landed a spinning kick onto Isshiki's back.
Caught off guard, Isshiki staggered forward several steps.
"Tch."
Isshiki raised his right hand.
"Daikokuten."
Above Nagi, countless gigantic black cubes suddenly appeared.
"Now your advantages in sensing and speed won't help you."
"Give up."
Isshiki charged forward with a chakra black rod.
Nagi formed a Water Release chakra scalpel in his hand.
Clang! Clang!
The black rod and water blade collided repeatedly, producing sharp metallic sounds.
Both figures darted through the dense maze of black cubes.
Although Isshiki's body—enhanced by the Ten-Tails' chakra—was stronger than Nagi's, Nagi's swordsmanship far surpassed Isshiki's fighting technique.
For a while, the two were evenly matched.
BOOM!
After a violent clash, both of them slid back several steps.
Isshiki grew increasingly irritated.
His strength clearly exceeded Nagi's—yet he still couldn't defeat him.
"Damn it. This isn't the time for a prolonged battle."
"I need to end this quickly."
"Sukunahikona."
Isshiki shrank himself again and launched a lightning-fast assault.
He believed Nagi's evasive ability came from his powerful sensory perception.
And now, with Daikokuten disrupting that perception—
"There's no way you can dodge this."
But…
Nagi still moved ahead of time and avoided the attack.
"Hm? A coincidence?"
Isshiki attacked again.
This time he unleashed a continuous barrage of black rods.
While engaging in taijutsu, the rods suddenly expanded like machine-gun fire, striking from every direction.
Faced with the relentless assault, Nagi continued dodging.
But during Nagi's evasions, Isshiki noticed something.
To confirm his suspicion, he kept attacking.
Nagi continued dodging in advance.
"So that's it…"
"He's predicting my movements, and his body reacts automatically."
"Troublesome… but—"
Isshiki controlled all the surrounding Daikokuten cubes, completely encircling Nagi.
Then even more cubes appeared above him.
"Let's see how you dodge this."
Seeing there was no way to escape, Nagi prepared to defend.
He knew these cubes were far tougher than before.
"Water Release: Water Shockwave."
A massive whirlpool-like water vortex formed around him as a defensive barrier.
When the first gigantic cube slammed into the vortex—
Nagi felt immense pressure.
"So heavy…"
More and more cubes crashed down.
The pressure intensified.
Nagi poured additional chakra into the vortex, increasing both its defensive strength and centrifugal force.
Eventually—
The vortex flung the cubes away.
But it had consumed a large amount of chakra.
Isshiki seized the opportunity and immediately launched a fierce attack.
BOOM!
Nagi was blasted back dozens of meters.
"It's over," Isshiki said confidently.
He summoned a massive black sealing vessel resembling a tea kettle.
"Sealing Jar."
He intended to seal Nagi inside it.
Nagi simply smiled.
"That remains to be seen, Mr. Isshiki."
"Release."
In the desert outside Rōran—
Two of Nagi's shadow clones suddenly disappeared.
At that moment, Nagi's chakra surged explosively.
Earlier, while Isshiki was absorbing the Ten-Tails' chakra, Nagi had secretly sent two shadow clones away to forcefully gather natural energy.
Feeling the natural energy quickly dissipating, Nagi sighed.
"As expected… maintaining Sage Mode still isn't possible."
"But this is enough."
Two Truth-Seeking Orbs—one black and one white—formed in his hand.
With the enhancement of natural energy, the spheres rapidly expanded.
Isshiki sensed danger and immediately hurled several Daikokuten cubes at Nagi.
But when they struck the Truth-Seeking Orbs—
Nothing happened.
Instead, the cubes were gradually disintegrated.
The spheres expanded to roughly five meters in diameter, then stopped.
The black and white orbs collided and began spinning rapidly together.
"Not good!"
Isshiki immediately tried to escape through a portal.
But just as it opened—
"Yin–Yang Dual Domain."
A transparent barrier suddenly expanded outward from the rotating Truth-Seeking Orbs.
With a flick of Nagi's finger—
The portal instantly vanished.
Isshiki attempted to open several more.
Each time, Nagi erased them.
"Damn it… I have no choice."
Isshiki gathered a massive amount of chakra into his right hand.
A gigantic black-red energy sphere formed.
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