[Monster Strength: Wow, little Yuu, you've finally understood the charm of going all-in. Are you taking the initiative to gamble this time?]
[Monster Strength: Hehe, I'll roll the dice for you! This time, I'll definitely roll three sixes!]
Because Monster Strength's Mad Gamble trait carried a lot of uncertainty, Yuu had rarely used it voluntarily in previous battles. Most of the time, he fought with the regular, traitless version of Monster Strength. Now that it saw him "come around," Monster Strength was visibly excited.
Of course…
it wasn't the only technique getting excited.
There were several others too.
[Great Fireball Technique: Heh, I knew this was a situation only I could handle! Magnet Release kekkei genkai? In my eyes, he's no different from a head on a pike, waiting to be sold.]
[Phoenix Sage Fire Technique: Waaah, so my current strength still isn't enough after all? I couldn't blow apart those gold-dust shields like Big Sister did! Looks like I still need to train harder… Mm!]
[Clone Technique: What's this? Obviously, I was the one who created this opening. And if the three of us sisters hadn't helped consume some of his energy earlier, where would the rest of you even get a chance to appear?]
Yuu ignored the noise inside the galgame system and focused on the dice in front of him, waiting for the result.
Honestly…
his chakra was no longer especially abundant.
After all, before Rasa appeared, he had already fought a large number of Suna ninja for quite some time, using Instant Hell Shadow Killing Formation twice and several regular ninjutsu. Afterward, while fighting Rasa, he had repeatedly used advanced techniques like Water Severing Wave and Great Dragon Fire.
Now, his remaining chakra was only about thirty percent of his peak state. If this next strike still failed to deal with Rasa, then the situation afterward would probably become very difficult.
But precisely because of that, Yuu intended to make a big gamble.
He wanted to see what this strike, stacked with Neural Activation Technique, Monster Strength, and Underdog Victory—three layers of buffs—could achieve, and whether it could deal real damage to Rasa, who stood at Kage level.
"Roll!"
[You rolled the dice.]
[Dice result: Empty Spin! No bonus!]
["Monster Strength" rolled the dice.]
[Dice result: Double · 20% chance. Destructive power receives an additional 125% increase, with critical effect!]
"Eh?"
Seriously? His own luck was actually worse than Monster Strength's? Or had Monster Strength's luck turned around?
At this moment, Monster Strength was already cheering impatiently.
[Monster Strength: Yay! Little Yuu, show that glittering gold guy what you're made of!]
"…Heh!"
Yuu laughed silently.
Either way, spending ten percent of his chakra to get a double effect should count as a profit.
So Yuu no longer paid attention to anything else. He focused completely, gathering all his spirit into this one slash. Under the enhancement of Neural Activation Technique: Overload Pulse, the world seemed to enter slow motion. The White Fang short blade in his hand began to hum, releasing a dazzling white light.
It all happened in an instant.
From Yuu launching himself off the ground and leaping dozens of meters into the air, to the activation of Monster Strength: Mad Gamble, the entire process took only the blink of an eye.
In Rasa's field of vision, he only saw the gold-dust shield in front of him turning faintly red. The magnetic sand that he could usually control freely, as naturally as moving his own limbs, now felt vaguely disobedient. And at that moment, a sharp killing intent rose from below and shot straight into the sky!
"That is…"
Swish—!!
A streak of blade light.
A streak of blade light faster than lightning and colder than moonlight.
That blade light was like a startled swan and like the scythe of the god of death, carrying an unstoppable will and destructive force as it struck Rasa's gold-dust barrier. Like a hot knife cutting into butter, it encountered almost no proper resistance and tore straight through the barrier.
Then it continued with unstoppable momentum, slashing into the final thin gold-dust shield Rasa had hastily condensed in front of himself!
Screeech—!!!
Three stacked buffs were truly terrifying!
Under such attack speed,
Rasa did not even see the trajectory of the slash clearly, much less have time to dodge.
He could only drive the remainder of his chakra and cover the three vital areas—his chest, neck, and face—with an incomplete gold-dust armor. Then he scattered the gold-dust platform beneath his feet and dropped toward the ground at the final instant, trying to avoid fatal damage this way.
However…
in the next moment,
the blade light arrived head-on.
A spray of bright red blood burst from Rasa's chest like a fountain. His entire body looked as if it had been struck by a siege ram, accelerating downward from midair—or more accurately, blasted away—before smashing hard into the mountain wall behind him.
Boom—!!
A human-shaped crater instantly formed. Rasa's entire body sank directly into the mountainside. Then a large amount of shattered stone rained down. Amid a rumbling collapse, the body of the "acting Fourth Kazekage" was buried, his life or death unknown for the moment.
Yuu's body hung in the air for one second before descending with a wave of scorching air. The White Fang short blade in his hand trembled faintly, blood dripping along the edge.
For one instant, the entire battlefield fell into dead silence.
Needless to say, Kakashi and the others at the valley entrance were stunned.
Even Jiraiya, Chiyo, and the others spared a portion of their attention to watch this side, then stared wide-eyed at the scene, almost unable to believe what they were seeing.
Only Orochimaru remained relatively calm, as if he had expected something like this. But even he felt that he had underestimated Yuu somewhat, and even suspected the boy still had hidden methods he had not used.
"Rasa!!"
"…Lord Kazekage—!!"
"How could this be?! That Konoha ninja actually struck Lord Kazekage… damn it!"
Many Suna ninja's eyes nearly split with rage as they looked at Yuu. But basically none of them dared approach.
After all, the current Yuu looked terrifying. Fire Release breaking gold dust, one slash cutting down Rasa—if those moves landed on an ordinary ninja, they probably wouldn't even leave behind an intact corpse. Most Suna ninja knew they had no ability to go over and help, so they could only remain where they were.
Chiyo was confident she could exchange moves with Yuu, but she was currently dealing with Orochimaru. At this moment, even sparing a little attention for Rasa's side of the battle was already her limit. She had no extra energy to come after Yuu.
At once,
Yuu let out a long breath, withdrew from Overload Pulse, and did his best to suppress the brief weakness that followed his excessive burst of power. Then, holding his blade, he slowly moved forward, his gaze locking onto the collapsed pile of rubble.
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