In its good mood, it wanted to kill a human to celebrate.
The fat tanuki's coin-shaped eyes rolled. After glancing at the Sand Ninja who had already disappeared, it looked down at Motomu by its feet.
"Human, die! Hahaha!"
As the massive foot weighing hundreds of tons stomped down, Motomu used the Chakra he had been gathering for a long time to perform Body Flicker.
The red-and-white striped beach umbrella and furniture were instantly crushed and scattered by the sandstorm kicked up by the stomp.
Motomu didn't look at the wreckage. His Psychokinesis surged and focused on the White Snake's upper body. Sensing Motomu's movement, the hard sand armor controlled by the White Snake Sage was forced to move along with him.
His fingers pierced into the White Snake Sage's thinly defended tail.
Motomu swung the entire ten-meter-long White Snake into the air.
If it were a case of the crane and the clam fighting while the fisherman benefits, then now the crane had lifted the clam stuck to its beak and slammed it against the fisherman.
With Little Heart launching moves from hundreds of miles away, Motomu still received the buffs.
While barely maintaining his Psychokinesis.
His heart throbbed, and the Chakra accumulated in his body flared up.
A majestic, scalding sense of power surfaced throughout Motomu's limbs and bones.
*So much power!*
The Crane grew eighteen-pack abs, and even its beak was bulging with veins!
The White Snake Sage clearly sensed what Motomu was about to do.
The invisible pressure on its body weakened.
Instead, through its Senjutsu perception, it felt the other's body undergoing a terrifying transformation.
The sense of threat vanished, replaced by an ominous foreboding.
'Something's not right, he's!...'
The White Snake Sage's intuition was correct.
This guy had temporarily abandoned the idea of grinding it down to death.
BOOM!
Swung by Motomu, the White Snake Sage's heavy and bloated upper body turned into the head of a meteor hammer.
It smashed right into Shukaku's body.
Before it could steady itself, Shukaku was instantly knocked down by the White Snake Sage.
[PERSIAN (LEVEL 47) HAS ACCEPTED YOUR PROVOCATION]
[DING!]
[CONGRATULATIONS TRAINER FOR TRIGGERING GYM BOSS CHALLENGE 1/1!]
[THIS CHALLENGE IS A FORMAL GYM BATTLE. AFTER VICTORY, YOU WILL RECEIVE A SMALL EXPERIENCE BONUS AND A RANDOM ITEM REWARD (TWISTED SPOON 3%... 19% CHANCE OF DROPPING AN EVOLUTION STONE).]
Challenger: Motomu
Current Gym: Desert Gym - Level 40-50 Area
Target: Persian (Trainer Bunpuku)
Challenge Level: LV.47
Recommended Challenge Level: LV.47-LV.48
Battle, yeah!
Staggering to its feet, Shukaku, which had not yet fully recovered its strength, had a deep dent in one side of its belly.
Quicksand constantly filled the gap, and in less than three seconds, Shukaku had recovered again.
"Damnable human, just die quietly!"
"Wind Style: Air Bullets!"
In its rage, it slapped its belly.
Turbulent air currents gathered, and a high-pressure wind bullet was spat out from the tanuki's black mouth.
Motomu held up the White Snake Sage as a shield.
The wind bullet tore through Psychokinesis and Inorganic Reincarnation, leaving dense scratches on the White Snake Sage's scales.
Blown back several meters and leaving deep footprints in the ground, Motomu took a deep breath.
Little Heart used Arm Thrust, consuming a massive amount of Chakra to complete the charge for hundreds of stacks of Flame Charge. A continuous stream of power flowed from his chest to his arms.
"Power, come to me!"
Motomu let out a great roar and swung the charged White Snake Sage several times, letting it straighten out under centrifugal force.
With unstoppable force, the snake's head crashed into Shukaku once more.
BANG!
The tanuki's round, large belly instantly turned into a cloud of sand shadows filling the sky.
Without waiting to reform, Shukaku quickly jerked its head back, allowing Bunpuku to narrowly dodge the lethal blow coming his way again.
The White Snake Sage, being slammed downward, felt a bit dizzy. Although it hadn't taken much damage, the humiliation was very real.
It, a dignified Sage of a Holy Land, had actually been turned into a weapon by a human!
The world spun around it.
THUD!
Swinging the White Snake Sage again, Motomu felt the burden on his body. Whether it was the consumption from Flame Charge increasing too much or the Dragon Vein further depleting, he felt his Chakra could no longer keep up with the cost of Flame Charge.
If he didn't deal with Shukaku soon, he'd be in serious trouble.
The White Snake Sage was swung like a windmill, breaking through Shukaku's waves of sand time and time again.
He gradually closed in on Bunpuku, who was positioned on top of Shukaku's head.
Although he couldn't kill the Chakra-form Shukaku, he could kill the Jinchuriki!
If the Jinchuriki died, the Tailed Beast would follow.
By killing the Trainer, he could deal with the Pokémon!
The White Snake Sage's head came crashing down again.
Under Shukaku's desperate defense, its arms snapped, leaving its center wide open.
Motomu saw his chance. The White Snake Sage's head skimmed the ground as he pulled it back for a full swing, parting the sand screen and hurling it at Bunpuku once more.
BOOM!
Under the cover of the dust, the monk Bunpuku, who had emerged from the Tailed Beast, wasn't killed instantly. However, with bones broken and tendons snapped, he fell unconscious under the heavy blow.
The Feigning Sleep Technique was deactivated as the Jinchuriki lost consciousness.
Evil and massive Chakra surged as Shukaku reached a state of true awakening.
Motomu gasped for breath.
'This is bad,' Motomu thought to himself.
His failure to end it in one hit had instead helped Shukaku truly break free from control.
Shaking the dizzy and limp White Snake Sage in his hand, Motomu slightly loosened his Psychokinesis control and intercepted another portion of the Dragon Vein's Chakra.
With his Chakra replenished, Motomu swung the White Snake Sage and charged back into the sandstorm to fight once more.
CRACK!
BOOM!
Just as he entered the range of the sandstorm, Motomu felt a chill run down his spine.
His Psychokinesis parted the dust, and a terrifying scene appeared in Motomu's vision.
The tanuki's large mouth snapped open and shut as it instantly clamped down on a dark purple sphere the size of a human head.
The Tailed Beast Bomb erupted. A crimson laser beam ten meters wide pierced through the sand dunes of the great desert, spat out from Shukaku's mouth.
Struggling to shield himself with the White Snake Sage, Motomu, who took the full force of the complete Tailed Beast Bomb, instantly lost consciousness for several seconds.
Climbing out from the sand pile with blood seeping from his forehead, Motomu shook his head.
Motomu looked ahead, and his pupils suddenly constricted.
He saw that the layers of sand dunes had been pushed into a series of semi-circular hollows by the Tailed Beast Bomb's light pillar.
At the edges of the hollows, crimson glass held the sand dunes in place.
Looking through the circular hole, Motomu saw Shukaku charging toward him.
The beast also noticed him looking back and gave a hideous, savage grin on its ugly tanuki face.
Motomu reached out to grab something, but his hand found only empty air. The White Snake Sage, which he had used as a shield just now, was gone.
Since there was no system notification, it probably wasn't dead.
Given the White Snake Sage's strength, it shouldn't have been taken out by a Tailed Beast Bomb.
There was no time for much thought.
Motomu looked grimly at Shukaku's mouth, where blue and purple colors were once again condensing into a Tailed Beast Bomb.
With internal alarms blaring, Motomu used his freed Psychokinesis to raise a defense with all his might.
A Psychokinesis barrier rose in front of him at a 45-degree angle to the ground.
The moment the defense was formed, the Tailed Beast Bomb arrived in an instant.
In Motomu's perception, the tilted Psychokinesis barrier was compressed and dented by the impact, forming a groove. The unexploded Tailed Beast Bomb grazed the groove and bounced off into the sky!
BOOM!
A dull explosion sounded from above.
The nuclear-like shockwave of the Tailed Beast Bomb's explosion crushed downward, flattening the sand dunes for hundreds of meters around Motomu's position.
Completely unaffected, the One-Tail, Shukaku, had already sprinted right in front of Motomu.
A giant tanuki claw grabbed Motomu, who was still within his Psychokinesis protection.
Without the slightest hesitation, the tanuki opened its mouth wide, aiming the gradually condensing Tailed Beast Bomb directly at Motomu.
It looked like it wanted to fire point-blank.
A million curses raced through Motomu's mind.
If anyone told him now that the One-Tail only knew how to use Air Bullets, he'd have a serious bone to pick with them.