Chapter 383: Human-Insect
The powerful golden chakra quickly reached the ceiling, but contrary to expectations, it didn't blast through. Instead, Kurama's chakra began to shrink.
"Kurama, what's going on?"
Future Boruto asked urgently.
"Apologies, Lord Boruto. It seems like… my chakra is suddenly being eaten..."
"Eaten?" Future Boruto repeated, then abruptly looked up at the ceiling. A few white insects were crawling on it. "Insects that feed on chakra...?"
If each insect were dealt with individually, even a genin could easily handle them. But when gathered in a confined space, they became horrifying.
"At this rate, we'll have to rely on swordsmanship..." Mitsuki said as he reached out and gripped his sword hilt with his right hand. Lowering his body into a crouch, he took a deep breath. "Ha!"
With that exhale, Mitsuki drew his sword in a flash. A straight arc of blade energy shot forward, slicing through the swarming white insects. The floor quickly became layered with thick piles of insect corpses.
"There's way too many of them..."
Mitsuki muttered helplessly, watching as the gaps created by his slashes were rapidly filled again.
"Something has to be producing these insects. We have no choice but to press forward, Mitsuki."
"Yeah. Leave the rear to me."
Mitsuki, gripping his sword, kept his eyes on the swarming insects behind them.
Because he was moving backward, Mitsuki's mobility was limited. To accommodate that, Future Boruto deliberately held back his own speed.
"Water Style: Surging Waves!"
Future Boruto expelled a high-pressure stream of water forward from above, scattering the advancing insects. Then, he stabbed his Chidori Current-imbued blade into the floor.
Blue lightning, guided by the water, surged across the floor and electrocuted large swaths of white insects.
"Mitsuki, we're almost there!"
The floor on both sides was piled with insect corpses. Future Boruto rushed to the door at the end of the room and swung his Kusanagi sword downward.
"This is...!"
Mitsuki stared ahead in shock.
Lined up before them were two enormous white insect eggs.
Through the slightly translucent parts of the eggs, they could see human heads with closed eyes inside.
"It's turning people into insects..."
Future Boruto calmly analyzed the situation.
Then, both eggs split open at once. The beings incubating inside began to crawl out.
They were white insects with human heads.
At the same time, countless small white insects began dropping from the walls.
"Mitsuki, come here."
At Future Boruto's call, Mitsuki quickly moved in close. Suddenly, Future Boruto grabbed Mitsuki's hand.
He transferred filtered chakra—Kurama's chakra—into Mitsuki, enabling him to enter Nine-Tails Chakra Mode. The golden cloak enveloped Mitsuki's body, primarily to protect him from the harassing white insects.
"If you had something this useful, you should've used it earlier, Boruto."
"It doesn't last long. That's why we need to end this quickly, Mitsuki."
"Got it."
There were two transformed human-insects—one for each of them.
"Rasengan!"
Future Boruto threw a Rasengan to probe the enemy, but it disappeared without leaving a mark on the creature's body.
The insect with a human face opened its mouth and slowly crawled toward him.
"They don't have much in the way of offense, but they're incredibly hard to kill," Mitsuki commented after leaping back to dodge an insect that lunged at him.
"The head. The weak point should be the human head."
Future Boruto observed the creature carefully. After a few short exchanges, both of them had analyzed the enemy's structure.
"Yeah, that must be it," Mitsuki nodded and charged forward, sword at the ready.
One of the human-insects suddenly coiled its body and leapt toward Mitsuki, trying to crush him beneath its bulk.
If he got pinned, the swarm of small white insects would surely rush in and devour him instantly.
"Once we know the weak point, taking them down gets a lot easier..."
Mitsuki's sword suddenly softened and lengthened, transforming into a whip-like weapon.
He cracked the flexible blade around the airborne creature, wrapping it around its body and swinging himself upward. Then, his sword contracted and returned to its original form.
"Die!"
From above, Mitsuki plunged down toward the human face and stabbed through it. As the battle ended, the duration of Mitsuki's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode also ran out.
On the other side, Future Boruto's fighting style was far more direct.
When the second insect tried the same leaping attack, he countered with a massive Rasengan, blasting it away. Then he followed up with a finishing slash.
"Who knows what kind of enemies await us ahead..."
Mitsuki muttered as he looked at the tightly shut door—then, without warning, swung his blade at Future Boruto.
"Mitsuki! What's going on?!"
Future Boruto jumped back and stared at him.
"I don't know... Damn it, I can't control my body! Boruto, watch out!"
Mitsuki's face twisted with strain as he spoke. At the same time, he lunged, swinging his blade at Future Boruto.
Mitsuki's blade was the Serpent Sword—a weapon that could become as flexible as a snake.
It coiled around Future Boruto's Kusanagi sword.
"Mitsuki! Why are you suddenly so strong?!"
"I don't know either!" Mitsuki replied, glancing at his own wrist—where something appeared to be wriggling beneath his skin. "I get it now, Boruto. I've been parasitized! Get the insect out of my skin!"
"I see! I'm on it, Mitsuki!"
Future Boruto had also noticed the insect writhing inside Mitsuki's body.
It must've slipped in during the earlier battle. The parasite likely avoided Future Boruto due to Kurama's intimidating presence.
Abandoning his Kusanagi sword, Future Boruto instantly moved in front of Mitsuki. With his right index finger, he activated a secret technique from the Hyūga Clan—
Gentle Fist: Chakra Point Strikes.
With rapid, pinpoint strikes, he forced the parasites from various parts of Mitsuki's body to gather in his left hand.
Now, only Mitsuki's left hand remained out of control.
Sensing that its host was rejecting it, the parasite panicked—Mitsuki's left hand flailed wildly, even trying to strangle him in a desperate attempt to take him down with it.
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