Kinshiki let out a desperate scream.
Only at this moment did he finally understand the gap between himself and Uchiha Ren.
It was the distance between heaven and earth.
In other words—
it wasn't that he was weak.
It was that the "mortal" in front of him was far too monstrous.
So monstrous that all the power Kinshiki had ever relied on had become nothing more than a joke.
Unfortunately—
it was already too late.
Faced with Six Paths tremor, with time itself being forced backward, even Kinshiki's Six Paths body began to crack like fragile pottery.
Crack. Crack.
Under the relentless invasion of the vibrating force, his body began to come apart, as if it were being peeled apart from the inside.
"So strong…"
From not far away, Urashiki felt his thoughts turn messy.
Especially when he saw Ren toying with Kinshiki as if he were no more than a puppet, something inside him twisted badly.
Not long ago, they had arrived on Earth full of swagger, looking down on everything.
And now?
The Fifth Hokage had slapped that arrogance straight out of them.
That drop—from the sky to the dirt—was harder to swallow than anything else.
"No! I don't want to die!"
"Stupid Earthling, you dare kill me?!"
"The Ōtsutsuki main family will never let you off!"
"You damned mortal, just wait until you face the clan's wrath!"
"Stop now! Do you really want this to end in mutual destruction?!"
At this point, feeling the cracks spread through his body, Kinshiki finally lost his composure.
He tried to force his power into motion. He tried to escape the blow.
But in front of reversed time and crushing force, everything he did was useless.
In the end, all he could do was roar in panic and rage.
"Kinshiki, killing you is no different from crushing an ant."
From beginning to end, Uchiha Ren's expression never changed.
He looked almost casual as he spoke.
"Trash like you should've never come to Earth and embarrassed yourself."
"Die."
Boom!!
The moment the word fell, an even more violent wave of tremor burst forward, carrying enough destructive force to shatter mountains, and slammed into Kinshiki's already fractured body.
"Damn you… you'll pay for this!"
Perhaps sensing that Ren truly meant to kill him, a fierce, final resolve flashed through Kinshiki's Byakugan.
He roared with everything he had left,
"Urashiki… avenge me!"
Crack!
In the next instant, without any warning, Kinshiki's body exploded apart.
Maybe even at the moment of death, he still hadn't figured it out—
why a place like Earth could produce a monster like this.
A being who could beat him down from beginning to end without giving him even the smallest chance to fight back.
But there were no second chances in the shinobi world.
Driven into complete despair, Kinshiki could leave behind only one final thing before dying—
his body transformed into a Chakra Fruit.
And so—
after his body burst apart, a single Chakra Fruit was left suspended in midair.
"A Chakra Fruit…"
Urashiki stared at it. On the surface, his face looked grim.
Inside, however, he was ecstatic.
After all—
members of the Ōtsutsuki clan could grow stronger by consuming their own kind.
Normally, they could not simply kill each other for that purpose.
But now fate had handed him the chance directly.
Kinshiki had died and, at the final moment, turned himself into a Chakra Fruit.
What better outcome could there be?
"Kinshiki… rest easy."
A cold light flashed through Urashiki's eyes as he drew a slow breath and muttered,
"I'll avenge you."
"And I'll make this stupid Earthling pay in blood."
As soon as he finished speaking, Urashiki moved, intending to seize the Chakra Fruit.
But though he was fast—
Uchiha Ren was faster.
The moment Urashiki moved, Ren had already taken the Chakra Fruit into his hand.
Urashiki froze for a beat.
Then fury exploded across his face.
"Uchiha Ren, that Chakra Fruit belongs to Kinshiki!"
"If you eat it, your body will explode and die!"
"Oh?"
Ren nodded as if he had just heard something mildly interesting.
He glanced at the fruit in his hand and said calmly,
"With my strength, eating this should only make me stronger."
To be fair, in the old records, Kinshiki had willingly turned into a Chakra Fruit so Momoshiki could absorb him.
But now?
Kinshiki had been beaten into a Chakra Fruit by force.
An ordinary person wouldn't dare touch something like this.
But Uchiha Ren was not an ordinary person.
And even if he chose not to absorb it himself—
the Ten-Tails certainly could.
The Gedo Statue had already absorbed the Dragon Vein's power, but that energy alone still wasn't enough to fully satisfy it.
Now this Chakra Fruit was practically perfect.
"You can't eat that!"
Hearing Ren say it so casually, Urashiki felt like he was about to go mad.
Forcing his anger down, he snapped,
"Only members of the Ōtsutsuki main family can fully absorb a Chakra Fruit like that!"
"Heh."
Ren looked at him the way one might look at an idiot.
"Are you stupid?"
"Or do you think I am?"
"We're enemies."
"What exactly made you think I'd hand it over to you?"
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