On the battlefield.
"Akira Ren, this is the grave I prepared for you!"
Danzō, who should have been dead, miraculously appeared again several meters away.
He stared coldly at the gigantic tree before him—a towering giant with a trunk more than ten meters in diameter.
"Well now, Danzō… Even if you want to die, you shouldn't keep trying to take your enemy down with you like that."
Danzō's pupils shrank.
The Ren who should have been swallowed by the enormous tree suddenly appeared strangely on one of its massive branches.
With a playful tone, he said:
"It's useless. I am the incarnation of nature itself. Any plant will only become my ally."
Before Danzō could attack—
The colossal tree suddenly surged violently.
Countless roots and branches shot out like lightning.
"AAAH—!"
Caught completely off guard,
Danzō was swallowed by the giant tree once again.
"Five eyes left…"
Ren stepped out from within the tree.
He looked toward Danzō, who had once again revived using Izanagi, his expression grim.
"You've been using Wood Release this recklessly. Your chakra should have run out by now."
Danzō stared at Ren, who wasn't even breathing heavily, suspicion filling his eyes.
He knew very well—
Wood Release was powerful.
But it consumed enormous amounts of chakra.
"Take a guess," Ren said teasingly.
"How long do you think I can keep going?"
He was the embodiment of nature.
Standing in this forest, he was practically unbeatable.
Because he could continuously absorb vitality from surrounding trees, replenishing himself endlessly.
His chakra capacity might have limits—
But his recovery speed far exceeded his consumption.
It was comparable to the so-called limitless chakra of the Nine-Tails.
"Damn it… Using Izanagi repeatedly, and that Wood Release earlier… my chakra is running low."
Danzō's eyes flickered with hesitation.
Should I retreat?
A decisive look flashed across his face.
Without hesitation, he threw a smoke bomb toward Ren and turned to escape.
"Whoosh—!"
At that moment—
A sharp vine root tore through the air.
It struck from the front without warning.
Danzō couldn't dodge in time.
It pierced straight through his body.
Standing before him—
was Ren.
"Swish!"
Danzō revived again several meters away.
Without even looking back, he sprinted into the distance.
"What—?!"
Suddenly, a chill ran down his spine.
Without hesitation, he leaped upward.
Sure enough—
Countless wooden vines erupted from the ground beneath him.
They lunged upward, trying to seize him.
Danzō dodged frantically.
But a figure silently appeared behind him.
"AAAH!"
A scream echoed.
Another Ren, identical in appearance, stood there.
His right arm had transformed into terrifying vines that pierced through Danzō's chest.
"Four."
"Swish!"
Danzō revived yet again, his eyes dark.
"A Wood Clone…"
But before he could escape—
His right arm suddenly convulsed violently.
"AAAAAH—!"
Danzō screamed in agony.
Because he had used Izanagi too many times, and had also performed Wood Release.
The yin and yang chakra within his right arm lost balance.
The First Hokage's cells began to backlash.
"Damn it!"
With ruthless resolve,
Danzō sliced off his own right arm with his left hand.
He staggered forward in a desperate escape.
"My dream of unifying the ninja world and bringing peace hasn't been realized yet… I cannot die here!"
But suddenly—
Pain exploded in his right eye.
"AAAAAAH!"
At the same time,
Agonizing pain erupted from his arm again.
The scenery before him abruptly changed.
Two blood-stained vines swayed in the air.
One held a grotesque arm embedded with numerous Sharingan.
The other pierced through a bloody eyeball.
Ren stood there calmly, hands in his pockets, smiling.
"You've worked hard, Danzō… traveling all this way just to deliver Shisui's eye to me."
"How is this possible…?"
Danzō's face twisted in pain, cold sweat pouring down.
He stared at Ren, then at the arm caught in the vines.
He looked around the battlefield.
There were no signs of the earlier Root Explosion Burial technique he had used to perish with Ren.
Even their positions—
were exactly the same as when he first revived using Izanagi after his failed attempt with Kotoamatsukami.
His remaining left eye, bloodshot, glared at Ren.
His face turned extremely grim.
"…Genjutsu?"
"Correct," Ren said with a smile.
"Unfortunately, there's no prize."
Tsukuyomi.
At first glance it might seem inferior to Kotoamatsukami.
But strictly speaking, it was no less powerful—just different.
Inside the Tsukuyomi world:
Time Space Mass All structures
were completely controlled by the caster.
That meant—
Inside that world,
Ren was a god.
The absolute creator who ruled everything.
From the moment Danzō used Izanagi to avoid losing his eye—
The instant he looked into Ren's eyes in shock after seeing his Mangekyō Sharingan—
He had already fallen into the illusion.
Even the scene where the First Hokage's cells devoured his arm was part of the illusion.
Danzō believed his arm was gone,
and subconsciously stopped maintaining Izanagi.
The entire battle inside the Tsukuyomi world felt like it lasted a long time.
But in reality—
Only a single instant passed outside.
From the very beginning,
Danzō had never moved.
Watching from afar,
Tsunade, who had been observing the battlefield, was stunned.
She saw Ren's vines suddenly attack Danzō—
Tear out his right eye.
Rip off his entire arm.
And Danzō never even used Izanagi to reverse the situation.
She inhaled sharply.
"…What happened?"
Her eyes widened.
"Genjutsu…?"
Then realization struck her.
"Is this the Tsukuyomi Ren mentioned?"
"Even someone like Danzō, who possesses a Mangekyō Sharingan, couldn't see through it…"
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