Naruto's Battle Technique?
Naruto's Barrage?
No.
Chinatsu's Battle Technique!
Chinatsu's Barrage!
The countless manifestations of Chinatsu surrounding Reishi moved simultaneously.
There was no hesitation.
No wasted movement.
No conflicting intentions.
Every single one shared the same consciousness, allowing their movements to synchronize perfectly.
One attacked from the front.
Another from the side.
Three more rushed in from behind.
Above.
Below.
Every direction was covered.
Reishi's taijutsu was superior to Sasuke's.
But who had taught Sasuke taijutsu from childhood?
Wasn't it Chinatsu?
Every punch.
Every kick.
Every dodge.
Every mistake.
She had personally beaten those habits into him.
And now, Reishi was about to experience the accumulated results of all that training.
"Chinatsu's Barrage!"
BOOM!
The first punch landed.
Then another.
And another.
Reishi's expression darkened.
He was completely surrounded.
A strange sense of despair gradually spread through his heart.
"Get away from me!"
Reishi clenched his fists and suddenly tore into his own body.
Blood erupted.
But this wasn't ordinary blood.
It was his terrifying Corrosive Blood.
Countless droplets shot outward like a hailstorm.
Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!
Several Chinatsu manifestations were pierced through their bodies.
One after another, their bodies were torn apart.
But they didn't stop.
They simply continued charging.
Reishi's pupils contracted.
"Why aren't you stopping?!"
The answer was simple.
They didn't care about pain.
Well…
That wasn't entirely accurate.
Chinatsu wasn't immune to pain.
She had simply developed an absurdly high tolerance for it.
After everything she had experienced over the years, pain had become something she could endure far beyond what a normal person should have been capable of.
Being stabbed in the kidney.
Being injured repeatedly during her experiments.
The pain of developing her Sage Arts.
Even gouging out her own eyes during her previous experiments.
And later, during her transformation into Kaguya's Jinchūriki and eventually the incarnation of the world's will, she had repeatedly pushed herself to the point where even death seemed like a minor inconvenience.
Chinatsu herself would never call it an ability.
If anyone asked her, she would probably say:
I am NOT a masochist.
She simply had an unfortunately ridiculous tolerance for pain.
And that tolerance was now being shared by every manifestation surrounding Reishi.
Even riddled with holes, they continued forward.
Bang!
A fist slammed into Reishi's face.
Bang!
Another struck his ribs.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Punches and kicks rained down from every direction.
Reishi quickly covered himself with Corrosive Blood, forming a protective armor around his body.
But the Chinatsu manifestations didn't hesitate.
They wrapped chakra around their fists and slammed directly into him.
BOOM!
Reishi's head snapped backward.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
He was being overwhelmed.
"Get off me!"
Reishi roared and violently struck down several manifestations.
But for every one he destroyed, another two immediately replaced them.
Two fists couldn't beat four hands.
And four hands couldn't beat dozens.
Soon, Reishi was surrounded by a storm of fists and feet.
Just as he finally broke through the frontal assault
BOOM!
A fist crashed into the back of his head.
Reishi staggered forward.
He turned around furiously.
"What "
WHAM!
A vicious kick struck him directly in the groin.
Reishi froze.
His face slowly turned crimson.
"YOU !"
Chinatsu landed calmly.
She wasn't even ashamed.
Whether that was actually a weakness for an Otsutsuki didn't matter.
She would kick him there anyway.
There was something strangely satisfying about it.
And surprisingly, the attack was effective.
Not because of physical damage.
Because of humiliation.
For someone as arrogant as Reishi, being surrounded and repeatedly kicked around was already humiliating enough.
That particular attack simply pushed him over the edge.
"This is so annoying!"
Reishi's expression twisted.
"It never ends!"
He slammed his hands together.
"GET OUT OF HERE!!!"
BOOOOOOM!!!
An overwhelming repulsive force erupted from his body.
Super Shinra Tensei!
The shockwave spread in every direction.
The countless Chinatsu manifestations were blown away, creating a massive distance between them.
Reishi lowered his head and panted heavily.
His chest rose and fell.
He had used only a small portion of his available abilities.
He possessed Omnipotence.
He possessed countless divine techniques.
Yet somehow…
He felt that most of them would be useless against this woman.
Why?
The answer lay in the fundamental difference between them.
The Otsutsuki believed in consumption.
They traveled from world to world.
They planted Divine Trees.
They harvested Chakra Fruits.
They consumed those fruits.
They grew stronger.
And eventually
They sought to become the ultimate existence.
The Otsutsuki God.
But Chinatsu's current existence completely contradicted that philosophy.
The Otsutsuki took power from worlds.
Chinatsu had become one with hers.
The Divine Tree consumed the essence of a world and transformed it into a Chakra Fruit.
The one who consumed that fruit became the chakra progenitor of that world.
And once the progenitor left…
The world's essence would disappear with them.
The world would gradually become barren.
Dead.
A wasteland.
That was the fate of countless worlds destroyed by the Otsutsuki.
Fortunately, the ninja world was different.
Kaguya hadn't abandoned it.
She had merely been sealed.
Because of that, the ninja world's essence had remained intact.
And now…
Chinatsu had inherited that essence.
She had no sympathy for invaders who came to destroy other worlds.
She simply withdrew the countless manifestations surrounding Reishi.
The battlefield suddenly became empty.
Reishi narrowed his eyes.
Chinatsu slowly raised both hands.
Her fingers formed a peculiar seal.
Reishi's expression became serious.
His Omnipotence possessed a danger-sensing ability.
It could detect threats before they arrived.
It could even give him a rough understanding of the power contained within an incoming attack.
Normally, when that instinct warned him, Reishi would immediately dodge.
But this time…
Nothing happened.
No warning.
No alarm.
Nothing.
Reishi's pupils trembled.
What does that mean?
If there was no warning, then either
The attack was harmless.
Or…
She had deliberately hidden its true nature.
Defend?
Dodge?
Exchange attacks?
Dodge was the safest option.
Defense was the least likely.
But Reishi was an Otsutsuki.
Pride ran through his blood.
He chose the third option.
"Let's see whose technique is stronger."
Reishi raised his hand.
"[Amatsukami]."
The tiny black sphere appeared once again.
But this time, Reishi activated another divine technique alongside it.
"[Omono-no-Shu]!"
The power of Amatsukami began increasing explosively.
The tiny black sphere expanded into something resembling a miniature black hole.
The surrounding space distorted violently.
Reishi smiled.
You can't dodge this.
You can't block it.
Then let's see how you survive it.
Chinatsu's lips curved upward.
She had no intention of fighting him head-on.
Direct confrontation?
Only an idiot would choose that.
Even now, Chinatsu wasn't capable of casually overpowering Amatsukami.
That technique possessed an absolute annihilation property.
If the two attacks collided directly, there wouldn't be a winner.
The surrounding area would simply be erased.
And there was absolutely no reason for her to take such a risk.
Reishi's technique was already complete.
He raised his hand.
But before he could throw it
The ground beneath his feet suddenly disappeared.
"Huh?!"
WHOOSH!
The earth vanished.
A gigantic crater opened beneath him.
Reishi's body immediately dropped.
Although he could fly, the sudden disappearance of the ground disrupted his balance.
The black sphere slipped from his hand.
"Dammit!"
Reishi quickly stabilized himself in mid-air.
But the moment he did
The ground suddenly returned.
BOOM!
The earth closed around his body.
His entire body was buried.
His mouth was filled with dirt.
"Mmph!"
Reishi's face turned black with rage.
He forcibly broke free and flew into the air.
"YOU "
Before he could finish
The ground disappeared again.
Then reappeared.
Then disappeared once more.
Chinatsu was manipulating the battlefield itself.
Reishi finally understood.
She wasn't trying to overpower him.
She was controlling the environment.
He was fighting inside her world.
Eventually, Reishi was trapped beneath the earth once more.
Chinatsu calmly stood above him.
She looked down.
Her expression was no longer filled with killing intent.
Instead…
There was something else.
Calculation.
Reishi's eyes narrowed.
"What are you planning?"
Chinatsu didn't answer immediately.
She simply looked at him.
She had never truly intended to kill Reishi from the beginning.
Nor had she planned to seal him away forever.
There was another option.
A much more valuable option.
Chinatsu's eyes slowly narrowed.
"Reishi…"
She smiled.
"I've decided what I'm going to do with you."
And for the first time since arriving in the ninja world
Otsutsuki Reishi felt genuine fear.