My friend, have you ever seen Ultraman in the world of Naruto?
On this day... Ren Uchiha did!
At the exact moment he swung the Limit Blade: Octo-Million Godly Pressure, an inexplicable sense of impending doom echoed in Ren's heart. A sudden chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to his skull, instantly cooling his brain which had been overheating from the intensity of the battle.
Ren's expression hardened. He snapped his head up—
The clouds in the sky had, at some point, spiraled together into a thick, swirling mass. They hung low like the face of a hellish demon, looking down with cold judgment.
Then, the heavens spat out a roar of fury:
—CRACK!
A bolt of lightning tore through the gloom, crossing thousands of miles in an instant, carrying an old man as it plummeted like a projectile!
He descended in a heart-pumping posture—
One arm raised, four fingers pressed together, the other hand held over his beating heart.
It was exactly like a damn Ultraman transformation!
Under Ren's horrified gaze, the old man let out a thunderous roar, his four fingers striking down like a blade!
"—HELL STAB: FOUR-FINGER NUKITE!!"
With that roar, concentrated spheres of pitch-black lightning gathered at his fingertips and slammed violently into the massive flame sword.
Then, lightning exploded across the sky, spider-webbing in every direction. Layer upon layer of air was crushed and detonated. The sheer weight of the pressure traveled down the length of the blade, crushing Ren. He let out a muffled groan and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Cough! Pfft!"
"What the hell?! What's going on?!"
Ren's face twisted. He twisted his torso, lifting a leg to stomp down heavily! This weight-laden stomp caused even the Two-Tails' head to tilt, making the beast roar in instinctive anger.
Ren acted as the central hub connecting the Tailed Beast's colossal strength to the flame sword. Relying on his ridiculous physique, he endured the agony of his skin splitting and bleeding, and his bones creaking with a sharp, sour sound. Mid-air, he forcibly altered the giant sword's trajectory, swinging it upward in a desperate counter-slash!
Feeling the terrifying force vibrating through the blade—a force that threatened to grind a person into pulp—the burly old man within the falling black lightning arched an eyebrow. A flash of surprise crossed his eyes.
This Uchiha youth's physical strength... is actually this impressive?!
But he quickly suppressed his surprise, his fierce eyes returning to a state of calm indifference. In the next instant, of the four fingers currently clashing with the giant sword, he quietly tucked two away!
With that simple motion, the black lightning dancing through the air surged violently, becoming thicker, more robust, and more majestic!
Zzzzzzt—!!
Emanating from a needle-sharp point, the branch-like black lightning expanded more than tenfold, generating a piercing power far beyond the limits of humanity!
Two fingers lunged forward!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A series of shrill explosions rang out. Dense cracks instantly appeared at the point where the fingers met the blade.
Then—
"—BOOM!!"
In a world-shaking explosion, the sixty-meter-long giant blade of flame was pierced from tip to hilt by those two tiny fingers! It dissolved into a sky full of wild embers, collapsing and falling like rain.
The black lightning didn't lose its momentum, shooting down and slamming into the cliffs of the Valley of Hell!
In an instant, a ring of fire erupted, pushing aside endless smoke and dust, expanding outward in a frantic, widening circle!
The sheer, brutal impact was too much even for a Tailed Beast. The Two-Tails was knocked off its feet, tumbling to the ground!
"Pfft, ugh!"
Hurled to the earth, Ren struggled to crawl up, wiping more blood from his lips. The shattering of the flame sword had instantly drained eighty percent of his chakra, and the violent backlash had sent his internal organs into disarray. He was riddled with internal bleeding and deep bruising.
A normal person suffering such damage would have had their neck snap and died on the spot.
Fortunately, between his Forbidden Jutsu: Physical Rebirth and his immortal body, he managed to endure injuries that no human should be able to survive.
He shook his head, rattling the dust from his brain. Before he could even process what had happened, the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end!
He snapped his head up, peering through the wall of flames and the shroud of smoke and dust!
"He's coming!"
His crimson Sharingan could only catch a blur—no, a streak of light—darting through the curtain of dust.
Suddenly, the distance closed from far to near. Pitch-black lightning pierced through the wall of fire, shooting toward the back of his skull!
At this moment, an elbow strike capable of perfectly detonating Ren's head was less than a centimeter away from his neck!
In that split second, Ren's eyes snapped wide, the veins around his sockets bulging.
"Now!"
His crimson Sharingan instantly transformed into eerie, slitted snake pupils! A 360-degree seamless field of vision expanded in a heartbeat! Gathering the natural energy stored within his eyes, he unleashed an undifferentiated ocular jutsu upon everything in range!
"Sage Art: Sharingan: White Rage Pupil—Illusory Kaiten!"
Theoretically, Ren's eyes could now perceive a full 360-degree sphere. Illusory Kaiten, as the name implied, was an undifferentiated ocular illusion that targeted every heat-bearing organism within a five-meter radius of his perfect infrared vision. It required a massive amount of natural energy to trigger.
This was a Sage Art Genjutsu created by Ren himself—one he was certain no one could dodge!
In that moment, through his enhanced vision, Ren finally saw the full appearance of his attacker.
The man possessed a body of explosive, perfect muscle. The large Kumo flak jacket looked like a tight-fitting vest on him. Around his waist was a thick, straw-colored shimenawa rope. His messy white hair danced wildly behind his head like a demon!
It was the man Ren had seen in the original series—the Third Raikage, A, himself!
Seeing such a terrifying monster actually appear before him, Ren's heart sank. It truly was a case of the more you fear something, the more likely it is to appear!
However, fortunately, Ren's inescapable Genjutsu had already been unleashed! Next, he just had to—
But before Ren could even finish imagining how he would replicate Naruto's feat of defeating the Third Raikage—controlling the hallucinating Raikage into stabbing himself with his own Hell Stab: One-Finger Nukite—a gust of wind blasted toward his face!
A hazy image flickered before his eyes: An arm with muscles like cast iron and a green "Lightning" (雷) tattoo on the biceps was reaching out to crush his throat, intent on lifting him like a chick and slamming him into the ground.
Alarm bells screamed in Ren's head! He couldn't see it clearly, couldn't sense it, and even that hazy image was just a projection of his own intuition!
Yet, in that moment, he instinctively chose the correct move.
With a side leap followed by a desperate roll, he tumbled away. As he finished the move, he looked up, his eyes widening in shock.
The massive arm, exactly as his intuition had predicted, tore through the drifting black smoke and fire!
It had reached out to crush the exact spot where Ren's throat had been a millisecond before!
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