"Enough..."
Star Platinum smashed down with a punch, cutting off Toneri's words.
"I said enough!"
Tidal-wave-like chakra fluctuations surged out. The madness and killing intent in Toneri's eyes reached their peak, and thick black-red blood streaked across his face, making him look like a deranged demon.
The time for simultaneously summoning two six-star Stands ended. Toneri finally broke free of the gravity seal, rose into the air, and his chakra burned, turning into bright green that covered his entire body.
"This is…"
Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
Toneri had to admit, Ryosuke really had some skills. If he wasn't careful, he really would've fallen into Ryosuke's hands.
"But don't get cocky, lower life-form."
A chakra sphere condensed in Toneri's palm. He stared fixedly at Ryosuke, "A human can't possibly kill a god!"
Ryosuke… didn't listen to Toneri's rambling.
He and Star Platinum tightened their fists at the same time.
A very strange feeling.
Earlier, a few of Star Platinum's punches grazed Toneri's skin and landed on him, and the sensation was bizarre.
Stiff, rigid, not like a living person.
Ryosuke thought for half a second before giving up on thinking it through. An alien, never mind strange texture, even being a silicon-based lifeform or plasma lifeform wasn't impossible.
Star Platinum grabbed Ryosuke's arm, turned, and flung him. Ryosuke shot toward Toneri.
Kill him first, and then hand the body to the research institute.
Both of them were pure killing intent to the extreme. Tremendous booms echoed through the sky, and from time to time, they each crashed into the town below, shattering large swaths of buildings.
Suddenly, a green chakra sphere hit Ryosuke, piercing through his shoulder.
"Help!" Tsunade shouted loudly.
The five who had come to assist were about to charge in when Toneri glanced at them, clicked his tongue, raised a hand, and pointed, "Trash, don't bother me!"
"Summoning Technique!"
BOOM!
The earth suddenly bulged upward. Bright green chakra burst from the ground like vines breaking through soil. The next second, a hundred-meter-tall humanoid stone statue slowly rose from underground.
Stone fragments rained down. Its shadow covered the entire city. Like an ancient deity descending, its presence crushed the five Kage-level fighters until they couldn't breathe.
Toneri glanced at the five fighting the statue and mocked, "Want to guess which of you and your companions will be the first to die?"
What answered him was a sudden downpour.
Tens of thousands of raindrops fell, spinning along golden spiral trajectories.
Ryosuke, hidden within the rain by Catch the Rainbow, formed again. Weather Report lifted Ryosuke's body, and with his summoning, bolts of lightning burst out, carried by the rain as they shot toward Toneri.
Seeing the killing intent in Ryosuke's eyes, Toneri's smile twisted into anger.
A lower species.
He actually thought he could kill him?
Bright green chakra exploded around Toneri's body. He raised his hand and guided the chakra spheres behind him. Three chakra spheres spun, crashed, and merged in the air.
In an instant, golden light surged out, forming into an enormous chakra lightsaber that pierced straight through the clouds. Rain and lightning were entirely swept away.
Black, foul-smelling blood flowed again from Toneri's eyes, clearly showing this strike was a furious, killing move.
"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"
A kilometer-long lightsaber slashed straight down toward Ryosuke.
From their earlier clash, Toneri knew Ryosuke had a special space-time ninjutsu that could only be used once in a short time.
This attack was a feint, once Ryosuke used his time-stop, the moment he reappeared would be when he died!
Ryosuke didn't dodge.
He slid his fingers through the air, drawing two ripples that formed a "gap." A massive blade shot out from the gap, and Ryosuke caught it in one hand.
Ruin Greatsword.
Seeing this, Tsunade and Mei, who knew the situation, felt their pupils contract.
Ryosuke was going to ignore his injuries and forcefully use all his power.
Hiss!
Ruin Greatsword spewed out crimson-gold flames. Crystal-like plates formed from highly condensed ripples surged like a blizzard around the blade, adding a biting sharpness to the enormous iron-forged weapon.
BOOM!
Ruin Greatsword collided with the chakra lightsaber high in the sky.
After a brief halt, light poured down like long whips, tearing open countless fissures across the land, the mountains, and even distant rivers.
Mountains collapsed, clouds churned violently.
Tsunade and the others stared blankly at the doomsday-like scene, their hearts lodged in their throats.
With Ryosuke's physical condition, this attack might... their thoughts cut off.
Up in the sky, Ryosuke's blade was pressing down on the lightsaber, and the lightsaber was being cut apart bit by bit.
"Why?"
Tsunade knew Ryosuke's physical condition best. There was no way he could sustain combat on this scale.
Suddenly, Tsunade noticed, half of the cracks on Ryosuke's skin had disappeared at some unknown time. Only a small portion remained, and they were flowing… toward the wound on his shoulder.
The wound Toneri's chakra sphere had pierced.
Sensing the faint energy fluctuation, Tsunade instantly understood, "Toneri's spheres have an energy-absorbing effect. Ryosuke deliberately didn't heal the wound to let the enemy absorb his excess energy!"
Toneri noticed it too.
He felt the enormous, violent energy being absorbed and couldn't believe Ryosuke had been fighting him while carrying such a burden?
"Now!"
A noticed Toneri's distraction and leapt into the sky.
In the past three years, his severed limb had long been reattached. Combined with his already physique-focused fighting style, his strength hadn't dropped much at all.
Lightning chakra covered his whole body, and like a bolt of lightning, A punched straight at Toneri.
He would use Toneri's death to announce his return to the world.
"Get lost."
Toneri backhanded a slap. A had no room to resist, he was blown away, crashed heavily into the ground, spat blood, and his mind went blank except for one thought, "Ryosuke is fighting this kind of monster!"
Fighting?
No, A was wrong.
It was complete suppression.
Bang!
Ruin Greatsword completely severed the lightsaber. Countless light fragments burst like fireworks, and within the dazzling display, Toneri saw Ryosuke's eyes.
Pitch-black, like the abyss of hell.
Toneri's heart trembled.
"Golden Wh..."
"Star Platinum: The World!"
Time stopped.
Ryosuke rolled his shoulder.
There, that felt much better.
The dragon vein energy had been weighing him down this whole time. Now, he could finally swing his blade properly.
He and Star Platinum exchanged a glance, one taking each side as they stood before Toneri.
One man and one Stand took a deep breath together, and then...
"ORAA ORAA ORAA ORAA!"
Fists and blade poured down like a storm.
Time resumed.
Toneri's entire body exploded. The bright green chakra cloak shattered. His skin and flesh ripped open from top to bottom. He was blasted away and slammed into the giant stone statue he'd summoned.
The massive impact knocked even the hundred-meter statue over.
Dust rolled out. Toneri gritted his teeth, trying to stand, but a foot stomped onto his chest.
Ryosuke stared at him coldly, "I knew something was wrong earlier. The feeling was too strange. So that's it..."
Under Toneri's clothes was a dried-up corpse.
This wasn't Toneri's real body. It was a puppet he was remotely controlling.
Not an ordinary puppet, though.
Because the eyes were real, and the Otsutsuki bloodline was real.
Ryosuke thought of the captured Hyuga Hiashi, Hinata, and Hanabi. It seemed Toneri had used one pair of their Byakugan to make this puppet.
As for the Otsutsuki bloodline…
Ryosuke lifted the puppet's facial disguise with the tip of his blade.
Underneath was a male corpse that looked seventy to eighty percent like Toneri.
Ryosuke had fought Sasori before, he recognized puppets made from human corpses.
And this male corpse clearly wasn't made immediately after death. It had died, been buried underground for quite some time, dug up again, and then made into a puppet.
Ryosuke guessed the situation, "To avoid taking risks himself, he dug his father out of the grave, sent him to the ninja world, and now the body's in pieces."
Ryosuke stared at Toneri through the puppet's face.
"You're really filial."
Toneri clenched his teeth so hard they crackled.
He really had underestimated Ryosuke, underestimated the ninja world, thinking a puppet and a giant statue would be enough to kill him.
If not for the fact that he still hadn't fully fused with the Tenseigan, he would've come personally.
Toneri was skilled in puppet arts.
Connected by paternal blood and Hanabi's Byakugan, the power of the Tenseigan could easily be transmitted, letting the puppet unleash power no weaker than Toneri himself.
He had thought this battle would be effortless.
Now, being stepped on by the lower life-form he despised, Toneri growled, "Ryosuke, you'll regret this! You'll regret not choosing to die by my hand! I will..."
Toneri couldn't finish.
Unlike Toneri, who was obsessed with spouting threats…
Ryosuke simply stared at him. His cold gaze made Toneri's skin crawl, forcing him to clamp his mouth shut uncontrollably.
Ryosuke lightly patted Toneri's shoulder, speaking calmly like an old friend, "Wait for me on the moon."
With that simple sentence, Toneri felt a chill run down his spine.
He wanted to say something more, but Ruin Greatsword came down like a guillotine.
Toneri's father's head rolled away.
He ended up not dying in peace.
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