"Hehe, just four of us, huh? Sounds perfect!"
Ryuuto shrugged, utterly calm despite being surrounded by enemies. His sharp eyes cut through the chaos, sneering at the Whip and Doctor Octopus with pure disdain.
"But if you want to see it differently, fine. We're here to send your little army straight to hell!"
"That's right! Captain, these useless fools are nothing to the X-Men! All of them will fall!" Bobby's voice rang with fierce determination.
Ryuuto's grin widened. "Finally—a real fight. Been a while since I got to go all out with the Captain, hehe."
Bobby and Steel instantly shifted into battle stance, eyes blazing. Gwen clenched her fists beside Ryuuto, eyes sharp and fearless.
"Good!" The Whip twisted angrily, glaring at Ryuuto. The memory of Ryuuto's previous strike haunted him, and he vowed revenge in the most painful way imaginable.
"Take care of these intruders! I want to see if they've got three heads or six arms!"
With a wild flourish, the Ten Thousands Snakes soldiers opened fire, bullets and shells screaming toward Ryuuto and his team. Doctor Octopus raised his metallic arms, wielding a laser-shower gun, aiming straight at Ryuuto's head.
"Do it! Watch your backs!"
The battlefield erupted.
"Shadow Clone Technique!" Ryuuto roared, summoning over twenty perfect duplicates, charging forward and drawing the bulk of the enemy fire. He slammed straight into the Whip and Doctor Octopus's line.
Bobby's hands whipped the air, freezing the factory floor into slick ice. Soldiers slid and tumbled helplessly.
Steel, his body a living tank, surged forward through hailstorms of bullets, utterly impervious. The remaining mercenaries faltered, fear gripping them as Ryuuto's team pressed on.
Gwen danced through the beams and derelict machinery, webs lashing, enemies toppling one by one.
"Impossible! Can't hit him!" Doctor Octopus gritted his teeth, firing desperately, but Ryuuto's speed made his shots useless, scattering the lasers harmlessly into the walls.
"Time to prove your loyalty!" The Whip screamed, his soldiers, eyes glowing crimson with fanaticism, rushed forward like killing machines.
Ryuuto leaped high, avoiding the incoming steel soldiers with an elegant arc midair. Switching seamlessly to Ohyemu's combat data, his boulder-like fists smashed through the advancing ranks, spikes erupting violently, unstoppable.
"Damn it! How is he still so strong?! Didn't Rose slow him down?" The Whip's panic showed as he hastily ripped off his armor bandages, desperately equipping new gear while shouting to Doctor Octopus:
"Keep him busy! This kid dies here!"
"No problem!" Doctor Octopus replied, firing frantically, oblivious to the fact that the Whip had already retreated.
"Scared, Ivan? Want to run?" Ryuuto called, brandishing his decapitation broadsword, slicing through the remaining steel soldiers with terrifying precision.
"Whip! You betrayed me?!" Doctor Octopus realized too late he'd been duped, trapped without retreat. In anger, he fired three laser shots in a row.
"Damn brat! Go to hell!" he roared, watching the fleeing Whip—but his rage turned to shock.
Before the beams could strike, Ryuuto vanished with high-speed movement, leaving only afterimages. A gust of wind swept past Doctor Octopus.
"You have no chance!" Doctor Octopus snarled, swinging his metallic limbs behind him—but a familiar smirk met him.
With a fully condensed shadow clone's chakra, Ryuuto appeared, Rasengan in hand, exuding overwhelming energy.
"No! You can't do this…" Doctor Octopus's eyes widened in horror. The Rasengan crushed through his four metallic claws, splitting them effortlessly.
The next instant, Ryuuto slammed the Rasengan into Doctor Octopus's chest. The villain arched violently, black blood spewing as he stared at Ryuuto in terror, unable to speak.
"Nothing in this world is beyond me. Eight lifetimes of cultivation—this is your reward." Ryuuto grinned, white teeth flashing, and lightly tapped Doctor Octopus's head, sending it crashing to the ground—finally, completely dead.