The latter was out of the question. Izuna didn't even understand the principle of creating a Jinchuriki, and besides, he had no desire to imprison a beast inside his own body. Even if he couldn't capture the Eight-Tails, he had to at least confirm if his current ocular power was sufficient to control it.
The Mangekyo Sharingan blazed in both his eyes.
"An evil Chakra... it has a similar feel to the old Sage's."
The moment both Mangekyo appeared, the Eight-Tails instinctively sensed a crisis.
Across from it, Izuna suddenly moved, charging straight toward it.
*Is this human insane?* the Eight-Tails thought, watching Izuna run directly at it. It was no wonder it thought so. A human daring to face a Tailed Beast head-on? In the world of ninja, human bodies weren't that different from those on the Earth of Izuna's past life. The only reason they could perform such fantastical feats was because of one thing—Chakra. Without it, they were no different from ordinary people. But even with Chakra enhancement, very few ninja dared to take on a monster like a Tailed Beast directly.
The Eight-Tails didn't dwell on it. It had flattened the canyon, granting it a wide field of vision. It simply swung a fist.
*Swoosh!*
The moment the punch flew, Izuna had already dodged to the right, evading the fist. As it smashed into the ground, he kicked off and leaped onto its arm.
The future-predicting power of his left eye!
"You little brat, scurrying everywhere!" the Eight-Tails roared in frustration, its tails lashing out from behind.
But Izuna was a step faster.
Tears of blood trickled from his right eye as he focused on the Eight-Tails' head. "Amaterasu!"
Instinctively sensing a fatal threat, the sweeping tail changed its trajectory mid-swing, forming a shield in front of the beast's face and blocking the Amaterasu in the nick of time.
"Ugh!"
Feeling the searing pain in its tail, the Eight-Tails gritted its teeth and slammed the appendage onto the ground, trying to extinguish the flames. But even smashing the earth with its tail couldn't stop the Amaterasu from spreading.
"Damn it!"
Left with no other choice, the Eight-Tails severed its own tail to prevent the black flames from reaching a critical part of its body.
"You've shown me an opening, Eight-Tails!"
Izuna threw a Flying Thunder God Kunai. As the Amaterasu distracted the beast, he used the technique to flash directly in front of it, their eyes meeting.
*Glare!*
The "man" character-shaped tomoe in Izuna's eyes were reflected in the Eight-Tails' pupils. In that instant, the Eight-Tails felt its surroundings change. The plains and mountains vanished, replaced by an inky darkness where it couldn't see its own hand in front of its face. The next moment, countless golden spikes pierced its body. Above, a full moon shone, reflecting the same "man" character Mangekyo pattern he had just seen in Izuna's eyes.
*Will it work?*
In the real world, Izuna's eyes remained locked on the Eight-Tails, continuously pouring the ocular power of his genjutsu into the monster. Slowly, the tomoe pattern of the Sharingan began to appear in the Eight-Tails' white pupils.
"Mooooo!"
The Eight-Tails let out a bellow. It clapped its palms together, and the Chakra within its body erupted like a flash flood, shaking the very earth. The faint outline of the Sharingan that had just appeared in its eyes was instantly shattered.
*He broke the Mangekyo Sharingan's genjutsu by disrupting his own Chakra?!*
Izuna immediately leaped off the Eight-Tails' nose. *So even a Mangekyo's genjutsu can't control a monster of this level unless it's evolved into an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan?*
"You dare try to control the great Gyuki! You bastard! You utter bastard!"
This time, the Eight-Tails was truly enraged. The attempt to control it was an unforgivable insult. Its massive mouth opened, and the surrounding Chakra began to converge there, gradually forming a dark purple sphere of energy.
That was... a Tailed Beast Bomb!
A technique that surpassed S-rank ninjutsu, a ultimate move that could only be blocked by something on the level of a Perfect Susanoo or Senju Hashirama's Wood Release: Wood Human Technique.
"Die, you damn human!"
The Eight-Tails violently swung its head, and the Tailed Beast Bomb at its mouth shot forward as a beam of dark purple light, blasting toward Izuna. It carved a bottomless trench in the ground that rapidly extended forward. Finally, after traveling for an unknown number of miles, it exploded into a hemispherical wave of energy.
*BOOM!*
A mushroom cloud slowly billowed up into the sky in the distance.
"Hmph..." The Eight-Tails was still in a foul mood, but it figured that annoying human must be dead now.
"Impressive power."
A cold voice suddenly entered its ear, and the Eight-Tails' expression changed drastically. It whipped its head toward the sound. There was Izuna, standing by its lower right abdomen, his right hand pressed against its belly. He had clearly dodged the Tailed Beast Bomb!
*That teleportation jutsu? Impossible! I didn't see him throw a kunai!*
Izuna removed his right hand from the Eight-Tails' skin. A seal made of script was printed there.
A Flying Thunder God marker! He had placed it there earlier with the Great Ball Rasengan!
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