"Hmph, old man, who are you calling weak?" Ai smiled and cracked his neck.
He had seen Ōnoki push himself back to his feet, and compared to that old man's resolve, the Fourth Raikage felt no less awakened himself.
Then his gaze shifted straight toward Namikaze Kirito, killing intent flickering in his eyes.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Namikaze Kirito was left a little speechless.
Why does this feel like I'm the final villain here?
Was it really that hard to just want to rule the world?
At that thought, Namikaze Kirito raised a hand and rubbed his forehead.
It seemed that from beginning to end, everything he had done really did make him look like the villain.
Then, on purpose, he pulled a savage grin across his face.
"Come on. All of you, together."
The sheer arrogance in his expression instantly ignited the fighting spirit of every Cloud shinobi present.
"He's wide open, brat!" Ōnoki shouted first.
The old Tsuchikage shot into the sky at once, flying straight toward Namikaze Kirito.
Ai cloaked himself in Lightning Release Chakra Mode and charged right after him.
The Cloud shinobi followed closely behind their Raikage, and Samui drew her short sword, rushing in behind him like a loyal blade at his back.
"Lightning Release: Earth Flow Wave!"
"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
"Earth Release: Earth Dragon!"
"Water Release: Iron Cannon!"
In an instant, an overwhelming torrent of ninjutsu swept toward Namikaze Kirito.
"Storm Release: Laser Circus!"
…
Countless ninjutsu vanished like bubbles.
Faced with that flood of attacks, Namikaze Kirito did not even feel the urge to absorb them. The chakra in his body had long since recovered.
That was the advantage of a Sage Body. His chakra reserves would not run dry so easily.
Even after using Yomotsu Hirasaka and draining most of his chakra, it had already replenished itself again in such a short time.
And while the barrage of ninjutsu disappeared, Ai had already used that opening to close in.
Boom!
His right fist shot forward, only to be blocked directly by Namikaze Kirito.
A moment later, a whip kick followed, and Ai was sent flying back on the spot.
Samui did not panic in the slightest.
Lightning Release chakra surged into the short sword in her hand as she slashed straight toward Namikaze Kirito's neck.
Clang!
Black Armament Haki coated his neck, and Samui's blade struck it as though it had slammed into solid steel. Sparks burst outward, but it failed to leave even the slightest mark.
Just as Namikaze Kirito knocked Samui back into the air, countless Cloud shinobi had already arrived around him.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Namikaze Kirito moved through the crowd like a machine built purely for combat.
Every punch sent several Cloud shinobi collapsing, their bodies thrown aside and their fighting strength shattered in an instant.
This was a feast of taijutsu.
He was not using any special ability at all.
Just fists. Just kicks.
Simple, brutal, absolute.
Up in the air, Ōnoki circled while searching for the right moment to strike.
If he used Dust Release now, the Cloud shinobi around Namikaze Kirito would likely be caught in it as well. Not that Ōnoki was especially merciful, but he knew better than anyone that an ordinary Dust Release attack might not be enough to kill Namikaze Kirito.
He needed a single opening.
One chance to finish him in one blow.
At that moment, Namikaze Kirito's terrifying physical strength was on full display.
The punches and kicks of the Cloud shinobi barely seemed to matter even when they landed on him.
But every strike from him was catastrophic.
A single punch was enough to break bones and crush organs, and the unlucky ones died on the spot.
Watching his subordinates get slaughtered so ruthlessly, Ai's anger flared even higher.
He charged in again without hesitation.
"Liger Bomb!"
Like a bolt of blue lightning, Ai appeared right in front of Namikaze Kirito.
He bent his arm sharply and drove it forward in a savage lariat.
When used together with Killer B, this technique could tear a person's head clean off.
Using it alone, its power was naturally lower.
But it was still one of the Raikage's deadliest attacks.
Namikaze Kirito showed no intention of dodging.
Instead, he copied Ai's posture and smashed his own arm forward.
Boom!
The two arms collided head-on, and the shockwave blasted the nearby Cloud shinobi away.
Ai's eyes widened.
At the moment of impact, he had clearly heard the sound of bones cracking.
And he knew without question that it was not Namikaze Kirito's bones that had broken.
It was his own.
Namikaze Kirito's strike did not stop for even a second.
Ai's entire body was blown away, smashing through several Cloud shinobi as blood sprayed from his mouth and he tumbled backward with them.
At that very moment, Ōnoki's eyes flashed in the sky.
A cone-shaped mass of Dust Release formed instantly between his hands.
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"
The inverted cone blasted straight toward Namikaze Kirito.
Boom!
A deafening explosion rang out.
"What…?"
Ōnoki stared in disbelief.
At some point, Namikaze Kirito had already appeared in the air right in front of him, smiling as if he had all the time in the world.
"So you can fly too…"
Boom!
Before Ōnoki could finish, Namikaze Kirito drove a punch straight into his face.
This blow carried the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
If Ōnoki had not reinforced himself with Earth Release at the last possible moment, that strike might have blown his head clean apart.
But even with his defenses strengthened, the terrifying shock force still caved in the right side of his cheek.
Losing control of his balance in midair, Ōnoki fell from the sky and was barely caught by the Cloud shinobi below.
Then they saw Namikaze Kirito hovering above them all, looking down like a god passing judgment.
"Ōnoki, does a little flying really make you feel safe?"
He paused, then smiled coldly.
"Oh, right. Since I've started the Fourth Shinobi War…"
"Let me give you an opening gift."
Darkness began to surge from Namikaze Kirito's body.
It spread rapidly into the sky, swallowing the light overhead.
Before long, the once-clear heavens had gone dim.
"What is that…?"
"You've got to be joking…"
"No human should be able to do this!"
"Is this… the end?"
A massive meteorite began descending from the sky.
This was not Madara Uchiha's Tengai Shinsei from the original war.
Rather, Namikaze Kirito had used the gravity of his enhanced Dark-Dark Fruit to drag down a fragment of a meteorite from above.
But the result was no different.
The battlefield had once been the site of Amegakure, but it had long since been reduced to wasteland.
Using a technique like this here brought Namikaze Kirito no hesitation at all.
The gigantic meteorite continued its slow descent, and the Cloud shinobi completely lost the will to fight.
How were they supposed to battle something like that?
Samui looked up at the falling mass in despair, then dropped to her knees.
The moment Ōnoki regained consciousness and saw that sight, his expression darkened.
Without a word, he flew straight toward the meteorite.
The instant his hands pressed against its surface, the smell of scorched flesh filled the air.
Even with Earth Release protecting him, his skin was still burning beneath the heat of the meteorite.
But there was no time to cry out in pain.
Ōnoki gathered every last shred of chakra in his body and poured it into both hands.
"Earth Release: Ultra-Lightweight Rock Technique!"
Boom!
With a heavy muffled sound, the meteorite's descent visibly slowed.
Then, little by little, it began to halt in midair.
Ai forced himself back to his feet as well.
As long as Ōnoki had not fallen, there was no way he would allow himself to be the first to lose the will to fight.
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