Gulp.
"S-Such a massive Tailed Beast Bomb..."
"It was transferred away just like that?"
At the observation point, Hiruko's puppet tail quickly twitched.
It even rubbed at the puppet's eyes, as if unable to believe what it had just seen.
Inside the puppet, Sasori of the Red Sand also rubbed his own eyes.
As someone who had fought a Tailed Beast before, he understood better than anyone how terrifying a Tailed Beast Bomb was.
Yet such a terrifying Tailed Beast Bomb had been transferred away without causing even the slightest ripple?
Was this a joke?
Did he think that thing was a splash of water that would pop if poked?
However, his shock did not end there.
Instead, when he saw what happened next, his entire body went stiff.
Even though his current body was entirely a puppet, he still felt phantom pain.
That was—
Hundreds of strikes.
Thousands of strikes.
And the contact surface was a barbed tail!
Every single strike could scrape a layer of flesh straight off a body.
Thousands of strikes...
Gulp.
Sasori swallowed another mouthful of nonexistent saliva.
Looking at the small figure in the distance, he felt a chill crawl through him.
This person...
Could not be provoked.
"Haa..."
"He... he blocked it..."
At this moment, Mei Terumi had completely collapsed onto the ground.
Beneath the black cloak, her delicate body was drenched in fragrant sweat.
Even her inner clothing had been soaked through.
Just now, she had nearly believed the village was truly going to disappear.
But now...
Her heart had finally settled back into her chest.
All of this was because of her hard work!
She had worked hard to find a powerful backer!
Thinking of this, she couldn't help raising her head to look at Kai a hundred meters away.
Her beautiful eyes were filled with the figure of that young boy.
However, when she saw Hidan being used as a shield and hammered into a meat pancake, she snorted coldly.
"Serves you right!"
"That's what you get for running your mouth!"
After cursing him inwardly, another thought arose in her mind.
"But... Master said this guy has an immortal body..."
"Can he still recover after being hammered into meat paste?"
Could he?
The answer was yes.
Kai had only just learned that himself.
As he rotated the meat pancake in his hand, he looked at the prompt before him.
His eyes grew brighter and brighter.
[Ding! Akatsuki member Hidan defeated. Attempting to analyze traits...]
[Currently Copyable Traits: Jashinist Believer (Black), Immortal Body (Gold), Curse Ritual: Curse Art: Designated Curse (Gold), Curse Art: Death Controlling Possessed Blood (Gold), Fear Beyond Death (Purple)...]
"So these are Hidan's traits?"
"As expected, aside from Immortal Body, he doesn't have any particularly powerful abilities."
As he continued looking, the light in Kai's eyes gradually calmed.
Putting everything else aside, the only special trait was Jashinist Believer.
That was useless to him.
What was he supposed to do after copying it?
Go around developing believers every day?
Wake up one morning as some kind of cult leader?
Uchiha Kai shook his head.
Then his gaze shifted to another trait.
Immortal Body.
Strictly speaking, Immortal Body was the trait he had been looking forward to more.
That way, even if he truly encountered some accident one day—
Like being dismembered or suffering irreversible injuries—
He would still have Immortal Body as insurance.
For example...
Someone painstakingly researched the weakness of Body of Light, perfectly timed the bug, and managed to injure him.
Only to realize, before they could even celebrate, that the blade they stabbed into him hadn't even left a hole.
[Ding! Copy successful. Congratulations, Host has obtained Legendary Trait: Curse Art: Death Controlling Possessed Blood (Gold)!]
[Curse Art: Death Controlling Possessed Blood (Gold): After activation, you may establish a barrier within three feet of your body. Damage suffered inside the barrier can be reflected onto the victim.]
[Note: The victim's blood is required for activation.]
"It actually copied Death Controlling Possessed Blood?"
Seeing this trait, the light in Kai's eyes dimmed further.
Since the day he was born, the worst injury he had ever suffered was the stomachache he got after eating food Sasuke had cooked.
Aside from that, he had practically never been injured.
And now, he had been given a trait that involved mutual destruction with someone else?
No matter how he looked at it, it sounded painful.
Therefore, Kai barely hesitated.
He prepared to directly feed this trait away.
But the moment he was about to do so—
His entire body suddenly paused.
A question surfaced in his mind.
Damage was damage, right?
Then did it count as damage as long as something stabbed into him?
If he activated Body of Light and stabbed himself a few times...
Would that count as damage or not?
Or even further—
After activating the ritual, if he used Body of Light and transformed into light without dying...
Then what would happen to the victim?
Would they also transform into light through Body of Light?
But for a victim without the system...
After turning into light...
How would they recover?
This curse mark only reflected damage.
It didn't say anything about healing injuries.
At that thought—
Kai's eyes suddenly lit up.
His large, bright eyes began scanning the surroundings.
The answer would be clear after testing it.
After looking around, Kai's gaze quickly landed on Sasori of the Red Sand in the distance, whose puppet tail was still swaying.
Although that guy's body was full of puppetry mechanisms—
Getting a few drops of heart blood shouldn't be too difficult.
Just as Kai was thinking this—
A roar suddenly sounded behind him again.
It was the Three-Tails!
After stabbing so many times, the Three-Tails had finally reached its limit.
It roared furiously and charged downward.
Its pressure was average.
But the sound was enormous.
So loud it was unbearable.
Kai casually tossed the meat-pancake Hidan aside and glanced at the Three-Tails unhappily.
"You really are rushing to your death."
Then he abruptly raised his right hand.
Buzz!
Clatter!
In an instant, a pitch-black chain that devoured all light appeared out of thin air.
It carried an ominous aura capable of consuming everything.
Ignoring space.
Ignoring speed.
It appeared above the Three-Tails' head in an instant.
Infinite Lock!
Puchi!
The crimson tip of the chain stabbed directly toward the Three-Tails' head.
More accurately—
Toward the Three-Tails' nose.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
The Three-Tails howled toward the sky.
It could sense the danger and discomfort coming from that chain.
But precisely because of that, its instincts drove it to roar even more frantically.
The sharp spikes above and below its head instantly closed together.
Like a clam protecting itself from danger.
But...
Even if this was the hardest part of the Three-Tails' body—
Before that crimson spike, it was useless.
It only resisted for an instant before being pierced straight through.
Infinite Lock stabbed viciously into its head.
From top to bottom—
It pierced through its mouth.
"Awooo!!! Wuuu!!!"
The Three-Tails' world-destroying momentum was instantly torn apart.
All that remained was a twisted wail.
Like an old ox with a rope through its nose.
Completely helpless.
"Since you're so eager to die..."
"Let's see what kind of pill you can be refined into."
Below, Uchiha Kai casually beckoned.
In his palm, a pitch-black chakra vortex quietly appeared.
Buzz.
Buzz.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Very soon, massive amounts of water-like chakra began emerging from the Three-Tails' body.
All of it flowed toward Kai's palm and condensed there.
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