Is Gamabunta Too Weak to Lift His Sword?

"Quite a spectacle!"

Yamanaka Kei stood atop the volcano at the center of the island.

One hand shading his eyes, he watched Summoning Island descend into chaos, clicking his tongue in amazement.

Perhaps the Ultimate Summoning Beast in the laboratory had triggered, on a genetic level, the instinctive sense of crisis that island creatures felt when encountering a natural predator.

From the moment its first roar spread across the island, the creatures had gone mad.

Most of the weaker creatures were cowed by its aura and fled toward the shoreline.

Even those that could not swim leaped into the sea, seeking the slightest chance of survival.

Meanwhile, the stronger beasts—or simply the more bad-tempered ones—gathered together and charged toward the Ultimate Summoning Beast.

They looked as though they intended to perish alongside it.

Several birds of prey, some large and some small, circled directly above the volcanic crater.

As they watched Yamanaka Kei standing on the summit beside the crater, they continuously let out agitated cries.

They had clearly sensed the danger, yet were unwilling to leave.

"Shriek~"

A falcon-like bird of prey, its eyes blazing red and its body far smaller than those of its companions, lost patience.

After beating its wings repeatedly to accelerate, it folded them tight and shot toward Yamanaka Kei like an arrow.

"Heh~ You were the one bullying Xiao Hei yesterday, weren't you?"

Yamanaka Kei immediately recognized the falcon-like predator. It was large enough to carry two adults, and as fast as lightning.

When he had previously scouted the island with his crow summons,

he had encountered many ferocious beasts and birds that tried to intercept and hunt them, but this bird of prey, resembling a Peregrine Falcon, had left the deepest impression on him.

Though it was less than a fifth the size of those giant creatures flying in the sky,

both its strength and speed far surpassed those of its kind!

With one talon, it could crush a tree trunk as thick as a human head. Its sharp beak could easily pierce rock.

As for speed, it was fast enough to make one's scalp tingle!

If the crow had not been small and nimble, and if his skills had not been good enough to control it through all sorts of extreme maneuvers in the dense forest,

the little crows he had raised for years would have long since become fresh bird droppings.

Whoosh!

The sharp sound of tearing air continuously rang out as the Peregrine Falcon dove.

Yamanaka Kei stared straight into its eyes, while the Peregrine Falcon's sharp avian gaze locked onto him as well!

Ninja Art: Mind Transfer Clone Technique.

Caw~

Under the Yamanaka Clan's secret technique,

the Peregrine Falcon, charging in a straight line, was caught without surprise.

Its neck tilted, and it changed direction.

Then, under Yamanaka Kei's control, it continuously flapped its wings to slow down, eventually landing slowly beside him.

Fortunately, creatures in the ninja world had far more cells and denser bones than those on Earth in his previous life.

Otherwise, trying to brake by wildly flapping its wings at such high speed would have left an ordinary bird with broken wing bones in minutes.

Sealing Technique: Four Limbs Heavy Seal!

The instant Yamanaka Kei released the Mind Transfer Clone Technique, he seamlessly followed up with the Four Limbs Heavy Seal.

The Hawk Falcon had not even recovered its senses before it was pressed flat against the ground, nearly vomiting up its organs.

"Caw~!" "Shriek~!" "Chirp~!"

The birds of prey flying in the sky exploded into uproar at the sight.

They all beat their wings, preparing to attack Yamanaka Kei, who had defeated their leader.

"Mm... the distance is about right."

Yamanaka Kei glanced at the herd of beasts that had already rushed halfway up the volcano and were about to reach the laboratory entrance, as well as the birds of prey preparing to dive.

He stopped waiting, formed hand seals with both hands, and unleashed a massive A-Rank Genjutsu.

Nirvana Temple Technique!

White feathers drifted down in a flurry, like heavy snow in a land of bitter cold.

His fully unleashed spiritual power expanded the range of the Nirvana Temple Technique—already classified as an A-Rank Genjutsu due to its immense casting range—to an astonishing extent!

With Yamanaka Kei as the center, feathers fell throughout a radius of one thousand meters!

The birds of prey circling overhead drooped their eyelids, spinning as they slowly fell.

The ferocious beasts charging around the volcano staggered, their movements slowing as they collapsed to the ground.

The beasts that entered Yamanaka Kei's casting range a moment later soon followed in the footsteps of those before them.

The insect calls gradually faded, and the birds and beasts fell silent.

In less than thirty seconds, the only sound left between heaven and earth was the rising and falling chorus of snores.

"Whew~"

Yamanaka Kei let out a breath of stale air, feeling that nearly a fifth of the Chakra in his body had been consumed.

He silently resolved that, if he had the chance in the future, he absolutely had to get a trait that increased Chakra.

A radius of one thousand meters was the limit of his current Nirvana Temple Technique.

Do not think that range was small.

Using the arena from Naruto and Sasuke's Chunin Exams in the original story as a reference—an area less than three hundred meters in length and width, stands included—

he alone could easily cover seven or eight such venues.

And in the original story, it had taken the combined efforts of the younger Yakushi Kabuto, some Sand Village ninja, and Otogakure ninja just to hypnotize the audience of one entire venue.

If such an exaggerated casting range appeared on a battlefield, it would be enough to influence the outcome of a large-scale battle!

Boom~!

Tremors and explosions came from inside the crater.

Yamanaka Kei narrowed his eyes and leaned over the crater's edge toward the source of the noise.

He saw the inner wall on one side of the volcano cracking apart under violent impacts.

After another fierce explosion and tremor,

the Ultimate Summoning Beast, which had mutated several times and grown a pair of fleshy wings on its back and strange horns on its head, was sent flying backward from the cracks.

It smashed violently into the inner wall on the other side of the volcano.

With his left arm wrapped around Uzumaki Honoka's slender waist, Namikaze Minato shot out from the hole.

With a flick of his right hand, he sent a Flying Thunder God Kunai straight toward Yamanaka Kei.

Meanwhile, carrying Uzumaki Honoka with him, he ran along the scorching rock of the volcano's inner wall and leaped above the Ultimate Summoning Beast's head just as it struggled to beat its wings and rise!

Adamantine Sealing Chains!

Rasengan!

Uzumaki Honoka's long-prepared Adamantine Sealing Chains firmly bound the Ultimate Summoning Beast's fleshy wings.

Namikaze Minato followed immediately, slamming an enlarged Rasengan fiercely into the Ultimate Summoning Beast's head.

Already beaten senseless,

the Ultimate Summoning Beast, whose internal energy had been exhausted by its constant regeneration and evolution, let out a miserable howl.

It plunged straight into the churning magma.

Flash~

Namikaze Minato's figure flickered.

He had already appeared beside Yamanaka Kei, holding Uzumaki Honoka in a princess carry.

Miserable screams continuously rose from below the volcano.

Amid rolling black smoke, scorching magma gradually swallowed the Ultimate Summoning Beast, which was too weak to resist.

And Minato still claimed he did not know how to pick up girls!

Seeing Namikaze Minato switch effortlessly from holding her by the waist one moment to carrying her in a princess hold the next, Yamanaka Kei nearly could not stop himself from shoving his middle finger in the man's face.

Damn it!

Damn it!

Wasn't this script even more perfect than he had imagined?

The male and female leads had joined hands to defeat a powerful monster. Wasn't that far more heart-fluttering than a simple hero saving a beauty?

Minato really knew how to charm a girl!

"Damn it! Is Gamabunta too weak to lift his sword now, or have Gamaken and Gamahiro gone on maternity leave?"

Yamanaka Kei cursed inwardly.

He truly had not expected

that Minato could make such good use of nothing more than an ugly little monster that had only recently been born and had not grown up at all.

If anyone ever called that guy a pure, innocent little flower again,

he would spit in their face!