Chen and Momoshiki

Calm down. Don't be fooled by his abilities. This lowly creature may possess powers similar to Lord Urashiki of my clan, but in the end, he is nothing more than flesh and blood. If I so wished, I could destroy him in an instant...

Momoshiki admonished himself inwardly.

What he didn't know was that Chen harbored thoughts diametrically opposed to his own.

In my original plan, Momoshiki was meant to be fertilizer for the Ten-Tails, fed to it when the time came to cultivate the Chakra Fruit and turn it into the Divine Tree. Encounter and detain—that was the initial intention.

But the technique [Annihilation of the First Principle] showed me far more possibilities.

Letting Momoshiki off the hook here, allowing him to facilitate certain events, and then using my abilities to maximize the gains—that might not be the worse option after all.

--Divine Pursuit.

Just as Chen was weighing the merits of letting Momoshiki go, the latter transformed into a bolt of purple lightning and charged straight at Chen's face!

In that head-on rush, he swung the Crimson Crescent Blade of Wave God in his hand, unleashing a slashing technique from Wild Martial Fusion, and launched a decapitation strike at Chen!

Yes... speed alone is invincible!

Against anyone else, he might have succeeded, because 'Divine Pursuit' is truly fast. Kinshiki's Divine Pursuit had forced Sasuke to rely on Amenotejikara to evade.

Now, with Kinshiki absorbed, Momoshiki's 'Divine Pursuit' was as swift as lightning and flint!

Only someone with reflexes on the level of the Yellow Flash could have dodged it from the front.

Chen didn't have the Yellow Flash's reflexes, but he had Omodaru's Personal Barrier.

"Whoosh!" The crescent blade's edge, closing in to within a foot of his face, was slowed to the cutting speed of a gentle breeze!

"Foolish."

Chen leaned back to evade the blade's edge, and a single Amaterasu-no-Mikoto fired from his right eye annihilated the crescent blade in Momoshiki's hand into a red glow!

"What?!" As Momoshiki reeled in shock, the Kusanagi Sword at Chen's waist, wreathed in Purple Lightning, left its sheath!

"Clang!" The thick, rough left horn atop Momoshiki's forehead was severed from its tip by the blade's flash, spinning into the sky wreathed in crackling lightning!

--Toyomiketsunomikoto!

Then, before Momoshiki could steady his shaken nerves, a Susanoo fist descended from an oblique angle above, its wrist-cut trailing a silvery radiance, and smashed violently into Momoshiki's body!

"Boom!"

"Ah...!" Even with the diamond-hard body he'd gained from devouring Kinshiki, Momoshiki was wracked with excruciating pain from the Susanoo's fist, which struck with the speed of a meteor!

Momoshiki, if you were at full strength, you might have had a chance. But after being worn down by Uncle Madara like this, if you don't run, are you waiting for me to hand you a participation award? Is this what they call the dignity of a Person from the Heavens?

Chen followed Momoshiki's tumbling form, his right eye flashing repeatedly!

--Toyomiketsunomikoto Fist!

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" The second, third, fourth... one after another, without even a moment to catch a breath, they smashed into Momoshiki's body, until his form was pinned deep into the ravaged earth!

"How does this lowly creature possess such...!"

Chen landed on the ground.

"If you won't run, then fine. I'll use you to test the Rinnegan's abilities."

Chen's right pupil dilated, the black dot at its center contracted, and he clasped his hands before his chest! With a sharp cry!

--Chibaku Tensei!

"Outrageous...!" Momoshiki shoved aside the stones pressing down on him. Just as he was staggering to his feet, fissures erupted across the ground, spreading nearly a hundred meters. Massive slabs of rock and earth surged upward in a single mass, engulfing Momoshiki.

On the ruins of this Six Paths Tensei, where the ground had already sunk deep, Chen forcibly used the leftover debris to create another celestial body!

Then, the remnants of the Tengai Shinsei Madara had summoned earlier were also torn apart and drawn in, further expanding the size of the new celestial body!

"Boom!" As the dust settled, the Chibaku Tensei, following the rise of Chen's raised palm, floated into position beneath that Six Paths Tensei.

"Oh?" Atop the Demonic Statue, Madara looked up at the celestial body, a pleased smile curling at the corner of his mouth. "Though its scale is merely average, the highlight is using the target as the 'core' of the Chibaku Tensei. To have reached this level so soon after awakening the Rinnegan—the younger generation is truly formidable."

Chen had held back. With his current chakra, if he had put his full effort into it, he could have at least doubled the size of the Chibaku Tensei.

Surely, this would make Momoshiki back down in the face of difficulty, wouldn't it?

"ROOOOOOAR... Inukai Kenmei!"

But a thunderous roar erupted, and eight canine heads burst through the celestial body's barrier, spewing molten lava and blazing flames as they howled down toward Chen...

"You reckless bastard..." Chen cursed with a laugh.

Toyomiketsunomikoto, directly unseal Shikkotsurin Sage Mode!

"Zzzt!" The color of his Rinnegan sclera shifted from pale purple to dark violet, while the dark silver eye shadow remained unchanged.

--Mizuha-no-Mikoto!

"Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!"

Each sound marked the activation of another Amaterasu-no-Mikoto.

Mizuha amplified the volume of objects affected by Amaterasu-no-Mikoto, while Shikkotsurin Sage Mode amplified the frequency of its successive activations!

Under that machine-gun-like barrage of relentless light, those dog heads charged forward one after another, only to be annihilated into yellowish-brown dust and dregs!

Not a single one could reach within ten meters of Chen!

Within the shattered fragments of the Heavenly Star, Momoshiki fixed his golden Byakugan on Chen, some unknown thought stirring within him. "I have decided..."

The next instant, he burst down from the broken shell of the Heavenly Star, a deep crimson orb of energy coalescing in his palm, swelling, and crashing down before Chen with the momentum of a raging tide!

"Momoshiki, are you truly this reckless? Can you really not see that you no longer have any chance of victory?" Chen frowned.

Even if the dignity of a god were ever so lofty, this display from Momoshiki was a bit too overdone, wasn't it?

The thought that had just sprouted in Momoshiki's mind was something even Chen couldn't fathom!

In all my time, I, Otsutsuki Momoshiki, have plundered no fewer than ten planets, and I've seen lowly beings tainted by my clan's power before! But never one like him, who, in a mortal body, can wield my clan's power with such seamless perfection! Never!

If I could use him as my 'vessel' and complete 'reincarnation', there is no doubt my strength would reach another level!

Kaguya is a traitor to my clan.

But when a Chakra Fruit is laid before one's eyes, who can resist that temptation?

All of us rack our brains for evolution; all of us are slaves to chakra!

The highest deity of my clan, Otsutsuki Jishiki, has already ascended to a higher dimension, and the vacant supreme throne is something everyone scrambles for!

I, Otsutsuki Momoshiki, have decided to gamble my future on this human!

I will lure him into killing me!

Then, in the moment of my death throes, I will imprint the [Karma] upon him!

As the deep crimson spiral closed in, Chen's brow furrowed deeply.

When things are abnormal, there must be a trick...

-- Mizuha: Amaterasu-no-Mikoto!

"Crack!" The deep crimson spiral, illuminated by the light swirling in Chen's eyes, was extinguished into a sky full of deep crimson light specks!

Revealing Momoshiki's face, twisted in ferocity, and his hand reaching out with desperate effort!

His chest was wide open, enough for Chen to pierce through him ten times over in an instant with Toyomiketsunomikoto.

Was this killing?

As everyone knows. When a person is killed, they die.

But compared to killing, Momoshiki seemed more intent on suicide.

Chen's gaze sank with a profound darkness. "I think I understand what you're planning."

As the thought turned, his hand shot out like lightning, seizing Momoshiki's wrist!

Then he suddenly lifted his head, meeting Momoshiki's gaze. "You want to imprint the Karma on me, don't you?"

"!!" A single sentence sent a chill of horror crawling up Momoshiki's spine. He wanted to pull his hand back and retreat, but it was already too late.

"Go ahead and try, if you think you can."

Momoshiki, I have already severed the cause and effect between us with the Annihilation of the First Principle.

You will never be able to use 'Karma' to establish a bond of cause and effect between us!

You ask why I resist your Karma so stubbornly?

It's because... as an Otsutsuki, you are simply not strong enough!

"Crack!" The blade of the Susanoo, charged with Toyomiketsunomikoto's energy, pierced through Momoshiki's abdomen in a flash strike!

"Ughaaaaaah...!" Momoshiki let out a scream that twisted his features, then tumbled backward in a pathetic arc into the distance!

Upon landing, his mind was in turmoil.

"The Karma imprint failed. Impossible... Doesn't that mean I'm going to die? And die a futile, useless death?"

Chen walked toward Momoshiki with cold, deliberate steps.

Every footfall of this lowly being, Chen, seemed to stomp directly on the heart of Momoshiki, the Person from the Heavens.

A sense of helplessness rose in Momoshiki's heart, one he hadn't even felt when facing Madara earlier!

Just who in the world is this guy... He knows the secret of my clan's reincarnation through Karma, and he could even see through my intentions at a single glance!

Chen, expressionless, raised his hand.

Ha, my life is over!

Momoshiki resignedly curled the corner of his mouth.

Survival of the fittest, the victor is king!

That was his creed for living!

He had lost, so he would accept the judgment of life and death!

"Human, tell me your name."

"Uchiha Chen."

"Good. I've remembered it, human!" Momoshiki laughed with overbearing arrogance. "You will carry the glory of slaying Otsutsuki Momoshiki—the honor of a god-killer—and continue forward until the moment of your destruction!"

This Momoshiki truly lived up to being Boruto's 'Peach Lama.'

"Momoshiki, you really do carry the wind of the heavens."

Chen praised, his palm aimed at Momoshiki's face.

Just then, a white figure suddenly appeared above Chen.

"Sorry, but Little Momo can't die here."

The newcomer laughed with a carefree air, flicking the red-glowing Fishing Rod in his hand!

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!" Along the rod's trajectory, a sky-covering rain of red fishhooks poured down like a storm!

--Ama-Suka Ryuusei Mei!

"Heh." The corner of Chen's mouth curled upward.

"I was just saying, with such rough seas, how could there be no fisherman?"