Five Years! A Full Five Years!

Jigen's rage was not without reason.

It was hatred that had built up over five years.

Five years ago, Amegakure.

That was the battle in which Jigen had come closest to death on this planet.

Asura's taijutsu was strange and powerful. Every punch and every kick contained terrifying strength, and his physical constitution was almost on par with the warriors of the Otsutsuki Clan!

What shocked Jigen the most was his endless array of ninjutsu. Some resembled the chakra techniques used by the ninjas of this planet, yet they carried a kind of chakra that even he could not understand, and that even his "Karma" could not absorb!

The battle lasted an entire night.

A core district of Amegakure was reduced to ruins in that battle.

Even Pain, the member of Akatsuki who called himself a god and had just killed Hanzo the Salamander to take his place, was unable to intervene.

And Jigen himself had paid a heavy price.

He had no choice but to activate the second stage of "Karma" ahead of time, forcibly squeezing the potential out of this vessel that was already on the verge of reaching its limit, before he barely gained the strength to suppress Asura for a time!

But even so, he still lost.

He had not lost in terms of strength. If he activated his reincarnation, even if this vessel could not fully bear his power, he had absolute confidence that he could kill the other man.

But he had lost in terms of "time."

This vessel named "Jigen" was already on the brink of collapse because it had been forced to bear Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's soul.

Activating the second stage of "Karma" accelerated that process even more.

When the battle reached its most intense moment, Jigen could clearly feel that this body