The Absolute Strong

"...Generally speaking, once someone enters this place, no one but me can move."

Mai said this.

"Really?" Naruto looked up. "Then should I feel honored? If you have to use rules like this to deal with us, doesn't that mean you think we're pretty troublesome too?"

"..."

At that moment, unnatural black flames suddenly ignited over Naruto's body.

Mai immediately noticed something that made her pupils contract. After the Amaterasu flames she could not comprehend ignited on Naruto, the wound on his fingertip—the one cut open by the Flying Thunder God Kunai, which had continued bleeding under the suppression of her dimensional rules—suddenly stopped bleeding.

At Naruto's side, the same black flames ignited around Satsuki at the exact same moment. The Dojutsu spilling from the corners of her Mangekyō Sharingan was wrapped in black fire, while the crack in Susanoo's armor—kicked open by Mai and unable to repair itself under the dimensional rules—silently vanished the instant the black flames covered it.

Mai's eyes flew wide open. The two rules she had established in this dimension—Speed Deprivation, deprivation, and Healing Prohibition, prohibition. Those rules had been carved into the very structure of this space through the Six Paths power of the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki and the Rinnegan's ocular techniques. Yet before her, within her space, beneath her rules—these two had ignited a power she did not recognize at all, then torn her rules apart as easily as ripping thin paper.

"What... is this?"

"A Mangekyō ocular technique. What do you think? Satsuki is amazing, right?"

Naruto answered. "All right. Being so restricted in this space was indeed uncomfortable. My body finally feels light again."

"...Are you messing with me?! How could a Mangekyō ocular technique possibly—"

Mai never finished that sentence. Because Naruto and Satsuki suddenly vanished from where they stood! Their