As the clouds of dust slowly settled, Urashiki's face came into view at the bottom of the crater, twisted and contorted with excruciating pain!
Urashiki muttered, "How is this possible?!"
There had been no crafty ninjutsu exchanges or breathtaking clashes of Dojutsu. Shinji had simply landed two punches, and Urashiki was already questioning his entire existence.
Floating in midair, Shinji lowered his gaze and stared coldly at Urashiki in the crater.
Because of the Rinnegan, most ninjutsu and genjutsu were ineffective against the Otsutsuki. That meant the flexible, varied ninjutsu battles common in the Shinobi World were often a waste of Chakra against the Otsutsuki—and could even end up helping them.
Even if a technique happened to land, it would barely faze an Otsutsuki.
So when fighting the Otsutsuki, Taijutsu was actually the most direct and effective approach.
In the original timeline, when Naruto and Sasuke fought the Otsutsuki, the techniques they used most often were Taijutsu, aside from their signature ninjutsu like the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and Rasengan, and their Rinnegan and Sharingan abilities.
Shinji slowly landed, stepped forward, and hauled Urashiki up off the ground.
Those two punches had been delivered at full power. An ordinary person would have been reduced to mush, but Urashiki, a Kekkei Mōra, was clearly no ordinary person. Coming to his senses, he grabbed Shinji's arms with both hands and tried to break free.
"Tch!"
Shinji spat in disgust and slammed Urashiki into the ground.
Then Shinji hooked a leg beneath him and sent him flying into the air. Turning, he struck Urashiki with a flying kick, launching him away. Shinji became a blur as he chased after and overtook the airborne Urashiki, then swung another punch at his back!
Thud, thud, thud.
For several consecutive rounds, Shinji batted Urashiki back and