Chiba: Deidara, You Know Nothing of Art

Soon, the giant created by Deidara's C4 Karura began to dissipate.

In reality, it had transformed into countless microscopic Clay Spiders.

Once these microscopic Clay Spiders were inhaled into the human body along with the air, they would cause omnidirectional, internal and external explosions.

Many people would likely die without even knowing how they had perished.

Of course, it was not just people; everything within the spread of these Clay Spiders would be blown to pieces.

According to Deidara's plan, the entire Sunagakure would be buried alongside Hyuga Chiba.

"Deidara, you have finally brought out some real skill."

Seeing this scene, Hyuga Chiba first nodded, then shook his head and said, "It is just a pity that it is useless against me."

"Banshō Ten'in: Thunder Dragon Rotation!"

The next moment, while Hyuga Chiba released lightning-attribute chakra throughout his body, he spun at high speed, forming a massive lightning dragon.

A powerful suction force was simultaneously exerted upon those microscopic Clay Spiders that were invisible to the naked eye.

The moment these Clay Spiders made contact with the lightning dragon, they were instantly neutralized.

"Damn it, what is wrong with this guy?"

Deidara's face, usually composed, now appeared somewhat ferocious due to shock and anger: "Isn't he from the Konohagakure Hyuga Clan? Why can he use such large-scale Lightning Release?"

"No, why has he been using Lightning Release the whole time? Could it be that he knew my weakness from the very beginning?"

At this moment, Deidara felt an inexplicable sense of having been set up.

"If that's the case, then let me show you my ultimate art, hmm!"

Quickly regaining his composure, Deidara tore off and discarded the red-cloud black robe that had already become tattered during the battle, preparing to unleash his strongest technique: C0: Self-Destruction.

As the name suggests, this technique required sacrificing his own life to create a terrifying explosion capable of causing massive destruction to everything within a 10-kilometer radius.

In the original story, Sasuke had relied on summoning Manda and hiding inside its belly to escape the disaster.

The price was that Manda was lost as a result.

"Art? Hahaha, how laughable."

At this moment, Chiba in the sky, as if he had heard some amusing keyword, burst into loud laughter: "You call these tiny bombs, which aren't even enough to serve as fireworks, art?"

"Forgive my bluntness, but you know—absolutely nothing about art!"

Before his voice had even faded, a green Chakra Orb formed in the palm of Chiba's left hand. With lightning speed, it flew into Deidara's body, then dragged out over ninety percent of the chakra within him and flew out from his back, creating a massive explosion in the high altitude that spread across a thirty-kilometer radius.

Inside Sunagakure, everyone who looked up could see a "Patrick Star" lying horizontally in the high sky.

Of course, under normal circumstances, it would not have had such great power.

But to—prove that Deidara truly knew nothing about art, Chiba had added a (billion) little bit of his own Tenseigan Chakra into the previous Chakra Orb.

No other reason; he simply felt that Deidara was a talent, and it would be a pity for him to die just like that.

At this moment, Deidara, who was sitting weakly on the ground due to the massive loss of chakra, looked at the giant "firework" in the sky with a face full of disbelief, unable to recover for a long time.

"How is this possible?"

After gradually reacting, Deidara still found it hard to believe: "It was clearly only ninety percent of the chakra in my body, yet it resulted in an art several times greater than my own self-destruction?"

"That green light ball of his was also clearly faster than the speed at which I create clay bombs."

"Could it be that Hyuga Chiba really understands art better than I do?"

"No!" Despite his inner turmoil, Deidara stubbornly insisted: "In this world, no one understands art better than I do."

"And this naturally evil Tenseigan brat certainly doesn't!"

"Heh, a frog at the bottom of a well, ignorant of the vastness of the world, only willing to immerse yourself in your own delusions." Chiba descended in front of Deidara, looking down at him with a mocking sneer: "It's fine if you usually just eat clay and fool those muggles who don't understand true art, but do you really think your understanding of art is unrivaled?"

"Have you ever seen an explosion capable of reaching tens of millions of degrees Celsius and emitting terrifying radiation? A friendly reminder: the core temperature of the sun is about 15 million degrees Celsius."

"Have you ever heard of art capable of destroying an entire planet?"

"And have you ever thought about art capable of destroying a galaxy, or even the entire universe?"

"By comparison, what kind of art is your self-destruction, which sounds intimidating but might not even be able to kill someone hiding in a snake's belly?"

"Sun core temperature, destroying planets, destroying galaxies and the universe—" Deidara was left stunned by everything Chiba said.

Some of these things even transcended the scope of his knowledge.

"Does such art really exist?"

Deidara asked Chiba like a student thirsting for knowledge.

At the same time, he felt a bit uneasy, because he truly wanted to witness, or even personally create, the kinds of art Chiba had described.

But he was very worried that those were just things Chiba had bragged about, with no possibility of ever being realized.

Seeing this, Hyuga Chiba did not answer directly, but instead countered with a question: "Do you want to keep clinging to those fireworks of yours, which are no better than children's toys, to deceive yourself?"

"Or would you rather take a gamble, stay by my side, and see with your own eyes whether the art I speak of truly exists?"

"Oh, wait, you are an intruder who trespassed into my territory; you have already paved your own path to death."

"I was only willing to give you a chance because you, like me, possess a great pursuit of art, and I did not wish to see you remain stagnant."

"If you refuse—ah, what a pity. The world will lose one person who could barely keep pace with my artistic footsteps."

"Out of my final mercy toward you, go ahead and self-destruct."

"——" Deidara's expression shifted constantly.

He did not know why, but he had the nagging feeling that this blue-eyed brat before him was trying to swindle him.

Yet, the "true art" the other party mentioned truly made his heart itch with curiosity.

Even if the art Hyuga Chiba spoke of—the kind capable of destroying planets or the universe—was fake, the boy had indeed used Deidara's own chakra to create art with more impact than his own self-destruction.

At the same time, Hyuga Chiba was currently the only person who acknowledged Deidara's art.

Even Sasori, whom Deidara had always respected, would often have massive disagreements with him regarding art.

"Oh, so you are unwilling?"

Seeing Deidara still struggling with his decision, Hyuga Chiba raised his hand, and a Green Chakra Orb appeared in his palm once more: "I didn't expect that not only are you insufficiently devout to art, but you are even unwilling to self-destruct to prove yourself."

"Although it will dirty my hands, I shall be the one to end your life once and for all."