Bare-handed Dismantling Susanoo

Huh?

Shisui saw Dan charge straight at him and couldn't help but freeze.

This guy was actually attacking Susanoo head-on. Did he think he could match a god in strength?

Without a word, he controlled Susanoo's left hand and swung it down at Dan. Its fingers spread wide, ready to snatch him up like an eagle grabbing a chick.

But then—

"Hrgh."

A low growl rumbled from Dan's throat. The muscles in his right arm rippled, then rapidly swelled until it grew as huge as Susanoo's hand.

Partial Expansion Jutsu.

Bang!

Dan thrust his right hand forward, bracing against Susanoo's incoming palm. Their fingers interlocked.

What?

Shisui felt the strength in Dan's arm through Susanoo and was stunned.

Before he could react—

Dan's other arm also expanded, swelling in an instant. It shot out like lightning and seized Susanoo's right wrist.

Susanoo couldn't thrust its Spiral Sword.

Then Dan and Susanoo began a static contest of strength, like two wrestlers locked in a grapple.

Judging by their size, Dan, who stood only two meters tall, was no match for Susanoo, which towered seven meters high. They were in completely different weight classes.

But—

Relying on his two absurdly oversized arms, disproportionate to the rest of his body, Dan managed to hold Susanoo back.

Crack. Crack.

The force of their struggle traveled through their bodies into the ground. The earth beneath them shattered, countless cracks spreading in every direction.

The Uchiha Clan Members stared in stunned disbelief.

What were they looking at?

Dan was using nothing but his human body and sheer muscle to take on Susanoo—and his arms... Was that the Akimichi Clan's Expansion Jutsu?

Most Uchiha shinobi were well-informed, and quite a few had already recognized that Dan seemed to be using the Akimichi Clan's Secret Technique.

That only made the sight more astonishing.

Shisui hadn't expected Dan to have another trick up his sleeve. What he found especially unbelievable was that Dan's strength was now faintly overpowering Susanoo.

This couldn't go on.

Shisui's gaze sharpened. While still gripping Dan's hand, he made Susanoo open its mouth. With a roar, it spewed out a torrent of orange-red flames.

Susanoo: Flame Bullet.

This wasn't some harmless Fire Release like the Great Fireball. These flames could truly melt gold and iron.

The moment Susanoo opened its mouth, Dan sensed danger.

A thought crossed his mind, and his arms and hands rapidly shrank as if they had sprung a leak. Using the moment he released the Expansion Jutsu, he broke free of the contest of strength.

Then he leaped backward.

The flames followed close behind.

Whoosh!

The flames gushing from Susanoo's mouth spread like a vast ocean, covering dozens of meters in front of it in an instant.

A sea of fire formed.

On a battlefield, a Fire Release like this could easily burn a hundred people to death.

But where was Dan?

Shisui swept his Mangekyo across the sea of flames, but couldn't find Dan. Only when he sensed an enemy behind him did he hastily turn Susanoo around.

Taking advantage of the flames as cover, Dan had somehow circled around to a spot ten meters behind Shisui.

Under the moonlight—

Dan stood on one leg, his massive, sinewy thigh raised straight above his head toward the endless night sky.

Then—

He brought it down like a battle-axe, slamming it hard into the ground.

Painful Sky Leg!

This Taijutsu, copied from Tsunade, concentrated Chakra in the leg. One stomp was enough to split the earth.

Boom.

A surging wave of destructive force raced through the ground straight toward Shisui.

The Second Form Half-Body Susanoo could cover its user from head to toe, but its greatest weakness was that there was still a gap beneath its feet.

This is bad.

Shisui realized the danger and leaped backward at once, taking Susanoo with him into the air.

The next second, a massive hole blasted open where he had been standing, and countless chunks of stone shot skyward.

While suspended in midair, Shisui could only adjust Susanoo's position as best he could to protect himself.

But the consequence was that when he landed, both he and Susanoo lost their balance.

Dan didn't let the opportunity slip by.

He leaped into the air, his entire torso swelling like a balloon as his head and limbs tucked into his body. He became a massive ball of flesh over five meters in diameter.

Then he spun at high speed and plummeted from above with tremendous force.

Human Bullet Tank, coming through!

Bang!

The Human Bullet Tank slammed squarely into Susanoo. Like a rolling wheel, it shoved Susanoo across the ground, carving a huge trench behind it.

Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters.

Boom! Boom!

Along the way, they crashed through trees and smashed through walls. At last, they plowed through the row of towering Red Torii Gates at the Naka Shrine.

Only then did they finally stop.

Rumble.

Shisui's Susanoo toppled backward like a collapsing mountain, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Yet even after taking such a brutal hit, Susanoo's defenses remained impregnable, and Shisui hadn't suffered a single injury.

Shisui was furious.

He couldn't accept that even after summoning Susanoo, this divine power, Dan was still beating him senseless.

Under his control—

Susanoo's chest armor opened, revealing a huge orange Magatama inside. It looked ready to unleash some ultimate attack.

Unfortunately, Dan moved faster.

He was straddling Shisui's Susanoo. Raising a fist as big as a cooking pot, he unleashed a powerful gust of air from his whole body and smashed it down.

Monster Strength.

Shisui was horrified. He hurriedly closed Susanoo's chest armor, forcing himself to hold back the ultimate attack.

The next moment—

Boom!

Dan's punch, fueled by the full strength of his muscles, landed squarely on Susanoo's chest.

The Fist Wind swept out, scattering the dust around them. The punch's devastating force traveled through Susanoo's enormous body into the ground, setting off an earthquake.

All around them—

The Uchiha Clan Members watching struggled to keep their footing. Leaves rained from the nearby trees, and flocks of crows startled out of the woods and circled through the night sky.

Even Kakashi nearly fell out of the tree.

Crack.

Shisui heard a sound.

Susanoo's chest armor took the brunt of the blow. Under Dan's Monster Strength, it shattered on the spot into seven or eight pieces that fell away from its surface.

Beneath the chest armor, Susanoo's body was cracked as well.

The damage was horrifying.

Susanoo's injuries took their toll on Shisui, too. Blood trickled from his Mangekyo.

How was this possible?

How could a human be this strong?!

Shisui endured the pain in his eyes and controlled Susanoo to slide backward along the ground, trying to escape Dan.

Even with Susanoo protecting him, he didn't dare face Dan head-on again. He only wanted to create some distance and bombard him with long-range Ninjutsu.

But he couldn't get away.

Dan pushed off the ground and caught up. His gaze was as fierce as a tiger's as he unleashed dozens of punches in an instant.

Muda Muda Muda Muda!

Under that barrage, the cracks on Susanoo's surface widened. Even its ribs were exposed.

"Gah."

Shisui spat out another mouthful of blood, and the pain in his eyes grew even more severe.

He had used up too much Pupil Power. At this point, even controlling Susanoo had become difficult, let alone repairing its cracks.

It was time to finish this.

Dan could see that Shisui was at the end of his strength, but he showed no mercy. He activated the Expansion Jutsu again, stretching out his two enormous arms.

He grabbed Susanoo's hands.

Next, just as he had once done to Obito—

Rip!

Dan tore off both of Susanoo's arms by force!

Cut off from Shisui's Pupil Power, the two arms made of solidified Chakra soon dissolved into points of green light and vanished into the air.

Then—

Dan let out a roar, his gaze brimming with primal savagery. Like a rampaging gorilla, he hoisted the now-armless Susanoo above his head.

That's right—he lifted it.

As dozens of Uchiha clan members watched in horror, Dan plunged both hands into Susanoo's torso and grabbed its ribs on either side.

Then he wrenched them apart with all his might.

With a deafening crack—

The enormous Susanoo was torn to pieces by Dan's bare hands, splitting down the middle into two halves.

Bare-handed Dismantling Susanoo.

This was Uchiha Dan.

At that moment, he was the great Muscle God, perfectly incarnate in the mortal world.

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