Hiroki took a deep breath and stopped hesitating!
There was no other choice but to try and make the best of a bad situation!
He'd just have to give it a try!
He began forming hand seals. It was the first time he'd properly formed them during a battle.
For one thing, the cache of hand seals he'd built up by forming them in advance was almost depleted----
For another, he could only release this copied jutsu by forming hand seals!
Earth Grudge Fear quickly sliced open Hiroki's fingertips, drawing blood!
It was the first time Hiroki had tried using this successfully copied jutsu! And the first time he'd met the conditions to use it!
12,000 Kaka of chakra!
[Summoning Jutsu: Ibuse]!!
----!
Boom~~~!
A giant salamander appeared, every bit as enormous as the Six-Tails in its Complete Tailed Beast Transformation!
Its body was pitch-black, and its skin was covered in unpleasant-looking bumps. Its slick, slimy hide was enough to turn anyone's stomach.
It crouched on the ground. Even its breath made the scorched earth around it sizzle, sending up clouds of poisonous smoke!
"Wh-what is that?!"
A s-salamander!?
"A s-salamander?" Inuzuka San struggled to her feet. She was the first to recognize the summoning beast. "Isn't that the one belonging to Hanzo of the Salamander, from Amegakure?!"
Her voice trembled.
As a battle-hardened elite jonin, of course she recognized the creature!!
It was the symbol of Amegakure, and one of the reasons Hanzo of the Salamander was known as the "Demigod"!
But----why?
Why would this legendary beast answer the summons of a child from Konoha?!
"Wh-what else has he copied?" Even a Uchiha jonin was so shocked that his voice quavered----
His entire worldview had been overturned in that moment.
He could copy ninjutsu and Kekkei Genkai----and now he