"Miraculous healing!?"
"That old geezer from Mount Myōboku really knows his stuff!"
Watching the astonishing scene, the White Ape King was shaken. He reached out and helped Manji up. "How are you? Feeling any better?"
Manji sensed the Senjutsu Chakra circulating inside him, then abruptly opened his eyes and looked at the White Ape King.
"Yeah! I'm fired up!"
Manji clenched his fist.
Just then, Isshiki's voice came from a distance.
"Kaguya, you lowly person! You actually betrayed me!? I'll feed you to the Ten-Tails right now!"
Just as expected, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki easily subdued Kaguya. Gripping her by the throat, he strode toward the hungry Ten-Tails.
Isshiki wasn't paying the slightest attention to Manji and the others.
"White Ape King, get ready to attack!"
Manji immediately looked at the White Ape King.
"Okay! Ikuze!!!"
The White Ape King understood at once and transformed!
"Demon Soldier! White Ape King! Transform!!!!!"
With a flash of light, the White Ape King instantly turned into the Golden Cudgel in Manji's hand!
Then Manji brought all his senjutsu power to bear!
He hurled the Golden Cudgel!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Golden Cudgel shot toward Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with fierce momentum!
At that moment, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was walking up to the Ten-Tails' mouth, ready to throw Kaguya to it.
With both hands gripping Kaguya, Isshiki had no chance to free them.
Seeing the Golden Cudgel hurtling toward him, he assumed it was a weapon.
"Heh... A mere parlor trick!"
"Sukunahikona!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki couldn't even be bothered to block. He immediately activated Sukunahikona, intending to shrink the weapon and toss it into Daikokuten.
But as he watched the Golden Cudgel draw closer and closer,
Isshiki's expression changed drastically!
"Wait!? Why isn't it shrinking!?"
"Isn't this stick a weapon!?"
"Why can't I shrink it?!"
Isshiki was stunned and had no time to react.
The Golden Cudgel instantly turned back into the White Ape King!
"What!?"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki gaped in shock.
"Hehe!"
"I'm the one who transformed! Shrink me, you thunder-brained idiot!"
"I'm returning the kick you gave Manji just now!!!"
The White Ape King launched a flying kick. His size-49 foot slammed straight into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's mouth!
"Ugh!"
Then the White Ape King slapped Kaguya free and kicked Ōtsutsuki Isshiki straight into the Ten-Tails' mouth!
"No!!!!!!!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki roared in fury, his eyes filled with unwillingness!
But the Ten-Tails didn't care what he was!
Whether the Otsutsuki were savory or stinky, once they were in its mouth, they were all Chakra!
It just had to gobble them up!
"White Ape King! What a kick! The First Kick to Shock the Ninja World!"
Manji grinned at the sight.
That kick was every bit as impressive as Might Guy kicking Six Paths Madara with the Eight Gates!
Guy's kick hadn't necessarily ended Naruto Shippuden.
But the White Ape King's kick had directly kicked Boruto to its conclusion!
Now, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's fate was unknown!
Hahaha, yes! If his fate was unknown, that meant he was dead!
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was dead as dead could be!
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya looked delighted and hurried over to thank Manji. "Thank you both for your help! Kaguya is deeply grateful!"
Manji was happy too. After all, he was about to get the Chakra Fruit.
From now on, he'd be unstoppable!
"Smack, smack, smack... Mmm..."
The Ten-Tails looked satisfied, then began to transform. After receiving its sacrifice, it started changing at an almost frantic pace!
"Rumble!!!!!"
Amid the shaking,
the God Tree appeared!
Then the Chakra Fruit ripened!
Normally, the Chakra Fruit took a thousand years to grow, but an Otsutsuki sacrifice could speed up the process.
Isshiki's sacrifice had just accelerated it.
Isshiki was much more pure-blooded than Kaguya.
A true Otsutsuki!
Now, a white light flashed, and the Chakra Fruit's dazzling radiance instantly illuminated the entire Bamboo Forest!
Manji's eyes shone with excitement!
That was it! That was the one!
As the God Tree bore fruit, its form appeared within the brilliant light!
The Chakra Fruit!!!
"Manji, please. It's yours."
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya smiled warmly and gestured for Manji to take it.
Manji beamed at Kaguya. "Kaguya, congratulations. Now you can go pursue your own happiness."
"I wish you a long and happy marriage and many children."
"Remember to invite me to the wedding. I'll be there in person."
Manji smiled as he offered Kaguya his well wishes.
He sincerely wished Ōtsutsuki Kaguya well. He had always thought that woman had a pretty tragic life in the original story.
Her companions didn't treat her like a person, her husband betrayed her, her sons betrayed her, and then she was sealed away for a thousand years.
Watching Manji smile, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya felt a ripple in her heart. The corners of her mouth lifted, but sorrow glimmered in her eyes.
"Thank you, Manji. You're different from those people."
Ōtsutsuki Kaguya spoke softly.
"Right!"
Manji didn't hold back anymore. He immediately used the Body Flicker Technique and dashed toward the fruit!
Before long, the Chakra Fruit landed in Manji's hands.
"The Chakra Fruit! I got it! I finally did it!"
At that moment, Manji was overjoyed. He had finally broken through the limits of Super Kage!
From now on, he could live forever!
And he could wield power on the Six Paths Level!
He'd gotten every good thing there was!
All his hard work and every risk he'd taken had paid off with the most satisfying result imaginable!
"Congratulations. Though I have no idea what you're so happy about..."
Seeing how happy Manji was made the White Ape King happy too.
But just as the White Ape King glanced toward Kaguya, his pupils suddenly contracted!
This was bad!
"Hehehe... I'm really happy, but why does my killing intent detection keep going off?"
Manji scratched his head. His killing intent detection was never wrong. Could it be the God Tree in front of him?
But the most important thing now was to eat the Chakra Fruit.
Once he ate it, everything could be solved!
Then Manji could cry out for himself,
"I stand at the pinnacle of the Six Paths! Who dares kill me?! Who can kill me!?"
"Manji! Look behind you!!!!"
The White Ape King suddenly roared in alarm!
At that moment, a sharp gray spike pierced through Manji's chest from behind, sticking far out of his front!
Manji's pupils shrank to the size of needles. With difficulty, he looked back—
He saw Ōtsutsuki Kaguya still standing coldly in the distance.
Behind him, the White Ape King was sprawled on the ground, looking exhausted. He clutched an All-Killing Ash Bone and stared at Manji with difficulty.
What the hell!? That was brazen! He stabbed me in the back and still told me to look behind me?
That was more or less what had happened... But seriously, why did Jiraiya want to kill the Third Hokage?
"White Ape King!? You..."
Manji stared in shock, unable to understand why the White Ape King had stabbed him in the back.
But then, something didn't add up!
Something was wrong!
How could the White Ape King possibly have an All-Killing Ash Bone!?
Manji struggled to look at the All-Killing Ash Bone in his chest, then at the White Ape King, then at Kaguya. In an instant, he understood. So that was it!
Kaguya had fired this bone!
The White Ape King had only been trying to stop the All-Killing Ash Bone.
Staring at the All-Killing Ash Bone in his chest, Manji muttered,
"Damn, White Ape King... You caught an All-Killing Ash Bone barehanded. How is that any different from catching a steel coil with your bare hands... You really do come running when I'm in trouble..."
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