Now, We Don't Owe Each Other Anything!

"Hehehe..."

The Third Mizukage's gaze grew increasingly dark and sharp. This brat really sounded like Gengetsu Hozuki!

The man who had taken the position of Second Mizukage from him.

Just as carefree, just as sharp-tongued.

"Brat! I'm a Kage!"

The Third Mizukage's eyes widened in fury. He spread his arms and roared angrily.

The threads of blood scattered across the battlefield seemed to answer his summons, surging toward him. The wound on his chest healed in an instant.

Blood coiled around his entire body, while a pair of bat-like wings made of blood slowly formed behind him.

"Blood Secret Technique: Blood Demon!"

"Brat, your genjutsu is useless now!"

The Third Mizukage's eyes were crimson, his mouth full of fangs, and two bloody wings had sprouted from his body. He looked like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.

"It, it appeared!"

"The truth of the Blood Mist Village!"

"The legendary 'Blood Demon'!"

"Legend says it can absorb other people's blood to swiftly recover from injuries, and can also use the chakra within that blood to become immune to genjutsu."

Several surviving Mist Ninja at the edge of the battlefield cried out loudly.

Their words made everyone at the center of the battlefield turn to look.

Uchiha Makoto gave him a surprised glance. Was this the legendary random bystander commentator king?

He hadn't expected to run into one himself.

"Tch, I didn't expect there to be an information leak."

The Third Mizukage was somewhat surprised. Nearly everyone who knew of this secret technique was dead, yet someone actually knew its details.

He couldn't be allowed to live!

The Third Mizukage waved a hand at the Mist Ninja. Threads of blood poured from the man's wounds and became part of the blood surrounding the Third Mizukage.

"Ahhh!!!"

Several nearby ninja fled to the side, terrified of becoming the next target.

"Good, the loudmouth is gone. Let's officially begin!"

The Third Mizukage smiled smugly, clearly satisfied with the scene.

As long as someone had a wound, he could directly extract their blood!

Uchiha Makoto watched warily, deep in thought. Was this a secret technique similar to the Blood Dragon Eye?

It could forcibly draw the blood of those who had lost the ability to resist. No wonder the system required him to defeat them without taking damage!

"Utakata, attack with me!"

At the Third Mizukage's command, Utakata, the Six-Tails' jinchuriki, instantly grew five tails and entered a partial Tailed Beast Transformation.

"Water Release: Water Prison Technique!"

The Third Mizukage took the lead. A semicircular water prison instantly formed, intending to trap Uchiha Makoto firmly within the water.

Uchiha Makoto did not hesitate. A half-body Susanoo formed in an instant and directly burst through the entire water prison.

"Hiruma Technique!"

Utakata took the opportunity to launch himself forward. His originally crimson Tailed Beast cloak seemed to transform into a mollusk, tightly wrapping itself around the Susanoo.

Seeing the marks left by the strong acid corroding the Susanoo, Uchiha Makoto was slightly surprised. Then, considerately, he gave Utakata a Mangekyō Sharingan.

This jinchuriki was so polite—he even delivered himself right to the door!

After successfully casting the genjutsu, Uchiha Makoto flung Utakata back toward the Third Mizukage.

"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"

A wall of water rose before the Third Mizukage, successfully stopping the incoming Utakata.

"Water Release: Water Clone!"

The water around the Third Mizukage swiftly condensed into a clone, which checked on Utakata's condition, while the original continued charging forward!

"Ice Release: One-Horned White Whale!"

A whale made of ice rammed upward from beneath the water. The Susanoo standing on the surface was instantly struck and shoved several meters from its original position.

"Chidori Stream: Sharp Spear!"

A long spear of lightning condensed in Uchiha Makoto's hand, and he hurled it at the Third Mizukage.

The Third Mizukage leaped high into the air, evading the Chidori Stream: Sharp Spear, and formed hand seals midair to cast a ninjutsu.

"Water Release: Water Shark Bullet Technique!"

Several shark-shaped water bullets charged fiercely at Uchiha Makoto.

Uchiha Makoto used the Susanoo to withstand the attack, rapidly forming hand seals. "Lightning Release: Lightning Attraction!"

The Chidori Stream: Sharp Spear that had been thrown into the water seemed to reappear. The current in the water instantly converged and shot toward the Third Mizukage standing on the surface.

"Ah!"

The Third Mizukage screamed. Half of the blood surrounding his body instantly evaporated.

His entire body convulsed from the electricity, leaving him in a thoroughly miserable state.

Uchiha Makoto sneered at the sight. "You're weaker than I imagined, Kage!"

Whether in his earlier estimates or when he had first seen the Blood Secret Technique, he had placed the Third Mizukage at the peak of Kage level, equal in strength to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

He hadn't expected him to be this pathetic.

No, it wasn't that he was too pathetic. It was that Makoto himself was too strong.

Uchiha Makoto happily thought this, only to see the Third Mizukage looking disdainful.

"This was all part of my plan!"

Before Uchiha Makoto could figure it out, Utakata, the Six-Tails' jinchuriki in the distance, had already crouched down, opened his mouth, and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at him.

Uchiha Makoto hurriedly leaped aside to evade it.

"Hahahaha, Uchiha Makoto, today is the day you die!"

The Third Mizukage shouted arrogantly.

Uchiha Makoto turned his head and saw the Third Mizukage already standing behind Utakata, looking at him smugly.

And...

Uchiha Makoto suddenly turned to look behind him, only to see Kaguya Takeori leading over a thousand Kaguya ninja in an attack on his fifteen hundred weak points.

"So, what will you do now, Uchiha?"

"The Kaguya over there have a 'Kage' too!"

The Third Mizukage sneered, as though victory was already in his grasp.

Everything was part of his plan! Though there had been a few minor changes.

At that moment, another Tailed Beast Bomb was gathering in Utakata's partially transformed mouth, continuously building power.

In this situation, if he turned to save the Konoha ninja, he would definitely be hit by the Tailed Beast Bomb. If he didn't save them, he would still be hit by the Tailed Beast Bomb!

And he couldn't delay for too long, or the Konoha ninja would suffer a devastating blow!

Uchiha Makoto's expression turned serious. "In this situation, I have to make you temporarily lose your ability to resist!"

"Make me lose my ability to resist? With you?"

As though he had heard the funniest joke in the world, the Third Mizukage burst into laughter.

Uchiha Makoto loosely clenched one hand, and a purple-black "ball" radiating an aura of destruction instantly condensed in his palm.

"Spiral Rinnegan!"

Uchiha Makoto hurled it with all his strength, sending it rapidly sweeping toward the Third Mizukage.

"Utakata, hurry!"

Seeing the Spiral Rinnegan rushing toward him, the Third Mizukage's jaw nearly dropped to the ground as he urgently urged Utakata on.

At that moment, he failed to notice Uchiha Makoto's eyes glowing red, or Utakata's Tailed Beast Bomb suddenly weakening in power.

Boom!

The two collided, and the shockwave from the explosion instantly blasted the two men, who were nearly at its center, away!

Thank Madara Uchiha. If Kamui later on weren't so closely tied to you, I'd have cut every last one of you down today.

Uchiha Makoto thought to himself as he controlled the Susanoo and flew toward Kaguya Takeori and the others.

Seeing the Susanoo rapidly approach, both sides of the melee immediately separated.

Uchiha Makoto landed before the Konoha camp. Looking coldly at the Kaguya Clan, who faced him as though confronting a great enemy, he shouted, "Why aren't you getting lost already?!"

Yet a different sentence clearly echoed beside Kaguya Takeori's ear.

"Now, we don't owe each other anything!"