Summit War 22

The lightning-infused Tachi slashed down with a piercing bird cry. Onigumo hastily raised his sword to block, and at the moment the blades collided, Lightning Release Chakra flowed through the blades. Armament Haki blocked the sharp edge, but it couldn't stop the numbing sensation.

A deep, charred wound, exposing the bone, was slashed across his left shoulder by the tip of a knife. An electric current surged through the wound, and his entire left arm, along with his shoulder blade, froze simultaneously.

The Yakumi gave him no chance to adjust.

His left hand was still gripping the hilt of the knife, while his right leg kicked out fiercely, his foot landing solidly on Onigumo's abdomen, sending him flying into the air like a cannonball.

Immediately afterward, a dark figure leaped out from behind Yakumi — Uchiha Yaoyu used Yakumi's shoulder as leverage to take off, his Three-Tomoe Sharingan spinning wildly in his eye sockets, locking onto the still convulsing figure in mid-air.

"Uchiha Style: Shadow of the Dancing Leaf!"

Yaoyu's figure swooped down from mid-air, his knee slamming heavily into Onigumo's abdomen with a whooshing sound.

The force of the blow penetrated his body, and Onigumo was slammed into a bent shrimp shape. The shockwave caused his Justice Coat on his back to bulge outwards, and a mouthful of blood mixed with stomach acid spurted from his throat.

This is just the beginning.

Yaoyu's figure flipped in mid-air, and before the afterimage of the Body Flicker Technique had dissipated, he had already appeared behind Onigumo —an elbow strike to the back of the neck, followed by a knee strike to the lumbar spine, then the sole of the palm, the back of the fist, and the fingertips. Each attack landed on the vital gaps that the armor could not cover.

The Sharingan clearly saw the flow of Armament Haki within Onigumo's body, dissecting the locations covered by the Armament Haki, the weak points in his defenses, and the gaps in his muscle spasms into precise attack windows.

In a short moment, the afterimages of the Body Flicker Technique merged into one around Onigumo, and the muffled sounds of fists and feet striking flesh were so dense that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.

Onigumo's Armament Haki can withstand sword strikes and slashes, but it cannot withstand this kind of Taijutsu attack.

The internal organs churned and shifted uncontrollably under the continuous impact, and the ribs made a faint creaking sound.

He gritted his teeth, his single eye surging with rage and resentment, and tried to fight back against the numbness by swinging his knife—but before he could even raise it, a blinding flash of lightning exploded before his eyes.

The Yakumi had been waiting for a while.

Lightning Release Chakra enveloped him, transforming him into a meteorite hurtling close to the ground. As he charged, the Chidori Blade left a long arc of electricity in its wake, slicing into the front and top of Onigumo simultaneously with the returning Yaoyu in mid-air.

Two figures wreathed in lightning, one above and one below, one to the left and one to the right, their attack trajectories perfectly locked down all escape routes thanks to the Sharingan's prediction.

"Uchiha Style: Lightning Release: Twin Dance!"

Two bolts of lightning simultaneously pierced through the Onigumo's defenses.

The blade sliced into the ribs, the knee pressed down on the spine, and Lightning Release Chakra poured into the body from two directions, frantically destroying the nerve endings.

"Ugh--! Cough!!" Onigumo's screams were torn apart by the crackling of electricity. Seven swords flew out of his convulsing hair and arms at the same time, and he fell straight down from mid-air like a puppet with its strings cut.

"Onigumo!" Doberman's roar exploded from more than ten meters away. He swung his sword to force back the pirate captain in front of him, and his feet were already poised to strike.

But as soon as he took a step, two black figures silently landed on his left and right sides, their two pairs of scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan coldly staring at him through the smoke. Doberman gritted his teeth, but could only watch helplessly.

The Onigumo lay on the ice, its body still crackling with residual lightning, scorching the ice beneath it into charred craters.

His fingers dug into the ice cracks, his nails splitting and his finger bones exposed, as he crawled forward inch by inch, driven by his survival instinct.

Just as he braced himself on his knees, he heard two soft thuds as he landed on his back almost simultaneously.

Two figures wielding Tachi sandwiched him between them, one on his left and one on his right.

He saw two pairs of scarlet eyes reflected on the ice, and the lightning dancing on the Tachi of the two katanas that were slowly being sheathed—this was the last thing he saw in this world.

"Uchiha Style: Lightning Release: Twin Duet Dance!" Two sword lights simultaneously slashed across from both sides, so fast that even the sound couldn't keep up. Onigumo froze in place.

A moment later, he collapsed to his knees, blood gushing from his mouth and nose, spreading a large dark red stain on the ice.

"I... no..." He opened his mouth to say something, but his vocal cords were no longer under his control, and only muffled blood and foam rose from his throat.

The horror before his death remained on that ferocious face - he couldn't figure out how he could die in the hands of these two unknown Uchiha.

As the Yaoyu and Yakumi the medicine simultaneously returned the Tachi to its sheath, Onigumo's body finally lost all support, collapsing stiffly onto the ice, lifeless.

The Yakumi cleaned the remaining blood from the Tachi before sheathing it.

Neither he nor Yaoyu glanced at Onigumo's corpse—the dead held no value for the Uchiha. They merely gave the body kneeling on the ice a cold look before looking away, as if it were a tool that had been used and was no longer needed.

Lightning Release: Twin Duet Dance.

After reviewing the battle records of the combination technique "Lariat" Fourth Raikage A of Kumogakure and Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Uchiha Natsu redesigned a combined attack Ninjutsu by combining the Uchiha Clan's expertise in Lightning Release Chakra Nature Transformation with the Sharingan's dynamic vision.

Extending from Lightning Release: Lightning Cutter to their weapons, the two clansmen, with their minds in sync, attacked simultaneously. The two streams of Lightning Release Chakra resonated as they clashed, pushing both piercing and cutting power to their peak.

This move is powerful enough to instantly shatter Susanoo in its Skeleton Stage, and can even cause substantial damage to Susanoo in its Flesh Stage.

As for the Yaoyu and Yakumi, they are among the few in the Uchiha Clan who can skillfully master this technique. The two are twin brothers who have practiced swordsmanship together since childhood, awakened their Sharingan together, and fought on the battlefield together. Their tacit understanding needs no words.

Onigumo's Observation Haki detected the resonance frequency of the two Lightning Release Chakra at the last moment, but detecting it and being able to block it are two different things.

In his prime, he might have been able to withstand a fatal blow, but with an arm gone, his waist ripped open, and his muscles still convulsing from the shock, he didn't even have the strength to raise his sword to parry this attack.

On the other side of the battlefield

Susanoo's dark gold armor slowly dissipated around Natsu, Steel Bone Kong's brow twitched violently.

He thought the kid was going to create distance and re- Hand Seals, that he was going to switch to a different Ninjutsu to continue fighting, or even that he might retreat to the cover of the Wood Golem or Wood Dragon to catch his breath.