Bellflower Mountain battlefield.
Ato did not care in the slightest about the destruction of Bellflower Mountain City.
As for the several thousand Ninja within Bellflower Mountain City, if they died, they died.
In the Dragon Ball Universe, the strong were revered.
The weak deserved to be destroyed!!
Compared to caring about Bellflower Mountain City, he had more important matters to attend to.
Ato slowly descended from midair.
At four years old, he was only barely as tall as the waist of the adult Haruki Hyuga.
Yet Haruki Hyuga did not dare underestimate Ato at all.
He looked down at Ato standing before him, cold sweat pouring down his forehead. His body seemed frozen in place, and he did not dare make the slightest movement.
"Hey, Konoha Shinobi, those were Soldier Pills you just ate, right? Give me a few. I'm hungry!"
Ato crossed his arms and imperiously addressed Haruki Hyuga.
He had flown through space for several months. Until landing on Naruto Planet, he had only relied on the life-support system inside his spacecraft to barely maintain the minimum requirements for survival.
After going without food for months, Ato had long been starving.
Haruki Hyuga: ???
He stared at Ato in shock, his mind going blank at Ato's words. Instinctively, he pulled several Soldier Pills from his ninja tool pouch.
With a curl of Ato's hand, the Soldier Pills in Haruki Hyuga's hand flew free and landed in Ato's palm.
He casually tossed a Soldier Pill into his mouth, but after taking one bite, Ato spat it out. "Pah, it tastes awful."
Bang.
The Soldier Pill Ato casually spat out streaked past Haruki Hyuga's cheek like a cannonball and struck the ground behind him.
The spot it hit immediately exploded into a shallow crater.
Using the Byakugan's 360-degree vision, Haruki Hyuga saw the crater behind him, and his heart skipped a beat.
He was utterly horrified.
The little brat before him felt even more terrifying than the Nine-Tails of the Ninja World.
While Haruki Hyuga was gripped by shock and terror, Ato had already tossed all the Soldier Pills in his hand onto the ground.
Then Ato's gaze fell upon Haruki Hyuga's Byakugan.
"The Hyuga Clan's Byakugan is quite a nice collectible too."
The instant he heard Ato's unconcerned words, Haruki Hyuga's expression changed drastically. He watched Ato warily and said in a fluster, "Little brother, you... what are you planning to do? If you plan to take my eyes, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.
"I'm from the Hyuga Branch Family. My Byakugan bear the Caged Bird Curse Mark. As long as my eyes leave my body, the Caged Bird will activate and destroy the Byakugan..."
Before Haruki Hyuga could finish, Ato floated up again. The furry tail behind him wrapped directly around Haruki Hyuga's neck and lifted him into the air.
"Shut up, Konoha Shinobi. You're far too noisy." Ato spoke coldly, expressionless.
Haruki Hyuga, suspended in the air by his neck, struggled in agony.
"Android 18, collect this Ninja's cells."
As soon as Ato spoke, a miniature cell-collection robot rapidly flew out from the Scouter. It swiftly landed on Haruki Hyuga's body, and its sharp collection probe pierced into him.
Within moments, Ato had obtained Haruki Hyuga's cell sample.
After acquiring Haruki Hyuga's cell sample, Ato flew over to his spacecraft.
Inside his small spacecraft was a small Life Cell Fusion Device.
This was likewise a biotechnology device Ato had created using Tuffle technology.
Like the future Android Cell, it only needed to collect a target's biological sample. Through this machine, it could fuse the target organism's abilities into his body.
Once the fusion was complete, he would gain all the abilities of that target sample.
Of course, this machine could only perfectly fuse abilities; it could not increase his combat power.
Even if he implanted tens of thousands of abilities, a combat power of 300 would still be a combat power of 300.
With Tuffle technology, it was still impossible to achieve what Android Cell could: endlessly increase combat power with nothing more than cell samples.
Ato had originally intended to use this machine to fuse the cells of other Saiyans.
He had not expected it to come in handy here.
"Ato, the biological cell fusion can begin."
At Android 18's reminder, Ato flicked his tail, tossing Haruki Hyuga aside. Then he stepped directly into the small Life Cell Fusion Device.
Buzz!
The Life Cell Fusion Device emitted a hum. Then a flash of intense light passed through it, and the Byakugan ability belonging to Haruki Hyuga was perfectly implanted into Ato's body.
Hiss.
The Life Cell Fusion Device's hatch opened, and Ato stepped out.
At that moment, his eyes had turned completely white.
The 360-degree field of vision filled him with novelty.
"So this is the Byakugan?" Ato lightly tapped the Scouter, and it immediately displayed a holographic image of him.
Looking at those immaculate white eyes, Ato was in high spirits.
He had now perfectly fused the Byakugan's abilities into his Saiyan body.
How to use the Byakugan had already become instinctive to him.
"Byakugan!"
With a thought from Ato, the Byakugan instantly activated, and the world before him immediately turned black and white.
Yet in that black-and-white world, the meridians and acupoints throughout Haruki Hyuga's body glowed blue.
At Haruki Hyuga's dantian, there was a faint cluster of energy.
This was Haruki Hyuga's energy core, where a small amount of chakra was stored within his dantian.
The Byakugan possessed x-ray vision.
It could easily see the body's acupoints and energy core. Combined with the Gentle Fist, it could easily block the flow of energy by striking the body's acupoints.
After testing the Byakugan's x-ray vision.
Ato raised his head and looked into the distance with those pale eyes.
As he adjusted the Byakugan, his field of view rapidly extended.
An ordinary Byakugan could see no farther than two kilometers away.
But Ato's Byakugan could easily see conditions over a hundred kilometers away.
A village more than a hundred kilometers away seemed right before his eyes.
Even in the Dragon Ball Universe, Ato's terrifying long-range vision was one of a kind.
"Th-the Byakugan?! Such pure Byakugan too... How is that possible?" As Ato tested the Byakugan, Haruki Hyuga stared at him as though he had seen a ghost.
More precisely, he was staring at Ato's pair of Byakugan.
The Byakugan was the pride of the Hyuga Clan.
It was also the most heavily protected Kekkei Genkai in the Ninja World.
Yet the Byakugan that the Hyuga Clan had once taken such pride in had been obtained by Ato in the blink of an eye.
Haruki Hyuga did not even know how Ato had managed to obtain a pair of Byakugan purer than those of the Hyuga Main Family without digging out his own eyes.
"What kind of monster... is this little brat?"
Haruki Hyuga had clearly already regarded Ato as some sort of monster.
In high spirits, Ato flew above Haruki Hyuga's head and unceremoniously ordered, "Konoha Shinobi, seal my spacecraft into a sealing scroll."
He was not worried at all that Haruki Hyuga would fail to carry out his command.
After all, the Hyuga Clan was one of Konoha's great clans. A mere Object Sealing Technique should not be difficult for Haruki Hyuga.
This was also why Ato had kept Haruki Hyuga alive until now.
"Yes, little brother!" Faced with Ato's cold, condescending gaze, Haruki Hyuga did not dare disobey his order in the slightest.
As a Konoha jonin, Haruki Hyuga knew very well that he possessed no strength to resist Ato at all.
Since he could not resist, he could only temporarily obey the other party's orders.
Under Ato's watchful gaze, Haruki Hyuga swiftly took an Object Sealing scroll from his ninja tool pouch, then swallowed all four of his remaining Soldier Pills.
The chakra that had originally been depleted within his body recovered somewhat.
Haruki Hyuga jumped directly into the deep crater and arrived before the small spacecraft.
"What exactly is this thing?"
Haruki Hyuga's eyes were filled with confusion as he looked at the spacecraft before him.
Although Haruki Hyuga was confused, his movements did not stop.
Haruki Hyuga quickly unfolded the Object Sealing scroll, which contained some of his ninja tools.
But now, Haruki Hyuga formed hand seals and released all those ninja tools.
The entire sealing scroll immediately became blank.
Haruki Hyuga glanced at the small spacecraft before him. Then he placed one hand on the spacecraft and the other at the center of the sealing scroll.
"Seal!"
Bang.
A cloud of white smoke enveloped Ato's small spacecraft. The spacecraft vanished, and the chakra within Haruki Hyuga's body was instantly drained dry.
Across the previously blank sealing scroll, lines of sealing inscriptions rapidly spread.
Ato's spacecraft had been sealed within the sealing scroll.