Within Reed Plain Country's territory, in Kono Country, black flames flickered across the shattered land... The battle had come to an end. Without any suspense, Yu had claimed an overwhelming victory.
"Hey-ha~ Hey-ha~!" Tongtong gripped a red-glowing spiked club longer than her own body with both hands and swung it at the air.
Not far away, Yu put away a bottle containing a red Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and looked at the pool of blood before him. "Sober now?"
Crack! Blood flowed from Mengshiki's pitch-black right eye socket as he grinned savagely. "Hahahahahaha! You bastard, you're absurdly strong. It's hard to imagine that you're actually human!"
Yu said impassively, "You're not bad yourself. You're still alive after ending up like this."
Mengshiki's body had been severed in two. One half was nailed to a mountainside by Black Receivers, while the other was impaled in midair on a tree trunk... Part of his left arm and right leg burned in Amaterasu hundreds of meters away, and everything else had already vanished.
The only thing lying in the pool of blood... was a head!
"Hahahahahaha~" The head kept laughing.
Yu crouched down and asked Mengshiki, "Tell me, who was using genjutsu to control those people?"
The humans on this land had been manipulated by some sort of genjutsu, throwing themselves into furnaces to be refined into "pills." But after their battle, Yu had reached one conclusion: Mengshiki was not the user of that genjutsu.
"Hahahahaha..." The laughter gradually stopped. Mengshiki's head said darkly, "Why should I tell you?"
"I can grant you one wish..."
"Oh?"
"You can choose how you die. How about it?"
"Hahahaha... That sounds pretty good~ Fine, I'll tell you!"
Yu leaned back and sat down on the spot. Picking up the red-glowing gourd beside him, he gave it a shake,