"Sage Art: Flaming Mountain!" Kashin Koji barked, and immense flames once again filled the entire space.
"Fire again."
"Can't you come up with something new?"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki sounded impatient.
"You're the one who needs a new trick."
"Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan!"
Kashin Koji's voice rang out behind Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
A massive Rasengan came crashing down toward Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's head.
"Burn to death in the flames, or get blown to pieces by the Rasengan."
"Which way would you rather die?"
Kashin Koji sounded confident.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's ocular technique: Sukunahikona.
To shrink a target, he had to see it.
And now,
the Big Ball Rasengan and Flaming Mountain's True Fire were coming from opposite directions.
This attack had to work!
Boom!
Dust billowed up with the deafening impact.
Kashin Koji lay sprawled on the ground in disbelief.
His left arm had been severed at the shoulder.
"It was that stone pillar from earlier..."
Kashin Koji spoke in shock.
"Secret technique: Daikokuten."
"I can store objects I've shrunk in an Alternate Dimension where time stands still. I can also retrieve them whenever I want and use them to attack."
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki explained it to Kashin Koji with an air of superiority.
At the same time,
a glass of red wine appeared in his hand.
"Just like this glass of wine. Elegant, isn't it?"
With that,
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki drained the glass.
"This will be your grave, and those stone pillars will be your headstones."
"Don't worry. I'll send Amado to join you soon."
Just as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was about to launch his final attack, Kashin Koji muttered, "Summoning Technique!"
A giant toad appeared and swallowed Kashin Koji whole.
The next second,
the toad vanished.
"Reverse Summoning Technique?"
"Thinking of a way to escape like that—you're quite clever in a fight."
Kashin Koji had