Beneath the vast sky, the Divine Whale Fall sank into its grave in Shichahai, becoming a towering flood that submerged the battlefield!
Drip! Drip!
Hozuki Gengetsu shook out his soaking sleeves. His beady eyes above his pencil mustache fixed on Sasuke's clone as he teased, "Satisfied now? Your clone must be just about out of chakra, right?"
The clone pondered for a moment, then formed another set of hand seals.
"Thank you for playing along. This is exactly the situation I wanted."
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle!
The water that had descended onto the battlefield seemed to come alive, ripples dancing across its surface...!
"Huh...?"
Gengetsu was immediately taken aback.
On Blue Moon Island, Orochimaru explained the strange phenomenon in the Crystal Ball in his low, raspy voice!
"'When one whale falls, all things flourish.' Sasuke-kun took inspiration from that saying and created this water release jutsu. Yes, the Meteorite-scale 'Whale Fall' was only the prelude. Only an opponent who can withstand it deserves to hear its interlude, 'All Things'!"
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop!
Amid cheerful, rhythmic splashes, countless water spheres bounced into the air. Shapes of all sorts of animals appeared inside them: shrimp, crabs, shellfish, fish, seabirds, marine mammals, and more...
Hozuki Gengetsu scratched his head. "So after all that, you've opened an aquarium? What a headache. Such an extravagant display—am I allowed to look around without buying a ticket?"
The clone said, "That's fine. You're one of its creators, too. The creatures manifested in this water release jutsu were born from the collision of your chakra and mine. Though, of course, I'm the one in control..."
Whoosh!
A water sphere with a crab at its Core floated before Sasuke's palm.
Gengetsu said, "In plain language, that Whale Fall of yours absorbed the chakra in my Shichahai, right?