The Rasengan instantly destroyed Mui's Heavenly Prison Fire Sword, and Tetsuya thrust it straight at him.
Mui swiftly retreated all the way to the strange door, then decisively used the Body Flicker Technique.
Just as the Rasengan was about to strike the door, it suddenly vanished.
Tetsuya dispersed the chakra in his hand and smiled at Mui, who had reappeared after using the Body Flicker Technique.
"You wanted to trick me into attacking this door with the Rasengan so you could use its power to steal my chakra, right? Too bad that won't work on me."
Seeing Tetsuya standing by the door, Mui smiled too.
"Really? Then will this work on you?"
Only then did Tetsuya notice that the twelve members of Grass Fruit had formed a strange array. Their chakra erupted simultaneously, forming phantom images of twelve different animals behind them.
A moment later, the phantoms connected in the prescribed order of the twelve zodiac signs: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
"What is this? An array? Or a barrier?"
Sharingan appeared in Tetsuya's eyes. The three tomoe spun and transformed into the Mangekyō, and he prepared to activate Susanoo.
"Now! Fire Release: Great Fire Heavenly Prison!"
Mui thrust out his palm, sending red energy flying into Tetsuya.
In an instant, Tetsuya felt the chakra inside him being drawn out.
However, compared to his total chakra reserves, the rate of extraction was rather insignificant.
There was no helping it. He had accumulated far too much chakra from his lottery draws over the years. He was practically a tailed beast in human form.
And that wasn't all. Tetsuya still had the Three-Tails, Isobu, stored with Doggo, yet to be withdrawn.
As chakra poured into it, the door behind him began to change, shaking