Yet just as Isshiki raised his fist to meet the attack, his gaze met Naruto's.
Naruto's once azure eyes abruptly turned gold.
They were the golden Rinnegan he had "borrowed" from Otohime.
Susanoo: Dragon Palace Mirage Sea!
Isshiki felt the scene before him suddenly blur and distort.
The ground instantly became a shimmering seabed, complete with a magnificent crystal palace, schools of swimming fish, enormous corals...
And a gigantic whale lunging at him with its maw wide open.
Standing atop the crystal palace, Naruto watched the whale swallow Isshiki, then his consciousness returned to reality.
Facing the whale's gaping maw, Isshiki also realized what this was.
"Damn it, Otohime's genjutsu!"
Isshiki possessed a Byakugan and Black Eyes. Unlike someone with a Rinnegan, he could not break genjutsu through sheer ocular power, or he would not have lost to Otohime in the first place.
Taking advantage of the thousandth of a second in which the genjutsu held Isshiki in place and briefly froze his body, Naruto pushed his speed to its limit and rushed before him as though teleporting!
"Amenotajikara: Bestowal, Rock and Soil Brittleness!"
Back in reality, Naruto held two fingers of his left hand together like a sword and struck Isshiki's chest with lightning speed.
Amenotajikara activated.
This time, he did not take, but "bestowed."
Naruto bestowed the physical properties of the ground beneath his feet upon Isshiki's body.
Immediately afterward, Naruto's right foot, wreathed in golden nine-tails chakra, blue steam from the Gate of Wonder, and raging arcs of Lightning Release, slammed into Isshiki's chest with enough force to split mountains and shatter stone-a chest now "bestowed" with the properties of rock and soil!
Under the combined force of those powers and the added property of "rock and soil brittleness," Isshiki's once terrifyingly indestructible body became like a