On the main battlefield at the River of the Undying.
Boom! Boom!
The silver-gray Perfect Susanoo beat its wings against the sky, whipping up wind and dust!
Naruto sighed in wonder. "Back then, I never even dreamed I'd someday be able to use this move myself..."
Tsuchima watched intently. "Perfect Susanoo isn't that difficult to deal with on its own. The problem is that his dōjutsu can give his techniques souls. If he does that to Susanoo..."
Tsuchima was worrying needlessly.
Futsunomitama absorbed the soul fields emitted by living beings around it and stored them in the Soul Capacitor, whose maximum capacity was ten times the size of Naruto's own soul.
He could only bestow souls within that limit.
To bestow a soul that matched Perfect Susanoo... was beyond Naruto's current abilities!
But if he couldn't do it to the whole, he could do it to a part!
An enormous fiery-red orb of light blazed to life behind Susanoo!
Even in its half-body form, Shisui's Susanoo could manifest this orb in its breastplate and produce vast numbers of tomoe. That move was called "Susanoo: Ninety-Nine."
Those tomoe weren't divine artifacts. The fiery-red orb that produced them was the divine artifact!
This divine artifact was named Susa-no-o-no-Mikoto!
[Susa-no-o-no-Mikoto is another name for Susanoo in Japanese mythology, but Naruto has its own independent system that does not correspond directly to mythology. No nitpicking, please. Thank you.]
Bzz!
Naruto gazed at it with both eyes.
Futsunomitama!
Whoosh!
The divine artifact, Susa-no-o-no-Mikoto, was granted a soul. Its fiery-red body grew rounder, and human facial features appeared on it, making it look like a little sun!
Susa-no-o-no-Mikoto floated in front of Susanoo and spoke reverently. "Ah, my great father, your presence shines brighter than the sun above. Please allow your child to serve you!"
"Go!"