"Princess Kaguya, you forced my hand!"
A furious shout rang out.
The next moment, countless trees surged up from underground.
They brimmed with natural energy and vitality.
Towering trees rose from the earth in an endless succession, instantly blotting out the sky and moon.
The terrain was transformed in an instant, becoming a dense forest.
At the same time, wooden arms rose from underground.
They were laden with senjutsu chakra.
They reached for "Princess Kaguya."
"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"
That was not all. Beastly roars rose one after another.
They, too, echoed through the forest.
Nine Wood Dragons lunged at "Princess Kaguya," claws outstretched and jaws snapping.
In that instant, Yuya had unleashed:
Sage Art: Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence
Sage Art: Wood Release: Hotei Technique
Sage Art: Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique
At the sight,
"Princess Kaguya" gave an eerie sneer.
The next moment, just as all the attacks were about to strike her,
a pitch-black hole appeared, opening a rift in space.
She was about to evade the attacks with Yomotsu Hirasaka,
only to discover that some force seemed to have interfered with space at that very moment.
It froze for a split second.
And in that instant, all the attacks came crashing down.
Unable to evade them, "Princess Kaguya" suddenly grew flustered.
She had never expected Yuya to go straight for the "kill."
He had even interfered with space.
"There's natural energy in them. It seems I can't absorb them..."
She murmured.
"Super Shinra Tensei!"
"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!"
The next moment, "Princess Kaguya" leaped high into the air.
An immensely powerful repulsive force erupted from her body.
It crushed the wooden hands surging from underground, created by the Wood Release: Hotei Technique.
At the same time, her chakra-cloaked hands struck out in rapid succession.
Enormous chakra fists appeared in the air.
They hurtled toward the Wood Dragons.
Every punch carried chakra as vast as an ocean.
Their overwhelming force seemed to shake even space itself.
After she shattered several Wood Dragons in succession,
the spatial seal had already dissipated.
"Princess Kaguya" swiftly escaped using Yomotsu Hirasaka.
But just as she escaped the range of Deep Forest Emergence,
she discovered that, in the very next instant,
on Yuya's enormous golden Susanoo,
two gigantic armored arms had already appeared.
They seemed to have been waiting for her all along.
Under his control, the two Susanoo arms
drew a bow and nocked an arrow.
And the golden arrow
was cloaked in black flames that consumed all life, as though heralding the end of the world.
The next moment, the arrow flew.
Indra's Arrow, wrapped in Amaterasu and carrying an aura of utter destruction,
shot toward the spot where "Princess Kaguya" had appeared.
"Princess Kaguya" wore a strange, complicated expression.
She had no idea how Yuya had predicted where she would appear.
But there was no time to ponder it.
"Daikokuten!"
The next instant, a trace of reddish gold began to gleam in her right eye.
An eerie black, eight-spoked pattern appeared within it.
An astonishing burst of chakra erupted, and a black cube appeared in the air, radiating an utterly uncanny aura.
It blocked the path of Indra's Arrow.
Boom!
A tremendous explosion rang out.
Endless waves of air billowed outward in every direction.
Fierce winds swept through everything.
The entire forest created by Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence
was more than half destroyed in that instant.
Black flames ate away at countless trees.
The trees absorbed the scattered chakra and continued to grow.
But the black flames of Amaterasu kept burning, as though they would never go out.
The two maintained a curious balance.
"Heh."
"Princess Kaguya" sneered.
The next moment, while the powerful shock waves were still spreading and obscuring the view,
and Daikokuten's lingering aura cut off her opponent's perception,
space rippled, and a pitch-black hole appeared once more.
"Princess Kaguya" stepped inside.
This time, she used Yomotsu Hirasaka to appear behind Yuya.
"All-Killing Ash Bones!"
Behind the enormous Susanoo,
"Princess Kaguya" appeared without a sound.
She raised her palm without hesitation, but just as she was about to unleash the attack,
her face began to contort with struggle again.
Her body trembled as well.
Her throat worked as though she wanted to say something, but she could not.
Amid her fierce struggle, a trickle of blood even escaped the corner of her mouth.
But in the end, golden light blazed in her right eye.
The black, eight-spoked pattern flickered incessantly, suppressing the disturbance.
A length of bone, carrying an aura that decayed everything, wrought endless annihilation, and destroyed all things,
still shot out of her palm.
Princess Kaguya's ultimate killing technique from the original story could make everything about anyone it touched scatter on the wind.
It plunged their body into an unstoppable collapse, like the disintegration caused by Impure World Reincarnation: Release.
Now, at last, it appeared for the first time.
And sure enough, All-Killing Ash Bones did not disappoint "Princess Kaguya."
Before her opponent could react, it easily pierced Susanoo's chakra shell.
It drove straight into Yuya's heart.
Then Susanoo began to dissipate.
Yuya's body, too, seemed to decay as it continued to crumble.
"Princess Kaguya" shook her head.
A trace of bloodlust and disdain flashed in her gaze.
"Where are you looking?"
Yet the next moment, a familiar voice sounded behind her.
"Princess Kaguya" stiffened. The slowly decaying Yuya before her
turned into smoke and vanished.
A flash of shock passed through "Princess Kaguya's" eyes. Then she condensed a sword with Yin-Yang Release.
Without thinking, she thrust it behind her.
But it was blocked by a Susanoo arm cloaked in the black divine flames of Amaterasu
and senjutsu chakra.
At that same moment,
her gaze met a pair of scarlet eyes.
"Zhu Yin: Tsukuyomi!"
Powerful dōjutsu power, carrying mental energy, erupted at that instant.
At the same time, bloody tears streamed from both eyes.
Yuya's vision blurred, leaving him almost half-blind.
"Interesting... a technique specifically designed for me? When did you discover me?"
An eerie male voice emerged from Princess Kaguya's mouth.
He regarded Yuya with some surprise.
"From the beginning..."
Yuya said in a low voice.
"This technique of yours won't keep me asleep for long. I look forward to our next meeting, in this body... hahahaha."
"Princess Kaguya" laughed eerily.
The next instant, an aura began to rapidly recede from her body.
The golden light and eight-spoked pattern in her right eye faded with it.
"Next time, I'll kill you!"
Yuya whispered.
An unprecedented chill and murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
And at that moment,
Princess Kaguya staggered.
Her eyes grew clouded and confused.
She saw Yuya before her.
The next instant, sword in hand,
she swayed as she thrust toward Yuya's body.
Shhk!
This time, however, Yuya did not dodge...
The sound of a blade piercing flesh rang out.
Blood dripped down along the blade.
Agonizing pain engulfed Yuya.
Yin-Yang Release continued to extinguish his life force.
Yuya did not dodge.
Because he knew... this time... it was the real Princess Kaguya...
He could not bring himself to dodge...
Just as he also knew... the one fighting him before had been Ōtsutsuki Isshiki all along.
His expressions, his movements, his words-everything he had done-
had been intended solely to force Ōtsutsuki Isshiki fully out into the open.
Then he would use this prepared trump card to deal a devastating blow to his mind.
Zhu Yin was a genjutsu developed from Tsukuyomi.
It served only one purpose: to injure Isshiki's mind and force him into slumber.
From the very moment he acquired Tsukuyomi, he had been preparing for this.
Until he had dealt with the threat Isshiki posed, at least for now, how could he truly feel at ease leaving for the Wind-Snow Realm?
And now, as the real Princess Kaguya drove her sword into his body,
an utterly agonizing feeling engulfed him.
Even during his earlier battle against Princess Kaguya's body,
he had needed to carefully anticipate her every response,
afraid that some unforeseen accident might truly hurt Princess Kaguya,
and had had no time to process his sorrow.
But now,
all those emotions surged over him at once, nearly suffocating him.
How could I... truly bring myself to attack Princess Kaguya?
The next moment,
the three black tomoe in Yuya's eyes began to link end to end,
turning dazzling in an instant, steeped in mystery,
evoking life and annihilation, the passage of time and reincarnation,
before finally forming eerily sinister black six-pointed stars in his pupils.
Those were Yuya's Mangekyō Sharingan!
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