"Then I'll gladly take them-all of them!"
As Chiya finished speaking, Danzo stared at the arrogant Uchiha brat before him. His gloomy old face twitched, and anger at being belittled flashed through his lone eye.
"Arrogant fool! Do you think the Mangekyō Sharingan makes you invincible?"
Danzo bit his thumb hard and formed hand seals, his movements so fast they left only afterimages.
"Summoning Technique: Baku!"
Poof!
An enormous cloud of smoke burst through the cramped underground space.
A strange, piercing roar rang out as a massive orange beast appeared out of thin air. It had an elephant's trunk, but its limbs were as powerful as a tiger's.
This was Danzo's summon, the legendary Baku that devoured nightmares!
"Roooar!!"
The moment Baku appeared, it opened its enormous mouth and inhaled sharply.
Whoooosh!!
A terrifying suction instantly engulfed the battlefield. Loose stones, rubble, and even the air were forcibly drawn into that seemingly bottomless maw.
Under that tremendous pull, Chiya's Susanoo immediately began to destabilize. Layer after layer of blazing chakra was dragged toward Baku's mouth.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
Danzo seized the once-in-a-lifetime opening.
He drew a deep breath and, using the wind generated by Baku, spat out dozens of high-pressure wind blades almost too fast for the naked eye to catch.
Wind fed fire? No-that only applied to ordinary Fire Release!
With Baku's devouring power, his Wind Release was amplified several times over, enough to scatter and shred ordinary Fire Release along with its caster!
"Die, Chiya Uchiha!" Danzo shouted harshly.
Dozens of wind blades sliced through the air like the Grim Reaper's scythes and slammed into Chiya's Susanoo.
Crack! Crack!
Deep, bone-baring fissures actually split the incredibly sturdy armor of the Susanoo.
And yet.
At the center of the storm, Chiya showed not a trace of panic. He simply watched the enormous beast frantically gulping down air, a mocking smile curling his lips.
"A beast that devours nightmares?"
"Since you're so hungry, I'll feed you something 'good.'"
Instead of swinging Ryūjin Jakka, Chiya plunged it into the ground.
"All Things in the Universe, turn to ashes!"
"Ryūjin Jakka: Fire Rejection—Headwind Version!"
BOOM!!!
This was no ordinary defense, but an explosion of power pushed to its limit!
Chiya unleashed every last bit of his Reiatsu and chakra in an instant. Ryūjin Jakka's heat, capable of incinerating everything, was no longer mere flame. It became an almost tangible golden heat wave that surged back toward Baku, riding its suction!
You want to suck it in?
Then I'll give you all you can take!
The heat wave was so hot that even Danzo's wind blades vaporized and dispersed the moment they passed through it.
"Awooo?!"
Baku, which had been feasting so eagerly, suddenly let out an agonized scream.
What it inhaled was no chakra-it was magma straight from hell!
Golden flames poured down its throat, instantly setting its organs ablaze.
"No!!" Danzo's expression changed drastically.
But he had no time to undo the Summoning Technique.
Bang!
With a tremendous blast, the massive Baku exploded into an enormous fireball, like a balloon filled with flammable gas touching an open flame!
Flesh and blood flew everywhere?
No-even its flesh and blood burned to ash the instant it exploded.
"That's your trump card? An elephant that does nothing but suck up dust?"
As the flames dissipated, Chiya appeared before Danzo like a phantom.
Too fast!
Flash Step!
With the Death God System empowering him, Chiya's speed had long since surpassed the scope of the Body Flicker Technique.
Danzo's pupil contracted sharply. He barely had time to glimpse a flash of golden steel.
"When did you..."
Slash-!
Without the slightest resistance, Ryūjin Jakka's searing blade cut diagonally through Danzo from his left shoulder to his right waist as easily as slicing tofu.
The blood had barely spurted out before the heat evaporated it.
Shimura Danzō, the Darkness of Konoha, had been cleaved in two!
Half his body slid to the ground, his old face still frozen in shock and disbelief.
"It's over."
Chiya flicked the lingering flames from his blade and stared coldly at the two halves of the corpse.
[Ding! Shimura Danzō killed. Evaluating Kill Points... evaluation failed!]
The system notification made Chiya raise his brow slightly.
Failed?
Just then, something eerie happened.
Instead of bleeding and cooling like an ordinary corpse, the two halves on the ground grew hazy and indistinct. Finally, they vanished into thin air like a dream that had never happened.
"Hmm?"
Chiya slowly turned.
On the rubble more than ten meters away, Shimura Danzō stood completely unharmed.
His clothes were intact, his body unmarked, and even the cane that had broken earlier was restored.
The only change was that the first Sharingan on his right arm, which had just opened, now slowly closed, forever losing its sight.
"Heh heh heh..."
Danzo chuckled darkly as he looked at Chiya. The alarm in his eye had faded, replaced by the arrogance of someone who held everything in his grasp.
"Surprised, Chiya Uchiha?"
Danzo stroked his closed Sharingan, a hint of boastfulness in his voice. "This is the Uchiha Clan's forbidden technique, and the reason I have remained standing in this cruel shinobi world."
"Izanagi."
"For the duration of this technique, anything unfavorable to me, including death, becomes a 'dream.' And anything favorable to me becomes 'reality'!"
Danzo spread his arms, as though even the darkness behind him were cheering him on.
"In other words, until every eye on this arm closes, I am-an immortal god!"
"You cannot kill me, Chiya!"
Danzo's voice echoed through the underground base, brimming with absolute confidence.
With multiple lives at his disposal, he would still be the ultimate victor, as long as he found an opening before the technique expired-or simply exhausted Chiya's chakra!
And yet.
Faced with a forbidden technique so unfair it could drive any ninja to despair, Chiya reacted in a way Danzo had never expected.
He showed no shock, no fear, and did not even furrow his brow.
Quite the opposite.
His shoulders began to shake.
"Pfft... hahahahaha!"
Chiya covered his forehead and burst into bone-chilling laughter.
His laughter grew louder and more deranged, as though he had heard the funniest joke in the world.
"Rewriting reality? An immortal... god?"
Chiya snapped his head up. His Mangekyō Sharingan held not despair, but unbridled savagery and excitement.
He looked like a deranged murderer who had suddenly discovered that his favorite toy could repair itself endlessly!
"Danzo, you old dog, you've really given me a wonderful surprise!"
Chiya stuck out his tongue and licked his slightly cracked lips. Ryūjin Jakka blazed anew in his hand, responding to its master's excitement.
"I was just regretting that killing scum like you once would be letting you off far too easily."
"Who knew you'd be so thoughtful as to prepare this technique just so I could enjoy myself!"
BOOM!!
Chiya's aura erupted again. This time, his red Susanoo no longer remained a mere upper body. It began growing wildly as chakra poured out like a flood bursting through a dam.
"If you can revive, let's see whether you can rewrite reality faster than I can kill you!"
"Come on, Danzo!"
"Let me savor it a few more times... the pleasure of burning those old bones of yours to ash!!"
Before he finished speaking, Chiya had already vanished.
This time, he used no defensive measures.
He threw away the shield in his Susanoo's hand, replacing it with two enormous swords formed from flames!
Berserk mode, activated!
"Madman!"
Watching the figure charge at him like a rabid dog, Danzo felt an inexplicable chill rise within him.
This Chiya Uchiha wasn't right in the head!
Shouldn't a normal person find an unkillable enemy troublesome and frightening? Why was he so excited?
"Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!"
Danzo tried to fight back, firing countless high-pressure air bullets at Chiya.
But Chiya did not dodge at all!
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The air bullets struck the Susanoo, sending ripples across it. A few even pierced its defenses and grazed Chiya, leaving bloody wounds.
Chiya did not so much as blink. Letting the blood flow, he drove his blade straight at Danzo's head.
"You're far too slow!!"
Swish!
One slash took his head!
Danzo's head flew into the air, the shock still lingering in his eye.
A second later, the corpse vanished.
Danzo reappeared to the left, his face somewhat pale, as the second Sharingan on his arm closed.
"Second time!" Chiya turned with a savage grin.
He gave Danzo no chance to catch his breath-not even enough time to form hand seals.
"Nadegiri!"
BOOM!
A slash of intensely compressed flame swept across the battlefield.
Barely revived and not yet steady on his feet, Danzo was cut in half at the waist by the terrifyingly hot sword slash. The stone wall behind him was sliced in two as well.
The corpse vanished again.
The third Sharingan closed.
"Third time!"
This time, Danzo revived in midair, trying to put some distance between them.
"Wood Release: Violent Spear Tree!"
Danzo's right arm instantly turned to wood, sprouting an enormous tree in an attempt to block Chiya.
"Are you trying to insult Wood Release with that flimsy wood?!"
Chiya roared, and his Susanoo swung its twin swords in a crossing slash.
"Hot Sea Rage!!"
An enormous tornado of flames instantly engulfed the tree, burning Danzo, who was hiding behind it, to charcoal as well.
The fourth Sharingan closed.
"Fourth time!"
"Fifth time!"
The entire underground base became the scene of a one-sided slaughter.
Danzo was like a lab mouse trapped in a cage, butchered again and again, revived again and again.
From his initial confidence, to his subsequent shock, and now... fear.
Profound fear!
The agony of every death was real!
The excruciating pain of decapitation, the despair of being cut in half, the suffocation of burning alive... although those memories vanished as Izanagi rewrote reality, the shadow of death was carved deep into Danzo's soul.
What drove Danzo to even greater despair was Chiya's condition.
By all rights, maintaining such a powerful Susanoo and repeatedly unleashing S-rank Fire Release should have exhausted his chakra long ago!
But what about Chiya?
He was like a perpetual motion machine!
Every slash carried crushing force, and every Fire Release attack packed astonishing power. Not only did his chakra show no sign of running dry, but as the slaughter continued, it grew more and more violent, its oppressive presence ever stronger!
This guy... just how much chakra did he have?!
"Is this what you call your true measure, Danzo?"
"Why so quiet? Weren't you acting so high and mighty a moment ago?!"
Boom!
Chiya stomped down, shattering the newly revived Danzo's breastbone, and pressed the tip of Ryūjin Jakka against his throat.
Danzo was drenched in sweat, his eyes filled with terror.
He glanced at his right arm.
Of his ten Sharingan... only three remained!
In less than a minute, this madman had killed him seven whole times!
How was this a battle? He was paying for it with his lives!
"No... impossible..."
Danzo trembled as he tried to form hand seals, but Chiya's foot pinned him down like a mountain, leaving him unable to move.
"You're almost out of eyes, Lord Danzo."
Chiya leaned down, a devilish smile spreading across his blood-smeared face.
"Tell me, once all those eyes close, where will you hide?"
"Or... do you have another trump card? Like that right eye you've kept hidden all this time?"
Danzo shuddered as Chiya struck at his secret.
That was Shisui Uchiha's eye! That was Kotoamatsukami!
That was the ultimate trump card he had meant to save for Obito Uchiha, or to use to control the Nine-Tails!
Would he really have to use it here today?
On a madman lost in bloodlust who refused to play by any rules?
"What's wrong? Can't bear to use Shisui's eye?"
Chiya seemed to see right through Danzo's thoughts, and the killing intent in his eyes surged.
"Since you can't bear to use it, take it with you... straight to hell!"
"Ryūjin Jakka: Flame Hell!!"
Rumble-!!
Dozens of enormous pillars of fire erupted from the ground and towered into the sky, completely sealing off the area within a hundred-meter radius.
This time, Chiya had no intention of giving Danzo any chance to escape.
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