Fire was extinguished by falling snow; snow dwindled as fire melted it.
Mount Fuji's summit was blanketed in white snow. When it erupted, snow and fire mingled on the mountaintop, forming a spectacular sight of ice and flame.
But the great Reiwa eruption, coming after three hundred years, was unlike those of the past. Dark-red magma erupted violently from the crater, surging down the slopes like molten iron spilling from an overturned furnace. Its searing heat had long since melted away all the accumulated snow.
The area around the tenth station at Mount Fuji's summit had become an inferno.
"Is this all 'Princess Kaguya's' Lava Release can manage? It barely even reaches VEI 5."
Standing on a rock amid the lava flow, Uchiha Naruto frowned beneath his Spiral Mask, dressed in an Akatsuki cloak.
The sulfurous stench of rotten eggs in the air made his nose itch.
Then the three black tomoe in Uchiha Naruto's eyes spun, and he peered through the black smoke and heat-distorted air at Princess Kaguya, who was casting her technique at the crater.
Although Princess Kaguya was racking her brains and firmly believed she could wipe out this country's human population by triggering Mount Fuji's eruption, those were actually nothing more than false memories created by the Mangekyō dojutsu Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto.
From the very beginning, Uchiha Naruto had been using others' resources for his own ends. Taking advantage of the monsters in the monster cavern devouring and merging with one another through the Chimera Technique, he had brought the previously nonexistent Princess Kaguya onto the stage.
At her core, Princess Kaguya was still a creature formed by the fusion of over a hundred monsters, merely dressed in the celestial maiden guise fabricated by Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto.
Through the personality and memories woven by Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, Uchiha Naruto could constrain