The clouds and mist on either side instantly closed in, completely enveloping Kimimaro.
The mist of Cloud Release instantly transformed into terrifying, highly corrosive acid mist!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The moment it made contact, the bone spear in Kimimaro's hand began to melt rapidly.
Before it could pierce Gekkō Raito, that indestructible bone spear had already turned into a puddle of murky, liquefied bone.
Kimimaro stared at the melting bone before him in disbelief, his eyes filled with horror.
"What kind of release is that?"
"Cloud Release!"
"A Kekkei Genkai?"
"No! It's a fusion of Ice Release and Boil Release. To be precise, it should count as a Kekkei Tōta I created myself!"
"I see..."
The light in Kimimaro's eyes dimmed, and a trace of regret appeared on his face.
His proudly raised head slowly drooped, the flame of his life already extinguished.
"Glutton... devour him!"
A mass of pitch-black substance instantly burst from Gekkō Raito's hand, swiftly enveloping Kimimaro's corpse like a greedy maw.
Glutton began devouring him ravenously.
Before his very eyes, Kimimaro's body disappeared little by little into the black substance, as though countless army ants were gnawing away at it.
After a full ten minutes, Kimimaro finally vanished completely before Gekkō Raito, without even a fragment of bone remaining.
This devouring speed is way too slow!
"Great Sage, how did it go? What did we gain from devouring Kimimaro?"
[Great Sage: Predation complete. Glutton is performing deep absorption. Estimated absorption time: three hours.]
"Absorption?"
"Didn't you just finish devouring him?"
[Great Sage: After devouring a physical organism, internal digestion and absorption are required. Only upon completion can further analysis and computation be performed to help the host acquire its abilities.]
"Then why was devouring the Hashirama Cells so fast last time..."
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