"Fine."
Ryuto floated in the air, looking down at Madara's cold smile.
"Then I'll show you."
The moment he finished speaking.
Vmmm-!!!
A surge of energy, more savage, more ferocious, and more explosive than before, erupted straight out of Ryuto!
His golden aura shot skyward with a boom, but this time it was different.
It no longer flickered like flames.
It came out in jets.
Like steam blasting out of a pressure cooker, or exhaust from the back of a rocket, razor-sharp columns of golden energy shot straight upward from every pore of his body.
His upright golden hair became straighter, stiffer, and sharper, every strand standing on end like a hedgehog's spines.
And then.
Crackle!
Fine bolts of blue lightning suddenly sprang up all around him, coiling around his golden aura like countless little snakes, giving off a piercing electrical crackle.
The entire canyon was instantly filled with this absurdly immense ki.
The air trembled, and the ground shook.
Rocks tumbled down the distant cliffs like rain.
Ryuto floated at the center of those golden jets and blue lightning, looking down at Madara.
His voice was calm, but every word hammered into Madara's ears.
"Super Saiyan 2."
"My battle power is a hundred times my base form."
"Twice that of Super Saiyan 1 at full power."
Madara's Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan stared fixedly at Ryuto, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
A hundred times?
Twice?
What kind of joke was this?!
Ryuto paid no attention to what he was thinking. He raised his right hand, opened his palm, and aimed at an empty stretch of flat ground nearby.
"If I wanted to deal with your clones, it'd look like this."
He thrust his palm forward.
A thick pillar of golden light surged from his palm and instantly struck that patch of ground.