"Now that's more like it."
As Ryuto finished speaking, the dense golden aura around him flickered slightly.
Across from him, the enormous, fifteen-meter-tall rabbit humanoid-Ōtsutsuki Kaguya-fixed all three eyes on him.
The fury in those red eyes was almost blazing out.
Ryuto had just beaten her until she spat blood with a Solar Flare followed by a combo. Now that she had absorbed Tailed Beast Chakra and grown larger, she wanted to even the score.
Kaguya moved.
She dispensed with the flashy techniques and swung an enormous chakra arm straight down at Ryuto.
The arm was thicker than a house, and the wind howled in its wake.
Ryuto didn't dodge. He raised his right hand, clenched his fist, and punched straight into the descending chakra arm.
Bang-!!!
It sounded like thunder.
A shock wave exploded outward, and another vast section of ground collapsed.
Kaguya's chakra arm stopped. Ryuto's fist held it suspended in midair, unable to come down.
All three of Kaguya's eyes contracted at once, and she clenched her other hand into a fist and smashed it toward Ryuto.
Ryuto raised his left hand and blocked it just the same. He was about to speak when his vision blurred, and a dense swarm of needles was already before his eyes.
"Rabbit Hair Needle."
Countless white hairs shot from Kaguya's hair, packed as densely as falling rain. Every strand was frighteningly sharp, aimed all over Ryuto's body.
The two punches had only been feints, drawing his attention for this move.
Ryuto drew a deep breath, his chest swelling high, then blew it all out with a whoosh.
A wave of air swept outward, blowing the Rabbit Hair Needles away before they could get close.
Kaguya refused to accept it and kept pressing down with her chakra arm.
The ground beneath