"Is this your final performance, Teacher Sarutobi?"
The voice was calm, languid, and even carried a faint hint of amusement. It was as if what was about to happen was not a cataclysmic disaster capable of destroying civilization, but merely a slightly noisy street performance.
This ultimate composure, this indifference to everything from the depths of his being, stirred up a feeling that was both incredibly absurd and incredibly real in the hearts of the global audience who had just felt a sense of awe and admiration for Hiruzen Sarutobi's ultimate technique.
Perhaps in the eyes of this "god," Hiruzen Sarutobi's final, tragic performance, in which he risked everything, was really just a boring farce.
Hiruzen Sarutobi in his Battle Demon God Form also heard this question, which was filled with utmost contempt. His enormous golden eyes, made of Chakra, suddenly narrowed! An unprecedented sense of humiliation and anger surged into his heart!
There's a limit to underestimating people!
" Uchiha Gen'yō!!"
He let out a final roar! He squeezed out the last bit of Chakra within his body without reservation, pouring it all into the world-destroying tornado that had already reached the moon!
Boom--!!!!
The colorful tornado of natural disaster expanded in size once again! The destructive power it contained also reached an unprecedented peak!
It was like a world-ending meteorite about to crash into Earth! With an unstoppable, resolute force, it slammed into that enormous curtain of light! It crashed into the god who had only slowly extended one hand!
The whole world held its breath at that moment! Time seemed to stand still!
However--
The anticipated earth-shattering explosion did not occur. Nor did the anticipated scene of the light barrier shattering and gods being swallowed by natural disaster appear.
Under the utterly stunned and numb gazes of billions of people around the world, a miracle occurred that was enough to overturn their entire worldview.
The world-destroying tornado, powerful enough to wipe a small country off the map, seemed to have struck an invisible, intangible, yet eternally existing and absolutely insurmountable dimensional barrier the Setsuna it made contact with Uchiha Gen'yō's fair and slender hand!
Suddenly stopped!
That violent force, powerful enough to tear the earth apart, seemed like a third-rate movie special effect that had been paused, appearing so comical and laughable.
"This... this is..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's aged face, perched on the demon's chest, froze instantly! The muscles in his face began to twitch uncontrollably! His golden eyes, burning with a final madness, widened in utter disbelief!
How could this be?! His ultimate technique, which integrates the Five Elements and Yin–Yang and is powerful enough to create "natural disasters"! Why did it stop?! Couldn't even make the opponent's hand tremble slightly?!
However, what happened next completely shattered his already fragile worldview!
On the light screen, a hint of "disdain" appeared on Uchiha Gen'yō's handsome, almost otherworldly face.
"It's so noisy."
He uttered four words calmly.
Then, the five fingers of his right hand, which had blocked the "natural disaster," slightly opened. A terrifying devouring power, indescribable by words, inexplicable by science, and incomprehensible by Ninjutsu, erupted from his palm!
It felt as if his palm was connected to a cosmic black hole that could devour everything!
call--!!!!
The apocalyptic tornado that had been "paused" suddenly surged into Uchiha Gen'yō's palm at an alarming speed, like water being drained from a bathtub!
That raging meteorite mountain range! That surging Uzumaki of death! That destructive storm that tears space apart! That scorching flame that burns everything in its path! That world-destroying thunder that judges all living beings!
Everything was being effortlessly devoured and absorbed by that seemingly not-so-large hand!
It all happened in no more than ten seconds.
That ultimate catastrophe that once blotted out the entire sky and plunged the world into apocalyptic panic vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.
The sky cleared once more. Only the cold, silvery-white moon remained high in the sky, radiating its timeless, cool glow.
Uchiha Gen'yō slowly withdrew his right hand. In his palm, a seven-colored energy ball, no bigger than a marble, had appeared, spinning continuously. It contained all the energy condensed from Hiruzen Sarutobi's earth-shattering attack.
Uchiha Gen'yō glanced down at the "little toy" that was still jumping restlessly in his hand, and a playful smile appeared on his lips.
Then he gently applied pressure with his fingers.
"Snap."
With a soft sound, the energy sphere that contained the essence of a "natural disaster" was crushed by him as easily as crushing a candy, turning into countless harmless energy specks that dissipated into the cold universe.
The whole world was deathly silent.
Everyone's brains were completely shut down by this scene that was utterly beyond their comprehension.
Absorbed? That ultimate Ninjutsu, powerful enough to destroy a country, was absorbed with a single hand? And then crushed like a candy?
What kind of power is this?
This is no longer a battle between "ninjas". It's an "ant" waving its ridiculous forelegs at a "human", only to be easily crushed by the human with a single finger.
That absolute, insurmountable dimensional gap, stemming from a difference in the level of life itself, instilled in all the ninjas who still harbored fantasies about " Ninjutsu " and "power" an endless, profound despair.
As the instigator of all this, the fifty-meter-tall Battle Demon God stood frozen in place, completely motionless. His enormous golden eyes, made of Chakra, had completely lost all their luster, leaving only an empty, grayish-white space like that of a dead man.
We lost.
He risked everything, unleashing his strongest and final attack, a strike that burned with his soul and life, leaving his opponent with no right to even take him seriously.
This wasn't just a crushing defeat. It was a one-sided humiliation filled with dark humor from beginning to end.
All of Hiruzen Sarutobi's pride, dignity, and enlightenment in his entire life were utterly crushed into nothingness with that casual "pinch."
Just then, the cold voice that sat atop the throne descended slowly once more. This time, the voice held no mockery or amusement; it was merely a final pronouncement, as if drawing the curtain on a tedious drama.
The performance is over.
"It's time for the curtain to fall."
Uchiha Gen'yō's icy gaze fell upon the Battle Demon God, who had lost all will to fight, and upon the dark golden, indestructible body that had once displayed invincible characteristics in the battle against Uchiha Shō.
His voice, filled with absolute judgment, slowly echoed between heaven and earth.
" Hiruzen Sarutobi, is that stick you're so proud of still hard enough?"