Kenya had barely finished speaking.
Orochimaru had not yet had time to consider the source of that strange black power.
The giant summoned snake beneath his feet had already let out a deafening roar.
"Roar!"
The giant snake opened its bloody maw, bringing a nauseating, foul wind as it crashed down toward the little fishing boat like a collapsing mountain of flesh.
An enormous shadow instantly engulfed Kenya and Haku.
This giant snake was simply too huge.
Even Tsunade's summon, Katsuyu, could only be considered small beside it.
"Die, brat."
Orochimaru stood on the snake's head, a cruel gleam in his eyes.
He intended to smash Kenya half to death first, then drag him back to study at his leisure.
However.
Just as the giant snake's fangs were about to touch the little fishing boat.
Bang!
A dull sonic boom rang out on the fishing boat's deck.
Kenya's legs stamped hard against the air.
Six Powers: Soru!
With the Garp Template's enhancement, Kenya's explosive power had already reached an inconceivable level.
His figure left an afterimage where he had stood.
Like a black meteor shooting upward, he vanished from beneath the giant snake's bloody maw in an instant.
"What?!"
Orochimaru's golden slit pupils contracted sharply.
So fast!
That was definitely not the Body Flicker Technique! The Body Flicker Technique couldn't possibly produce no chakra fluctuations at all!
Before Orochimaru could react.
"Yo, Orochimaru, looking for me?"
A voice carrying a hint of mockery suddenly rang out above Orochimaru's head.
Orochimaru abruptly looked up.
At some point, Kenya had leaped above the giant snake's head and was now looking down at him.
His right fist, wrapped in pitch-black Armament Haki, was already raised high.
The surrounding air visibly distorted under that terrifying pressure.
Not good!
Alarm bells blared in Orochimaru's mind.
The instincts he had gained from years of walking the line between life and death told him.
He absolutely could not take this punch head-on!
Without the slightest hesitation, Orochimaru rapidly formed hand seals.
"Kusanagi Sword!"
He opened his mouth, and a white snake darted out.
The white snake spat out an incomparably sharp longsword gleaming with cold light.
Orochimaru seized the Kusanagi Sword and poured all the chakra in his body into it.
He held the sword across his chest, attempting to block Kenya's seemingly unremarkable strike, which actually contained destructive power.
The Kusanagi Sword was a legendary divine weapon of the Shinobi World, reputed to cut through anything.
Orochimaru had absolute confidence in its hardness.
No matter how strong his opponent was, he could not possibly break the Kusanagi Sword with his bare hands.
"Nice idea."
Looking at Orochimaru's guarded stance, Kenya's lips curled into a savage smile.
"Unfortunately, you know nothing about true power!"
As his words fell.
Kenya's right fist slammed down like a meteor crashing into the earth.
"Fist Bone: Direct Hit!"
There were no fancy techniques.
There was no explosion of chakra.
There was only utterly pure physical destructive force, compressed to its limit by Armament Haki!
Clang-!!!
A deafening, earth-shaking crash erupted over the sea.
It was like thunder from the highest heavens roaring beside their ears.
The pitch-black fist collided violently with the coldly gleaming Kusanagi Sword.
Orochimaru felt nothing but a terrifying, utterly unreasonable force capable of toppling mountains and overturning seas.
It surged madly into both his arms through the Kusanagi Sword.
Crack!
The Kusanagi Sword, Orochimaru's pride and joy, reputed to cut through anything.
Under the impact of the Armament Haki-coated iron fist.
Actually let out a strained wail.
The blade bent sharply inward, then was forcibly knocked flying with a bang!
"Impossible!"
Orochimaru cried out involuntarily.
That was the Kusanagi Sword!
He had actually knocked it away with his bare hands?!
But Kenya's attack did not stop after knocking the Kusanagi Sword away.
After sending the Kusanagi Sword flying, the terrifying force of his punch lost none of its remaining power.
Like an unbridled primordial beast, it tore through Orochimaru's defenses.
Boom!
The wind from his punch struck like a pillar, blasting into the top of the giant snake's head beneath Orochimaru's feet.
At that moment.
Time seemed to stand still.
Then.
Under Haku's incredulous gaze.
That enormous summoned snake, as massive as a mountain of flesh.
Its head, the instant it touched the wind from the punch.
Seemed to have been struck by an invisible ten-thousand-ton hammer.
Simply... exploded!
Splat!
A skyful of bloody rain, mixed with shattered scales and chunks of flesh, sprayed wildly in every direction like a crimson downpour.
And it was not over yet.
That terrifying punching force spread all the way down from the giant snake's head.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The giant snake's enormous body, dozens of meters long.
Before this supremely overbearing physical force, it actually snapped apart section by section like a fragile stalk of sugarcane!
In the end, the entire giant snake was brutally pulverized into a puddle of minced flesh!
Rumble-!
The aftershock of the punch struck the surface of the sea.
The once-calm sea was instantly smashed into an enormous, bottomless vortex.
Violent blasts of air raised monstrous waves a hundred meters high!
Enormous walls of water swept outward in every direction like a tsunami.
The little fishing boat rocked violently under the impact of the huge waves, and only by clinging desperately to the gunwale did Haku avoid being thrown into the sea.
He stared blankly at the figure in the sky, who resembled a god of war, his shock beyond measure.
Was this the old guy's true strength?
With just one punch.
Without even using ninjutsu, he had pulverized Orochimaru's giant summon and even whipped up a tsunami?!
He was simply a monster straight out of a myth!
Splash...
The rain of blood and seawater gradually fell from the sky.
After the violent upheaval, the sea slowly returned to calm.
The giant summoned snake had vanished completely, leaving only vast patches of bloody water floating on the surface.
Kenya landed lightly on the bow of the little fishing boat.
He shook the blood off his fist as the pitch-black Armament Haki slowly faded.
"That Kusanagi Sword's pretty hard. It even jarred the back of my hand red."
Kenya rubbed his wrist and muttered in some dissatisfaction.
If Orochimaru had heard that, he probably would have coughed up blood in fury on the spot.
The divine weapon he took such pride in had only managed to jar the back of your hand red?
Kenya turned his head and looked at the sea nearby.
"Hey, Orochimaru."
"Stop playing dead. I know a loach like you doesn't die that easily."
Gurgle...
As Kenya finished speaking.
A string of bubbles suddenly rose from the churning bloody water nearby.
Then a white figure slowly crawled out of the mouth of the giant snake's remains.
Orochimaru was covered in slime.
He gasped for breath, his golden slit pupils filled with unprecedented shock and a trace of fear he could not conceal.
He looked at Kenya nearby.
He tried to straighten his back and maintain his dignity as one of the Sannin.
But to his horror, he discovered.
Under the terrifying aftershock of that last punch, his neck had actually.
Tilted uncontrollably to the left.