Izanagi, Unrivaled Monstrous Strength!

Instead, he simply began forming hand seals on the spot.

"To gain power, you turned yourself into this thing that's neither human nor monster. You're disgusting..."

Looking at Danzo's right arm, which bore the First Hokage's face and was studded with Sharingan, Rikuto mocked him without restraint. The sight made one's scalp tingle.

He had no intention of stopping him.

He wasn't even planning to use his Sharingan so soon.

He had finally found an opponent worth taking seriously.

The blood in his veins was beginning to boil.

"You grew up in a greenhouse, knowing nothing of war. You have Senju blood in your veins, and you even awakened Wood Release like the First Hokage..."

Shimura Danzō's expression remained unchanged.

He pulled down the bandage over his right eye, revealing a Mitsudomoe Sharingan.

Staring directly at Rikuto above him, he said coldly, "Naturally, you don't understand the sorrow of being powerless!"

"Chiya Rikuto, that power of yours will be mine!"

His gaze burned.

Clenching his right fist, he shouted at Rikuto, "I will guide you, bring order to these troubled times, bring peace to the Shinobi World, and usher in a brand-new era!"

"Hmm, is that your dream?"

Rikuto smiled. "Too bad you won't get to see the Infinite Tsukuyomi!"

As he spoke,

he aimed his right hand at Danzo.

Under Danzo's wary gaze,

he clenched it!

"Swish, swish..."

Without warning,

sharp wooden spikes erupted from the ground, one after another.

They attacked from every direction at once.

"What!?"

In the blink of an eye,

Shimura Danzō's expression changed drastically. Unable to dodge in time, he was impaled.

His entire body was riddled with holes.

Blood poured from him.

Shimura Danzō spat blood.

He stared up at Rikuto in disbelief. "You..."

But the next moment, the life went out of him.

He lay there, motionless.

Chapter 58: Izanagi, Unrivaled Monstrous Strength! [First release, please support]

"Did I get him?"

Looking at Danzo's bloody, mangled corpse,

Rikuto leaped down from the tree trunk, his face calm.

"Not necessarily..."

Suddenly,

a voice rang out.

Danzo, who should have been dead, appeared behind him in an eerie fashion.

Without giving Rikuto a chance to react, he rapidly formed hand seals with both hands.

He blew sharply at Rikuto. "Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!"

"Whoosh... whoosh..."

Swift bullets of wind came one after another.

Like real speeding bullets, they tore through the air toward Rikuto from behind.

There were at least ten of them, each aimed at a different blind spot around Rikuto, leaving him nowhere to dodge.

They showed no mercy.

"I've been on guard against you all along!"

Rikuto sneered.

As though he had expected it, he showed no surprise.

He raised his right hand slightly. "Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall!"

"Swish, swish..."

A mass of wooden slats burst from the earth.

At astonishing speed, they assembled into an oval, hemispherical shield.

"Boom... boom..." The wooden shield appeared out of nowhere, instantly blocking the impacts of the wind bullets as they struck one after another.

A few wood chips flew.

The thunderous blasts made one's scalp tingle.

But the enormous shield, as hard as steel and possessing astonishing defensive power, was not pierced.

Rikuto, protected inside, was completely unharmed.

At the same time,

beneath Danzo's feet,

several vines suddenly sprouted and grew wildly.

They seized his legs like lightning and, while devouring his chakra, yanked him viciously toward the ground.

"What!?" Danzo's expression changed drastically.

But he couldn't break free.

As he was dragged underground,

sharp vines pierced his body in an instant, one after another.

"Ah..." A piercing scream tore from him.

He died on the spot.

Before Rikuto could smile,

his corpse vanished in an eerie fashion.

In an instant, Shimura Danzō appeared once more to Rikuto's left, completely unharmed.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"

He rapidly formed hand seals with both hands.

He gathered Wind Release chakra in his mouth and blew sharply.

"Whoosh..."

In the blink of an eye,

razor-sharp wind blades flew from his mouth in succession.

They slashed violently toward Rikuto like lightning.

"Danzo, is Wind Release what you're most proud of?"

Rikuto's expression remained unchanged, a sneer on his face.

His sensory ability, active at all times, had already pinpointed Danzo's position the moment he appeared.

At some point, he had completed one-handed hand seals. He blew sharply. "Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"

"Whoosh, whoosh..." Astonishing wind blades tore through the air in an instant, one after another.

Even Danzo couldn't help being shocked.

He had never expected Rikuto to form hand seals with one hand in the blink of an eye and use Vacuum Serial Waves, an advanced version more powerful than Vacuum Wave.

He intended to crush Danzo in the field Danzo excelled at most.

"Boom... boom..."

The wind blade Danzo had unleashed was mercilessly shredded.

In an instant, a barrage of wind blades came hurtling at him one after another at astonishing speed.

"Boom, boom..."

Danzo reacted quickly, dodging left and right.

A mass of wind blades missed him, slicing through swathes of trees without losing momentum.

"Ah..." In the end, however, he couldn't avoid them all.

One mistake left him unable to dodge in time. An exceedingly sharp wind blade sliced through his body, cutting him in half at the waist.

He screamed.

His body split in two.

He fell to the ground.

The next second,

the bloody corpse vanished in an eerie fashion.

He appeared again several meters away.

His gaze flickered with uncertainty as he stared at Rikuto. "You don't seem surprised at all that I can come back from the dead again and again..."

"Isn't it just Izanagi?"

Rikuto wore a playful expression.

He glanced at the Sharingan on Danzo's right arm. They turned constantly, as though they were truly connected to his optic nerves, a sight that made one's scalp tingle. He said with a hint of mockery, "You have nine eyes left. Try harder!"

"I want to know whether your chakra will run out first, or I'll be the first to reach my limit!"

"Hmph, you know quite a bit... I'm also curious to see just how strong you really are!"

With Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan as his trump card,

Danzo had nothing to fear and smiled confidently.

It was truly incredible that an eight-year-old brat could possess such strength.

He wasn't in a hurry to use Kotoamatsukami, wanting to thoroughly test just how extraordinary his opponent was.

Gazing at Rikuto with burning eyes, he said loudly, "Chiya Rikuto, join Root and serve me. If we join forces, we can sweep across the Shinobi World... I promise I can support you in becoming Hokage in the future!"

"Sorry, I refuse..."

Rikuto was unmoved.

He looked Shimura Danzō straight in the eye, his tone filled with indescribable mockery. "I don't need to join forces with you. Give me time, and I can sweep across the Shinobi World on my own. Why would I take on dead weight like you?"

Before his words had even faded,

he charged at Danzo.

Under Danzo's astonished, darkening gaze.