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"Heh! That's what you get for caring more about pride and Dignity than your own safety!"
"Orochimaru already told me long ago that your Sage Mode training is incomplete. It takes forever to prepare, and you end up looking like some weird toad freak! Ugly as hell! Hahaha!"
"I bet you didn't use Sage Mode just because of what my shadow clone said yesterday, didn't you?"
"And don't think I didn't notice—you didn't even summon a single toad. What, you think Ay and the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki aren't worth the trouble?"
Renzo gave Jiraiya a speechless look as he scolded him.
Arrogance was one thing, but this was too much.
He admitted that one-on-one, Jiraiya probably was stronger than either Ay or Killer Bee.
Well, as long as Bee didn't go full tailed-beast mode.
But two-on-one, and Jiraiya's not even using summons or Sage Mode? That's basically asking to die.
"So you little brat knew this the whole time?"
Jiraiya exploded, absolutely livid. "And you still let your clone mess with me like that?!"
"Dammit! I nearly got killed just for fun?!"
He'd honestly thought he had kept it a secret.
"I see."
"It's all Orochimaru's fault!!" Jiraiya fumed.
That snake never stopped screwing him over—always exposing his embarrassing moments. Jiraiya swore he was gonna get even one day.
"One day, Orochi... one day."
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Meanwhile, back on the Konoha-Iwa battlefield…
"Ah—choo!!"
Orochimaru sneezed again and muttered in confusion, "Did I catch a cold? Or is that idiot Jiraiya talking crap about me again?"
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"Seriously, what's your problem? So your Sage Mode isn't perfect—big deal. So what if it makes you look ugly? That's no reason to throw your life away over pride," Renzo said with a teasing grin.
"It's not like you were good-looking to begin with."
Jiraiya: "…"
"Whatever. I'm done talking to you! You deal with things here—I'm gonna go help your shadow clone out! Hmph!"
And with that, Jiraiya stomped off angrily toward Renzo's clone, still fighting Yugito Nii.
"Help? More like 'pick a fight.'"
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On the other side, with Ay and Bee—
"Bee! Order a full retreat—now!" Ay said seriously, his face grim. "That guy is Uchiha Renzo from Konoha. He's not someone we can beat."
He was one of the few people who had taken a direct hit from Renzo—and survived. He knew exactly how vast the gap between them really was.
"What? We're just gonna let it go like this?"
Killer Bee wasn't having it. He stood up, waved over two jōnin, and told them to get his big bro out of there.
Then he turned and walked straight toward Renzo.
"Bee! Cough, cough! Listen to me! BEE!"
No matter how much Ay yelled after him, Killer Bee didn't look back. He just picked up speed, charging toward Renzo like a bullet.
At that moment, the Eight-Tails spoke up in Bee's head.
"Bee! You really should've listened to Ay! That Uchiha brat is seriously off. His chakra… it's insane! He has more than me—way more! It's terrifying!"
"And there's something else. His chakra feels… wrong. Like it's not just chakra—feels like Sage Chakra?"
The Eight-Tails paused, clearly disturbed.
"I've only felt something like that once before on Hashirama Senju."
"So what?!"
"Sage Mode, huh? Whatever! He hurt my big bro—if I don't hit back, how am I supposed to swallow that kind of humiliation? Bakayaro! Konoyaro!!"
Bee hesitated for a second, but his rage took over. He had to make Renzo pay—at the very least, teach him a lesson.
Still, he didn't ignore the Eight-Tails' warning. Bee instantly went into a half–tailed beast transformation.
"Eight-Tailed Beast Twister!!"
He wrapped all eight of his tails around himself and launched forward like a massive spinning drill, charging straight at Renzo.
"Susanoo!"
Renzo smiled calmly. With a single thought, he activated his Perfect Susanoo.
In an instant, a towering chakra giant over 100 meters tall formed and loomed over the battlefield, casting a massive shadow.
"What the…?"
"What is that thing?!"
"Oi, oi, oi—this is insane! Is this still the same Ninja World I know?!"
"How are we supposed to fight that?!"
The Kumo ninja lost their will to fight on the spot.
The Konoha shinobi were no better—mouths hanging open, frozen in place, too stunned to speak.
Right then, Kumo forces received orders from both Ay and the Raikage's staff to retreat immediately.
They couldn't win.
That Uchiha Renzo wasn't a man. He was a monster.
Meanwhile, Renzo, now fully armored in Susanoo, casually directed one massive hand toward Killer Bee.
"Bee! That's a Susanoo! You have to let me take over now—use our full form! Hurry!!"
The moment the Eight-Tails saw Susanoo, he panicked and shouted at Killer Bee.
Bee didn't hesitate. He handed over control of his body, and in a flash, transformed into the Eight-Tails' full form—a monstrous, towering creature over twenty meters tall.
But even with that massive size, next to the Perfect Susanoo towering over 100 meters?
He looked like a little kid standing next to a giant.
Susanoo's hand continued to reach for the Eight-Tails, unwavering.
In response, the Eight-Tails lashed its tails toward Susanoo and began charging a Tailed Beast Bomb in its mouth.
Renzo, completely unfazed by the incoming tails slamming into Susanoo's outstretched arm, simply grabbed the Eight-Tails, lifting it like a ragdoll.
It was like picking up a puppy.
The Eight-Tails immediately felt its body leave the ground—but it had finished forming the Tailed Beast Bomb.
With a roar, it launched the black sphere straight at Susanoo's face.
Of course, there was no way Renzo was going to let it hit.
Boom!!
In the next instant, Susanoo's other hand slapped the Tailed Beast Bomb like a fly, knocking it far off course—right into the retreating ranks of the Kumo forces.
BOOM!!!
The explosion tore through the battlefield, annihilating everything within several hundred meters.
"No!!!"
Dozens of Kumo shinobi were wiped out instantly. Hundreds more were injured or worse.
"You bastard!!!"
Killer Bee and the Eight-Tails froze in shock before erupting in rage, glaring at Renzo with murderous intent.
They charged at him, hellbent on revenge.
But Renzo just gave a cold, dismissive smile. "Oh? Can't take it now?"
"You guys were all smiles when you were slaughtering Konoha shinobi just yesterday. You didn't seem to mind the war then, did you?"
"What, it's fine when you dish it out but not when it comes back to you?"
He raised Susanoo's voice with a chakra amplification technique, his words echoing across the battlefield so every single Kumo shinobi could hear.
"If you dare to start a war, then you'd better be ready to deal with the consequences."
"And once war breaks out, it's not up to the losers to decide when it ends. That's up to the victors."
"Now tell me—are you Kumo shinobi ready to pay the price?"
The entire battlefield fell silent. The Kumo forces hesitated, a flicker of fear in their eyes.
"…He's right."
"Yeah… he's not wrong."
On the other side, Konoha shinobi erupted with cheers.
"Lord Renzo! Teach those bastards a lesson!"
"To us, he's a hero—to them, a nightmare."
"Let's go!!"
At that moment, Susanoo ignored the Eight-Tails' struggling. Golden chakra chains burst from Renzo's stomach, dozens of them, wrapping tightly around the beast's massive form, locking it in place.
The more the Eight-Tails struggled, the tighter the chains coiled.
"Sealing Art—Four Symbols Seal!"
"Eight Trigrams—Seal!!"
Sealing script began glowing on Susanoo's massive palm, spreading out in glowing lines that slithered across the Eight-Tails' body before pulling it back—right into Killer Bee's stomach.
At the same time, all of Killer Bee's chakra was sealed alongside his Tailed Beast.
"You bastard!!"
Killer Bee tried to struggle, even without chakra. But he was still wrapped up in the golden chains like a mummy, his strength drained.
Renzo casually manipulated one of the chains, smacking him in the head and knocking him out cold.
Then, with a flick of the wrist, he tossed Bee toward Kakashi and the others behind him.
He sent a quick telepathic message: "Watch him. I've sealed both his chakra and the Tailed Beast."
Then, without a moment's pause, Renzo had Susanoo draw its massive energy sword from its waist.
"Slash."
And with that single word, the blade came down.
"No!!!"
The slash carved a massive trench through the battlefield—thousands of meters long, dozens of meters wide. A small mountain caught in its path was cleanly sliced in half.
Every Kumo shinobi within range was obliterated. Not even ashes remained.
"Run! Now! RUN!!!"
Watching from afar, Darui—acting Raikage—was consumed with rage and despair. He wanted nothing more than to rip Renzo apart, but he knew it was pointless.
There was no stopping this monster.
All he could do was scream for the remaining Kumo forces to flee.
Then Renzo's eyes turned to him.
Darui's heart sank.
But he realized that Ay was still behind him, too injured to move. He had to protect damn Ay.
Susanoo's blade rose again.
Darui's instincts screamed at him to throw Ay to safety—to at least save the future Raikage.
But he knew it was too late.
He didn't have the strength. And the blade was already coming down.
Then—
SWOOSH!
A figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere, dropping right between them and the incoming blade.
Seeing that, Darui let out a breath of relief—looked like he and Ay had just been saved.
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