Kinshiki swung his axe in a full arc and chopped down.
Smack!
Star Platinum performed a barehanded blade catch, both palms clapped together, forcibly stopping Kinshiki's giant axe.
Kinshiki gritted his teeth and wrestled with Star Platinum. At the same time, a shadow swept past from the side.
He caught it out of the corner of his eye, and his hair instantly stood on end.
Ryosuke appeared at his side like lightning. The handle of the Ruin Greatsword in his hand spewed flames, and the blade was less than three inches from Kinshiki's throat.
'Too fast!'
'This speed…'
Kinshiki looked at Isshiki, hanging at Ryosuke's waist.
Kinshiki really was a steady, honest type. His assessments of both himself and others were extremely accurate.
The speed and power Ryosuke was displaying were absolutely on the same level as Isshiki's, one tier higher than Kinshiki's.
The giant axe locked by Star Platinum turned into crimson light and dispersed. It reassembled out of thin air in front of Kinshiki into a round shield, barely blocking Ryosuke's slash at the last moment.
The blade was blocked, but the impact was not.
Kinshiki was sent flying.
Ryosuke did not pursue.
With the Otsutsuki clan's physical toughness and regenerative ability, if you fight them, you have to chase one down and beat them to death without stopping.
His gaze fell once again on Momoshiki.
Locked onto by Ryosuke's eyes, the Momoshiki who had been so arrogant just seconds ago suddenly felt his heart tremble for no reason. Instinctively, he wanted to put as much distance as possible between himself and Ryosuke, to get out of his firing range.
Crack!
Momoshiki had only retreated half a step when he abruptly stopped.
How could he flee in front of lowly humans?
If he really ran, how would Isshiki see him? And what would Kinshiki think?
Momoshiki looked at the charging Ryosuke. The surge of rage actually suppressed the pain in his body as he slammed both hands onto the ground, "Inukaitakerunomikoto!"
The earth churned violently. One after another, massive earth dragons with snake bodies and dragon heads burst from the ground, roaring as they lunged toward Ryosuke. But they had only advanced halfway when, "Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
Mei Terumi formed seals with both hands and released a water dragon.
At the same time, countless fireballs, earth dragons, wind blades… thousands of ninjutsu flew toward Momoshiki, mixed in with several Tailed Beast Balls.
Aside from the heads of state, the guests who had come to the signing ceremony were basically all famous ninja, jinchuriki, and tailed beasts.
Earlier, during the brief but ferocious close-range exchange between Ryosuke and Momoshiki, they had no chance to step in.
Now that the enemy had finally used large-scale ninjutsu, everyone naturally wanted to give Ryosuke a hand, unleashing their signature techniques toward Momoshiki.
Momoshiki was engulfed by countless ninjutsu. Even with an Otsutsuki physique, after being heavily injured by Ryosuke and then subjected to such a saturated bombardment of techniques, he would inevitably be on the brink of death, if not dead outright.
Unfortunately…
Momoshiki sneered and raised his hand toward the sky.
"Takamimusubinokami."
It was as if a black hole appeared in his palm.
Howling winds swept everything up. Whether ninjutsu, Tailed Beast Balls, or kekkei genkai attacks, all of them flowed into Momoshiki's palm.
"Stop the ninjutsu attacks!"
Tsunade shouted. "He can absorb ninjutsu!"
It was already too late.
It had to be said, everyone present today was among the elite of ninja. They cast techniques extremely fast. By the time they realized something was wrong, the jutsu had already been thrown, and in the blink of an eye, they were sucked into Momoshiki's palm and vanished.
After absorbing that energy, Momoshiki's injuries recovered at an extremely terrifying speed, returning to normal almost instantly.
This was the effect of a first-encounter kill.
"Ryosuke, I acknowledge your strength. You really aren't an ordinary mortal. But next..."
Momoshiki raised his left hand high. A gigantic pitch-black energy sphere, formed from thousands of strands of complex, violent energy, appeared.
Under Momoshiki's control, the black energy sphere grew larger and larger, reaching a diameter of a thousand meters in the blink of an eye, blotting out the sky.
He looked down at Ryosuke below.
"I'll let you see my power."
Momoshiki swung his palm down.
The black energy sphere fell like a meteor.
If it was allowed to land, not to mention the thousands of people present, even the entire Hidden Mist Village would be wiped off the map of the ninja world.
Ryosuke stared at the descending black energy sphere.
Suddenly, he heard shouts from behind him.
"Brother Ryosuke!"
Sasuke, Rei, Gaara, and Naruto, the four of them, ran over.
Sasuke pointed at his Sharingan, which had already entered Mangekyo mode, then pointed at the sky, signaling that he would handle it.
Ryosuke nodded. His knees bent slightly, and with a thunderous boom, he shot into the air, heading straight toward the falling black energy sphere.
"Looking for death!" Momoshiki sneered.
Isshiki, hanging at Ryosuke's waist, felt something was off.
Ryosuke wasn't that stupid.
As an accessory who had followed Ryosuke for a long time, Isshiki had been secretly gathering information on him all along.
He knew that Ryosuke had an ability to control weather, to control rain.
Compared to charging alone at an energy sphere made of thousands of jutsu and Tailed Beast Balls, using rainwater for defense was clearly the more rational choice. The only explanation was... A trap.
"Momoshiki! Don't space out, focus on defense!"
Just as Otsutsuki Isshiki shouted loudly, Sasuke raised his right hand, forming a gun gesture, his index finger pointing at the sky, his left hand supporting his wrist.
Rei, Naruto, and Gaara placed their hands on him.
The chakra of the Nine-Tails and One-Tail flowed between the four of them, linking their wills together as well.
Under this connection, Sasuke's mental power reached its peak.
"Super Ninjutsu Nullification!"
BOOM!
An invisible "bullet" shot out from Sasuke's fingertip and struck the black energy sphere. In the next instant, that pitch-black energy sphere, one thousand meters in diameter and capable of destroying the Hidden Mist Village, burst apart like a balloon and vanished without a trace.
Momoshiki was stunned.
Kinshiki was stunned.
Even Isshiki, who had followed Ryosuke the longest, was stunned.
What had he just seen?
Such a massive amount of energy, an attack that even Isshiki himself would have had to dodge, had actually… disappeared into thin air?
Isshiki stared blankly at Sasuke.
One Ryosuke, nearly invincible in close combat.
And now there was another Sasuke.
Even if Momoshiki managed to absorb ninjutsu, the moment he tried to release an attack, it would be nullified by Sasuke, directly sealing off Takamimusubinokami, Momoshiki's strongest attack method.
Then how was this supposed to be fought?
Rely on Kinshiki chopping one axe at a time?
Or rely on the Inukaitakerunomikoto, Kijigari, and Enkogan that Momoshiki summoned, three worthless pieces of trash?
As for the Rinnegan's attraction and repulsion…
The new moon was an all-around superior suppression.
Isshiki questioned again, "How is this even supposed to be fought?!"
He roared at Obito, who was standing atop the Ten-Tails and looked less like he was here to fight and more like he was sightseeing. "When the hell are you going to make a move?!"
Obito remained silent.
"F*ck!" The usually elegant Isshiki rarely cursed out loud.
Suddenly, he heard a sharp whistling of wind. He turned his head and saw that in Ryosuke's palm, a metal ball was spinning at high speed, locking onto Momoshiki along with Ryosuke's gaze.
BOOM!
The metal ball broke the sound barrier, streaking toward Momoshiki along a beautiful arc.
Momoshiki tried to repeat the same trick, using Takamimusubinokami again, but discovered that he couldn't absorb even the slightest bit of energy from the metal ball.
Now that he knew the opponent's ability, Ryosuke hadn't attached even a trace of ripple energy or natural energy to the spinning metal ball.
The reason this metal ball could fly at supersonic speed… was purely because Ryosuke was strong.
"Uchiha Obito! Why the fuck are you still not making a move?!"
Isshiki was in despair.
What answered him was still Obito's silence.