Chapter 99
"ROAR!"
The next second, the Nine-Tails swung its tails and let out a heart-wrenching, tragic scream, howling at the sky. The sound wave carried a sonic boom, creating a ten-thousand-meter circular ripple in the air. A terrifying air wave, one after another, spread out in all directions.
This one slash had cleanly severed both of the Nine-Tails' front claws.
After being cut down by Kusuo, the Nine-Tails immediately collapsed to the ground, which cracked open from the impact. At the same time, an incomparably powerful and evil orange-red chakra slowly surged out.
A few breaths. Just a few breaths. A massive amount of foam-like energy instantly repaired the Nine-Tails' missing front limbs. It had recovered again.
As a Tailed Beast, the Nine-Tails' entire body was composed of chakra. It was an immortal body, and its regeneration speed was terrifyingly fast. But that heart-piercing pain, and the humiliation of being wounded by Kusuo... immediately made the Nine-Tails fly into a rage.
Its nine massive tails thrashed up and down, slamming against the earth and creating one deep crater after another. Sand and dirt flew, and dust rolled.
Kusuo's expression was indifferent. He held his blade, his eyes showing no fear of the Nine-Tails' threat, still calmly staring at it. But in his mind, he was rapidly calculating.
Speaking of which, the Nine-Tails should be considered the most special of the Tailed Beasts. Half of its chakra had been sealed by Minato Namikaze. In the original story, Naruto, with only the remaining half, could rely on its chakra to transform and even briefly burst out with power, suppressing the joint attack of the other seven Tailed Beasts. It was so strong that it sent all the other Tailed Beasts flying with a single swing of its tail. Even the complete perfect Jinchuriki, the Eight-Tails, could only stand behind and watch with wide eyes. The pitch-black, high-density energy spheres it spat from its mouth, the Tailed Beast Bombs, were each equivalent to seven of the others combined. Its strength was evident.
Just now, he hadn't used his Crimson Blade against the Nine-Tails. In other words, that slash on its body, besides cutting off some chakra-formed limbs, could not cause spiritual damage. But the Nine-Tails' cry was still so tragic. This meant that although the Nine-Tails had an immortal body, it still felt pain.
On the other side, staring blankly at this scene, was shock. Utter shock. Tsunade was stunned. Her heroic and beautiful face was agape, her mouth unable to close. She was shocked by Kusuo's immense combat power.
That's right. Before, she had not seen with her own eyes the scene of Kusuo cutting down the One-Tailed Shukaku. It was hard to imagine how a sword of about a meter in length could possibly blow up a Tailed Beast dozens of meters tall.
Today, Tsunade had seen it. The Nine-Tails, which had once pierced through the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki with a single claw... its massive, thick front limb had been cut off by Kusuo with a single slash. So easily. The level of shock was no less than a human seeing a praying mantis cut off an elephant's leg. The size difference was too vast.
"So... that stinking brat really is this strong..." A trace of bitterness appeared on Tsunade's shocked face. If Kusuo had been serious during their duel that day, she might not have just been miserably defeated. She would have been slain by a single slash long ago.
"Bastard! I'll slaughter you!" The enraged Nine-Tails' aura was monstrous. The movement of its swinging palms became even more violent. The frenzied Nine-Tails' ferocity was overwhelming. It gave people almost no room to react.
POW!
POW!
POW!
One claw after another slapped down. Each time, the earth trembled. It was like an earth dragon turning over, cracking the ground and revealing gaping fissures. The air was torn apart by its sharp claws, carrying a howling whirlwind that cut through the nearby mountains and rocks. It was extremely savage.
"Lady Tsunade, it's too dangerous here! We should retreat a little further!" At this scene, Katsuyu's unique, sweet voice spoke anxiously to Tsunade. Although they were now watching the battle from a thousand meters away, for the nearly hundred-meter-tall Nine-Tails, this distance was just a matter of a few breaths. If the Nine-Tails went berserk, they would definitely be dragged in, and it would not be a good situation. It was still very dangerous.
Hearing Katsuyu's words, Tsunade's willow-like eyebrows furrowed, and she hesitated for a long time. In the end, she chose to trust Kusuo. "Alright! We'll retreat another thousand meters!"
Immediately, Katsuyu instantly split into countless small slugs, which crawled frantically under her body. Before long, they had retreated very far away. Just then, a world-shaking explosion was heard. And when they turned their heads back, they were horrified to find that the place where they had just been standing had been completely destroyed by the Nine-Tails' furious attack. It was a complete mess. Grass, trees, and dirt were overturned, and trenches crisscrossed the land.
Kusuo's steps were as nimble as a swallow, floating around the enraged Nine-Tails. His red clothes were渺渺 (miǎomiǎo) - ethereal and unaffected. The earth-collapsing offensive couldn't touch him at all. The agility of Water Breathing was second to none. His single ponytail swayed gracefully up and down behind his head as he moved.
Kusuo relied on the insight of his Transparent World to predict the Nine-Tails' movements, while also silently adjusting his internal breathing. Finally, the moment the Nine-Tails was about to raise its paw to slap him again, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes. This time, he had accurately grasped the opportunity.
"Water Breathing, Fourth Form! Striking Tide!"
CRASHHH———
Like the tide of the sea, continuous and unending. Kusuo struck with his sword. One slash after another brought up clear blue splashes of water, a sharp and painful blow against the Nine-Tails' body. The high-pressure water stream was like the sharpest blade in this world. As the slashes fell, the Nine-Tails' thick orange fur had no blocking effect at all. The water blades cut through the air, creating ripples.
Kusuo's feet were like shooting stars.
Thirteen slashes. A full thirteen slashes.
Fast. The epitome of speed.
Sharp to the extreme.
Steady. Precise. Ruthless.
Schlick! Schlick!
The Nine-Tails' nine tails and all four of its limbs were all severed. They fell to the ground, turning into a wild, surging chakra that ravaged the area.
"Such swordsmanship..." The Nine-Tails bared its teeth in pain, its eyes looking at Kusuo with utter horror, as if looking at another monster-like Tailed Beast. Is this even human?
The latter held his dripping sword. He stood quietly in front of the Nine-Tails' giant fox head. He met its pitch-black vertical pupils with an unyielding gaze. For a moment, the Nine-Tails even sensed a killing intent stronger than its own. This perception of killing intent was its innate ability. But what was with this brat? How could he possess such a monstrous, murderous aura at such a young age?
"Lady Tsunade, that boy seems to be very strong. We can rest assured for the time being," Katsuyu and Tsunade stood together several thousand meters away, watching the battle. The world-shaking battle scene had deeply shocked them. Kusuo's sharp and magnificent swordsmanship had moved them even more.
"Mm. That stinking brat... he's a monster," Tsunade said with a heroic laugh. The gale force wind from the distant commotion made her chest tremble. But she didn't care at all. Her eyes held an indelible admiration for Kusuo.
"No wonder that guy Jiraiya likes him so much. The stinking brat's sword is too sharp."
The feat of Kusuo cutting off all of the Nine-Tails' parts with thirteen slashes had almost made her faint on the spot. Almost every one of those slashes would have required her to use her full strength, and even then, she would have had to open her chakra seal to match it with her monstrous strength punch. And he... had done it so easily. In one second, he had delivered thirteen consecutive slashes. That nimble speed had left both her and Katsuyu dazzled.
"Quickly split out two small slugs. One will help that stinking brat heal later, and the other should hurry back to the village and inform Yamato and the others from the sealing squad to come and help!" Her thoughts flying, Tsunade also reacted quickly, making a response based on the situation on the field. Since Kusuo could fight the Nine-Tails, her heart was mostly at ease.
The monstrous force was still raging on the prairie. The destructive power that the strongest Tailed Beast could cause when completely unrestrained and rampaging... perhaps those who had not experienced the Nine-Tails'亂 (luàn) - chaos/rampage - thirteen years ago had no definite impression in their minds. But now, Tsunade and Kusuo knew.
Taking a deep breath, Kusuo tightened his grip on his sword hilt, immense force transmitting from it.
VMM!
With a light tremble, a scorching hot flow of fire surged. The blade suddenly turned from a tranquil azure to a scorching deep red. Like a white dwarf star in the abyss about to go silent, it emitted a light that could destroy everything.
He... leaped up. His eyes were cold and calm. He aimed for the Nine-Tails' giant fox head and chopped down with all his might.
"Water Breathing, Fifth Form! Blessed Rain After the Drought!"
At that moment, time stood still. The entire space became slow, as if a pause button had been pressed. The Nine-Tails' wild, slaughterous, and hate-filled heart was actually calmed by the brilliance of this one slash. All the negative emotions disappeared. The crimson, bloodthirsty vertical pupils became docile.
It was as if... it were willingly letting this one slash pass through it.
SWISH!
Kusuo landed, sheathed his sword, the movements a single, fluid motion.
Drip... drip...
A light rain began to fall from the sky.
At the same time, a massive Nine-Tails head fell to the ground. Until this moment, its pupils still held confusion and docility.
...
Blessed Rain After the Drought. A slash that held emotion, that reached the very soul. It made the enemy willingly allow themselves to be beheaded by one's own sword. Kusuo had once used this slash to take off Kisame Hoshigaki's head.
Now, he had also cut off the head of the Nine-Tails with one slash.
CRASH!
The Nine-Tails' head, after a brief moment on the ground, once again turned into an orange-red and violent chakra, exploding on the spot like a bomb. A shocking, howling wind immediately followed.
Kusuo was the first to bear the brunt, being washed over by this river-overturning, sea-toppling shockwave. Yet he himself stood firm and unmoving, like an unshakable pillar in the sea.
"Cough, cough." This shockwave was thousands of meters per second. Tsunade was directly blown off the top of Katsuyu's head. As her body fell, there was an undisguised astonishment in her eyes.
Hiss. Tsunade's brain was about to stop functioning. What had she just seen? She had seen the Nine-Tails stand there obediently, willingly letting Kusuo behead it. With the one-meter-long sword in his hand, he had taken down the head of the Nine-Tails, which was a dozen meters in size.
One slash, one head. Terrifyingly so.
At this moment, the red figure of Kusuo standing on the spot was like a brand on her soul, forever engraved in her heart. An absurd thought suddenly arose. This stinking brat... could he possibly use genjutsu? And a genjutsu on the level of the Uchiha clan's Mangekyo Sharingan?! Otherwise, it would be impossible to control the Nine-Tails' actions, to make it willingly be beheaded.
"ROAR!"
"I'll kill you! Kill you!"
"You human whelp! You have completely angered me!"
The Nine-Tails' massive head grew back again. But there was a strange, stinging pain rooted in its heart. Like a palpitation, it was a pain that reached its soul, its very marrow. This heart-drilling feeling... the Nine-Tails never wanted to have it again in its life.
In its memories of thousands of years, even when it was controlled by that guy Madara's eyes, that evil chakra had never been so uncomfortable.
At this moment, the bloody setting sun cast its weak afterglow on the earth. A crazed killing intent surged in the Nine-Tails' heart, and it was completely dominated by an uncontrollable rage.
"Heh."
However, the Nine-Tails' arrogant and rampant aura, enough to make a grown man cry in fear... in Kusuo's ears, sounded so pathetic. Who would have thought that a Tailed Beast would also have such moments of powerless rage, only able to show off its prowess with its mouth, yet now reduced to being fish on the chopping block on the battlefield, to be carved up by others.
And so, Kusuo shook his head, his eyes filled with disdain. With another flick of his thumb, the cold sword left its sheath.
With a final word, he slashed with his sword.
BOOM!
This one slash... cleanly tore apart the sky.
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