Chapter 59
Chapter 59
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 59
Chapter Title: Susanoo vs. Dark Nine-Tails
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Their gazes locked. In response to Menma's invitation, Uchiha Hikari struck first, charging forward like an arrow loosed from its bowstring.
Her delicate foot kicked off the wall, her entire body blurring into an afterimage as she hurtled toward Menma, whipping up gusts of wind.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In the ruins of Uzumaki Village, two figures clashed fiercely amid vine-choked crumbling walls and shattered remnants.
Uchiha Hikari unleashed the Uchiha Clan's masterful taijutsu, her Sharingan precisely tracking every minute movement of her opponent, her fists and feet raining down like a torrent.
Meanwhile, Menma was shrouded in a layer of chakra cloak, parrying each strike with his unique self-developed taijutsu, locked in heated combat with this girl who had been sealed away for centuries. They traded blows relentlessly, their brutal clashes sending碎 stone shards flying.
The taijutsu exchange was mere foreplay.
After one head-on collision of fists, both were repelled several meters back. A faint smile tugged at Uchiha Hikari's lips.
Confined by sealing spells for hundreds of years, this bout of pure physical combat had loosened every tendon and bone in her body. The sensation was so invigorating that she couldn't suppress a soft hum of pleasure.
She even felt a spark of camaraderie with the boy across from her.
"I'm getting serious now!" Uchiha Hikari called out in warning, her voice sharp and girlish, before her hands flew through seals.
Vast fire-natured chakra gathered in Uchiha Hikari's mouth.
As her fingers touched before her lips, a torrent of flames erupted forth, billowing waves of fire surging toward the boy opposite her.
Menma didn't budge an inch, countering with seals of his own.
A high-pressure water arrow blasted straight through the firewall, hurtling toward the girl's forehead.
Uchiha Hikari flickered away in an instant, closing the distance while Menma's Tailed Beast Cloak held off the flames.
By the time Menma tanked the Fire Release onslaught with his Tailed Beast Cloak's chakra, Uchiha Hikari was already upon him. As the flames faded, her vivid crimson Mangekyo Sharingan flared to life, its ocular power plunging straight into Menma's mindscape.
Menma's vision warped abruptly—he now stood in a consciousness space of serene, mirror-like azure.
Stars hung inverted overhead, ripples danced at his feet. This boundless illusion realm mirrored Uchiha Hikari's inner world: hollow, desolate.
This was Uchiha Hikari's dojutsu, the Tsukuyomi Illusion World. Within it, time, location, even density—all were under her absolute command as the caster.
In the movie, Uchiha Hikari had used Tsukuyomi to forge the virtual realm of "Ninja Heroes," and after clashing with Boruto and the others, she'd leveraged Tsukuyomi to craft a restorative space tailored to her needs, healing her wounds.
"I've won." Uchiha Hikari's lips curved playfully, her smile radiant, her tone light as if bantering with a close friend.
"Your dojutsu is impressive, but sorry—I've lingered too long in Tsukuyomi worlds. This technique holds no—" Menma snapped his head up, his right eye blazing. "Threat to me!"
Sizzle—
Uchiha Hikari's illusion space tore apart with a screech, the entire realm crumbling in a cataclysmic roar.
Beneath her stunned gaze, a blood-soaked battlefield supplanted the tranquil blue expanse!
Choking fumes and the reek of gore flooded Uchiha Hikari's nostrils, thrusting her back to the Warring States era.
Her pupils shrank to pinpricks. Glancing down, she saw the scorched black earth strewn with countless ninja corpses and discarded weapons, sprawled in grotesque disarray.
Tracing the trail of bodies upward, Uchiha Hikari beheld a throne heaped from myriad fallen shinobi.
A dark crimson Nine-Tails demon fox lounged atop the charnel mound, while the boy from moments ago reclined against its head, surveying the carnage like a sovereign emperor.
Even Uchiha Hikari—the Warring States era's ultimate weapon—shuddered faintly amid this sanguine slaughterfield.
Yet she refused to yield. Gritting her teeth, she channeled her ocular power; the Mangekyo Sharingan's pattern whirled into motion.