"Roar—"
A heavy dragon roar echoed from the sky, like the wrath of the heavens.
"Up there!"
Jiraiya and Orochimaru instantly lifted their gazes upward, and just as they said, a massive black dragon was flapping its wings in the sky.
He roared with all his might, as if he wanted to stir the atmosphere of the whole world.
Kairen finished roaring, then closed his mouth. Chakra surged across his body, and a mighty energy slowly formed within his chest.
Immediately after, Kairen sprayed hard: "Liquor Fire Release: Majestic Fire Annihilation!"
At this moment, a giant mass of flames spewed from Kairen's mouth.
From below, it looked as if the sky had been torn open, and a crimson ocean poured toward the earth.
Scorching! Endless scorching! As if the molten lava of hell was lashing the wicked.
The flames surged rapidly; with a gentle sweep, many samurai corpses below were charred into blackened husks.
"Bunta, jump!" Jiraiya shouted loudly.
"Got it!"
Gamabunta's leg muscles bulged, and he jumped hard like a spring pressed to its limit, leaping into the sky and avoiding the sweeping sea of fire.
Manda beside him used Earth Release to escape underground.
The flames burned fiercely, and soon Kairen stopped his breath.
Looking down, he saw a massive hundred-meter-wide deep crater burned into the ground, covering the bloody scene from before.
Kairen spotted Jiraiya, who had just fallen from the sky in the distance. His dragon wings spread wide as he flew swiftly toward him.
...
In the daimyo's mansion, the sky grew dim, leaving only the lights inside faintly illuminating the area.
Dozens of Kairen's shadow clones appeared here, all wearing black suits with FBI badges on their chests, looking extremely professional.
These were the clones Kairen sent to protect Miroku and Koyuki.
Koyuki hugged one clone's leg. "Black-clothes guys, what happened outside? It's so loud!"
The clone rubbed the little girl's head and replied,
"There are big monsters fighting outside — a toad-colored one, a snake, and a lizard variant."
"There are monsters!" Koyuki couldn't contain her curiosity.
"I want to see Kairen! I want to see how Kairen beats the monsters!"
"All right! All right! I will take you to see the monster battle right now."
Kazahana Daimyo stopped him: "No! No! It's too dangerous outside. You can't take Koyuki out."
Miroku's light-purple eyes flickered, and she said to the others,
"Their battle range is huge. In an instant, they could destroy the Wood Release defenses Kairen made."
"It's not safe in here either. Let's go out."
Kazahana Daimyo quickly nodded. "If that's the case, then hurry and go!"
Kairen's shadow clones protected Koyuki and Miroku as they walked along the small roads of the daimyo's mansion, leaving Kairen's giant Wood Release wall.
At a street corner, a clone caught sight of a large toad.
A prayer bead necklace hung around its neck, with the character "Loyalty" written on it.
Next to him was a middle-aged man holding a fan and wearing luxurious robes — the Fire Country Daimyo.
The clone's heart jolted. He immediately said, "Didn't expect to meet the Fire Country Daimyo here. Let's all go together and grab him — then we can be like Cannon Commander and finally get some action."
Gama also saw them approaching and guarded the Fire Country Daimyo, his cold gaze fixed on the approaching group of men in black.
The clones began slowly circling them.
Smart Kairen walked out holding Fenchu. "Let me handle this. I've trained my little Pokémon for so long — it's finally time for my Fenchu to fight!"
"It's decided — it'll be you!"
Smart Kairen kneaded Fenchu into a black-and-white dumpling, then tossed him out like a soccer ball.
"Go! Fenchu!"
"Mmrrh~▌°Д °;)っ"
...
"Rumble rumble rumble—"
Explosions boomed endlessly, like New Year fireworks, or like a nightclub trumpet blast.
"Fire Release: Fire Gun!"
Kairen flew through the air, spewing Fire Guns nonstop. Each Fire Gun was enormous — nearly as big as a small house.
One blast downward could easily blow open a fifty-meter-wide crater.
Jiraiya rode on Gamabunta, leaping nonstop, each hop about 500 meters.
Just after landing, Kairen's Fire Gun followed immediately.
Kairen laughed wildly in the sky: "Hahaha… Jiraiya, with just this level of skill you still try to lecture me!"
"Stop being a ninja — go write your little erotic novels honestly!"
"Maybe you'll become the great wet sage of the ninja world, with people admiring your works even a thousand years later."
Jiraiya snorted and shouted, "If Bunta grew a pair of wings, we'd see if you'd still be so cocky!"
Gamabunta complained, "Jiraiya, I'm a toad. Don't expect me to grow wings."
"But brat… don't underestimate toads!!"
Gamabunta suddenly puffed his cheeks, opened his mouth, and blasted backward:
"Water Release."
Three massive water bullets shot from below, exploding on Kairen's body in an instant.
"Ding!"
"Gamabunta dealt 300 points of damage to you!"
Toads spitting water — impressive!
This was a powerful Water Release, comparable to Shukaku's Air Bullets.
Kairen took the hit and wobbled through the air.
A giant purple snake suddenly burst out from a house below, lunging like a cobra and instantly wrapping around Kairen's huge body.
It was Manda!!
Orochimaru had been hiding with Manda underground using Earth Release, waiting for this chance.
The instant the Water Release stunned Kairen was a split-second opportunity. Manda lunged upward.
"Hiss…"
Manda flicked his tongue and tightened his grip on Kairen, binding his dragon wings with massive force.
Kairen fell from the sky with Manda and smashed into the ground, forming a ten-meter-deep crater.
Manda kept injecting venom into Kairen, like seasoning a captured prey.
Orochimaru threw a kunai, then quickly formed hand signs: "Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"
The flying kunai multiplied into thousands, relentlessly striking Kairen.
"Ding!"
"Manda dealt 300 points of damage to you!"
"Orochimaru dealt 500 points of damage to you!"
"Boom!"
Kairen exploded into a cloud of white smoke — reappearing as a massive monster carrying coral reefs on his back.
"Roar—"
Godzilla howled to the heavens. Kairen's vast chakra surged, and the coral reefs on his back shone brightly.
"Atomic Breath!"
Kairen unleashed a blue-white beam, sweeping fiercely across the ground. Manda was instantly blasted into white smoke and sent back home — Ryuchi Cave.
"Run!"
Such a massive attack was impossible for Orochimaru to withstand. He immediately fled.
His body twisted flexibly like a snake as he slipped into nearby alley corners, his figure vanishing in moments.
Kairen's Atomic Breath continued tracking Orochimaru, easily shredding the surrounding buildings into chaos.
"Rumble rumble rumble rumble…"
Buildings swept by the beam crumbled continuously, smoke filling the sky and covering the entire inner city.