Outside Konoha Village, in a clearing at the edge of a relatively secluded forest.
Otsutsuki Urashiki sat cross-legged on the ground. He reached into the Fishing Basket behind him and pulled out a ball of Chakra energy.
He held the ball of Chakra suspended in his palm. A moment later, that unstable Chakra energy condensed, transforming into a small blue sphere the size of a longan, resembling a solid Medicinal Pill.
Urashiki picked it up and immediately put it into his mouth.
"Gulp."
As the Medicinal Pill entered his stomach, the remaining bruises and fist marks on his face faded and vanished at an astonishing speed. The minor wounds exposed by tears in his clothes also quickly healed, and his aura clearly stabilized and recovered significantly.
However, he did not lower his guard. His blue Rinnegan remained activated.
"The troublesome one... has finally arrived."
He suddenly muttered to himself, a knowing smile playing on his lips.
Before his words finished, his cross-legged figure suddenly shifted several meters to the left without warning!
In the exact instant his body moved——
"Boom!!!"
A humming Rasengan slammed down with incredible precision exactly where he had been sitting! The ground exploded, leaving a crater several meters in diameter, as dirt and gravel mixed with residual Chakra energy shot outwards!
Urashiki had long since used his Rinnegan ability to dodge this surprise attack from a hidden location! He appeared to be healing, but in reality, he had maintained the state of his blue Rinnegan precisely to counter this anticipated sneak attack.
"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish——!!"
Before the smoke from the Rasengan explosion could clear, it was followed by the sound of objects tearing through the air like a fierce storm! Countless shuriken and Kunai, thrown at tricky angles, converged from all directions!
However, Urashiki's figure seemed to turn into a non-corporeal phantom amidst the cold gleam of the weapons. His evasion movements didn't appear extremely fast, yet he always managed to slip through the most incredible gaps by mere millimeters, or execute minimal, highly efficient micro-shifts, precisely avoiding every incoming ninja tool.
This was the application of the "Time Reversal" ability. At the moment the attack was about to hit, he reversed time for an extremely brief period, selecting and executing the optimal dodge route in the "past" node for the "present" moment.
"Clang, clang, clang..." The ninja tools all missed, embedding themselves in the ground or the trees.
After the last shuriken futilely plunged into the dirt, Urashiki calmly landed in the center of the clearing, surveying the now silent forest.
"Have you played enough? You can come out now, don't make me wait too long. My property, hasn't it been in your custody long enough? Now, isn't it time to return it to me?"
After a brief silence.
Two figures emerged one after the other from different directions, stopping at a moderate distance from Urashiki, forming a subtle pincer attack formation.
It was Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto.
"It failed," Naruto said, looking at the unharmed Urashiki. He wasn't too surprised; instead, it confirmed his suspicion. "It seems you deliberately leaked your presence so we would find you here."
"Regardless," Sasuke stepped forward, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Naruto, "it's time to put an end to this. We can't let you continue wreaking havoc in this era."
"Wreaking havoc? Ha..." Urashiki laughed as if he had heard a tremendous joke, his voice filled with undisguised sarcasm and condescending contempt.
"Have you lesser beings fundamentally misunderstood something? The Li was originally a treasure of my Ōtsutsuki Clan. As for the Nine-Tailed... it was also a 'product' created by our clan back then."
"The ones who seize the property of others, claim creations as their own, and even turn around and accuse the owners of 'wreaking havoc'... isn't that precisely you bunch of ungrateful, arrogant fools?!"
"Hah—!"
Just as this explosive dialogue ended, Urashiki launched a surprise attack without warning! He abruptly reached into his Fishing Basket again and pulled out a ball of green-glowing Chakra that he had prepared beforehand.
He forcefully hurled the ball of Chakra toward the ground in front of him!
"Boom——!!"
An incredibly violent vortex of turbulent wind howled, and the fierce wind pressure instantly enveloped the area where Naruto and Sasuke stood. This not only severely obstructed their vision and movement but also carried a strong binding and hindering effect, attempting to restrict their initial counterattack!
Utilizing this gap of less than a second that he had bought, Urashiki finally revealed the true killing move he had prepared.
His other hand suddenly shot out, holding a crimson, blood-red Medicinal Pill between his fingers, within which flames and a violent will seemed to flow!
A Nine-Tails Chakra Medicinal Pill! This was the ultimate "supplement" he had fully compressed and refined during the healing interval, using the massive Nine-Tails Chakra stolen from Kushina!
He swallowed the crimson Medicinal Pill without hesitation, forcing it down his throat!
"Ugh ah——!!!"
An unimaginably vast and scorching Chakra instantly filled his body! Urashiki couldn't help but let out a scream of ecstasy.
"Oh? Hehe... Hahahaha!!" Feeling the power surging within him, Urashiki burst into maniacal laughter. "Is this... the power of the 'Fox'? It's magnificent! This is the moment I've been waiting for!"
He locked onto Naruto and Sasuke, his voice trembling from the abundance of power.
"You two... you couldn't possibly be naive enough to think I would face both of you at once without sufficient preparation, could you?!"
But that wasn't all!
Under the solemn gaze of Naruto and Sasuke, Urashiki performed an action that was even more shocking, bordering on madness.
In the next moment, he shoved his weapon—that dark red Fishing Rod—and the Fishing Basket behind him, simultaneously into his mouth!
It wasn't a symbolic gesture; he was genuinely chewing and consuming them!
"Although recovering my eyes later will be a bit troublesome... just in case, I absolutely... cannot let either of you leave here alive!"
Finally, the most horrifying scene occurred.
Urashiki raised both hands, and without hesitation, his fingers fiercely stabbed into his own eyes!
"Puch!"
A slight, bone-chilling sound.
He forcibly plucked the two ominous Rinnegan from their sockets!
Without the slightest hesitation, he also shoved these two eyes—which contained terrifying Ocular Power and should have been the core of his strength—into his mouth, chewing and swallowing them!
"Gulp."
It was as if the final key had been inserted into the lock, the last fuel thrown into the furnace.
"Boom————!!!"
An indescribable surge of Chakra erupted centered on Urashiki. The surrounding air violently twisted, the ground slightly trembled, and gravel floated up as if defying gravity.
Abandoning his weapons, consuming his own eyes, and reclaiming all "external" powers back into himself. Urashiki clearly was no longer considering retreat or future consequences; he had staked all his "chips" on this battle.
A gate of light opened in the space before Urashiki. Incomprehensible light and shadow flowed within the gate, and Urashiki's floating body was completely enveloped and swallowed by the light.
When the light from the gate dissipated and Urashiki's new form reappeared, the change was earth-shattering.
His previously human-like aesthetic outline had completely vanished. His physique became more slender and non-human, his skin a bloodless pale color covered in pitch-black markings.
The most noticeable change was in his head. The previously broken gray square "horns," which had looked comical, now transformed into symmetrical bone wings spread out on either side of his skull, though the previous damage was still visible.
Organs resembling wings—which were simultaneously decorative and clearly possessed offensive or flight functions—extended from his arms.
Urashiki now floated a foot above the ground, his posture like a humanoid crane, radiating a powerful, oppressive aura far exceeding his previous state.
"As expected... it's like this again?" Uchiha Sasuke stared intently at the transformed Urashiki. "In the end, what you are doing and what we must do remains unchanged."
Although Urashiki's current aura was terrifyingly powerful, there was no wavering or fear in Sasuke's eyes. Instead, he slowly drew the kusanagi sword from his waist.
On the other side, facing the even more terrifying pressure after Urashiki's evolution, Uzumaki Naruto's gaze became intensely focused.
"I heard this guy is considered the 'weakest' among the Ōtsutsuki?" he muttered, a battle-hungry smile curving his lips. "Looks like I still need to step up my game!"
"Boom——!!!"
Brilliant golden light, like the rising sun, instantly enveloped his entire body in Nine-Tails Chakra.
Urashiki, having completed his Final Form evolution, slowly lowered his head. "...Done."
His gaze swept over the two prepared figures, finally resting on Naruto.
"The Tailed Beast Chakra... it won't be too late to 'take' it later. Uzumaki Naruto... I originally intended to spare your life... but you brought this upon yourself!"
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