Chapter 106: Killing While Sitting, Fighting Against Fate!
The two combatants instantly charged at each other.
Mangetsu Hōzuki dragged his massive sword across the water, his right hand rising.
"Water Release: Water Bullet—Rapid Fire!"
Six water bullets, powerful as ammunition, blocked Tsukasa's escape routes.
He twisted his stance and leaped high, wielding Hiramekarei with a devastating strike aimed at Tsukasa's head!
Tsukasa didn't even try to dodge the six water bullets shooting past him.
He pivoted his stance and twisted his waist, facing the direction of the falling blade. He raised his flaming sword and swept it toward Mangetsu's face.
Two swords—one descending, one sweeping!
Both aimed directly at the face—a clash of life and death!
In this situation, this was no longer just a duel of swordsmanship.
It was a contest between the Hōzuki clan's Hydrification Technique and an immortal body!
"Come on!" Tsukasa's eyes flashed with madness. Ignoring the massive blade threatening to split his skull, he roared and swung the Flame Blade!
"Let's see who dies first—you or me!"
The Flame Blade erupted in blazing fire. Before it could even reach Mangetsu's hydrated form, the intense heat sent white smoke rising from his liquefied body.
The Flame Blade, with its uniquely high fire attribute, was actually able to bypass ninjutsu resistance and injure Mangetsu even in his hydrated state!
Mangetsu's pupils suddenly contracted. He immediately abandoned his strike at Tsukasa and forcibly pulled his arm back to reposition Hiramekarei.
At that moment, Tsukasa suddenly twisted the blade's hilt, and the shape-shifting Flame Blade's tip suddenly extended!
BOOM!
The extended, blazing red blade clashed with Hiramekarei's broad surface, transforming into a pool of searing flames that completely enveloped Mangetsu.
The surge of force sent him flying backward, skipping across the water like a thrown stone, bouncing several times before finally stopping.
With a hiss, Mangetsu climbed out of the water, blade in hand, his expression filled with shock.
Water surged over his body, dousing the clinging flames and revealing burns covering his form.
Mangetsu had never faced such a formidable opponent.
This enemy showed no fear of death—each strike was a desperate blow, and with uncanny cunning!
You thought he was going to slash, but he suddenly reversed motion, switching from slash to thrust.
Mangetsu was stunned. How could a sword technique be used like that?
If he hadn't drawn his blade in time to block the incoming flaming sword with Hiramekarei's broad surface, his heart would have been pierced and incinerated.
Even if he'd used the Nuibari or Kubikiribōchō, he wouldn't have been able to block it.
At that moment, Tsukasa swung his blade away, unleashing a dazzling blaze.
He couldn't help but smile.
This strike—after laying all sorts of traps and luring Mangetsu into a death match—still hadn't killed him.
How wonderful!
Truly a genius of Kirigakure!
Tsukasa had revealed all his cards, yet Mangetsu's secrets remained.
Now Tsukasa had committed everything, leaving only one option: fight for his life, betting on Mangetsu's ability to break through his defenses and grant him that fatal blow!
Immortality + shape-shifting flame blade + the devastating Blade-Breaking Flame Fist.
"Genius of Kirigakure, can you crack it?"
Tsukasa stared at his opponent with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
He was really too difficult to kill now!
Anyone below Kage-level would struggle to kill him.
And it was foreseeable that after mastering such fundamentals, once he returned to his clan and village, he'd definitely be caught by that shameless old man Setsuna Uchiha and forced into intensive training.
By then, after completing ninja basics and mastering the Uchiha's taijutsu, kenjutsu, genjutsu, and various other techniques, he'd undoubtedly reach the threshold of Kage-level power.
That would be even more impossible.
But Tsukasa didn't want to stay in this world at all. In the real world, he had his own path, his own dreams, and his parents and family back home. He'd been forced into this world by the system.
He was forced.
After the option appeared that day, Tsukasa had decisively chosen to refuse.
However, the system didn't let him go.
From that day on, he was plagued by a constant stream of accidents—falling billboards, collapsing ceilings, bridge failures, being taken hostage by bank robbers, fires, and serial explosions.
After each incident, the same message would appear before his eyes:
[The willpower of this Earth resident has been detected to meet Heaven's Path Company's recruitment criteria.]
[Would you like to become a transmigrated protagonist?]
For three days, he battled this ruthless system, but ultimately couldn't escape being hit by a truck and sent to this world.
Fortunately, after arriving here, the system dangled the carrot of 500 million in insurance money, preventing him from completely giving up.
But even without the 500 million—he still wanted to go home.
This desire was incredibly strong!
You could say Tsukasa lacked ambition. The Naruto world offered powerful abilities, the possibility of immortality, and a future where he could become the strongest and rule everything.
But what did that have to do with Tsukasa?
He didn't want any of those things.
What he wanted was struggle!
What he loved was resistance!
What he looked forward to was defiance!
When the system put that message before him to stop him from continuing to fight against unfair fate in the real world, the system had already become his enemy!
So the meaning of his existence in the Naruto world had changed.
Insurance money? Well, that was still important.
But more important was the ongoing battle with the system's rules!
Fight to go home!
Fight to resist this manipulated fate!
You want me to save the world and I'll just go along?
Why?!
I won't—even if it means destroying this world!
This was the entire meaning of Uchiha Tsukasa's struggle!
A crazed smile appeared on his face. After this battle, he felt the blood in his body boiling!
This feeling made him obsessed, and he took a deep breath in ecstasy!
Then, with a sharp gaze fixed on Mangetsu, he suddenly raised his blade and shouted fiercely:
"Mangetsu Hōzuki! Genius of Kirigakure!"
"Is that all you've got?!"
"What are you afraid of? What are you dreading?!"
Tsukasa bent low and twisted his stance, raising his chin to reveal frantic, crimson eyes:
"Come on!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Give me my destined death! Fight me to the bitter end!"
With those words, Tsukasa stomped the water and burst forth like an arrow.
He swung his blade, its blazing edge roaring with energy!
It transformed into a ten-meter flaming giant sword—even larger, more spectacular, and more impressive than Mangetsu's eight-meter blade!
He leaped high, twisted his body, and swung down!
With one blow, he slashed straight down!
The unrivaled Flowing Flame Sword unleashed a sonic boom, evaporating vast amounts of water before it even struck, creating dreamlike white mist!
Immediately after, the blazing red blade pierced through the fog, illuminating the tiny figure of Mangetsu below.
Mangetsu looked up, gazing at the Flowing Flame Sword as if swung by a god. The awe-inspiring magnificence was truly breathtaking!
This grandeur surpassed even his own!
His body began to tremble, his pupils contracted to pinpoints, and the blood in his veins began to boil!
Then, in a rage of absolute fury, he gritted his teeth, his eye blazing ferociously.
"You've got to be kidding me!"
He trembled, grasping his Hiramekarei, his eye glaring as he roared:
"How could you possibly be stronger than me?!"
Then Mangetsu's chakra suddenly surged, madly pouring into the Hiramekarei in his hands!
He soared from the water, his eye piercing!
Hiramekarei: Liberation!
The ninja sword in his hand suddenly revealed a ten-meter blue chakra giant blade—even more powerful than his previous eight-meter strike!
The next moment—one blue, one red—two giant swords like mythical weapons collided!
End of Chapter 106
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