"Hahahaha… I am invincible!!"
After regenerating once more, Mukade burst into manic laughter.
At this moment, his ego swelled without limit.
In his mind, the future was already clear—
He would reshape the Shinobi world, stand at its summit, and become the strongest existence of this era.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
But just as Mukade reached the peak of his arrogance, the purple glow enveloping Rōran abruptly vanished.
It was as if an entire city had its power supply severed all at once.
"Hahahaha— uh…?!!!"
Mukade's laughter was cut off mid-breath, like someone being strangled.
His massive body stiffened instantly, frozen in place.
"Damn it— Sārah, you little brat!!!"
Realization hit him at once, and Mukade roared in fury.
There was no doubt about it.
Sārah had shut down the Ryūmyaku.
"Yagami-sensei!"
At that moment, Kakashi slowly emerged from the ground nearby.
One look at Mukade's enraged expression was enough for him to understand the situation.
"Now's our chance! Without the Ryūmyaku, he shouldn't have high-speed regeneration anymore!"
Yagami nodded.
Without hesitation, he surged forward first.
"Yes!"
Kakashi answered sharply and followed close behind.
"Mukade… die!!!"
With an angry roar, Yagami accelerated and dove straight at him.
This battle had dragged on far too long.
Even Yagami's patience had reached its limit.
So this time...
He intended to send Mukade straight to the afterlife with his strongest move.
"Damn it!"
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!"
Faced with the two charging toward him, Mukade snarled in desperation.
Without the Ryūmyaku supplying him, he no longer dared to fight recklessly.
The giant puppet opened its massive mouth, spewing out countless basketball-sized fireballs, forming a blazing wall meant to block their advance.
"Without the Ryūmyaku backing you up…"
Yagami didn't slow down in the slightest.
"…you're nothing now, aren't you?"
With a mocking tone, he swung his blade.
A slash five or six meters long tore through the air—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
All the incoming fireballs detonated instantly.
"Damn it…!"
Mukade's frustration boiled over.
Yagami wasn't wrong.
Without the Ryūmyaku, his chakra was no longer endless.
Once the little chakra he had left was exhausted, he wouldn't even be able to maintain this massive puppet body.
And in the brief moment of hesitation—
Yagami and Kakashi were already upon him again.
Their attacks poured down relentlessly, overwhelming him once more.
In the blink of an eye, Mukade's enormous puppet body was reduced to a tattered, broken shell.
"Damn it… damn it…!!!"
At this point, Mukade could only roar helplessly.
There was no longer enough chakra left to repair his body.
"Yagami-sensei! His real body is exposed!"
As the puppet continued to shrink and fall apart, a spider-like core puppet was finally revealed.
Kakashi shouted excitedly—
Though Yagami had already seen it himself.
"Atomic Slash!"
Yagami shouted, unleashing his strongest technique.
Countless overlapping sword phantoms stacked and fused in front of Mukade—
In the next instant, they condensed into a single, ultimate slash.
A strike that exceeded the speed of sound threefold.
Buzz—
The blade cut through the air with a sharp, piercing hum.
There was no earth-shaking explosion.
No overwhelming visual spectacle.
Yet this was the strongest blow Yagami could deliver at this moment.
"Don't—!!!"
Mukade's instincts screamed danger.
Pure terror flashed through him as he watched the slash approach.
But it was already too late.
This seemingly slow strike was anything but normal.
Chichichichi—!!!
The moment it connected, Mukade's body was reduced to ash, scattering into nothingness.
This was the pinnacle technique inherited from Atomic Samurai—
Countless slashes overlapping into one, erasing the enemy in an instant.
Whoosh—
The blade passed silently through the center of the puppet.
A clean, gaping hole appeared.
Without Mukade as its core, the remaining giant puppet finally lost all support—
It collapsed and disintegrated completely.
Mukade landed amidst a pile of shattered puppets.
Only his head and a fragment of his body remained.
His life was hanging by a single thread.
He stared up at Yagami, his eyes filled with resentment, disbelief, and deep unwillingness.
This man had ruined everything.
Again and again, he had crushed Mukade's plans and pride without mercy.
Clinging to his last breath, Mukade asked the final question burning in his heart:
"Who… are you…?"
"…Why…"
"…when you came back from the future…"
"…had I never heard your name?"
Yagami turned his back to him calmly.
His voice was faint, yet carried absolute finality.
"Remember this name."
"Yagami."
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