Chapter 210: Is It a Space-Time Ninjutsu?
"How is that possible?"
Mui was stunned. The Raikage was stunned as well.
The Box of Ultimate Bliss was known to possess an indestructible quality, this was information even the Raikage was aware of.
When he came here, he had actually planned to test it himself with ninjutsu or taijutsu, to see whether it was truly as sturdy as the legends claimed.
No matter what, that would have required launching an attack.
But Shiromo?
He hadn't even made a motion of exerting force. It was as if he had simply touched the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and it had self-destructed.
What was going on?
Had too much chakra been poured into it, bursting it apart?
But they hadn't felt any strong chakra fluctuations coming from Shiromo at all.
"Honestly, I kind of wanted to keep this thing and let Ōnoki try using Dust Release to see if it could break through its defense."
Shiromo withdrew his hand and took out a tissue to wipe it.
Only after it had already shattered did Shiromo realize that his earlier thought, [the Iwagakure Village being the strictest father of movie villains], was actually pretty accurate.
In the Land of Snow and the Land of Demons movies, the first thing the villains who wanted to conquer the world had to face was always Ōnoki's Dust Release.
After all this effort, the Hozuki Castle boss finally had nothing to do with the Iwagakure Village.
Yet now it turned out that this so-called indestructible Box of Ultimate Bliss, a completely immobile object, could easily be enveloped by Dust Release and turned into dust.
Wasn't that still a perfect counter?
What?
You say Satori is a low-budget Nine-Tails Naruto, able to sense good and evil and dodge everything?
Then don't fight Satori.
Just go straight for the home base and blow up its core, the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and Satori would be gone instantly.
In the movie, Naruto had to fight Satori and use talk-no-jutsu because they couldn't destroy the Box.
"He's actually casually thinking about letting that old man Ōnoki try it out. What does he take the Box of Ultimate Bliss for, a child's toy?"
The Raikage heard Shiromo muttering to himself and couldn't help but complain.
"So Raikage-sama, how exactly did he do it? We couldn't see anything at all."
Samui asked.
Once she spoke, everyone else turned to look at the Raikage as well.
Even Yugito, who had seemed bored the whole time, shifted her gaze over.
"It should be some kind of space-time ninjutsu. The only thing that can break through this kind of 'absolute defense' would be space-time techniques."
The Raikage's expression was heavy.
He didn't know whether Shiromo had already mastered this "space-time ninjutsu" when they fought before.
If Shiromo had already had it back then, that meant he had deliberately held back. Otherwise, Shiromo could have used this ability to kill him outright.
Even if it didn't kill him, it could at least have taken off an arm or a leg.
No matter how strong the Lightning Release Chakra Mode's defense was, even if it reached the level of his father, the Third Raikage, it would still be impossible to defend against a space-time attack.
If Shiromo hadn't mastered it back then, that was even more terrifying.
It hadn't been long at all, and he had already gained control over a space-time ninjutsu.
Either way, it was frightening.
The Raikage even developed a feeling of, "Since lightning chakra mode exists, why must space-time ninjutsu exist too?"
After Namikaze Minato, who was faster than him, had finally died, another space-time user had appeared.
Shiromo stared at the pitch-black mass in front of him as it twisted and gathered, motionless.
Uchiha Hikari had already jumped down from the viewing platform behind them and arrived at Shiromo's side.
She was ready at any moment to use Yachihoko to absorb chakra.
"Wait, don't rush yet."
Shiromo said softly to Hikari beside him.
Things like the Box of Ultimate Bliss appeared in many films and stories both domestically and abroad.
For example, in the Hong Kong version of Journey to the West, the Dragon Palace had something like this.
They were more like allegorical devices.
They could grant wishes, but always twisted the wording and fulfilled them in the worst possible way.
Like reviving a loved one, only to bring back a mindless man-eating monster.
As for what kind of moral lesson those parables were supposed to teach, it was never very clear.
That there's no such thing as something for nothing?
Then shouldn't they be telling a story about a squid being hung from a streetlamp?
Or that the dead cannot be brought back to life?
But in the real world, nobody can resurrect the dead either, no matter the price.
It was strange.
These kinds of rule-based horror stories and twisted-wish tales were quite common.
Pff.
After a long while, the black mass finally condensed into a humanoid form and gained physical substance.
In the original plot, Satori was the product of the Box of Ultimate Bliss devouring Mui's son, Muku, and was not the full power of the Box itself.
Since the Box of Ultimate Bliss was an artifact from the era of the Sage of Six Paths, its age was probably comparable to Black Zetsu's.
Over such a long period of time, countless people must have tried to open it, meaning the Box had absorbed massive amounts of chakra.
Originally, Satori had not emerged carrying all of the chakra stored within the Box.
It was merely the product of fulfilling Mui's wish, to revive his son.
At that time, Satori's chakra amount was basically just what it had absorbed from Naruto's Nine-Tails chakra.
But the humanoid creature now was completely different.
The Box of Ultimate Bliss had been directly blown apart by Shiromo.
All the chakra it had ever absorbed converged into a single container.
In fact, the Raikage's guess about "space-time ninjutsu" wasn't wrong.
Shiromo hadn't destroyed the Box by gaining some new power.
He had simply used gravity reversal.
Research into gravity within the ninja world was practically nonexistent.
But if you applied theories from Shiromo's previous world, so-called gravity was actually the curvature of spacetime.
So calling what Shiromo used a "space-time ninjutsu" wasn't incorrect at all.
And there was something fascinating about the ninja world.
Although it had almost no research into spacetime or gravity, it still used the term "space-time."
By normal logic, whether it was Flying Thunder God or Kamui, they were essentially techniques that manipulated "space."
Where did "time" come into it?
In most other works, time abilities and space abilities were clearly separated.
Only in the ninja world were they always grouped together as "space-time."
But according to Shiromo's former world's theories, the term actually made perfect sense.
Because time and space are inseparable.
All objects move through four-dimensional spacetime at the speed of light, and the faster something moves in four dimensions, the slower it moves in three dimensions, and vice versa.
So when something approaches light speed in three-dimensional space, its motion in four-dimensional spacetime slows down, that is, time slows.
So the name "space-time" really wasn't wrong at all.
Who knew which genius had come up with that term.
(Senju Tobirama: Hey, was that me?)
"Muku?!"
Mui saw the appearance of the humanoid creature forming in front of Shiromo and instantly became wildly emotional.
Just as he was about to jump down from the platform to embrace his long-lost son, the Raikage grabbed him by the clothes like a chick, threw him back, and slammed an elbow into him, knocking him to the ground.
"Behave yourself!"
The Raikage snorted coldly.
Anyone with eyes could tell that the "Muku" down there was seriously wrong.
(End of this chapter)