Chapter 124: Golden Wheel Cleaves Susanoo

Chapter 124: Chapter 124: Golden Wheel Cleaves Susanoo

Uchiha Shinichi stared at Hyuga Kagami hovering in midair, his entire body enveloped in sky-blue Tenseigan chakra, a Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion more than ten meters long gripped in his hand. For a moment, Shinichi looked completely bewildered.

"Y-You... just what kind of technique is that!?"

But as soon as the words left his mouth, Shinichi shook his head.

"No... that isn’t a ninjutsu. It has to be one of your dōjutsu! But the Byakugan doesn’t have any dōjutsu like that!"

Kagami replied indifferently, "There are plenty of things you don’t know."

Naturally, he had no intention of explaining to Uchiha Shinichi what the Tenseigan was, much less what Tenseigan Chakra Mode was.

Protecting information about himself had long since become an instinct for Kagami.

"You really are extraordinary. My instincts weren’t wrong!"

Taking a deep breath, Shinichi gradually calmed himself down.

The pressure radiating from Kagami while he was in Tenseigan Chakra Mode was overwhelmingly powerful, but instead of crushing Shinichi’s spirit, it only ignited his competitive drive.

And it made him remember the first time he had fought Hyuga Kagami.

In truth, even during their first fight, Shinichi—whose perception was exceptionally sharp—had vaguely sensed that there was something unusual about Hyuga Kagami.

Kagami simply didn’t feel like an ordinary member of the Hyuga Clan.

But Shinichi had lost that fight so miserably, so embarrassingly, that he couldn’t bring himself to say any of that afterward. If he had, not only would his clansmen have dismissed his suspicions, they would probably have thought he was simply making excuses for his defeat.

Only now, after seeing Kagami in Tenseigan Chakra Mode with his own eyes, did Shinichi finally realize that his instincts back then had been right.

Hyuga Kagami truly was anything but ordinary.

At that moment, Kagami slowly raised his hand.

The Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, stretching more than ten meters in length, shone brilliantly in his grasp. Against the steadily darkening evening sky, it blazed like the first rays of a newborn sun.

"Good! Now this is a fair fight!"

Shinichi’s fighting spirit surged.

Then he roared, "Hyuga Kagami! I, Uchiha Shinichi, will not lose to you twice!"

At this point, he stopped holding anything back and poured everything he had into his Susanoo.

For a moment, the Mangekyo Sharingan within his eye sockets seemed to distort slightly.

Blood began flowing from both eyes, slowly trailing down his cheeks and leaving behind two crimson streaks!

"ROAR—!"

Under Shinichi’s full-powered urging, his Susanoo unleashed a furious roar.

And along with that deafening roar, its form began to change once again.

Two additional arms emerged from its original half-bodied warrior form, giving it two arms on each side—a total of four.

At the same time, another layer of spectral armor materialized around its body!

Kagami’s gaze sharpened.

Then, without hesitation, he swung his sword down!

The rapidly descending Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion transformed into a dazzling curtain of golden light, crashing down toward Uchiha Shinichi’s dark-green Susanoo.

At the same time, Shinichi’s Susanoo raised all four of its arms, crossing them firmly in front of its body to defend itself.

Whoosh—!

Amid the piercing shriek of air being torn apart, Kagami’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion slammed into Shinichi’s Susanoo!

"I blocked it!"

Seeing that the golden sword had failed to cut through his Susanoo, Shinichi was instantly overjoyed.

Crack—!

But before the smile could fully spread across his face, the sound of something shattering rang out from his Susanoo.

Immediately afterward, the enormous dark-green Susanoo began breaking apart like a shattered eggshell.

Cracks spread inch by inch, beginning from its four arms and rapidly extending toward the rest of its body!

Taking advantage of the brief instant before his Susanoo completely collapsed, Shinichi’s figure flickered, and he leaped out of it.

And the very moment he escaped—

Kagami’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion completely shattered the Susanoo!

The enormous, half-bodied warrior-form Susanoo was cleaved cleanly in two!

"Cough, cough..."

The instant his Susanoo was cleaved apart, Uchiha Shinichi—who had only barely managed to escape in time—coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

He raised his head and stared at Kagami in shock.

"H-How... how is this possible?!"

His Susanoo had actually been shattered.

For an instant, Shinichi even wondered whether he had fallen under some kind of genjutsu.

Because in his mind, the Susanoo born from the Mangekyo Sharingan was the very symbol of invincibility—

An absolute defense that could never be breached!

Hovering in midair, Kagami’s expression remained as calm as ever.

This time, he had only used a single Truth-Seeking Ball to form the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Moreover, to avoid leaving an excessively deep sword scar across the ground—something that might cause others to connect him with the mysterious individual who had stolen the Dragon Vein—Kagami had deliberately suppressed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion’s power.

So the fact that he hadn’t instantly shattered Shinichi’s incomplete Susanoo wasn’t particularly surprising.

Turning his head slightly, Kagami glanced toward the distant battlefield and thought,

"I need to finish this quickly."

Although he had deliberately lured Uchiha Shinichi into this remote forest, the commotion caused by their battle was simply too great.

Kagami had already noticed several Kumo shinobi heading in their direction.

Still coughing up blood, Shinichi roared furiously,

"Damn it! Where the hell are you looking?! I haven’t lost yet!"

Almost immediately, another dark-green Susanoo erupted from his body.

The moment it materialized, it swung all four of its arms toward Kagami, attacking him in midair!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The Susanoo rampaged like a giant of flesh and blood.

Possessing monstrous strength, it needed only a few moments to throw the entire forest into complete chaos...

...

At the same time, on another battlefield.

Surrounded by more than a dozen Kumo jonin, Shisui anxiously glanced in the direction where Hyuga Kagami and Uchiha Shinichi were fighting.

Although he wasn’t a sensory-type shinobi, he could still sense the chakra fluctuations coming from Shinichi’s Susanoo.

He knew that Shinichi had already unleashed the dōjutsu shared by all Mangekyo Sharingan users!

Shisui understood just how powerful Susanoo was.

And yet, he wasn’t worried about Kagami’s safety in the slightest.

Because in Shisui’s mind, Hyuga Kagami—the man who had annihilated an entire valley along with hundreds of Kumo shinobi in a single attack—had long since surpassed the level of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Among Konoha’s new generation, he was unquestionably the strongest!

So the person Shisui was actually worried about...

was Uchiha Shinichi, the one who had activated Susanoo.

He didn’t want to see this Uchiha elite, who had only just awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, die at the hands of one of his own comrades.

Just then, a figure slowly emerged from the forest.

Shisui narrowed his eyes and stared intently at the newcomer.

The moment he clearly saw the person’s face—

his expression immediately darkened.

The figure slowly approaching was none other than one of Kumo’s two jinchuriki—

the Two-Tails’ jinchuriki, Yugito Nii.

As she approached, Yugito gritted her teeth and snarled,

"Hmph! Konoha’s Anbu Team 11... I’ve finally caught you little bastards!"

Shisui immediately demanded, "You Kumo shinobi have violated the ceasefire agreement!"

"The agreement?!"

Yugito let out a cold laugh.

"If you little rats hadn’t been causing trouble behind our backs last time, Konoha would’ve already fallen to us!"

No sooner had the words left Yugito’s mouth than—

a dazzling golden light suddenly flashed across the distant horizon.

At that moment, everyone on the battlefield, friend and foe alike, turned their heads toward it.

Confusion appeared on their faces.

"What happened over there...?"