Chapter 265: The Eternal Mangekyo Is Mine

Chapter 265: Chapter 265: The Eternal Mangekyo Is Mine

The blazing light, as brilliant as the sun itself, made Uchiha Ryota instinctively raise a hand to shield his eyes.

Crack, crack, crack...

At the same time, the continuous sound of shattering echoed around him, drawing closer and closer!

After finally managing to adjust to the intense light, Ryota suddenly discovered that Hyuga Kagami had already forced his way inside his Susanoo, sword in hand.

The scene was almost exactly the same as it had been that night.

At the sight of this, Ryota was both shocked and furious!

Now that he possessed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Ryota already regarded himself as having reached the absolute pinnacle of the Uchiha clan.

There was no way he could accept losing this quickly—or this miserably!

"AAAH!"

With an enraged roar, blood vessels spread across the whites of Ryota’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

And as his ocular power erupted in an instant, golden flames immediately swept across his entire Susanoo—even the hollow interior of the Susanoo was no exception.

Seeing golden flames surge toward him from every direction, Hyuga Kagami’s expression darkened.

Hyuga Kagami was all too familiar with these golden flames. He had privately conducted experiments on them before and discovered that not only were they incredibly hot, but they also seemed capable of burning chakra itself.

In other words, once these golden flames touched someone, they would not only suffer burns from the extreme heat, but their chakra would also be rapidly consumed.

Clap!

Dispelling the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, Hyuga Kagami brought his palms together. Just as the golden flames were about to engulf him, he shouted coldly, "Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

Whoooosh!

In an instant, an unimaginably violent hurricane erupted from Kagami’s palms!

The ferocious hurricane filled the hollow interior of Ryota’s Susanoo in the blink of an eye, scattering all of the golden flames in every direction.

"D-Damn it!"

Even Ryota, who stood within the diamond-shaped compartment on the Susanoo’s forehead, was now being battered so fiercely by the hurricane that he couldn’t even open his eyes.

BOOM!

Having lost control, the enormous Susanoo plunged into the sea with a thunderous crash.

The Susanoo’s colossal body immediately sent a towering wave surging upward. The waves quickly swept across the coastline, though fortunately, there wasn’t a single building anywhere along the shore.

The Land of Tea lay on the outskirts of the shinobi world. It was surrounded by sea on three sides, with only its northern border connected to the Land of Fire.

Hyuga Kagami had deliberately chosen the coastline as the battlefield precisely because the terrain here was wide open and the area was remote and deserted. No matter how fierce their battle became, there was little chance of anyone discovering them.

Gurgle, gurgle...

After plunging into the sea, seawater poured through the openings in the Susanoo that had been torn apart by the violent winds of the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Before long, the entire Susanoo was flooded with water.

Supported by Ryota’s chakra, the golden flames covering the Susanoo continued to burn stubbornly even underwater, but their intensity had clearly weakened considerably.

As for Hyuga Kagami, since he was still in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, being underwater barely restricted his movements at all.

He dispelled the hurricane of the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, then lightly clenched his right hand. In an instant, a dazzling golden sword appeared in his grasp once more.

Then, with a flicker of his body, he closed the distance between himself and Ryota and brought the sword down with tremendous force!

BOOM!

The brilliant golden sword carved a dazzling arc through the water. Wherever the golden light passed, it left behind a conspicuous trail of radiance, as though even the seawater itself had been cleaved apart!

The golden light swept across the head of Ryota’s Susanoo without the slightest resistance.

In an instant, the Susanoo’s enormous head was severed cleanly!

Having succeeded, Hyuga Kagami immediately lunged toward Ryota, grabbed the seawater-choking Uchiha, and flew out of the sea with him in hand.

Thud!

With a muffled impact, Hyuga Kagami threw Ryota onto the shore.

"Cough, cough..."

Ryota coughed violently as he pointed a finger at Hyuga Kagami and asked haltingly, "What... what kind of technique were you using?"

Kagami himself was also breathing lightly at this point.

Although that relentless barrage of attacks had lasted only a short while, Kagami had used seven Truth-Seeking Balls and had gone nearly all-out with every single attack. So while his expression remained as calm as ever, making it seem as though he had barely exerted himself, in reality, he was already close to his limit.

Ryota continued asking, "You can’t fool my Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. I can sense that the amount of chakra contained in your technique is comparable to my Susanoo. So why can your technique break through my Susanoo so easily? Why?"

After catching his breath, Kagami said nothing. Instead, he immediately removed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan from Ryota’s eye sockets.

Ryota offered no resistance. He merely continued asking, "Tell me... why?"

After safely storing away the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Kagami withdrew from Tenseigan Chakra Mode and explained, "Unfortunately, this is the shinobi world. Even the dead can’t keep secrets, so I can’t tell you."

Ryota sighed.

"To lose without even knowing how I lost... How frustrating."

Watching blood trickle from Ryota’s now-empty eye sockets, Kagami pondered for a moment before saying, "The only thing I can tell you is that the strength of your Susanoo far exceeded my expectations. In the current shinobi world, there are probably only a handful of people capable of breaking through its defenses."

Kagami wasn’t exaggerating.

The sheer strength of Ryota’s Susanoo, enhanced by his Mangekyo ocular ability, Mikoto, had far surpassed Kagami’s expectations.

That was precisely why Kagami had decisively used seven Truth-Seeking Balls.

After all, the absolute maximum Kagami could condense was only eight Truth-Seeking Balls. And if he were to use all eight simultaneously, he would have no choice but to draw excessively upon the Dragon Vein’s chakra.

If that happened, he would inevitably be exposed to the natural energy contained within the Dragon Vein’s chakra.

Therefore, using seven Truth-Seeking Balls was already the maximum output Hyuga Kagami could safely unleash.

It might have looked as though he were cutting through Ryota’s Susanoo like chopping vegetables, but in reality, Kagami had been going all-out.

"So you’re trying to tell me that it’s not because I’m too weak, but because you’re too strong?" Ryota gave a bitter laugh before asking again, "Can you at least tell me why you did all this? With your strength, you shouldn’t care that much about the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. So why did you go through all this trouble just to obtain mine?"

"I’m nowhere near as strong as you think..."

With his chakra reserves practically drained, Kagami mocked himself inwardly.

This was precisely why he always chose to end his battles as quickly as possible.

Defeating an enemy swiftly often left an enormous psychological shadow over them, causing them to completely misjudge the true extent of his strength.

And Uchiha Ryota before him was a textbook example...