Chapter 513: Has He Gone Crazy?!

Chapter 513: Chapter 513: Has He Gone Crazy?!

The dim night sky was illuminated once more by the fiery glow of the meteor.

For a moment, it almost seemed as though the sky had instantly transformed from night into day, the dazzling light making it difficult for anyone to even keep their eyes open.

Kagami raised his head and stared at the rapidly descending meteor. Feeling the restless currents of air surging around him, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

With the Tenseigan, he could naturally tell at a glance that the meteor currently plummeting toward them was not some enormous boulder temporarily created through ninjutsu and hurled several hundred or several thousand meters into the sky.

It was a genuine meteorite from the boundless depths of space!

"Coincidence? Or deliberate?"

As the fiery light in the heavens grew brighter and brighter, Kagami’s expression instead became increasingly grave.

A meteor falling from the sky was not exactly some unheard-of phenomenon.

But for one to just happen to fall tonight—and, moreover, to land directly on the battlefield where they were fighting without deviating in the slightest...

Such a probability might theoretically exist in mathematics, but in reality, it was practically impossible.

So even without any evidence whatsoever, Kagami could already conclude that this was absolutely no coincidence.

"If that thing hits me... even I’d probably be reduced to ashes."

The acceleration of an object made an enormous difference in its resulting impact force.

Kagami was confident that he could withstand a gigantic boulder falling from an altitude of several thousand meters, but he had absolutely no confidence in surviving a meteor accelerated across hundreds of thousands of kilometers under the pull of the Giant Tenseigan.

That’s right.

Kagami had already figured out where this meteor had come from.

Back when he had imprisoned Nagato’s fourth Limbo clone with a Truth-Seeking Ball, he had suddenly sensed something.

It was only afterward that Konan activated the explosive-tag trap she had prepared in advance, forcing him to abandon offense and switch to defense.

However, protected by the absolute defense of the Truth-Seeking Ball, he hadn’t paid the slightest attention to the explosive tags continuously detonating outside.

A trap of this level could, at most, consume some of the chakra he needed to maintain the Truth-Seeking Ball.

And while he was resonating with the Giant Tenseigan, the one thing Kagami absolutely did not lack was chakra.

Therefore, the trap Nagato and Konan had painstakingly prepared was completely meaningless against Kagami.

What Kagami truly cared about was something else—the faint, almost imperceptible sensation of someone peering through the Giant Tenseigan at that very moment.

The observer might have believed that they had concealed themselves perfectly and that no outsider could possibly notice.

But in reality, for Kagami, who possessed the Tenseigan himself, as long as he remained in resonance with the Giant Tenseigan, his own Tenseigan could easily detect even the slightest irregularity within it.

Let alone someone using the Giant Tenseigan to peer into the shinobi world!

"Has the person controlling it changed?"

The instant Kagami detected that someone was watching, a possibility immediately occurred to him.

The Otsutsuki descendant who had controlled the Giant Tenseigan several years ago had clearly been a cautious and conservative person.

After detecting the abnormality in the Giant Tenseigan, the first thing he had done was sever its connection with the shinobi world, prioritizing the Giant Tenseigan’s safety. Only afterward had he begun investigating, one by one, the possible causes behind the disturbance.

But the Otsutsuki descendant controlling the Giant Tenseigan this time was clearly far more aggressive—and far more impulsive!

After using the Giant Tenseigan to observe the shinobi world and pinpoint their location, he seemed to have launched this vicious meteor attack without the slightest hesitation.

And throughout the entire process, he had deliberately maintained the Giant Tenseigan’s connection with the shinobi world, using it to lull Kagami into a false sense of security.

However, this Otsutsuki descendant clearly had no idea that the disturbance affecting the Giant Tenseigan on the moon had been caused by another pair of Tenseigan in the shinobi world.

Therefore, from the very moment he used the Giant Tenseigan to peer into the shinobi world, he had already exposed himself—and Kagami had noticed!

Kagami could even guess that at the exact moment the meteor struck the ground, the other party would undoubtedly sever the resonance between the Giant Tenseigan and his Tenseigan, delivering one final blow by pulling the rug out from under him!

At that moment, Kagami shifted his gaze toward the Akatsuki members opposite him and caught the astonished expression on Nagato’s face as he stared at the meteor.

Nagato’s increase in strength this time had far exceeded Kagami’s expectations.

In fact, it had even exceeded Nagato’s own expectations.

As a result, Nagato was still unable to fully bring out all of his newfound strength. He was also unfamiliar with the various powerful dojutsu of the Rinnegan, causing him to make quite a few mistakes during the battle and miss several excellent opportunities.

But this state was only temporary.

If Kagami failed to eliminate Nagato this time, it wouldn’t be long before Nagato completely mastered the various powerful Rinnegan dojutsu at his disposal, including Limbo: Border Jail.

And Kagami couldn’t possibly borrow the power of the Giant Tenseigan every single time.

Therefore, he absolutely could not let this opportunity slip away—Nagato had lost all of his Limbo clones and had already exhausted a tremendous amount of chakra.

Once this opportunity passed, killing Nagato in the future would only become even more difficult.

Even if it meant taking a risk, he had to give it everything he had!

Once that thought crossed his mind, Kagami no longer hesitated.

Illuminated by the fiery glow of the descending meteor, he charged straight toward the Akatsuki!

Of his nine Truth-Seeking Balls, three were currently being used to imprison three of Nagato’s Limbo clones, but the remaining six were more than enough for him to launch one final offensive.

"Has he gone crazy?!"

Watching the leader of Kamigami charge directly toward them, every member of the Akatsuki had the exact same thought!

Anyone could see just how terrifyingly powerful the meteor above them was.

At a time like this, there was barely enough time to flee for their lives, let alone continue fighting!

Doing that was practically the same as choosing mutual destruction!

In the distance...

The Third Hokage leaped onto a large tree and shouted a warning to the shinobi of the Five Great Shinobi Villages around him, "Everyone, run!"

Although the shinobi of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, led by the Third Hokage, had already withdrawn far from the battlefield and reached a relatively safe area, that distance was only enough to protect them from being caught in the large-scale ninjutsu unleashed during the battle.

It was nowhere near enough to withstand the shockwave caused by a meteor impact.

They had to keep retreating.

Only by getting even farther away would they have any chance of escaping the devastation caused by the meteor.

At that moment, Jiraiya summoned Gamaken of Mount Myoboku. As Gamaken carried the many injured shinobi away from the area, Jiraiya muttered, "Why did a meteor suddenly come falling out of the sky? This is way too strange!"

Fukasaku, perched on his shoulder, said with a grave expression, "This is definitely no coincidence!"

Jiraiya looked back toward the distant battlefield, which was still shrouded in swirling dust and smoke, and sighed in amazement.

"Don’t tell me... they’ve already become powerful enough to manipulate meteors at will?"

Meanwhile, among the ruins of the battlefield...

Shisui and Itachi had only just crawled out from beneath a pile of rubble when they immediately noticed the meteor that was about to crash down from the sky.

"This...?"

Shisui froze.

He knew perfectly well that even with the divine artifact, the Yata Mirror, there was absolutely no way he could withstand a genuine meteor like this.

Itachi glanced toward Kagami, who was currently charging toward the Akatsuki, and immediately made a decision.

"Run! If we stay here, we’ll only get in Senpai’s way!"

Shisui no longer hesitated.

He and Itachi each grabbed one of the two unconscious jinchuriki and fled the battlefield...