Chapter 360: Backup Plan from Years Ago
Just at the instant before Minato was pulled to the spear tip, Urashiki unhesitatingly thrust the spear viciously!
Poof.
A slight, weapon-entering-flesh sound.
The "Minato" pierced by the spear—body suddenly collapsed and vanished like smoke without leaving any traces.
Shadow clone!
"What?!" Urashiki's pupils contracted.
"Whoosh!"
Almost the same instant the shadow clone vanished, another Minato Namikaze figure flashed from Urashiki's side-front visual blind zone! In his hand he gripped an intact Flying Thunder God kunai, blade tip directly thrusting Urashiki's completely undefended neck side!
CLANG!
Hastily, Urashiki with red chakra spear barely blocked this fatal thrust at the last moment! Sparks scattered!
He was both shocked and furious! The just-now "weakness" and "being blown away" were actually all disguise?! A trap to lure himself into close-range attack and lower vigilance?!
"I said... this kind of attack is useless against me!"
Urashiki gritted teeth, forcefully deflecting Minato's kunai, face resurfacing cold yet arrogant smile. "Please give up early. No matter how many times you try, results are the same."
"Is that so?" This "Minato" merely said flatly.
Poof.
Next second, this "Minato's" figure also dispersed like bubbles without trace.
Another shadow clone! Consecutive bait twice!
Urashiki's expression completely darkened, heart's alarm bells ringing loudly!
"Then... these attacks—how do you plan to 'evade' them?"
Minato's calm yet carrying invisible pressure voice came from all directions.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh—!
Throughout the battlefield at various places—unknown when already thrown or secretly arranged by previous shadow clones—over ten Flying Thunder God kunai simultaneously lit with radiance!
Immediately after, several—even dozens—of Minato Namikaze figures suddenly flashed from different Flying Thunder God coordinate points! They from up down left right front back—all possible angles—toward central Urashiki launched storm-like, no-dead-angle saturation attacks!
Clone numbers so many, attack density so great—almost completely filling space around Urashiki!
"Foolish! I said! You're all wasting effort!!"
Urashiki facing this suffocating encirclement, golden Rinnegan eyes furiously widened! He no longer attempted responding individually but violently spread both arms to body sides!
"Almighty Push—!!"
HUM—!!
More violent than before, wider-range invisible repulsive field with him as center thunderously erupted—like rapidly expanding transparent sphere, instantly violently repelling all incoming attacks!
Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof...
Minato's clones continuously dispersed within repulsive field, transforming to white smoke. All physical attacks and energy attacks were repelled by this absolute force outside, unable to approach one bit.
When repulsive field slowly dispersed, Urashiki hovered in newly "clean" midair, looking at surrounding emptiness—only distant still-pinned Nine-Tails remaining, and... seemingly no-more-backup-plans battlefield.
His face resurfaced that controlling-everything, mockery-carrying triumphant smile.
"Enough, lower life form. Even if you attacked me—even just scratches—what use? Merely delayed some time. You fundamentally cannot harm my core!"
Next moment.
SWISH—!!
His triumphant words suddenly halted!
A bone-piercing pain without warning violently erupted from his chest exact center!
This... this was opponent's truly hidden fatal strike?!
"Hmph... use-useless!" Severe pain made Urashiki's voice carry tremors, but his heart's Otsutsuki arrogance still stubbornly resisted.
He forcibly endured tearing sensation, attempting to activate that already-instinctual escape method—thoroughly "energizing" consciousness body-constructing chakra and will, dispersing into countless red paper cranes, thereby escaping this restraint and harm!
Mental command sent like electricity...
...No response.
Again condensing focus, full-power activation...
...Body interior chakra remained cold, stagnant, completely motionless!
Even... even sensing, mobilizing surrounding space's originally permeating [Karma's] Otsutsuki chakra—impossible now!
"How... what's happening?! Why?! Can't use it! Can't move... chakra... why can't mobilize even one bit?!"
Urashiki finally couldn't maintain surface composure, screaming in terror!
He felt like an insect pinned in amber—not only body thoroughly confined but even existence and resistance's energy source forcibly severed.
"As expected..." A calm voice rang not far behind him.
It was Minato Namikaze. He coldly observed pierced, immobile Urashiki.
"That technique—'Almighty Push'..." Minato's voice unhurried. "Though defense is absolute, with your current state—especially consciousness body relying on unstable [Karma] data—you cannot continuously, uninterruptedly high-frequency cast it. Each full-power activation consumes critical energy from your [Karma] fusion process, leaving brief yet fatal 'gap window.'"
Logically, if Urashiki only wanted delaying time waiting fusion completion, the safest method—continuously using Almighty Push, right?
"Therefore, when I used continuous shadow clone feints creating full-directional, high-intensity attack illusion, forcing you to necessarily use 'Almighty Push' for one 'thorough clearance'... your choice was actually already within my predictions."
Urashiki with difficulty lowered his head. Gaze finally fell upon that bringing him pain and confinement's source.
Chains constructed from golden chakra.
Precisely these chains not only pierced his "body" but firmly locked all power mobilization possibilities.
"You... what did you do... to Naruto?!"
Just as Urashiki—due to this desperate straits—heart violently shaken, thinking nearly stagnated, a voice filled with killing intent and grief yet making Urashiki feel somewhat familiar rang out.
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