Yusei gave a faint smile without saying much. He picked up Kaguya's bow and pulled on the string.
It wasn't a high-poundage bow, just an ordinary practice one. Normally, having lethal force within fifty meters was probably this bow's limit.
But Yusei was different. He possessed the [God of Archery] authority. Even though he had never studied or practiced archery, the moment he held the bow, he felt a natural familiarity.
It wasn't a feeling of having honed his archery skills through countless trials, but rather that archery seemed to exist because of him.
Then, Yusei casually picked up the bow, nocked an arrow, and pulled back the string with his right arm.
It wasn't a full draw, just a relaxed motion. Yet, in the next moment, an astonishing aura erupted.
Because it was his first time using a bow, Yusei intentionally wanted to test just how much this ability enhanced archery.
So, he focused his energy entirely into this single shot.
Immediately, Kaguya, standing to the side, witnessed a scene that made her jaw drop. She saw blue lightning erupt around the arrow.
That originally plain, ordinary practice arrow had now transformed into a shaft of lightning, crackling with electricity.
The sizzling and popping sounds told Kaguya this wasn't an illusion. And the feeling of violent, world-ending power made her realize just how destructive this single shot would be.
Yusei, with a calm mind and focused spirit, unleashed the arrow with his full output. He didn't aim for the distant target, but instead shot towards the far-off sky.
The powerful residual lightning energy, no longer concentrated in the 'Lightning Arrow', began to scatter.
The targets in the dojo, the surrounding walls… everywhere was marked with the scorched traces of lightning strikes.
But that wasn't the main event. The most shocking thing was that blue-white 'Lightning Arrow' streaking across the sky.
Shot from the ground towards the sky, it was like a daytime meteor rising from the earth, ultimately vanishing swiftly into the distant sky.
The practice bow in Yusei's hand had turned into scorched, blackened dust.
While he was channeling power, it hadn't shown any signs, but the moment he released the state, the ordinary bow couldn't withstand Yusei's power and simply shattered.
Kaguya stared at the distant sky, which still showed no immediate reaction, speechless for a long time. Just as she turned her head to ask Yusei what that actually was, suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck from the clear sky.
Violent lightning instantly dyed that patch of sky blue. The originally white, fluffy clouds were now saturated with blue electricity, looking as if the sky had suddenly grown furious.
What followed immediately was the sky rapidly darkening. One minute ago, it was clear and sunny, but one minute later, it was covered in dark clouds.
The entire area above Tokyo was instantly shrouded in black clouds, looking as if darkness had descended upon the earth. Blue lightning occasionally snaked across and flashed within the dark cloud layer.
Perhaps because the lightning force was too violent, bolts occasionally struck tall buildings, appearing as terrifying as divine punishment.
The power of a single strike, terrifying to such an extent! Fortunately, lightning protection facilities were quite advanced nowadays.
Plus, the lightning force from Yusei's arrow was dispersed over the entire Tokyo metropolitan area's sky, diluting the force of each strike.
This time, the lightning didn't cause any casualties, only damaging some facilities and resulting in minor financial losses.
But people weren't concerned about those small losses. The people of Tokyo were more focused on why the perfectly fine sky had suddenly turned black and was now madly crackling with lightning, presenting a scene akin to the apocalypse.
In fact, some observant people had already seen the blue lightning shot into the sky from the university campus. According to their recordings, it was precisely after that lightning vanished into the sky that this strange phenomenon occurred.
In no time, a video that had been online for less than 5 minutes saw its view count skyrocket past 100,000, with the numbers increasing exponentially over time.
When Yusei saw the completely darkened sky, he also felt a bit awkward.
He turned to look at Kaguya, who was still rooted to the spot in shock, and scratched his head.
"Uh, sorry. It's my first time using a bow, so I didn't quite control the strength. I didn't expect it to have the power to alter nature either."
Yusei's voice seemed to snap Kaguya out of her daze. She suddenly looked at him, "Forget about that for now, let's go quickly! This place will probably be surrounded soon."
"Huh?" Yusei was puzzled, but his body was already being pulled along by Kaguya as they quickly left the scene.
The two hurried to find Asuna and regroup. On the way, Kaguya couldn't help but shoot a helpless, exasperated look at Yusei.
"Don't use that kind of power in public. The commotion is too big. The government will get involved and investigate. While it probably won't have any real impact on us, being investigated by them is still very annoying."
"Is that so? Is it that exaggerated?" Looking at Kaguya's serious expression, Yusei couldn't help but think of the Campione! World.
In that world, gods fighting, causing cataclysmic, world-ending destruction, was commonplace for nations.
They didn't have extreme reactions, just dispatched specialized departments for a symbolic investigation.
Back then, the commotion Yusei caused when he called down Thunder Calamity upon Susanoo was much greater than this, and it didn't attract much attention.
And now, a mere darkened sky would cause such a stir? But thinking about it, Yusei understood.
The combat power level in this world was actually quite high, like with Yakumo Yukari and others, but they were mostly the type who stayed out of sight.
There weren't many, or perhaps any, truly powerful beings actively walking the world.
Yukari and the others had chosen to create Gensokyo for various reasons, rather than living in the original outside world.
It could be said that Yusei's single arrow, which is insignificant in his eyes, was an urban legend of the strangest kind in the eyes of ordinary people.
No sooner had Yusei and Kaguya left than they saw a large crowd of students swarming towards the previous dojo.
Presumably, students on campus had also seen that blue lightning rising from the dojo into the sky.
Yusei felt a sense of relief. If they had been surrounded, he probably would have had to use his Rinnegan for a mass hypnosis again.
But mass hypnosis was a troublesome affair.
He'd have to modify memories one by one, which was very tiresome.
Hypnotic memory modification wasn't the same as suggestion… the two were completely different things. The latter just made you subconsciously ignore certain things.
But the former genuinely altered memories, making it so you couldn't recall things even if you tried.