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Chapter 171: Garp Makes His Move
The rain paused.
It did not truly stop, but because the air was filled with such violently turbulent chakra, even the raindrops falling from the sky were shattered into a fine mist by this invisible force.
In the center of the battlefield, the young man with wild, dancing hair stood like a demon god within the eye of a storm.
Around him, broken kunai, shattered rocks... thousands of debris items defied the laws of gravity, trembling as they hovered in mid-air.
Wrapped around every single fragment were visible, pale blue chakra threads.
"This is..."
Killer B's beast-like pupils constricted violently. Even in his berserk Tailed Beast state, a chill shot up his spine to the top of his skull.
Chakra threads?
For a top-tier puppet master, controlling ten puppets simultaneously was the limit.
But what was this Uchiha madman doing?
One hundred? Five hundred? Or even more?
The dense wreckage obscured the sky, as if a pair of giant wings made of ruins had unfurled behind the youth!
"This isn't a level of chakra control a human can achieve!!" Eight-Tails Gyūki roared in Killer B's spiritual world, his tone filled with shock and disbelief. "B! Be careful!!"
"I know! But... this is too exaggerated! You bastard! You fool!"
Killer B gritted his teeth, and the eight tails behind him instantly gathered together, tightly shielding his main body in the center.
"Are you ready? Kid."
The corners of Shiki's mouth curled into an exaggerated grin. His scarlet three-tomoe Sharingan seemed to freeze in that moment, reflecting the trajectory of the entire world deep within his pupils.
In this world without the "Float-Float Fruit," he had lost the ability to make things levitate just by touching them.
But that wouldn't stump him.
As long as his chakra control was strong enough, and as long as these eyes could see the flow of every strand of power...
Then he would use the clumsiest, most barbaric, and most direct method!
Use chakra threads to lift them all up!
"In this world, as long as I will it, even dust can be a weapon for killing!"
Shiki slammed his hands downward, like a conductor striking the opening chord of a symphony of destruction.
"Lion: Wild Waves!!"
Boom—!!!
The sky collapsed.
Thousands of "blades" suspended in the air received the command to charge simultaneously.
They didn't smash down in a chaotic mess; instead, they traced strange, precise arcs in the air, like a swarm of thousands of well-trained hornets, covering the sky and earth as they stabbed toward Killer B on the ground!
This wasn't ninjutsu.
This was saturation bombing!
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo—!
The screeching sound of tearing air merged into a single, ear-piercing roar.
Killer B let out a furious bellow. His eight tails waved madly, transforming into an impenetrable crimson wall.
"Tailed Beast Eight Twists!!"
He attempted to use the centrifugal force generated by spinning to deflect these attacks.
However, a terrifying scene unfolded.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Blood splattered.
Even with the protection of the Tailed Beast Cloak, dozens of wounds appeared on Killer B's body in the blink of an eye.
"How is that possible... every single one is infused with chakra? This level of control..."
In the distance, A, who had been watching the battle, forgot to breathe. His rugged face was written with horror.
"Cough..."
Killer B spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, his beastly eyes staring fixedly at the wild, laughing black haired figure in mid-air.
It was too stifling.
As the Jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails, when had he ever been suppressed and beaten like a target dummy?
"Unforgivable... Fool! Bastard! This bastard is treating the Great Me like a monkey!"
The red light in Killer B's eyes suddenly surged. The eight tails behind him, originally used for defense, began to expand madly. Dark red chakra, like boiling magma, bubbled on the surface of his body.
Bones cracked and popped.
His original human silhouette began to twist, and giant bull horns were pushing out from the chakra cloak.
If a partial transformation couldn't block it, then he would go full Tailed Beast Mode!
He would blast this forest, along with that arrogant bastard, into slag!
"Roar—!!"
Killer B howled at the sky, and the terrifying sound wave instantly blew away the surrounding curtain of rain.
"Stop! B!"
Just as the massive body of Gyūki was about to take form, a voice as dull as thunder exploded deep in his mind.
It was the Eight-Tails, Gyūki.
"Little Eight! Don't stop me! I'm going to slaughter him!!" Killer B roared in the spiritual world.
"Calm down! Look around you!"
Gyūki's voice was full of anxiety and warning.
"This is the border of the Land of Fire, less than thirty miles from Konoha's main camp! The commotion just now was loud enough. If you attract Konoha's main forces, you'll be in danger."
Killer B's chakra, which was on the verge of going berserk, suddenly stagnated.
He glanced nearby.
Big Brother was injured.
If they attracted the Konoha army now...
"Damn it!!"
Killer B let out an unwilling roar, forcibly suppressing the boiling chakra within his body. The terrifying red skeletal frame around him slowly receded.
"Oh?"
Standing atop the tree canopy, Shiki raised an eyebrow, the chakra threads in his hands trembling slightly.
"Not continuing the transformation? What a pity."
Zzt Zzt Zzt!
A streak of lightning flashed, and A instantly appeared in front of Killer B.
"B! Can you still move?"
"Big Brother, I'm fine! But this bastard is too tough to deal with!" Killer B gasped heavily.
A stared deathly hard at Shiki.
He was a brute, but not a fool.
If they continued fighting, even if they won, he and B would pay a painful price.
Moreover, this was enemy territory.
"Retreat."
A gritted his teeth, squeezing these two words out through the gaps.
"Jihahahaha! Want to leave?"
Shiki let out a wild laugh, his arms spreading wide.
"Entering my hunting ground... is there any logic in letting the prey leave alive? Stay here and become fertilizer!"
The sky-covering wreckage suspended in the air hung like the Sword of Damocles, shadowing the devastated forest.
Shiki stood on the treetop, his long hair dancing in the wild wind, a savage grin completely mismatched with his age hanging on his face.
His fingers slammed down.
Hum—!
The air was torn apart by thousands of objects simultaneously, emitting a sharp sonic boom.
"Flashy little tricks..."
Garp grinned, revealing a mouthful of pearly white teeth, and blasted his right fist out.
"Scram... for this old man!!!"
Boom—!!!
The fist struck the void.
The atmosphere seemed to be forcibly shattered by this punch.
A terrifying shockwave, visible to the naked eye, erupted frantically toward the sky in a fan shape, centered on Garp's knuckles.
It was an atmospheric quake formed purely by compressing the air with raw strength.
The thousands of pieces of wreckage that were originally falling rapidly hit this shockwave and slammed into an invisible wall of copper and iron.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Stones shattered, broken wood pulverized.
The chakra threads wrapped around the objects were snapped instantly, fragile as spiderwebs before this utterly unreasonable force.
Dust rose everywhere.
Debris fell from the sky like snow.
Garp maintained his punching posture, slowly retracted his right arm, and casually shook his wrist, producing a series of cracking bone sounds.
"Tsk, this body is still a bit too tender. My bones hurt a little."
"Hey, A, and that singing and dancing brat."
Garp picked his ear and said with a look of disgust, "You two are in the way. Hurry up and get lost."
A finally snapped back to reality. Hearing this, his violent temper instantly flared up.
"Bastard! Who are you saying is in the way?! I am the captain of this operation! I am your Big Brother!"
"Big Brother?"
Garp rolled his eyes, his expression as punchable as humanly possible. "You couldn't even block an attack of that level and needed your little brother to save you, and you have the nerve to call yourself Big Brother?"
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