As Yuzuru launched attack after attack, Shinno finally hit his limit.
Thanks to Dark Chakra and his Body Regeneration Technique, he could keep restoring the body that Yuzuru kept smashing apart. But the nonstop pain had already dealt a heavy blow to his mind.
He flashed backward, putting some distance between them, and stared at Yuzuru while panting hard.
The arrogance on his face was long gone. All that remained was deep wariness.
Seeing that Shinno had stopped attacking, Yuzuru rolled his neck and grinned. "Why'd you stop? I'm not even done warming up yet."
Shinno's expression turned ugly.
He had nearly been beaten to death just now, and his opponent was saying he had not even finished warming up...
That was mockery.
Blatant mockery.
But no matter how furious Shinno was, he no longer dared to charge at Yuzuru again.
The man in front of him did not feel like a jinchuriki with a sealed Tailed Beast at all.
He felt like a genuine humanoid monster.
"If you're not going to continue, then I will."
Looking at Yuzuru's smug expression, Shinno clenched his teeth and shouted, "Don't act like you've already won, Yuzuru!"
"No one can defeat me now!"
Yuzuru raised a brow. "Oh? Still hiding something?"
Shinno said nothing. He threw his arms wide and instantly pulled Yuzuru into a tight embrace.
Yuzuru's expression shifted.
Being wrapped up by a shirtless musclehead gave him goosebumps.
A smile spread across Shinno's face as he said excitedly, "Yuzuru, the Zero-Tails can absorb other people's chakra. Just wait for death!"
The moment he finished speaking, he willed it into motion, and the chakra inside Yuzuru's body began flowing into the Zero-Tails connected to his own.
"Wahahaha... Well? Scared now? It's too late to regret it!"
Watching from the side, Amaru saw how confident Shinno looked and could not help growing anxious.
She formed chakra scalpels in both hands and slashed at Shinno's arm.
Bang!
Shinno merely shifted sideways and lifted his leg a little, and Amaru was kicked flying.
He might have looked like a punching bag in front of Yuzuru, but against a ninja like Amaru, he was still monstrously powerful.
"Amaru, stay still."
"Didn't I tell you? No one in this ninja world can defeat me."
After hearing Yuzuru's words, Amaru finally gave up on attacking again.
But Shinno assumed Yuzuru was only putting on a brave front and sneered, "You're about to die, and you're still talking big. Are all Uchiha like this?"
"You can't even control the chakra in your body anymore. The only ending left for you is to be drained dry and die!"
Yuzuru gave a light snort. "If you want it that badly, then take it all."
"It's just..."
"Can you really swallow a torrent of chakra like this in its entirety?"
After saying that, Yuzuru stopped suppressing the chakra inside his body. Instead, he actively cooperated and sent all of it over.
A little more than ten seconds later, Shinno let go of Yuzuru in horror.
The Zero-Tails connected to his body...
had been stuffed full to the point of shutting down.
No matter how he tried to communicate with it, the Zero-Tails refused to absorb any more chakra. It also stopped supplying him with Dark Chakra.
"How is this possible? With the power of the Zero-Tails, it should have no problem draining even a Tailed Beast dry..."
Hearing Shinno mutter to himself, Yuzuru curled his lips into a smile. "One Tailed Beast? You're seriously underestimating how much chakra I have."
Putting aside the support granted by the system, his body had already perfectly fused the Senju Sage Body, Uzumaki Sage Body, Shikotsumyaku, Sharingan, and many other constitutions and bloodlines.
It could be said that even Hashirama Senju at his peak could not compare to him in raw chakra volume.
The chakra of a single Tailed Beast?
That was nothing.
Feeling the overwhelming pressure pouring off Yuzuru, Shinno completely lost his will to fight.
Revenge?
Restoring the Land of Sky?
He threw it all out of his mind.
At that moment, only one thought remained in his head.
Run.
But Yuzuru had no intention of giving him that chance. He instantly entered Sage Mode.
"Sage Art: Scorch Release: Kamui Embers!"
Empowered by senjutsu chakra, a blazing sphere of superheated fire seemed to skip across space itself, appearing out of nowhere and swallowing Shinno whole.
Shinno did not even have time to scream before he vanished completely.
When the fireball dispersed, not even a trace of ash remained.
"Hmph. Regeneration? That just means you weren't being erased fast enough."
Yuzuru snorted lightly.
If he destroyed the enemy faster than the enemy could recover, then it was no different from the enemy not having regeneration at all.
He understood that principle very well.
From behind him came Amaru's voice. "Lord Yuzuru... is Teacher, no... is Shinno... is he dead?"
Yuzuru nodded. "That's right. Not even a scrap of him is left."
Hearing that, Amaru threw herself into his arms. "Lord Yuzuru, thank you."
"If it weren't for you, I... I... even if I died, I wouldn't have the face to meet the family and companions who were killed."
Yuzuru rubbed her head and said softly, "As long as I'm here, you won't die."
"I keep my word. That's my ninja way."
Amaru looked up at him, her eyes already sparkling with infatuation.
Handsome, strong, absurdly reliable—who wouldn't fall for that?
She smiled sweetly and said, "By the way, Lord Yuzuru, that move you used just now was amazing. You erased Shinno in a single hit."
Yuzuru waved a hand and said flatly, "It's nothing. I just had a sudden idea and combined a few abilities together."
"At most, it's an S-Rank forbidden technique. Pretty ordinary."
Amaru's mouth fell open in shock.
An S-Rank forbidden technique... ordinary?
Did he hear himself?
But what Amaru could never have imagined was that Yuzuru genuinely meant it.
With the power he now possessed, even the combined jutsu he casually threw together could reach the level of an S-Rank forbidden technique.
Not to mention that Kamui's space-time ability alone could be combined with his other powers to create countless terrifying techniques.
"Alright, Shinno's dead. This bunker belongs to us now."
"If my guess is right, this should be the Ancor Vantian that vanished from the Land of Sky all those years ago."