Chapter 230 : Susano's Tailed Beast Ball*
Minato and Rasa on the main peak were temporarily at a stalemate, unable to defeat each other, so in the next episode, the animator focused the camera on Naraku.
In the previous episodes, there were also scenes of Naraku and the Inuzuka squad converging and jointly resisting the Sand Ninja, so the audience basically understood his current predicament.
When it was broadcast to Naraku and another Uchiha silently staring at each other in a cave, the bullet comments erupted in a wave.
Now Naraku reappeared before the audience, exhausted and at his wits' end, his companions around him also scarred and almost without the strength to fight again.
From the perspective of the Konoha side, looking down the mountain, the Sand Ninja were like a swarm of black and red ants, surging and spreading towards their prey.
The background music started playing at just the right moment, with a strong murderous intent in the melody, making one's scalp tingle.
Even if the Konoha Ninja were strong, seeing this scene couldn't help but fill them with despair.
[The fight here is also so tragic... And there's no Minato to save them, what should they do...]
[Naraku previously relied on overdrawing his body by taking medicine to hold on; now he probably can't even refine Chakra]
[Uncle Dai can't even be youthful anymore (｡í_ì｡)]
[Oh my god, it looks like a zombie siege, so terrifying]
[I'm even afraid they'll climb up and eat Naraku alive Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ]
[This scene is like a group of devils crawling out of hell]
The tired and weak expressions of the Ninja flashed across the screen one by one, their hair and headbands swaying weakly in the wind, like their own dying struggles.
At this moment, a right hand appeared in the center of the screen, holding a red pill between its fingers, slowly raising it to his mouth.
[Naraku, what are you doing?!]
[Stop! Don't eat it aaaah (ﾉ｀⊿´)ﾉ]
[The medicine he's taking at this point is probably burning his life]
[No, no, no, boo hoo hoo (*꒦ິ⌓꒦ີ)]
The medicine shattered between his teeth, and the magnificent Mangekyo lit up, reflecting the blood-red setting sun, granting its owner the power to control life and death.
[Mangekyo · Ama no Kaguhiko]
The camera quickly zoomed in on Naraku's right eye pupil, and in the next instant, the screen changed to his field of vision.
Whether it was the Sand Ninja arriving one after another not far away, or the surrounding trees and rocks, black lines extended from their surfaces, emitting eerie and sinister black-purple smoke.
--This is...-- Death.
Accompanied by this murmur, lightning needles quickly covered the entire sky, with occasional electric arcs flickering between them.
The perspective shifted to Chiyo, and through her eyes, the audience saw Naraku standing on high, looking down at her coldly and proudly, his left pupil flashing red.
[Mangekyo · Tenmei Gyokumei]
--All, hit.
As soon as he finished speaking, the lightning needles transformed into streaks of azure heavenly light, pouring down like a torrential rain.
In an instant, blood splattered among the crowd.
Strangely, no one seemed to suffer a fatal injury.
A Sand Ninja laughed loudly at this, but soon, his laughter abruptly stopped, his eyes wide with terror reflecting his own hand.
When the screen cut to a close-up of his entire body, a sense of oppressive, heavy string music, accompanied by mysterious chanting, exploded simultaneously.
The tiny wound on his wrist, pierced by a lightning needle, seemed to come alive, and in a blink of an eye, large grey-white cracks grew.
Flesh and bones rapidly disintegrated and vanished along these cracks, scattering into dust with a gentle gust of wind.
He was not an isolated case; all injured Sand Ninja met the same end.
Amidst the continuous screams, nearly a hundred people thus vanished into thin air.
The bizarre and terrifying scene made the hearts of all witnesses pound, and boundless fear churned in their chests.
[What do these lines mean]
[Death? Lines mean death?]
[Oh my heavens! Is Naraku's left eye ability to make words come true?!]
[What's going on?! People turned to ash?? Are lightning needles that powerful?!]
[This wasn't caused by the lightning needles; it should be the effect of "Ama no Kaguhiko"]
[I know! As long as you attack those lines, you can kill the enemy!! No matter what Ninjutsu it is!!]
[And it's not a simple kill; it's a death as if being "erased," leaving no trace]
[The right eye can see death, and the left eye will definitely make him hit, the enemy has no chance of survival!]
[What a terrifying Mangekyo ability... but it's super cool!!!]
[This is almost a conceptual-level skill, isn't it?]
The condensation of the second wave of lightning needles completely destroyed the sanity of the front-row Sand Ninja; they began to flee backward, but still could not escape the fate of being "hit."
Chiyo was about to accept her death gracefully, but a monk who suddenly appeared "died in her stead" at the cost of a part of his body, thus saving her.
The Ichibi Shukaku formed amidst the vast yellow sand, its massive body almost occupying the entire screen, its deep and powerful roar so loud that even the clouds in the sky seemed to tremble slightly.
[Chiyo is completely stunned]
[In this situation, who wouldn't be stunned?]
[If the first person to flee isn't stopped in time, it will trigger a chain reaction]
[The so-called collapse of an army is like this]
[I knew it was you, Bufuku!]
[Bufuku is actually a very good person, but he's helpless]
Discovering that his Genjutsu was ineffective, Naraku decisively chose to clash head-on with Shukaku.
The crescent moon rotated in his blood-red eyes, and a giant white skeleton emerged from the void, with flesh growing and filling it as it moved, and pieces of armor attaching to it one by one.
In a matter of seconds, a complete and majestic pure white Susanoo stood on the mountaintop, like a god descending, returning Shukaku's roar with its own furious roar.
The sky, bathed in red clouds, dyed the two colossal figures in a layer of bloodlust, and killing intent permeated the air.
[Alas, if the Jinchuriki wasn't Bufuku, the Genjutsu might have worked]
[Unfortunately, Bufuku is too strong]
[Ah ah ah ah ah Full-body Susanoo!! So cool!!!]
[Naraku is so freaking cool!]
[Naraku, Naraku, I love you! I'm crazy for you! I'm wild for you! I'll bang my head against the wall for you!]
[Every frame is a perfect wallpaper]
[Naraku's Susanoo has a special aura; it looks like a Holy Knight... I inexplicably feel like crying (T_T)]
[It would look even more like an angel if it had wings]
"Damn Uchiha! Damn! Damn!"
Shukaku fell into a rage the moment he saw Susanoo, his palms pounding the ground, causing it to shake, and the Tailed Beast Ball in his mouth condensed even faster than before.
Naraku needed to protect his companions and dared not be careless in the face of such a deadly attack, controlling Susanoo to clasp its hands together, flames erupting from its palms.
A platinum longsword named futsu no mitama materialized in the flames, its blade cutting through the gale, forcefully resisting the powerful Tailed Beast Ball.
On the screen, Naraku and Susanoo's images gradually overlapped, their movements and expressions perfectly synchronized.
The Mangekyo Dōjutsu Power (Pupil Power) erupted again, a flash of white light, and the black-purple Tailed Beast Ball was cut in half, flying high into the sky along a curved path, exploding with an earth-shattering roar.
Two fiery red orbs burned in the sky, like two inverted blood-red suns, illuminating the entire world as if it were daytime.
Immediately after, violent tremors spread from them, turning into a hurricane that swept across the entire mountain range, countless trees swayed and broke in the storm, and even the surface rocks loosened.
But this pure white giant still stood firm, unmoving as a mountain.
Blazing light scattered from the clouds, falling upon it and condensing into flowing golden edges, and the low-angle shot composition further added to its sacredness and majesty.
[Ah ah ah ah ah so cool!!!]
[Naraku, you are my god!]
[How can a person be so cool!?]
[Sword-splitting Tailed Beast Ball, Hokage famous scene +1]
[Those two lumps of Tailed Beast Ball just now seemed to have been shot open by something?]
[Indeed, there was a fleeting ray of light that passed through]
[That might also be the light leaking out just before the explosion, right? Some anime are drawn that way]
[This coolness is a bit too much (clutching chest.jpg)]
Unfortunately, Naraku couldn't continue to be cool; his body, which had already reached its limit, could no longer hold on, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood, his Dōjutsu Power (Pupil Power) and Chakra circulation simultaneously interrupted.
Susanoo swayed, and before it completely disappeared, it painstakingly placed Naraku back on the ground.
Naraku tried hard to open his eyes, and when the camera zoomed in on his pupils, the audience saw that those clear eyes now showed a grayish pallor.
The screen presented a hazy vision, as if covered by a veil; the overuse of Mangekyo had brought severe after-effects—he could no longer see the world clearly.
Facing hundreds of thousands of enemies, all he could do was straighten his back.
The second Tailed Beast Ball expanded in Shukaku's mouth, and a tragic and desolate music echoed with the night wind.
The remaining Konoha Ninja around him regrouped, shielding the young man who had just desperately protected everyone, attempting to use their lives to buy him time, even if only for a second.
[You've done enough, Naraku, stop! Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo o(╥﹏╥)o]
[Can Naraku not see clearly? Take some tonic!]
[It's not Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, Dōjutsu Power (Pupil Power) will lead to blindness when exhausted]
[Everyone wants him to live boo hoo hoo hoo... (crying)]
[I always can't bear to watch scenes like this; I can't help but burst into tears]
[Are they all going to die? (T^T)]
[I can't imagine how they can be saved in this situation, that's a Tailed Beast Ball!]
The audience was stomping their feet in anxiety, but Naraku, in the middle of the crowd, murmured softly, "It's alright."
The screen continuously flashed across the endless mountain range; in every location, there were still Konoha Ninja fighting the enemy, including Minato Namikaze, and they all, without prior consultation, showed expressions of having sensed something.
Countless Ninjutsu, exploding tag, and shuriken flew into the sky, forming a counterattacking wave.
"Hah—!"
A shadow enveloped in deep green Chakra slammed through many trees, leaping out of the deep forest with an angry roar, splitting Rasa's gold dust wall used for defense with a single kick.
"What?!"
In a flash, before Rasa could restore the shape of his gold dust, a Flying Thunder God special Kunai passed through the crack, bringing with it that deadly yellow flash.
A brilliant blue orb slammed into Rasa's chest, stirring up large waves of yellow sand, its residual power penetrating the gold dust defense and sending him flying heavily.
"Well met!"
Minato landed and smiled at the furious man beside him.
"Dai!"
[Could this be...]
[Reinforcements! Reinforcements have arrived!]
[Mount Kikyo finally has reinforcements!!!]
[Ah ah ah ah ah ah this battle was so tragic ah ah ah ah ah ┭┮﹏┭┮]
[Uncle Dai! Do you know how hard I've been waiting!!!]