Suddenly having its massive arm completely severed, the Golden Nine-Tails staggered heavily and nearly fell over.
Uchiha Hikari controlled her Susanoo's empty hand to violently grab at the Golden Nine-Tails, but she only grasped its shoulder area for a brief microsecond before quickly releasing it in sheer disgust.
The Eight Thousand Spears mark only needed one physical contact to apply.
Although maintaining direct contact was technically more efficient and stable for chakra draining, Hikari absolutely refused to touch that thing for even a moment longer than necessary.
Who knew what Uzumaki Menma and the Nine-Tails had just been doing before they arrived? Gross.
Fortunately, the Nine-Tails chakra they needed would ultimately be filtered and converted into pure, harmless Tailed Beast Chakra back in the real world, completely wiping away the Nine-Tails' actual will and memories.
Otherwise, if Kaguya accidentally absorbed this outrageous Limited Tsukuyomi lore, she might actually get so mentally devastated and thoroughly contaminated that she'd want to destroy the ninja world just out of sheer, unadulterated disgust.
The Golden Nine-Tails, acting like a giant blob of furry slime, violently squirmed and instantly regrew its severed hand.
It even sprouted two additional arms before lunging wildly at the Susanoo.
"Stay the fuck away!"
"You completely disgusting existence, can't you just give up your useless resistance?!" Uchiha Hikari lifted her Susanoo's massive foot and kicked the Nine-Tails square in the chest, full of absolute revulsion and extreme caution.
She was genuinely terrified that kicking it might actually be considered a "reward" for the beast.
She got so emotionally heated that she accidentally dropped a classic, arrogant Uchiha villain line.
"Give up resistance?! So you'll spare our child?! No! We must fight for our family!"
After the Golden Nine-Tails stabilized its footing, Uzumaki Menma's deeply resolute, heroic voice echoed from within its glowing avatar.
These cursed words once again violently shattered Uchiha Hikari's entire worldview.
"Wh-what?! Ch-child?! Shut up! I don't want to hear this!" Uchiha Hikari physically covered her own ears inside the Susanoo.
She simply couldn't even begin to comprehend the twisted biology of how a human and a massive chakra fox could possibly have a child.
"Calm down, I can actually explain this to you." [Konan] had somehow turned into paper again and casually flew up alongside the Susanoo, fluttering her wings.
"Ex-explain?" Uchiha Hikari looked totally bewildered at [Konan].
Had she misunderstood something? Had her mind just gone into the gutter for no reason?
"Previously, you only encountered the female Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, so we only mentioned the female inheritance method. Actually, male Jinchuriki inheritance is much simpler—it just requires direct, intimate inheritance with the Tailed Beast entirely within the sealed space. The newborn child will simply develop within the seal itself, using the Tailed Beast's raw chakra to provide nourishment. At the exact moment of birth, the Tailed Beast will flawlessly transfer from the old Jinchuriki to the new one."
"In fact, in our Akatsuki organization, Kisame Hoshigaki is actually the biological child of the Three-Tails, Isobu, and the Jinchuriki from two generations prior," [Konan] continued speaking with absolute seriousness.
"..."
Makoto was completely speechless.
He genuinely felt that Kisame's terrifying, badass reputation had just been brutally tarnished beyond repair.
But honestly... this horrifying lore actually did perfectly explain why Kisame looked like a literal shark-man instead of a normal human.
Fortunately, among the spectator audience up in the sky, only the real Konan and Nagato were Akatsuki members.
If even one more member had come along to watch—like Deidara or Hidan—Kisame's social life in the organization would have been completely over forever.
[Konan] mercilessly went on.
"And the Jinchuriki from two generations before was also born from the Three-Tails and the Jinchuriki from three generations prior. Oh, and they even had a second child together—that was the sword, Samehada."
Good grief, they even had a second child as a damn sword!
"Kisame deeply despised his own cursed origins, which is exactly why he joined our anti-furry organization. According to our Akatsuki intelligence, the previous Jinchuriki, the Fourth Mizukage Yagura, suffered from severe developmental issues that left him looking like a child, which tragically made him infertile. This led to absolutely no successor for the Three-Tails. So, after his death, the Three-Tails simply returned to its wild state."
"..."
Uchiha Hikari was legitimately close to tears.
If it wasn't for the fact that they actively needed intelligence about the Three-Tails' location, she would have physically covered [Konan]'s mouth ten minutes ago.
"Hmph! Hnnnn!"
Uchiha Hikari started making aggressive, revving motorcycle noises in her throat.
She gripped her Susanoo's giant chakra longsword tightly, fully ready to violently vent all her built-up psychological trauma on the still-struggling Nine-Tails before her.
"You can't cut through us! Because what Kurama and I use isn't just chakra—it's LOVE! And love is absolutely endless!" Uzumaki Menma continued to loudly taunt from within the golden Nine-Tails, whose extra hands had just been brutally severed again.
"Love my goddamn ASS!!!"
Uchiha Hikari truly lost her temper, officially snapping and screaming out loud.
She aggressively grabbed the special necklace around her neck.
She hadn't wanted to use her stored Natural Energy originally, because in this Limited Tsukuyomi's Illusionary World, Natural Energy would permanently deplete with use and couldn't be replenished from the fake environment.
But this opponent was just too damn infuriating!
As the Susanoo's massive form swelled dramatically once again and began emitting a blinding, piercing light, Uzumaki Menma also took extreme action.
The golden Nine-Tails leaped high into the air, raising both of its massive glowing hands as the two colossal Thousand-Armed Giant Buddhas on either side of it suddenly sprang into motion.
"Ancestors! Lend me your strength! Pass your historic love down to me, and I will pour it all into Kurama!!!"
With this horrifyingly cringe-inducing shout, the thousands of wooden arms from the two Giant Buddhas began helping the Nine-Tails frantically rotate its chakra, forming a colossal, moon-sized Rasengan right between them.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Hikari fiercely controlled her Susanoo, fully preparing to meet the attack head-on.
"Hm?"
Makoto suddenly placed a hand firmly on Uchiha Hikari's shoulder.
Hikari, who had been completely blinded by sheer rage and focused intently on the enemy, suddenly snapped back to reality.
It was like how a certain Ten-Tails Jinchuriki might suddenly remember his true goals after getting distracted.
Uchiha Hikari realized—why the hell was she getting so irrationally angry and trying to death-match an illusory character inside her own fake illusion technique anyway?!
She was just here to quietly absorb and convert the Nine-Tails' chakra!
Eight Thousand Spears, activate!!!
With her fully enhanced ocular power, the invisible absorption force of the Eight Thousand Spears became exponentially more terrifying.
The massive, doomsday Rasengan being formed by the two Thousand-Armed Giant Buddhas suddenly began shrinking dramatically—flickering wildly, sometimes large, sometimes small, completely destabilizing.
The Eight Thousand Spears couldn't directly absorb the physical Ninjutsu itself, but it was rapidly draining the raw chakra currently powering it.
Fortunately, Uchiha Hikari had come to her senses just in time and didn't foolishly engage in a pointless, anime-style beam struggle.
Uzumaki Menma also seemed to have finally discovered Uchiha Hikari's terrifying hax ability.
Feeling the Nine-Tails' massive chakra reserves being rapidly and aggressively drained right out of his body, he immediately panicked.
"No! Don't take Kurama away from me! We've endured literally millennia of suffering just to reach this day! NO! Kurama, I will create a world... with you in it!" Uzumaki Menma raged, mourned, and screamed in helpless melodramatic fury, literally stealing Uchiha Obito's iconic villain line.
One could only say that Makoto had incredible foresight back at the planning stage.
When everyone was originally considering who the core characters for this Limited Tsukuyomi should be, they wanted to include Makoto alongside Fuu, Yugito, and Hikari.
However, Makoto had firmly refused.
His reasoning was that he simply knew too much meta-knowledge, which would inevitably add unnecessary, chaotic lore settings to the Illusionary World.
Just like right here.
If Makoto had been included as a core, his subconscious knowledge probably would have allowed Uzumaki Menma and Kurama to instantly activate Baryon Mode and start throwing actual hands.
"Stop struggling, you idiot. You've already trampled your own father's corpse to bloody pieces," Uchiha Hikari said, looking down coldly and contemptuously at Uzumaki Menma.
"NANI?!"
Though only a faintly glowing half of the Nine-Tails avatar still remained around Uzumaki Menma's body, he looked down in pure horror and saw that it was completely true.
In his earlier, passionate excitement while summoning the Buddhas, his giant avatar had accidentally stepped backward and completely crushed both [Namikaze Minato] and the shattered bronze bell flat beneath his massive glowing feet.
And honestly, even now, Menma still didn't understand what his dying father had meant by ringing that damn bell one last time.
Could it mean it was already 8 PM, and it was time for him to go to sleep on schedule?
Speaking of sleep... as he was gradually drained of his Tailed Beast, Uzumaki Menma began to feel his eyelids growing incredibly heavy, eventually becoming too drowsy to stand.
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