[Mabui] was desperately praying to any god that would listen that [Kiradio] would definitely just die of his injuries before crawling all the way over here, or simply give up and pass out from sheer exhaustion.
She absolutely couldn't take the initiative to approach him first; otherwise, her earlier pathetic begging for mercy and desperate confession to Makoto would be completely meaningless.
But she couldn't bear to just retreat and leave him to die, either.
After all, [Kiradio] was a loyal comrade from her village and had shown her genuine kindness in the past.
Honestly, if [Kiradio] hadn't been selflessly using the Eight-Tails' stamina back in the village every single day to physically fill the insatiable, dark void in [Raikage]'s heart... she definitely would have fallen victim to the Raikage's predatory advances long ago.
"Aren't you going to do anything about him?" [Mabui] nervously asked Makoto as the massive, bleeding man dragged himself closer through the dirt.
"No need. It's almost over anyway. Whatever the hell those idiots want to do next has absolutely nothing to do with us," Makoto casually glanced over at the pathetic scene and paid it no further attention.
His words weren't loud, but in the tense silence of the battlefield, [Mabui] and the others heard them perfectly clearly.
Not long after, [Kiradio], gasping with his literal last breath, finally managed to crawl all the way to her side.
'He must have left by now, right?' [Kiradio] thought to himself, his vision completely blurry.
Even though the terrifying Akatsuki enemy was gone, he knew that without the emergency, hyper-proliferating medical treatment of the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu, he would still rapidly bleed out and die.
Suddenly, a booming voice echoed from the direction of the Hidden Cloud Village!
"Karui! Stop right there! Now is the time for you to heroically sacrifice yourself for your Raikage!"
The [Raikage]—who was widely considered the God of Speed in the ninja world—actually couldn't catch up to an ordinary Jonin like [Karui]?!
What exactly was going on over there?!
The Raikage's earlier blind charge against Makoto seemed to have caused him absolutely zero physical injuries.
He hadn't even engaged in a direct physical confrontation!
But the sheer chakra consumption of repeatedly activating his Lightning Armor just to get rubber-banded by Makoto's Time Stop trap was absolutely enormous.
The horrifying "proliferation" side effects from the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu could theoretically be gradually managed and avoided—either by using advanced Medical Ninjutsu to surgically cut away the violently proliferated flesh, or through intense agonizing physical training to slowly reduce the tumorous mass, enabling reuse of the jutsu later.
Conversely, the continuous, back-to-back use of the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu without any recovery time was extremely dangerous.
The probability of the user's body literally bursting apart into a bloody mist would exponentially multiply with every trip.
So, not only had the [Raikage] just consumed a massive, exhausting amount of chakra... but constantly running at top speed with a huge dick that violently jingling and bouncing around had severely reduced his aerodynamic speed by at least another ten percent!
As for exactly why he was currently aggressively chasing down [Karui] across the battlefield?
"NO! Raikage-sama, stay away from me! I'd rather die than comply with this! You know me—I only like small ones!" [Karui] shrieked in absolute terror, sprinting for her life.
Because her own parents, during the brutal war period, had no choice but to be emergency-transported by the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu and had tragically ended up bursting to death into a bloody mist, she was violently traumatized by anything related to the jutsu's effects!
"HAHAHAHA! That arrogant bastard really let my Lord Kiradio return alive! How utterly pathetic! If I were him, I would have just erected a cheap blue stone grave for Kiradio and been done with it!" [Kiradio] suddenly started roaring with triumphant laughter from the dirt, completely misreading the situation.
"As long as Kiradio draws breath, he remains totally undefeated! Hahahaha... ugh."
While [Kiradio] was roaring with delusional laughter, the terrified [Karui] and the heavily panting, mutated [Raikage] chasing each other comically sprinted right past him from front to back.
"Wait... no, brother! Stop!" [Kiradio] suddenly gasped in sheer horror as he realized the Raikage's true intentions.
"I've just lost my Tailed Beast, and my body is still terribly, terribly weak! I absolutely cannot handle this right now!"
What was even more terrifying was that after he finally stopped laughing, [Kiradio] looked down and discovered something horrifying.
Because he had completely lost his Tailed Beast's regenerative power, his body had been massively multiplied and augmented during his emergency return trip via the Heavenly Transfer Jutsu!
Looking at his new, violently expanded ass, he might as well legally change his name to Kardashian at this point.
"Brother, have you forgotten so soon?!" The [Raikage] suddenly stopped chasing Karui and loomed over [Kiradio], his eyes dark and hungry.
"What exactly is your sacred duty to this village?!"
"..."
Duty? His duty was to loyally assist the Raikage in all matters... and to physically fill the deep, dark emptiness in the Raikage's heart.
'Fine.'
[Kiradio] closed his eyes and completely gave up resisting.
Drained of all his chakra, he legally had no right to escape his fate anyway.
"Just remember," [Kiradio] whispered dramatically, a single tear rolling down his cheek.
"Death isn't frightening. Death is simply like a cool summer night, peacefully allowing one to sleep without any worldly worries."
But the very next second, he could no longer laugh or be poetic.
A terrifying, agonizing burning sensation suddenly violently filled his entire body.
The [Raikage] violently recoiled, screaming in dread.
"KIRADIO! HOW DARE YOU POISON ME WITH INK!!!"
BAM!!!!
[Kiradio]'s massively proliferated body violently exploded into a geyser of toxic black ink and gore.
This brutal explosive end was precisely why Makoto hadn't bothered to finish him off.
It completely facilitated rooting out the Hidden Cloud's degenerate problem from the source.
Letting that freak go back to the village alive would only continue severely polluting the ninja world's gene pool.
....
High in the air, Makoto's trio was peacefully heading to their next designated location.
The wild Three-Tails supposedly roaming the Land of Water was officially scheduled to be captured absolutely last in their grand plan.
Therefore, their next immediate targets were the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, currently located in the Hidden Stone Village.
However, along the flight path to the Hidden Stone, they would conveniently pass right over the Hidden Waterfall Village.
With the real Fuu up in the spectator seats providing highly accurate location updates, Makoto very quickly pinpointed the exact coordinates of the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.
Interestingly, according to Fuu, her alternate self had just been staying in one single place without moving an inch for days, so there was no need for constant, annoying GPS updates.
"The Hidden Waterfall Village famously guards a type of Holy Water called..." Makoto started to recall his ninja lore.
"Hero Water," Uchiha Hikari calmly answered first from the Susanoo cockpit.
"Drinking it greatly, temporarily increases your chakra reserves by tenfold, but reduces your overall lifespan."
She had actually learned this specific trivia directly from Fuu, just as she had originally learned about her own tragic past from Karin.
"Huh? Where did you hear that ridiculous misinformation?" [Konan] suddenly interrupted, looking totally bewildered.
[Konan] paused, then smiled and shook her head.
"It's actually called Yin-Yang Water. Drinking it turns men into femboy, but all their chakra is converted into lifespan and the Hidden Waterfall village is also called the 'Village of Longevity'."
"?" Makoto and Hikari exchanged a confused look.
"Wait a second," Makoto frowned, trying to untangle this twisted lore. "Isn't the Hidden Whirlpool Village supposed to be the famous 'Longevity Village'?"
Even though Makoto fully knew by now that this Limited Tsukuyomi World had changed almost every established lore detail, he found the changes growing increasingly bizarre!
"Not at all," [Konan] stated flatly.
"The Hidden Whirlpool Village was wiped out by the other nations long ago simply because its name sounded way too much like a dirty insult!"
"..."
...
'I don't even want to know what a 'whirlpool' implies in this degenerate universe,' Makoto thought, rubbing his temples.
Makoto and the other two eventually landed at the main entrance of the Hidden Waterfall Village.
That is to say, they landed on the rocks right outside the massive, roaring waterfall that concealed the village entrance.
Back in the real world, Makoto had once been officially entrusted by Kurotsuchi to fight against the Raikage right here at this exact spot, and he had even successfully brought the real Fuu back to Amegakure from this village.
"Wait!"
Makoto suddenly shot his arm out, sharply stopping the two women who were just about to casually walk straight through the curtain of water.
He turned his gaze entirely to [Konan]. "You didn't actually finish your lore-dump earlier! If men who are heavily exposed to this cursed.. water magically become 'femboy'... what exactly happens to women who touch it?!"
"I honestly don't know," [Konan] shrugged helplessly.
"You don't know?!"
"Mm. Because there's absolutely zero recorded case information about any female ninjas ever successfully using the Yin Female Water."
"...Then let me tell you," Makoto said grimly. "Women who touch it will completely become tomboys, with their estrogen violently suppressed. No matter their original figure, they will be instantly and permanently reduced to being flat-chested, and their voices will permanently deepen to become completely neutral!"
This shocking revelation made the other two intensely curious.
"Wait, how do you know that?" Uchiha Hikari asked, tilting her head.
"Because I just saw it." Makoto pointed a completely deadpan finger at the massive, cascading waterfall roaring right in front of them.
"Unexpectedly, this entire goddamn waterfall acting as the front door is completely composed of pure Yin Female Water!"
In the real world, the Hidden Waterfall Village's "Hero Water" is an extremely precious, highly guarded resource hidden deep within the roots of a giant tree.
But who would have ever thought that in this utterly cursed world's Hidden Waterfall Village, this incredibly dangerous "Holy Water" literally makes up the entire defensive waterfall at the front gate?!
It was insanely treacherous!
One can only vividly imagine the sheer, irreversible horror of what would have happened if Makoto hadn't been incredibly cautious and strictly used his [Epitaph] ability to see the future results of them blindly stepping into the waterfall beforehand!
Makoto finally understood exactly why this world's Hidden Waterfall Village—a minor village outside the Five Great Nations—could possess a Tailed Beast and exactly how they could so perfectly protect it from invaders with just a simple waterfall acting as the front door.
Any hostile invader, without highly classified prior intelligence... even if the legendary gods Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju themselves came charging in... the microsecond they crossed that curtain of water, they would instantly lose massive amounts of their chakra and be permanently transformed into "femboy"!
They would either be immediately killed by the guards while weakened, or effectively forced to become permanent humiliated members of the Hidden Waterfall Village, never able to leave.
So the intelligence about the trap would never, ever get out to the rest of the world!
It was unbelievably vicious!
"Then, what the hell should we do now?" Hikari asked, taking a very cautious step back from the splashing mist.
"Just activate your Susanoo. We can just easily use the giant chakra avatar to completely block the water from physically touching our actual bodies," Makoto suggested simply.
"Eh? It's really that simple?" Uchiha Hikari was totally stunned.
A moment later, the three of them casually strolled straight through the roaring waterfall entirely under the absolute, waterproof protection of the glowing Susanoo.
"It certainly seems simple to us now," Makoto chuckled darkly.
"But actually, even if the great Uchiha Madara came here to invade... without this specific intelligence, and totally unable to magically sense the waterfall's bizarre abnormality... he wouldn't randomly activate his massive, chakra-draining Susanoo just to block some basic, mundane waterfall water from getting his armor wet."
On the contrary, knowing Uchiha Madara's incredibly arrogant, battle-hungry personality... he'd probably be delighted to dramatically get drenched by the roaring waterfall just to look cool, only to suddenly experience some "profound physical loss" or something equally horrifying.
After all, what sane, logical person would ever deliberately allow themselves to get hit by a weird ninjutsu trap despite possessing the god-tier Rinnegan... just to have their armor torn open to dramatically show five Kage the creepy face of their "beloved" Hashirama Senju grafted onto their chest?
While speaking, Makoto actively scanned the interior structure of the massive cavern behind the waterfall, actively searching for a suitable path to head toward the exact coordinates mentioned in Fuu's intelligence.
"INTRUDERS!"
"What the hell?! Why is one person completely unaffected by the Holy Water?!"
A large group of "tomboys" Waterfall ninjas suddenly rushed out from the shadows, pointing their weapons directly at Makoto in utter shock and deep confusion.
"Damn it, what the hell do you mean by that?!" Uchiha Hikari instantly became enraged.
What exactly did they mean by "ONE person is unaffected?!"
What about her?!
These ambiguous, gender-bent creatures were clearly implying something incredibly insulting about her chest size!
"Eh? Wait, her voice?!—She's only half-affected!"
Upon hearing Hikari's still delicate girlish voice screaming at them, the Waterfall ninjas were momentarily stunned before correcting themselves and shouting the new tactical assessment to their teammates.
"Oh, screw this."
Hikari was truly enraged now!
These flat-chested tomboys had insulted her pride way too much today.
The stealth plan had officially changed.
After activating her Complete Susanoo and going on an absolute bloody rampage through the cavern for five minutes, Uchiha Hikari finally managed to calm down.
Having been psychologically pent up for so long in this cursed universe, she had finally found an acceptable target to vent a little.
Those completely perverted Tailed Beasts and Jinchuriki earlier—she had desperately wanted to kill them but couldn't because they needed the chakra intact—so crushing these insulting guards made her feel significantly better.
"I honestly just hope this world's version of Fuu is actually a good person," Uchiha Hikari suddenly sighed heavily as they walked through the ruined tunnels to find the Jinchuriki.
Fuu was honestly one of the very few genuine friends she had managed to make back in Amegakure.
If this alternate world's Fuu turned out to be some kind of unhinged, degenerate pervert like everyone else, it would be deeply disheartening for her.
Eventually, Makoto and the other two reached the dead-end of a small, damp cave deep within the Hidden Waterfall Village.
They saw extremely simple, pathetic living supplies haphazardly arranged inside.
This depressing cell was exactly where [Fuu] lived in the Limited Tsukuyomi World.
"Hiks... I'm so incredibly hungry, duck... Please, just give me something to eat! I'll do absolutely anything!" a pathetic voice whimpered from the dark.
Thud.
Uchiha Hikari wordlessly tossed a sealed bag of small sweet biscuits directly onto the shabby bed.
[Fu] was overjoyed and rushed forward to hug the little biscuit.
"My lords, please tell me what you need me to do."
"Dont eat those damn biscuits," Makoto said deadpan, looking at the girl.
[Fu] sniffled, looking like she was about to cry again!
"Go ahead, eat up. I was just joking," Makoto waved his hand dismissively.
Goodness, this world's [Fu] is actually an introverted girl.
But honestly, this was already the best possible outcome they could have hoped for.
At least this version of her wasn't a raging, sexual pervert!
"We're here to completely extract the Seven-Tails from your body," Makoto stated bluntly.
"..."
[Fuu] stopped chewing for a second, crumbs falling from her face.
"Wait, are you actually happy about that?" Uchiha Hikari asked, totally bewildered by the girl's glowing expression.
"Yeah! Take the stupid bug!" [Fuu] nodded enthusiastically.
"Well, fortunately for you, there's literally an entire waterfall of Yin Female Water here in the village..." Makoto muttered.
The implication was crystal clear: thankfully, the Hidden Waterfall Village was completely full of depowered "male women" who had permanently lost their predatory abilities and most of their chakra, meaning [Fuu] hadn't been subjected to the same horrifying "weighted training" as Yugito.
"But... do you actually know that extracting a Tailed Beast will definitely kill you?" Uchiha Hikari added another, far more serious question.
Even knowing this was just a fake Illusionary World, Hikari was still somewhat morally reluctant to harm a version of her friend.
"I know!" [Fuu] chirped happily. "But I haven't been affected by the Holy Water yet! As long as I'm physically bathed in the Holy Water at the exact moment the Tailed Beast is extracted, I shouldn't actually die, right?"
"Uh... do you even know the horrifying side effects of your so-called Holy Water?" Hikari asked, sweating.
"I know! I don't care! Just take it!"
The physical extraction of the Seven-Tails went surprisingly smoothly.
Only the real Fuu, watching from the audience seats high above, fell into incredibly deep existential crisis.
'Why? Why am I completely flat-chested in the real world... yet I'm still exactly the same size in this cursed Limited Tsukuyomi World where everything is supposed to be reversed?!'