Clang! Clang! Clang!
Not far from where Yamato and Kakuzu were locked in battle, two figures clashed repeatedly, their weapons colliding with fierce sparks and deafening roars.
Hidan wielded his Crescent Scythe, its sweeping arcs and brutal, overbearing strikes threatening to overwhelm his opponent.
Kakashi parried with the White Fang Short Sword, his movements light, agile, and lightning-fast, countering each attack with unwavering precision amidst the thunderous clashes.
From their very first exchange, Kakashi realized the opponent's tenacity. Hidan's bizarre rituals and unsettling behavior had already left him uneasy, sensing a hidden danger.
Moreover, from the moment their fight began, Hidan had relentlessly tried to injure him, seemingly willing to trade grievous wounds for even minor cuts.
The seasoned Kakashi quickly deduced that his enemy might possess a secret technique that used blood as a medium.
Though it sounded implausible, even absurd, Kakashi felt his theory was likely true.
The Ninja World teemed with countless secret techniques, both minor and major—some even more outlandish than this.
A blood-based technique wouldn't be entirely unprecedented.
Though Kakashi had mastered a thousand ninjutsu, he couldn't claim to know even one-tenth of the Ninja World's secret techniques.
Having determined the enemy's objective, Kakashi naturally refused to let them obtain his blood.
Thus, after several exchanges, Kakashi primarily adopted a defensive stance.
Even fleeting opportunities to kill his opponent were too risky to attempt. While he could strike fatal weaknesses, he would suffer death or severe injury in the process.
His opponent had fought with reckless abandon from the start, showing no regard for their own life. Kakashi couldn't be certain if the so-called fatal points would be effective or if they could truly kill the enemy.
If they could, trading a severe injury for the enemy's death might be barely acceptable.
But it wasn't an ideal strategy, as an even stronger enemy awaited him on Yamato's side. If the fatal points proved ineffective, his self-sacrifice would become a meaningless joke.
'Yamato...'
Dodging and weaving, Kakashi glanced at the distant battle with the corner of his eye, his heart sinking.
"Bastard! How dare you lose focus while fighting Almighty Hidan?!"
Hidan roared in fury, his Crescent Scythe suddenly extending, its base connected by a rope that stretched down to a coiled ring around his waist.
With a violent flick of his wrist, the massive scythe shot out of his hand, slicing through the air with a whistling shriek. Kakashi, unable to evade in time, was split in two.
Immediately after the crack of thunder, Kakashi's bisected body erupted in a blinding white light.
"A Lightning Clone?! When did he—?!" Hidan froze, startled by a low, rumbling thunder that suddenly surged behind him.
Pfft!
A short sword wreathed in blue-white lightning pierced Hidan's chest.
Before the crimson blood could gush from the wound, the lightning's intense heat seared it into a blackened mass.
'Is he dead?'
Kakashi's eyes flickered as he considered withdrawing the White Fang Short Sword to sever the enemy's head. But in the next instant, an unexpected development occurred.
Hidan, despite the fatal wound to his heart, suddenly thrashed violently.
His massive scythe swung back with violent momentum, slashing through the air toward Kakashi and his companion with a metallic shriek, seemingly determined to take them down with him!
Kakashi had no intention of dying with him.
With a light tap of his left foot, he leaped backward, narrowly avoiding the scythe's deadly arc.
'So, he really is immortal?'
Landing, Kakashi immediately locked his gaze on Hidan in the distance. A pitch-black hole gaped in the center of his chest.
Yet Hidan showed no signs of death, as if the fatal wound had no effect on him whatsoever.
From the moment Hidan engaged him, he had fought with reckless abandon, leading Kakashi to suspect something was amiss.
But suspicion was one thing; when the reality was laid bare before him, an utterly absurd feeling washed over Kakashi.
"Hahahahahahaha!" Hidan grinned wickedly as he saw Kakashi looking at him, the curve of his smile widening with apparent satisfaction at Kakashi's shock.
"Surprised? This is the Evil God's gift to me—immortality! No attack can kill me! Hahahahaha!"
Hidan bared his sharp, white teeth, his manic laughter echoing wildly.
'A very troublesome enemy indeed,' Kakashi thought, his gaze hardening. Facing Hidan's frenzy, he remained silent, merely tightening his grip on the White Fang Short Sword.
After a moment of manic laughter, Hidan stopped, his bloodthirsty gaze fixed on Kakashi as he licked his lips. "Hatake Kakashi, become my sacrifice to the Evil God!"
Before the words had even left his mouth, Hidan charged forward, Crescent Scythe in hand. But he abruptly halted mid-stride, as if sensing something was amiss.
It was midday, the sun blazing high overhead.
Yet for a fleeting instant, Hidan seemed to perceive the surrounding light suddenly dimming, as if dark clouds had suddenly descended upon the city.
As the light dimmed, the heat in the air rapidly dissipated, sending an icy chill straight to Hidan's heart and causing goosebumps to rise involuntarily on his skin.
"What's going on?" Hidan muttered to himself, suspicious.
In the next instant, the world seemed to darken for a split second, and an immense pressure slammed down, locking him in place.
Looking up toward the source of the pressure, his eyes narrowed sharply.
Darkness!
Absolute darkness!
In an instant, everything within Hidan's field of vision was swallowed by absolute darkness, and an overwhelming sense of danger emanated from its depths.
"This—!?" Hidan's face paled.
The next moment—
Light exploded forth!
An endless, blinding radiance burst forth from the darkness, accompanied by a searing heat that seemed capable of melting anything.
It was as if a materialized miniature sun, radiating infinite heat and infinite light, had ignited within the darkness!
Simultaneously, a blade wreathed in blinding light and blazing heat emerged from the darkness—a luminous weapon forged in the heart of the sun itself—and slashed outward!
Mahakala!
In Buddhist mythology, Mahākāla is revered as a guardian deity.
Legend has it that he possesses a pitch-black body and commands the power of countless ghosts and deities.
Renowned for his mastery of flight and concealment, he is worshipped as the Buddhist Sect's war god.
When subduing demons, his wrathful manifestation is that of Vairocana Buddha—the Great Sun Buddha, whose radiant light illuminates all realms!
"Aaaah!"
A blinding light erupted from the darkness.
Hidan instinctively shielded his eyes with his left hand, the one not holding his scythe, and let out a scream that seemed to tear from the depths of his soul.
The intense light pierced through his pupils, instantly searing his delicate retinas.
A searing pain shot along the optic nerve into his brain, which was mere inches away.
In an instant, Hidan was blinded, plunged into a state of sightlessness. His left hand remained pressed against his eyes as his right hand instinctively swung his Crescent Scythe.
Bang!
The clash was utterly devastating.
The blade of light seemed capable of rending anything.
Hidan's Crescent Scythe, forged from an unknown material, instantly shattered into countless fragments, transforming into shimmering embers that danced through the air before vanishing into nothingness!
High-Frequency Cut!
By vibrating the countless tiny fire-attribute chakra particles coiling around the Kagutsuchi Sword at an extremely high frequency, it could instantly sever and melt any object it struck!
BOOM!
An incredibly intense light and heat exploded, completely engulfing Hidan and his surroundings. The air trembled violently, and the ground shook with the force.
An invisible shockwave surged outward in all directions, instantly collapsing nearby trees and igniting them into swirling flames.
"Reinforcements?"
Kakashi's eyes widened in shock. Even from a distance, his vision was filled with a blinding golden light, and the air seemed to shimmer and distort.
'Who is it?'
Turning his head away from the blinding light, Kakashi felt a chill of dread as he secretly pondered the identity of the newcomer.
As the sky-obscuring smoke and ash slowly settled, Kakashi squinted through the haze and froze in surprise.
"Sasuke?!"
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