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"Kushina-sensei, you're looking a little rough," Hagoromo said with a smile.
He actually looked much worse. As he spoke, he was casually pulling shuriken and kunai out of his own body one by one.
His reckless, linear charge had drawn a massive amount of ranged fire. He had dodged many, but plenty still hit their mark.
His white hair was matted with blood. His mask had partially shattered, revealing his forehead protector and one of his eyes.
Blood steadily dripped from his wounds.
Kushina looked battered, but she wasn't in any real danger.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Hagoromo shrugged off his heavy, blood-soaked outer cloak. He tossed it aside, revealing his standard combat gear beneath.
Kushina was wearing a standard Konoha uniform. In the dark of the night, her bright red hair was strikingly conspicuous.
A bubbling cloak of orange Nine-Tails chakra enveloped her body. Five tails swayed menacingly behind her, proving she had tapped deep into the beast's power.
Her face was smeared with blood. The three Anbu squads assigned to protect her had already been completely wiped out.
Seeing Hagoromo, Kushina's expression became incredibly complicated. To put it simply, she didn't look happy.
Given his ragged condition, she immediately knew he had sprinted all the way back from the vanguard.
"Hagoromo, you shouldn't have come back here."
"Maybe. But I'm already here," Hagoromo replied, his smile unwavering. He actually seemed to be in a pretty good mood.
Suddenly, the lightning flickering across his body sputtered and died. He no longer had the chakra to maintain his Lightning Release.
In other words, his tank was empty.
Normally, a ninja completely drained of chakra would lose all physical stamina and collapse. But Hagoromo was different.
He maintained a strict internal limit, typically only using up to eighty percent of his total reserves. This ensured he always had an absolute baseline of energy left.
If he squeezed himself dry right now, he could still wring out a tiny bit more chakra. This self-imposed limit guaranteed he would never completely lose his mobility.
But right now, a Tailed Beast was raging just steps away.
Kushina was using everything she had just to suppress Shukaku. An endless swarm of enemy ninja was rapidly closing in on her.
And Hagoromo could no longer use ninjutsu.
The numbers were 2,000 against 500. Konoha was at an absolute disadvantage.
Worse, this headquarters housed a large number of non-combat personnel. Konoha's lines were on the verge of collapsing.
"Hagoromo, it looks like you're out of chakra. Just stay close to me," Kushina ordered.
At this point, keeping him by her side was the safest option. If she let a chakra-drained ninja run off into this meat grinder, his survival rate would drop to absolute zero.
Hagoromo simply shook his head. "I'm going to initiate Chidori Stream: Phase Two."
Kushina blinked in sheer confusion. What the hell is Chidori Stream Phase Two? She had never heard of it.
"Phase Two? What's the difference?" Even with the battlefield turning into a literal bloodbath and Konoha on the brink of destruction, she couldn't help but ask.
"There is one. It's a huge difference."
"Yeah? Like what?"
"The sound effect changes."
"Huh?"
"Exactly. The Chidori sounds like chirping birds. Phase Two sounds like biri-biri," Hagoromo said with a completely straight face, entirely ignoring Kushina's baffled expression.
What difference does a sound effect make?! she wanted to scream.
But Hagoromo's next actions proved that changing the sound effect made all the difference in the world.
"As of right now, the ninja Kamishiro Hagoromo is temporarily closing shop..." Hagoromo muttered under his breath.
Yes, you guessed it perfectly, he is about to lock in.
Hagoromo's true A-rank cheat skill was called ElectroMaster.
Why was he so naturally adaptable to Lightning Release? Because he had shocked himself for years until his body became fundamentally immune and perfectly attuned to electricity.
Why could he shrug off standard genjutsu so easily early on? Because he passively maintained an electromagnetic barrier around his mind. Genjutsu and mental manipulation shared very similar principles.
Why was his shuriken jutsu so terrifyingly accurate? Because he could instantly calculate complex flight trajectories and use electromagnetism to correct his weapons mid-flight.
Why did he possess sensory abilities without being a trained tracker? Because he could detect the bioelectric signals of living organisms around him.
Why was his comprehension, learning speed, and memory so monstrous? Because his brain had undergone high-intensity electromagnetic development mapping.
Honestly, compared to being an ElectroMaster, he would have much preferred something simple like a Death Note. But clearly, that wasn't an option.
First and foremost, Hagoromo was a ninja. Fighting like a ninja was always his best and safest option. But in this desperate situation, he couldn't afford to hold anything back anymore.
Kushina didn't sense a single ripple of chakra coming from Hagoromo.
Yet, in the dark of the night, thick, blinding arcs of blue-white electricity violently erupted from his body. It was far more intense than any Lightning Release he had ever used.
A screeching, static-filled biri-biri noise drowned out the battlefield. An intense electromagnetic field surged upward from the ground beneath his feet.
The hair tie holding his white hair snapped. Defying gravity, his hair spiked upward in a crackling halo.
To describe it accurately: he looked like a cross between Killua using Godspeed and Kyousuke Hyoubu with his limiters removed.
He kept one hand pressed firmly against the ground. If you listened closely over the roar of battle, you could hear a sinister rustling sound beneath the earth.
An Iron Sand Sword was being forcefully extracted straight out of the ground!
The high-frequency buzzing of the vibrating iron sand was enough to rupture eardrums.
By this time, the Sand ninja's attacks had become completely indiscriminate. To annihilate the Konoha headquarters, they no longer cared about friendly fire.
More importantly, they had blindly stumbled upon a secondary, massively strategic target: the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki!
No matter how high Konoha's security clearance was, rumors about the Jinchuriki always managed to leak out.
For example, everyone knew the current Nine-Tails vessel was an Uzumaki.
If Kushina had just been standing there doing nothing, the Sand might not have recognized her. But the moment she unleashed her signature Uzumaki chakra chains, her identity as the Nine-Tails vessel was undeniably exposed.
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