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Chapter 255: A Free S-Rank Mission!
🕑 Added 2025-10-16 10:55:36 +0000 UTCChapter 255: A Free S-Rank Mission!
"Ha—" Hearing Keisuke's words, Kokuō almost burst out laughing. But, considering Isobu was a fellow Tailed Beast, it managed to swallow its laughter and... quietly extended one of its long, slender, snow-white legs.
Isobu shot a resentful glare at Kokuō's leg. What? A great white deer's leg is a leg, but a grey turtle's leg isn't? But the situation was what it was. Looking at Keisuke, Kokuō, and the distant Kagami, it had no desire to try a 1-v-3. The previous battle had already proven that even if it dismantled its own shell, it couldn't block their combined assault.
A 1-v-3 was impossible. But a 1-v-1, in the ocean? Isobu felt it had to teach this arrogant ninja a lesson. You dare mock a Tailed Beast? You think I'm just a turtle?!
"Are you sure? In the ocean?" Isobu asked, its voice serious. "I won't hold back."
"I just hope you don't spring a leak," Keisuke replied, shaking his head and leaping from Kokuō's head. "The location is your choice. But if you try to use this as a chance to dive and escape..."
"I am not like you ninja, who are full of schemes and tricks!" Isobu interrupted proudly. "If you want to fight, then I'll fight—are you sure about the ocean?"
"Lead the way... hm." Keisuke was about to create a Shadow Creature, but looking at Isobu's massive body, he had another idea. "Three-Tails, is your paddling stable?"
The question threw Isobu off. After a moment of confusion, it slowly replied, "It should be... stable enough?"
"Alright then." Keisuke walked toward it. "Seeing as I've already made such a huge concession... giving me a ride isn't too much to ask, is it?"
Isobu hesitated. First, it didn't sense any hostility from him. Second, he had called it by its name, which was a sign of respect. Third, he had made a big concession...
Before it could decide, Keisuke had already leaped onto its rough shell and found a flat spot to sit. "Don't dive. Just a slow paddle. Let's go."
"..."
Isobu felt a bit strange, but its desire for freedom won out. It obediently turned and began to paddle through the water, its speed surprisingly fast.
"Kokuō, wait for me. I'll be right back," Keisuke called out, waving.
Kokuō obediently lay down on the beach. A bewildered Shikaku and Kagami walked over. "Lord Kokuō," Shikaku bowed low. "Why did the Clan Head leave with the Three-Tails?"
"Keisuke said he's going to have a one-on-one," Kokuō replied. "You two should also rest. Have faith in him."
Kagami's expression was strange. People always said the Uchiha were arrogant, but today he had discovered someone even more arrogant than his own clan. To fight a water-based Tailed Beast... in the ocean. 'Is this the power and confidence of the Shadow of Darkness?' he wondered, sighing at his own inadequacy.
They arrived in a vast, open expanse of blue sea.
"This is the place!" Isobu stopped. "You can get off now."
"You dive down and get to a distance you feel is appropriate," Keisuke said, not moving. "Or, if you think you can fight from this position, then just go ahead and start."
"Hmph! You're the one who said it!" Isobu snorted. In the next moment, it retracted its head and limbs into its shell and began to spin rapidly. "Shadow Crush!"
"It's always better when you move on your own... you just had to make me do it," Keisuke sighed. The instant Isobu began to spin, he had created a Shadow Creature and flown high into the air.
Isobu spun like a top for a long time, hitting nothing but churning the sea into a vortex. After a while, it stopped, poked its head out, and saw Keisuke, sitting on his creature, watching the show as if he were bored.
"You can fly?!" Isobu's single eye stared up at him, a giant question mark in its small eye.
"When did I say I couldn't?" Keisuke replied, looking down at it. "Isobu, do you still think you have a chance of winning?"
"How will we know if we don't try?" it said stubbornly. It began to gather chakra, and a black Tailed Beast Bomb formed in front of it.
Keisuke just took out the Gunbai. Isobu, seeing the fan, almost lost control of its attack. But then it thought, The fan only absorbs, it can't reflect... It fired.
The massive black sphere shot towards the sky. Keisuke had his Shadow Creature lazily sidestep, and the Tailed Beast Bomb flew harmlessly past.
At that moment, a notification popped up on his panel.
[S-Rank Ninja Battle Mission has been detected!]
[S-Rank Mission: The Three-Tails, Isobu]
[Mission Content: Defeat/Kill the Three-Tails, Isobu]
[Mission Reward: S-Rank Shinobi Secret Scroll]
'Huh? It triggered another S-rank mission?' He looked at the panel, surprised. 'So the last battle was overwritten by the [Multi-Village Alliance] mission? I guess I just got a free S-rank mission.' He looked down at Isobu, his expression much friendlier.
Isobu, now desperate, tried attacking with water spouts, but they were all too slow.
"Is that all you've got?" Keisuke taunted.
Its pride as a Tailed Beast stung, Isobu refused to run. It sucked in a massive amount of seawater and, mixing it with its chakra, fired it at him. "Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
This time, Keisuke didn't dodge. He took out a dark red Nature Mask. He held it in his hand, and a volley of giant magma fists erupted from it, raining down from the sky to meet the massive wave.
Lava Release: Meteor Volcano!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The magma fists punched through the water as if it were cotton, instantly vaporizing it into a massive cloud of steam. The attack then slammed into the ocean, turning a huge area into a boiling, churning cauldron. Isobu screamed in pain as the magma burned its shell, and it dove deep to escape.
It resurfaced a safe distance away, only to see that the steam from the attack had formed a massive storm cloud above.
Keisuke stood in the sky, his hand raised.
"Kirin!"
"ROAR—" came the cry of the lightning beast.
"AARGH—" came the scream of the turtle.
