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Chapter 206: Nuclear Peace Strike Detected Inbound!
🕑 Added 2025-09-21 13:22:20 +0000 UTCChapter 206: Nuclear Peace Strike Detected Inbound!
The Dark Spiral Annihilation Sphere flew like a black meteor, leaving a faint white contrail in its wake—a sign that it was moving so fast it was literally tearing the air apart.
"B! DANGER!" The Eight-Tails, Gyūki, roared from within Killer B. With a Tailed Beast's keen senses, it could feel the intense threat packed into that deceptively small projectile. But the jutsu was too fast. It had crossed the distance and was in front of them in an instant, giving them no time to react.
"Lightning Release Chakra Mode!"
A, also sensing the danger, instantly activated his chakra. Blue-white arcs of lightning formed a barrier around his body. Killer B, meanwhile, grit his teeth and moved his massive, fully transformed Tailed Beast body to shield his brother.
Eight-Tails: "..."
BOOM—
The Dark Spiral Annihilation Sphere collided with Gyūki's physical chakra-body. A blinding white light erupted, so brilliant it momentarily outshone the sun. A deafening, cloud-splitting roar followed, and the resulting shockwave expanded in all directions like an eighth-level gale. The very ground trembled, and a web of deep fissures spread from the point of impact, sending chunks of earth flying.
A single blow had altered the landscape.
The shockwave slammed into Keisuke's team. Minato and Kagami's robes whipped violently, and they had to raise their arms to shield their faces from the wind. Through the gaps in their arms, they stared at the devastation, their understanding of Keisuke's "little greeting gift" now much, much deeper.
This is what he calls a 'small gift'?!
Kagami thought back to their fight. He had thought the Black Samurai was terrifying, but Keisuke had been hiding an even stronger trump card. Kokuō was equally stunned. The destructive power of that attack was easily on par with a Tailed Beast Bomb. If it had been hit by that, it would have been severely injured, if not worse.
'The chakra cost for that was even less than I expected,' Keisuke noted, his eyes narrowed as he scanned the slowly clearing smoke, analyzing his own condition. 'Perhaps... my true limit is one... Great Dark Spiral Annihilation Sphere!'
The light faded and the dust settled. The massive body of the Eight-Tails was covered in wounds, bleeding a grotesque mixture of blood and black ink that stained the ground. Lying nearby was one of its severed tentacles.
Killer B, his chakra exhausted, was forced to revert to his human form. He was pale and panting.
"B!" A, who had been protected by both his brother and his own Lightning Armor, was completely unharmed. He rushed to B's side, his eyes now fixed on the Konoha team with extreme vigilance. He knew that the "Shadow of Darkness" was rumored to have a bizarre technique that could make a Jinchuriki go berserk. They could not afford to continue this fight.
Before Keisuke's team could even speak, A grabbed his weakened brother, and, in a burst of his famed speed, began a full-speed tactical retreat.
"After them!" Keisuke said, patting Kokuō and signaling his own Shadow Creature.
A and B were in front, Keisuke's team in pursuit. But just as Kokuō was about to gallop past the severed tentacle, it suddenly poofed! It had been a clone, and in its place stood Killer B. He drew his unique, bee-stinger-like sword and, with a burst of speed, slashed at Kokuō's legs, the blade crackling with lightning.
"Cloud-Style: Crescent Moon Slash!"
Kokuō was too large to dodge in time, but Keisuke, who had been suspicious of the tentacle, had already leaped from its back. He fired a Spiraling Shadow Binding Bullet from mid-air. The projectile hit B's shadow, freezing him for a critical instant. In that instant, Keisuke landed in front of him, blocking the lightning-charged sword with the Flame Uchiwa.
CLANG!
The sword and fan collided. Keisuke's shadow immediately shot out, binding B in place. "Waah, disastrous!" B yelped.
Keisuke's shadow tendrils sharpened into spikes, moving in for the kill.
Poof!
The "B" he had caught exploded. It was a Lightning Release: Shadow Clone, detonating in a final, suicidal blast. Keisuke calmly held the Gunbai in front of him, absorbing the entire electrical explosion.
Uchiha Reflection!
He swung the fan, and the absorbed lightning was converted and released as a powerful gust of wind, scattering the remaining electricity. The real severed tentacle, which had been left on the ground, was now gone. "An octopus leg clone," Keisuke mused.
He leaped back onto Kokuō's head. "Keep going!"
Though they had lost time, Kokuō and the Shadow Creature were still faster than A, who was now carrying his brother. They chased them out of the Land of Fire and back into the Land of Hot Water, and the distance between them began to close again.
Seeing this, A grit his teeth. "B! Hold on!"
He activated his full Lightning Release Chakra Mode, wrapping his body in blue-white arcs. The discharge shocked his brother. "Gyaaaah—" B screamed, though he still managed to flash a peace sign. A's speed increased again, and he began to pull away.
Kokuō continued the chase. As they raced forward, Keisuke spotted a camp on the horizon.
"Is that... a Konoha camp?"
"It was our camp," Minato's voice came from the Shadow Creature above, his tone grim. "It's been occupied by Kumo. Keisuke, be careful! A big one is coming!"
The words had barely left his mouth when a silver line shot out from the camp. In just a few breaths, the figure arrived, revealing its true form.
The Third Raikage of Kumogakure, A, had entered the field.
