Chapter 162

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Those who become Jinchūriki are generally strong.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tail, who relies purely on the power of the tailed beast and is merely a vessel without much combat prowess.

Yugito, the two-tails Jinchūriki, does not fall into this category.

Having become the host of Matatabi from a young age, and due to her personality, the relationship between the human and the beast is quite harmonious.

If the tailed beast cooperates, then the Jinchūriki can unleash greater power and even develop unique offensive techniques based on the beast's characteristics.

"Yugito?" Kyomu looked towards the young girl standing not far from him.

She was about the same age as him, but physically more mature, as is common with girls.

Her light brown hair was straight, with a long braid hanging down her back. Her tight-fitting combat uniform outlined her agile and lithe figure.

Despite her youthful face, she already showed signs of beauty, promising to overshadow many in Kumogakure in the future.

"What a pity," Kyomu shook his head, "you won't live to grow up."

In the next instant, Kyomu teleported in front of Yugito, with Yoei thrusting sharply.

At the same time, a blade light followed closely behind him, speeding towards Yugito.

Clang!

Hmm?

Kyomu frowned involuntarily. The blade of Yoei did not cut through Yugito's claws used for blocking.

At that moment, Yugito bit her lip, her cat claws crossed in front of her, and a tail abruptly appeared behind her.

"That hurts!"

Yugito and Matatabi in her mind cried out in unison.

Although Yoei's slash was blocked by Yugito using her cat claws, these claws weren't made of chakra but of tailed beast chakra-induced keratin.

Similar to the claws of of the Inuzuka, the hard keratin contained a nervous system to better feel the contact during an attack, a sharp way to judge the specifics of combat, much like an animals.

But no matter how hard the keratin, even if it blocked the slash of Yoei, the cracks created on it transmitted pain back to Yugito and Matatabi via the nerves.

Yugito pushed upwards with both hands, cat claws also sprung from the tips of her feet, her slim yet powerful waist twisted, and her feet kicked fiercely towards Kyomu's chin.

Feline animals are quick to react, and even without the enhancement of the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Yugito's responses were no slower than Dodai's.

But in Kyomu's eyes, Yugito's attacks were still too slow.

Not using teleportation, Kyomu flipped his wrist, Yoei first held vertically in front of him, then sharply thrust downwards, aiming for Yugito's ankles.

Hiss.

A grating sound of friction rang out, two of Yugito's claws broke, and Yoei continued downward.

Whoosh.

With a kickback, Yugito's waist powered another rotation in mid-air, her braid spinning like a windmill.

Her body sharply shifted in mid-air, not only dodging Kyomu's downward thrust but also whipping her braid like a rope towards his throat.

It must be said, influenced by Matatabi, Yugito was essentially a feline animal in human skin, with movements that were agile, quick, and explosively powerful.

And she had quite a few tricks up her sleeve.

Seeing a shuriken tied to the end of the braid, Kyomu smirked disdainfully, such small tricks were better not used against him.

Tilting his head back sharply, he flipped his wrist again, Yoei spinning half a circle, blade facing upwards, swept up in a swift motion.

Whoosh.

The braid was cut off, and at that very moment, Kyomu vanished from his spot, the lingering blade light he left behind reaching its target.

Blue Flame: Skyline!

As Kyomu's body disappeared abruptly, Yugito's pupils dilated sharply, the blue-purple blade light already brushing close to her body, the heatwave hitting her face.

Her scattered hair was scorched, and Yugito had to use her waist again, trying to dodge the blue-purple blade light with her body's explosive power and agility.

"Too late."

Kyomu, utilizing his Space-Time Kekkei Genkai, attacked from above, targeting Yugito in mid-air trying to dodge the blade light attack.

After a spatial fold, Kyomu launched a combination attack— a slash, a punch, and a kick, coming from three different directions, targeting Yugito's head, chest, and back simultaneously, leaving her no room to escape.

Boom! Puff! Thud!

The sounds of the explosion, the blade entering flesh, and blows landing echoed simultaneously as Yugito was hit with Kyomu's quadruple strike in an instant. The time it took was only the brief interval from the blade being swung to striking a target ten meters away.

In less than a second, Kyomu had exchanged five moves with Yugito, a speed that could instantly kill most elite ninjas below his level.

The blue-purple fireball enveloped Yugito completely, and by the time the attack was successful, Kyomu had already teleported ten meters away.

Whoosh.

The blocking shockwave and the high-temperature blast wind rustled Kyomu's clothes fiercely, and the severed braid, charred, brushed past his shoulder as it flew by.

In just a second, he had beaten the two-tails Jinchūriki, Yugito!

Hmm?

Kyomu frowned, Yugito was defeated, but not dead.

"The vitality of a Jinchūriki is indeed very tough."

Twirling his blade, Kyomu charged forward again.

At that moment, Yugito had already transformed into her semi-tailed beast form, with wounds on her body rapidly healing.

Her previously worn protective vest was now shattered, and the clothes underneath were torn open in a large area.

"Yugito, that man is very strong." Matatabi spoke up in the mindscape, "Release my power fully!"

"Not yet." Yugito refused. "If I release your power fully, Kyomu will see the battlefield balance disrupted and will surely turn to slaughtering my comrades on the frontline."

"But this way..."

"I can do it, I'm not weaker than him!" In the mindscape, Yugito's eyes were stubborn. "As long as he doesn't use that technique, he can't kill me in a short time."

Boom!

The surging tailed beast chakra erupted, Yugito's braid, now severed, splayed over her shoulders, and her light brown hair stood on end. Blue chakra markings, similar to tattoos, covered her entire body.

The exposed fair skin under her torn clothes was now obscured, and two tails rose behind Yugito, swaying like a two-tailed feline demon.

At the same time, Yugito's eyes turned completely white, except for a ring of black around the sockets, giving her a formidable appearance.

Her physical attributes—agility, explosive power, and reaction speed—were all enhanced at that moment, making her seem like a feline creature, only much stronger.

Whoosh.

Ducking under a slash from Kyomu, Yugito swung her hand while spitting out from her mouth.

This was not a tailed beast bomb but resembled one. It could be launched instantly without hand signs, and its power was comparable to the Rasengan.

Crack.

But Kyomu merely raised his blade, splitting the attack in half, the halves flying past his cheeks.

Kyomu disappeared from the spot, leaving behind a trail of blue-purple blade light that, influenced by space, split perfectly into three parts, then nine, quickly encircling Yugito tightly.

At the same time, Kyomu appeared high above, hovering in mid-air with the Flying Thunder God Technique, two shadow clones flanking him.

Fire Release: Great Flame Bullet!

Wind Release: Dragon Bullet Technique!

The combined ninjutsu took shape swiftly as a fire dragon soared into the sky, followed by Kyomu wielding his blade from above, quickly forming a massive blade light.

His body's chakra boiled as wind and fire chakra merged to form Scorch Release chakra, which was then infused into Yoei and quickly transmitted to the massive flame blade.

In an instant, a pale purple gigantic blade light hung in the air, over a hundred meters long.

Slash!

With both hands on Yoei's hilt, Kyomu swung down fiercely, slamming the massive blade towards Yugito below.

As nine blue-purple blade lights surrounded her from all directions, and a giant pale purple shadow pressed down from above, Yugito once again found herself in a perilous situation at the start of the second round.

Boom!

The pale purple blade light struck the ground, Kyomu's shadow clones dissipated, and the spot where Yugito had just been exploded into a high-temperature fireball, the central temperature reaching at least 6000 degrees Celsius—enough to instantly melt steel.

At the same time, the rapidly spreading explosion shockwave swept outwards, relentlessly damaging the surrounding landscape.

Fortunately, the 2,000 Cloud ninja, following Dodai's orders to keep a distance of twenty meters from Kyomu, were not affected by the massive aftershock.

"This time, she must be seriously injured or near death, right?"

Kyomu floated gently to the ground, his feet touching the scorching, hardened earth, as he slowly approached with Yoei in hand.

"Was that the attack?" Yugito, still alive despite her dire state, asked with a pained expression, "Or are you afraid to use it, or can you no longer use it?"

"Do you think you are on the same level as the Third Raikage?" Kyomu twirled his blade, stepping swiftly, "Yugito, I can take your life with regular moves!"

Indeed, Kyomu could still use his special move twice more, but he felt it wasteful to use it on Yugito.

Besides, with the war dragging on, he needed to conserve chakra and keep his trump cards for more critical confrontations, whether against Dodai, the newly appointed Fourth Raikage, or even the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki Killer Bee. The cost-effectiveness was much higher than wasting it on Yugito.

"Aragami Kyomu!" Yugito, sensing his disdain, could not contain her fury, "I will kill you!"

Boom!

Monstrous Strength Punch!

Kyomu's fist sent Yugito flying far away, and he swiftly teleported to where she was about to land, his right leg raised high.

Heavenly Foot of Pain!

Boom!

Like a ball, Yugito was hammered into the ground, bouncing slightly as the earth beneath her caved in, riddled with dense cracks.

Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.

Yugito was not lightly battered; it felt as if her internal organs had shifted. Yet, the powerful regenerative abilities granted by the tailed beast chakra quickly healed her wounds almost completely.

Raising her hand, numerous chakra balls shaped like rats instantly filled a twenty-meter radius around her, precisely calculating Kyomu's maximum teleportation distance.

"I don't just rely on the Space-Time Kekkei Genkai to fight, who are you underestimating?"

Using a wide-range, indiscriminate attack to counter Kyomu's limited teleportation distance was indeed a good strategy.

However, what made Kyomu renowned wasn't just his spatial abilities, but his sword!

Lightning Release: Eight Gates, the Gate of Awe, open!

Zzzap!

In an instant, arcs of electricity enveloped his body, whirlwinds swirling around him, the sheer force lifting Aragami Kyomu three feet off the ground.

Both hands gripping Yoei, Kyomu furiously swung downward towards Yugito's position.

At the same moment, the dense cluster of chakra balls exploded.

"This is impossible!"

Yugito's eyes, now fully white, widened in horror. She saw something astonishing. There was no chakra turbulence, no mixed techniques, just a plain slash that maximized speed, power, and explosive force.

But the surrounding air seemed to form a vortex, capturing all the shockwaves generated by the chakra ball explosions, forcibly incorporating them into Kyomu's own attack.

"Basics are not useless; you just haven't pushed them to their limit."

Muttering to himself, the blade of Yoei composed entirely of whirlwinds and explosive air currents now cleaved downward.

Boom!

The ground shattered, Yugito, positioned directly beneath the blade's phantom, was split into the earth, and the terrain along the path also cracked open, forming a deep chasm nearly ten meters deep.

A purely physical slash, though it absorbed some of the energy from the chakra explosions during its formation, was still essentially a physical attack.

"The more powerful the technique, the more it relies on the basics, simplifying the complex—a wisdom you may not understand."

As the dust settled, Kyomu walked forward, seeing Yugito with her arms twisted in front of her, her head askew, lying in the crater.

Her chest heaved; she was still breathing.

He jumped down, blade ready.

Kyomu leaped into the pit, Yoei gleaming coldly, the most primitive blade thrust aimed straight at Yugito's head.

Jinchūriki are tough, true, but a brain skewered through and through—how could you live?

Just as the blade was about to strike, Yugito's eyes snapped open, she instantly completed her full tailed beast transformation, and from her mouth came a mini Tailed Beast Bomb.

This feisty lady, full of tricks, had perfectly mimicked the calm and cunning of a feline predator.

But the prey was you!

Kyomu didn't flinch or dodge. Instead, he vanished on the spot, using his Space-Time Kekkei Genkai to leave only Yoei and his right hand in place, the blade continuing its relentless descent.

The blade of Yoei sliced through the mini Tailed Beast Bomb, and Yugito quickly turned her head, the blade grazing her cheek and leaving a deep cut that exposed bone.

Whoosh.

Following that, Yugito transformed into a streak of light, bursting out of the pit and darting towards a nearby location.

Come back here!

Quick as a flash, Kyomu teleported to intercept Yugito's path, grabbing her by the ankle.

With a fierce tug and a powerful slam, reminiscent of Hulk dealing with Loki, he thrashed her about.

Boom, boom, boom, the sounds echoed continuously.

Yugito coughed up blood, despair flashing in her eyes.

(End of Chapter)

(Kyomu is the embodiment of gender equality!)