Chapter 75: Opening Eyes
Ice finally arrived near the large water prison created by Kiyoshi. Seeing Ice arrive, Kiyoshi proactively cancelled the technique, dispelling the Chakra maintaining the Great Exploding Water Wave, and then also exited the fusion state. Samehada slowly emerged from his arm, separating from his body.
Actually, even if Ice hadn't come, Kiyoshi felt that he could have completely dealt with the Six-Tails in a little more time. After all, this was just a Six-Tails that had completely transformed due to the Jinchuriki going berserk, not a wild Six-Tails.
The Six-Tails suddenly felt the surrounding pressure ease, and the watery environment that had been restricting it disappeared. Without thinking too much, it opened its mouth to condense a Tailed Beast Ball, wanting to blast Kiyoshi, the ninja it hated so much, into pieces!
Suddenly, Ice's figure was reflected in the Six-Tails' eyes. Memories of being "educated" by Ice in various ways many times surged into its mind, and the Six-Tails' action of condensing Yin and Yang Chakra paused for a moment. And it was this pause that caused the Six-Tails to lose its freedom once again. Ice's ninjutsu was activated.
"Ice Release: Ice Age!"
Starting directly with the A-rank Ice Release, Ice, who had already fought the Three-Tails, didn't want to get entangled with the Six-Tails any longer. He decisively made his move, freezing the Six-Tails, and the Tailed Beast Ball that was still in the process of being condensed was interrupted.
During the battle with Kiyoshi, nearly half of the Six-Tails' Chakra had been absorbed. In its current state, it couldn't break free from Ice's ninjutsu in a short time at all. The strong acid solution covering its body was continuously corroding the ice that was freezing it, but with Ice maintaining the technique, the speed of corrosion couldn't keep up with the speed of the ice's regeneration.
After a while, Elder Haruame, who had used medical ninjutsu to heal the other six members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, also rushed over.
Haruame took out a portable storage scroll and retrieved another sealing pot from it.
Just like with the Three-Tails, Ice and Haruame performed a series of actions and finally sealed the Six-Tails back into the Jinchuriki's body. Then, taking advantage of the fact that the Jinchuriki hadn't yet returned to the Pure Land, they extracted the Six-Tails from its body again and sealed it into the sealing pot.
Unfortunately, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki had completely lost self-consciousness and didn't even have the chance to leave a last will. After the Six-Tails was extracted from its body, it quickly went to meet the Sage of Six Paths.
At this time, Kiyoshi, who had already broken the fusion state with Samehada for a while, noticed something was wrong. Why had his Chakra reserves suddenly increased so much? They were now almost twice what they were before, and were still rapidly increasing.
Kiyoshi's mind couldn't help but race. Knowing many secrets, he had some guesses about this.
Suddenly, his eyes felt a burst of heat, a strange light flashed through them, and his vision suddenly blurred for a moment. Kiyoshi's pupils gradually began to change. In this instant, Kiyoshi felt that he had established a connection with the Great Black Heaven space left behind by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
Kiyoshi hurriedly lowered his head. He had already realized something. This matter was of great importance. Although he was wearing a mask, he subconsciously didn't want others to see this scene.
At this time, the Third Mizukage Ice and Elder Haruame were still discussing the subsequent matters related to the tailed beasts. Their attention was not on Kiyoshi, so they didn't notice his abnormality.
No one, including Kiyoshi himself, saw his eyeballs continuously switching between their original light green and the newly appeared light blue, nor did they see the conjunctiva constantly changing between its original white and black before finally returning to calm and its normal state.
The slightly uncomfortable burning sensation receded, and a cool feeling came from his eyes, making Kiyoshi feel extremely comfortable. He felt as if his vision had become much clearer.
Along with the changes in his eyes, the rate of increase in Kiyoshi's Chakra reserves sharply increased again by several levels. Like a wild horse that had broken free, it began to rise frantically. In a few breaths, it doubled again on top of already being nearly doubled, and it was still increasing at an extremely fast speed.
The suddenly increased amount of Chakra almost made Kiyoshi lose control. A very slight trace of Chakra溢出 from his body.
The dissipated Chakra fluctuations attracted the attention of the Third Mizukage Ice, who was discussing matters with Elder Haruame nearby.
"What's wrong, little Kiyoshi?" Ice asked, turning his gaze to look at Kiyoshi.
Kiyoshi didn't raise his head, avoiding eye contact with Ice. Although Ice usually treated him quite well, and he didn't plan to hide these things from Ice later, he himself hadn't figured out the specific situation yet, so of course he didn't plan to let Ice know now.
Kiyoshi's mind raced, trying to figure out how to explain this. At this moment, Haruame spoke, providing Kiyoshi with a timely way out.
"After such a great battle, especially enduring the Six-Tails' attacks and even managing to suppress it under his outburst, even with Samehada's help, he must have suffered some internal injuries, not to mention the mental exhaustion," Haruame's guess gave Kiyoshi a very reasonable excuse.
Kiyoshi went along with it, pretending to be weak after a fierce battle. He was already an experienced actor from his first words.
"Yes, Third Mizukage-sama, I am indeed a bit tired. I felt a slight daze just now."
Ice nodded and didn't carefully sense him. Based on Kiyoshi's good performance over the years, he didn't think much of it and believed Kiyoshi's explanation.
"We'll prepare to return now. Go back and have a good rest! You Seven Ninja Swordsmen are the heroes of the village this time!"
"Mizukage-sama and I will take the Six-Tails back to the village first. You should also return as soon as possible. Their injuries still need further treatment," Haruame said, looking at the three heavily injured members in the distance.
Ice nodded in agreement, didn't say anything more, turned around, and left with Haruame, carrying the sealing pot containing the Six-Tails.
After Ice and Haruame left, Kiyoshi hurriedly came to a puddle left over from the battle and looked down.
"Not the Byakugan..." Kiyoshi felt slightly disappointed. His eyes were still the same as before, without any changes. It seemed he hadn't awakened the Ōtsutsuki clan's signature Byakugan, but like Isshiki, he had experienced a mutation. He just didn't know if he had inherited Isshiki's special Black Eye and dōjutsu.
"Forget it, I'll think about it when I get back!" Kiyoshi then thought, "It's good it's not the Byakugan, otherwise such a change couldn't be hidden from anyone."
After all, the Byakugan's iconic pure white pupils were too classic. Any ninja with a little common sense could recognize them at a glance.
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Let's talk about battle power. I did suppress the protagonist's battle power a bit in the early stages. On the one hand, I was afraid that if the battle power increased too quickly, I wouldn't be able to control it, and it would directly become an invincible story, making it impossible to continue writing later. Because the outline wasn't designed according to the invincible story model. On the other hand, the Ōtsutsuki aren't actually as powerful as imagined, not to the point of a dimensional reduction attack. Before the Six Paths level, intelligence is still quite important in battles between ninjas. Even after reaching the Six Paths level, it's actually the same. For example, the Five Kage ganging up on Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki, and Kokūshin Koji's Sage Art: Fire Release tricking and killing Jigen, who could use "Sukuna Hikona," shows that even the conventional Six Paths level isn't invincible.
Of course, I think the Boruto setting should take most of the blame for this, with Ōtsutsuki elbow strikes, Uchiha hip throws, and Ibiki's military martial arts. It's all quite funny.
However, I think it should be fine later. After the dōjutsu awakens, the strength will enter a rapid growth period and will soon have the strength to rival the Kage of various villages.
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