"Rinnegan, huh!?"
Naruto toyed with the violet eye in his hand. The corner of his mouth curled; he flipped it, catching it in his palm.
"Trafalgar Law!"
At his call, Law hurried over, eyeing the Rinnegan in Naruto's hand with confusion.
"Lord Naruto, this is…?"
Naruto flicked the eye up and smiled. "Swap this eye with my right one. You can handle that, yeah?"
Law answered with total confidence.
For ordinary surgeons, a transplant meant blood loss, rejection, donor matching…
But with the Ope Ope no Mi (Operation Fruit), organ swaps were trivial.
"ROOM!"
A blue, oval field expanded.
Two quick slices—two eyes changed places.
"This feeling… is insane!"
Naruto gazed around with the Rinnegan in his right socket, unable to hide his amazement.
Through this eye, it was as if the world had been put in slow motion.
His dynamic vision was absurdly sharp.
And that was only the baseline. For the rest—
His gaze cut toward a distant boulder. He leveled his palm.
"Banshō Ten'in (Universal Pull)!"
Invisible gravity surged from his hand.
The massive boulder shuddered and quaked; the earth around it trembled as well—
—until the multi-ton rock tore free of the ground and rose into the air.
"Hahahahaha…!" Naruto whooped, driving a fist through it; the stone exploded into clattering shards.
"Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push)!"
Repulsive force burst outward from his body. The fragments screamed away like bullets, ripping through the terrain.
Shu-shu-shu—! Air shrieked.
"Banshō Ten'in!"
"Shinra Tensei!"
"Banshō Ten'in!"
"Shinra Tensei!"
…
Naruto was having the time of his life.
The surroundings… not so much. Ridges bulged here, craters yawned there—complete devastation.
Law swallowed hard. "That's… terrifying."
He'd just watched Naruto's gravity tear the earth apart and hoist a slab hundreds of meters wide into the sky.
In the One Piece world, people would swear he'd eaten the Float-Float Fruit.
"As expected—Rinnegan in my hands hits harder than in Nagato's…" Naruto's smile crooked.
Neither of them was the eye's true owner, so neither could access its full suite.
But he had way more chakra. With that alone, his output dwarfed Nagato's many times over.
A golden blur—and he was in front of Obito again.
"Obito. Hand me the other Rinnegan."
Seeing that flash, Obito grit his teeth. His hand brushed the eye in his right socket—then he flung out an arm.
"Kuchiyose: Gedō Mazō (Summoning: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path)!"
The land roared. The ground trembled and split with gaping cracks, as if some colossus were forcing its way up from the deep.
With a thunderous crash, a titanic, withered hand—like a giant's right hand bound in chains—burst from the earth and pressed down, webbing the plain with fractures.
Another hand heaved. A nearly hundred-meter-tall Gedō Mazō wrenched itself free, face raised to the sky, jaws yawning in a bellow that rattled bones—like a demon clawed up from the abyss.
Obito exhaled in reflexive relief at the sight.
He dropped his gaze to his shoulder—and, through the Rinnegan, saw it: a Hiraishin (Flying Thunder God) mark imprinted there at some unknown moment.
"Damn it. White Zetsu—patch me up."
He bit down, drew a short blade, and hacked off his own shoulder.
"Ghh—AAAH!"
White Zetsu matter frothed at the wound, knitting a smooth, pale arm in seconds.
Done, Obito kicked off, body vaulting away at speed.
Naruto had been admiring the Gedō statue; seeing this, he moved to give chase—
—when the statue's palm crashed down.
"BOOM!!!"
The earth collapsed into a giant five-fingered print.
Naruto's form flared to fire and re-coalesced nearby. He peered into the gouged pit and arched a brow.
"Whoo… that's some muscle."
"Captain, lemme at it!!!"
A giant from the crew, thrilled by the towering monster, charged and hurled a fist into its face.
Naruto shook his head. "If I were you, I wouldn't."
The giant didn't hear. His heavy punch landed squarely—
—yet the statue didn't even scuff.
Enraged, the Gedō statue drew back its own fist and smashed down.
BOOM!
The giant was swatted like a fly, crater-skipping across the plain until he slammed into the ground, setting the earth to trembling.
"Cough—cough… how is its strength that high!?"
Wheezing, he stared, stunned.
The thing was only about twenty meters taller than he was—yet its power felt dozens of times greater.
He had a hunch: even Little Oars Jr. might not outmuscle this brute.
Naruto's lips quirked; he tightened his fist. "From where I'm standing, this guy's raw power is on par with that old monster Whitebeard—and its body is ridiculously tough."
It was the outer shell of the Ten-Tails, after all—insane offense and defense.
Damn near indestructible.
"So what do we do!?" the giant yelped.
"Kongō Fūsa (Adamantine Sealing Chains) would lock it down just fine, but…"
Naruto pulled a deep breath, then sprinted straight at the statue, laughing.
"Beating it head-on isn't impossible either!"
As he spoke, he wove together a flurry of brutal taijutsu, his fist turning pitch-black with Busōshoku Haki (Armament Haki)—and drove it down.
"BOOOOM!!"
Like a mountain hit by a meteor, the hulking Gedō statue staggered back two thunderous steps—
—and crashed to the earth.
(End of Chapter)
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