Seeing the scene unfold like magic before his eyes, Kabuto could barely believe what he was seeing. "My Sage Art... my Inorganic Reincarnation... just vanished into thin air..."
"Sage Arts? How ridiculous... With my current level of power, not even the Sage of Six Paths himself is a match for me..."
A flash of light gleamed in Kaoru's scarlet eyes. In an instant, he vanished from where he stood in the void and reappeared directly in front of Kabuto.
Having fully mastered the power of the Six Paths, Kaoru no longer needed the Flying Raijin Technique to traverse space effortlessly.
"Y-You... you..."
Witnessing Kaoru's movement—completely without warning or technique—Kabuto was rendered utterly speechless.
"Kabuto Yakushi... from the moment you chose to stand against me alongside Madara Uchiha and the others..."
"...your death here was already sealed."
"Heh heh... People like you... who have been valued since childhood, recognized as geniuses, blessed with everything, and living life without a single worry... could never possibly understand me..." Kabuto replied darkly.
Feeling the calm yet overwhelming killing intent radiating from Kaoru, Kabuto's entire body trembled. Yet, a glimmer of struggle remained in his eyes; he refused to give up.
"All this time... I have simply been searching for my true self. I want to live life in my own way. I am not the one who is wrong... it is the way this world has treated me that is wrong!!!"
Those words... honestly, they are so incredibly delusional and dramatic...
Has he really lost himself to this extent...?
There are far too many people with psychological issues like you in this shinobi world...
Kaoru shook his head silently in his heart. It seems a world as twisted as this truly does need me to step in and change things.
"I am a Sage! A Sage fears no mortal being... not even you, Kaoru Uchiha!!!"
Kabuto roared furiously and slammed his hands together to form hand seals!
"Jirōbō! Earth Release: Earth Flip Technique!!!"
Instantly, one of his divided duplicates transformed into the form of Jirōbō. Clasping his hands together, Jirōbō caused the earth in front of them to rise and split apart, creating a deep fissure that extended rapidly toward Kaoru's feet.
Kaoru merely swung the Nunoboko staff in his hand with an expressionless face. Before the crack Kabuto created could even begin to expand, it was instantly annihilated into nothingness.
"Damn it..." Kabuto cursed under his breath, immediately shifting into a new set of seals!
"Kidōmaru! Spider Web Expulsion!!!"
A massive spiderweb surged toward Kaoru. This web was extremely durable and tough, impervious to ordinary blades. However, in Kaoru's eyes, it wasn't even worth calling a trick.
With a simple wave of his hand, the web dissolved and vanished instantly.
"How can this be happening..." Seeing his ninjutsu fail one after another, a look of utter bewilderment spread across Kabuto's face.
"Enough, Kabuto... Go ahead and unleash every technique you have mastered as a Sage. After I have shattered every single one of your foolish tricks... I will let you experience what true despair really feels like..."
Kaoru looked calmly at the terrified man on the ground, his voice dripping with intense killing intent!
"Impossible... I am a Sage! I fear no one in this world!!!"
Kabuto roared again, changing his seals once more!
"Tayuya! Demonic Flute: Chain of Phantom Sound!!!"
"Kimimaro: Dance of the Early Ferns!!!"
In the next second, the haunting melody of a flute rang out—capable of luring anyone who heard it into a genjutsu.
Simultaneously, countless sharp bone spikes erupted continuously from the ground, surging toward Kaoru in a dense cluster.
Yet even this changed nothing. With a mere wave of Kaoru's hand, these techniques—skills Kabuto was so proud of, abilities he had gained only through painstakingly transplanting the cells of various powerful shinobi into his own body—sank into oblivion like small stones thrown into an abyss, causing not even a ripple.
"Now... you should finally understand what despair is..." Kaoru's cold gaze and the immense pressure radiating from his scarlet eyes were already making Kabuto shake uncontrollably!
"I refuse to accept this!!!"
"White-Scaled Serpent!!!"
As he shouted, countless small white snakes suddenly burst from Kabuto's abdomen. From the mass of bodies, a gigantic serpent with a vaguely human face emerged, surging forth rapidly. It opened its hideous maw and lunged to bite Kaoru.
"No one will ever stop me!!!"
"Heh... futile resistance..."
Kaoru sneered disdainfully. Holding the Sage Staff in one hand, he slowly raised his other hand, aiming it directly at Kabuto.
Instantly, the nine jet-black Truth-Seeking Orbs floating behind him shot forward and gathered together in front of his chest.
Under the stunned gaze of everyone present, the terrifying White-Scaled Serpent that had erupted from Kabuto's body was completely obliterated without making a single sound, swallowed whole by the sphere of dark energy Kaoru had formed.
After annihilating the serpent, the sphere of Truth-Seeking Orbs hovering before Kaoru did not stop; instead, it continued to expand endlessly, growing larger and larger.
"This is... what is this...?"
Seeing the creature he had unleashed vanish instantly, Kabuto's eyes widened to their limit.
Among the mountains of data Orochimaru had collected over the years, he remembered reading records describing exactly this kind of power.
"It is said to be the ultimate form... combining all nature transformations of chakra..."
"It is useless... No matter where you try to run, you cannot escape total annihilation..."
Kaoru's voice rang out, devoid of the slightest emotion. As Kabuto's slitted pupils dilated in horror, the pitch-black sphere expanded infinitely, rapidly covering and enveloping the entire dark cavern.
In the very next moment.
Countless blinding rays of light flooded in, causing Wan'er, Hinata, and the others to shield their eyes.
When they finally managed to open them again, they were stunned to find that the entire pitch-black cavern had completely disappeared.
Along with the ground it stood upon, it had been erased, leaving a perfectly circular void. Beyond it lay the vast, lush green of the mountain forest outside.
"And with that... it is all over..."
Having used the Truth-Seeking Orbs to reduce Kabuto Yakushi and the entire cave to nothingness, Kaoru floated gently down to land before Wan'er.
His scarlet eyes looked deeply into hers, and the smile on his lips grew wider.
"Wan'er... come with me..."
"Let us go change the world... and in doing so, make your dreams come true as well..."
"Change the world? Make my dreams come true?"
Wan'er had yet to fully process his words. At that moment, the crimson light within the Rinne Sharingan on Kaoru's forehead flared brilliantly.
An immense, powerful gravitational force surged forth, and Wan'er, Hinata, and Kurotsuchi all suddenly felt their bodies become light as feathers.
Then, to the utter shock of the three young women, they began to float uncontrollably higher and higher into the sky, rising together with Kaoru toward the distant horizon and the heavens beyond.
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