"A power of the Uchiha stronger than me?"
Garp heard Shisui's boastful declaration and couldn't help but show an expression caught between laughter and exasperation.
"As expected… no matter how the times change, you Uchiha never do."
He let out a helpless sigh, then raised his right hand and extended a single finger.
As that finger pointed forward, the colossal Susanoo's attack, descending like a meteor and carrying overwhelming heat and force, crashed against the earth of the shinobi world.
Yet all of that roaring flame was stopped cold by that one finger, unable to push even half an inch beyond it.
"Even an S-rank Fire Release amounts to nothing."
"Is this the power of the legendary hero? He suppressed such a massive fire technique with just a single finger…"
"The strength of the greatest warrior of the shinobi world… it's simply beyond what any shinobi of this era can even imagine."
Even the Konoha shinobi who had never witnessed Garp in action were dumbstruck.
And among them, even Orochimaru, who had once seen him uproot mountains single-handedly in the Land of Earth, felt his tongue extend involuntarily in shock at the sight of a hero blocking that blazing torrent with just one finger.
"Impossible!"
Shisui cried out, eyes wide.
"Uchiha brat, take this back!"
Garp spoke as he flicked his finger with casual ease.
Boom!
With a thunderous detonation, the Great Fireball that had descended like a falling star suddenly reversed direction like a waterfall flowing upward.
Under countless stunned gazes, it followed its original path back, and slammed directly into Susanoo.
Even with Susanoo's protection, Shisui was sent staggering and tumbling, the impact knocking both him and his avatar back as he landed heavily on the ground.
"Damn it…"
Shisui's expression twisted with rage, his voice edged with hysteria.
"Susanoo: Tsukumo!"
With a furious roar, two trails of bloody tears slid down his cheeks. The green Susanoo that had fallen backward suddenly spread open its chest. A barrage of emerald chakra arrows burst forth like a torrential storm of pear blossoms, streaking through the sky and converging on Garp in an instant.
"Is this all you've got? You really are just a child."
What made Shisui's eyes nearly split apart was the same scene repeating itself, facing the attack, Garp didn't even use two fingers.
He merely extended one, pointing from a distance at the descending rain of green chakra arrows.
Countless arrows struck an invisible barrier, unable to even come within a meter of him. They halted midair, and then instantly shattered into dust.
"I'm not just a child.."
The Susanoo that had been knocked down moments earlier shot upright.
Shisui clenched his right hand, and a spiraling green chakra sword formed, radiating terrifying cutting power as it slashed down from above.
Garp didn't even lift his eyelids. He simply flicked his finger.
A sharp, nerve-piercing sonic crack split the air.
From the sword tip downward, the spiraling chakra blade shattered layer by layer until the entire weapon disintegrated into fine chakra fragments.
Not only that, when the Shigan's overwhelming force finished breaking the sword, it continued on, obliterating half of Susanoo's second form body in the process.
Shisui barely had time to bare his teeth in pain before a finger was already pressed against his forehead.
All the rage, the killing intent, even the remaining half of his Susanoo, under the pressure of that looming death, all vanished like smoke.
"I… lost?
Impossible… Susanoo is the Uchiha's divine power. How could it collapse like building blocks, crushed by nothing but the finger of iron fists?
It must be genjutsu!"
Feeling the firm pressure of the finger on his forehead, Shisui's pupils shrank. His composure and intelligence were forced back to the surface.
Recalling everything from just moments ago, an intense chill of fear and dread flooded his chest.
"So I now have the right to pass judgment on you, on the Uchiha?"
Garp looked down at Shisui, a faintly amused expression on his face.
"…"
Shisui snapped out of his daze. He opened his mouth to speak, but that finger on his forehead kept him silent. Shamed and powerless, he could only lower his head.
Thinking back to his earlier display… Though unwilling to accept it, he could only swallow Garp's earlier evaluation, "not bad", in silence.
"But thanks to your little tantrum just now, you helped me realize something, I truly misjudged earlier.
Not everyone who awakens the Mangekyo Sharingan is 'not bad.'"
Garp's tone was light, almost reflective.
"I take back what I said before. In this generation of Uchiha, the only one who's 'not bad' is that brat Fugaku.
As for you, you can't even force me to use a second finger. Among all the Mangekyo users I've met… you're the worst."
Garp's finger remained on Shisui's forehead as he looked him over, then shook his head.
"You…"
Shisui's face flushed red with humiliation and fury.
But before that rage could erupt like molten lava, the finger pressed to his forehead lifted, only to descend again slowly under his fearful, uneasy gaze.
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