Byakuren watched as Garp took off his suit jacket with one hand, then unfastened the cufflinks on his white shirt. His pupils shrank sharply.
As someone who lived in the same era as Garp and was a Kage–level powerhouse himself, how could he not know some of Garp's habits?
A hero wearing a suit and a hero taking off his suit were two completely different things.
"Hold this for me…."
Garp casually rolled his sleeves up to his forearms, then tossed the suit jacket he'd dropped toward Tsunade and the others.
"Damn, I'm a step too slow…"
Kushina's eyes lit up when she saw the suit flying toward them.
She reached out, only to see Tsunade snatch it mid-air with lightning reflexes, beating her to it.
"This is mine."
Tsunade shot Kushina an almost smug little glance.
"Lady Tsunade got it first? If I'd known, I would've gone partial Tailed Beast Mode just to grab it."
Kushina glared at Tsunade, full of indignation, but inside she regretted deeply.
Standing nearby, Orochimaru, Shikaku, Duy, and the others sensed the looming love-rival battlefield and all subtly took a few steps back, putting some distance between themselves and the two women.
"My warm-up is over. Byakuren, are you ready to head to the Pure Land?"
Garp ignored the two women on the verge of turning the battlefield into a romantic bloodbath.
His attention was fixed entirely on the half tailed beast transformed Byakuren.
"That's a line I should be saying to you!"
The sight of Garp in his white shirt, sleeves rolled to the forearms, suddenly dragged an old, humiliating memory to the surface of Byakuren's mind.
The Iron Fist who had bestowed on him a lifetime's worth of shame back then looked almost exactly like this today.
Aside from a few more strands of gray hair, everything, Garp's appearance, clothing, even the eyes that looked down on the shinobi world as though Byakuren wasn't worth noticing, was exactly the same as back then.
"I will never lose to you again!"
The memory of his crushing defeat ignited roaring fury and deep humiliation inside him.
Byakuren let out a furious howl as a tidal wave of chakra exploded outward, sweeping a violent shockwave in every direction.
"Storm Release: Tailed Beast Bomb!"
"Ice Release: Tailed Beast Bomb!"
With an earth-shaking roar that blew away the thick mist and dark clouds overhead, Byakuren snapped his jaws open.
Red and blue chakra particles surged wildly, condensing in an instant into two Tailed Beast Bombs, each as large as a three-story building.
But he didn't stop there.
The very moment the two bombs fully formed, he injected Storm Release chakra into one, and Ice Release chakra into the other.
Frigid cold and raging storms erupted simultaneously. The two bombs shone with brilliant cyan and deep blue light.
The space around Byakuren distorted into two extremes.
On his left, violent storms raged, howling wind blades screeched through the air in chaotic currents.
On his right, bitter cold surged skyward, everything in sight turned into desolate, deathly ice.
Both phenomena spread across hundreds of meters of the battlefield.
And this was only the chakra leaking from the two Kekkei Genkai enhanced Tailed Beast Bombs.
"Do you see? This is the current me, I'm reborn"
With a ferocious roar, Byakuren spread his arms. Several blood-red chakra arms shot out and shoved the two floating bombs forward.
The moment a cold, blade-sharp shockwave rippled out, the two bombs, one cyan, one blue, shot forward like meteors tearing through the sky, carrying chakra that could freeze and shred everything in their path.
They blazed straight toward Garp.
But under countless tense, anxious, excited, and curious gazes, Garp didn't use ninjutsu, didn't use genjutsu, didn't even release chakra.
Only when the bombs were about to swallow him whole, when Byakuren's face began to twist with triumphant delight, did he finally move.
There was no earth-shattering clash between ultimate taijutsu and Kekkei Genkai enhanced Tailed Beast Bombs.
No cataclysmic explosion like everyone imagined Orochimaru, Tsunade, or Fugaku might have expected.
There were only two massive palms, calm and unhurried, reaching out, and casually grabbing them.
The two Tailed Beast Bombs, strong enough to warp matter and reshape miles of terrain, were caught by Garp's bare hands as easily as children's toy balls.
Storm Release and Ice Release chakra storms erupted wildly, roaring again and again.
But the pair of hands before them were like ancient pillars that had witnessed the rise and fall of the shinobi world, solid, immovable, unbreakable.
No matter how the bombs released monstrous, chaotic chakra, they couldn't shake those hands even slightly.
Gradually, whether from despair or sheer exhaustion, the two Kekkei Genkai bombs finally went still, completely locked in place under Garp's fingers. Not a hint of chakra storm remained.
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