Chapter 75: One-Sided Fight

"Shit! It hurts, you bastard... I can't feel my lower body!"

As the diffused white light rubbed against him, Hidan's lower body turned into atoms and disappeared.

If he wasn't immortal, he might be dead by now.

With his lower body gone, Hidan also lost the strength he had as part of the Akatsuki. He could only lie on the ground and shout.

"Kei, are you Onoki? No...

Kakuzu didn't have time to pay attention to Hidan anymore. He looked up at the sky where the white light beam came down, but saw nothing.

A bead of cold sweat involuntarily formed on his forehead, and he said in a deep voice, ", Second Tsuchikage, aren't you already dead?"

"oh?"

As if hearing Kakuzu's voice, Kei, who had entered an invisible state after using the dust escape, finally released the dust-free maze, appearing in thin air and looking down at Kakuzu below.

He said with interest, "In this era, there are still people who know the identity of my body. It seems that you not only possess powerful Chakra, but also have good experience."

"It really is the 'unmanned' dust escape and dust-free maze. Since you are not the Second Tsuchikage, then who are you?" Kakuzu infused Chakra into the ring hidden in his sleeve, and asked in a deep voice, seeming somewhat hesitant.

"Who am I? How should I put it... You can call me by the original name of this body, or you can call me... an artist who plays with the soul!"

Kei seemed to have found an interesting prey. He wasn't in a hurry to attack Kakuzu, but instead floated in the air, pointing at Kakuzu with a playful smile. "As a reward for you beautifully dodging my attack and recognizing my body, I've decided to eat only your soul and leave your whole body as one of my collections."

"You bastard, stop looking down on people!"

Kakuzu was instantly enraged.

As the oldest Kage-level ninja, he once tried to assassinate the First Hokage Senju Hashirama. He was one of the most temperamental old monsters in this era. How could he tolerate Kei, who didn't take him seriously and acted as if he could kill him at any time?

Kakuzu, who had notified the rescuers, immediately put aside his fear of Kei. He also tore off his Akatsuki uniform and threw it on the ground, revealing a body full of seams and four masks behind it.

Two of the masks turned into monsters made up of superstar black lines. They broke away from Kakuzu's back and floated on his left and right sides.

"Oh..."

Seeing Kakuzu's appearance, Kei said something that made Kakuzu's heart tremble again: " it turns out that you were the Kakuzu who stole Takigakure's forbidden jutsu Earth Grudge Fear and kill the village elders to obtain their hearts. I didn't expect you to be alive."

Then...

Hearing these words, and the detailed information.

Kakuzu's Sharingans contracted for a moment, and he was sure that Kei's identity was the same as his own—an old monster who had lived decades ago, even longer than himself.

In addition, Kei mentioned possessing this body and being an artist who plays with the soul. Could it be that his longevity method involves seizing other people's bodies or corpses?

Thinking of this, Kakuzu immediately used his strongest ultimate move towards Kei:

"Earth Grudge Fear: Final Shot!"

With a series of hand seals, Kakuzu and the earth grievance masked monsters on his left and right spit out Nature Transformation of the three attributes of wind, thunder, and fire. Then the three merged to form a chakra beam similar to Dust Release, heading towards Kei in the sky.

"It's a good move, let's see how you fare against this!"

Kei's eyes lit up, and he immediately clasped his hands together. A transparent white square crystal condensed between his palms and then turned into a cylindrical beam of light, heading towards the incoming chakra beam of light, facing it head-on.

BOOM!

When the two collided, there was no confrontational force, only a deafening explosion.

The blue light and the white light merged, creating an energy firework that seemed to destroy everything in its path.

The dazzling light seemed to drown the whole world.

After the light dissipated, Kakuzu below had disappeared.

He hadn't been killed; he had abandoned his companions and chosen to escape.

He couldn't fight Kei. If he didn't escape, he would surely die.

With just one move, Kakuzu recognized the insurmountable gap between himself and Kei, this 'old monster.'

He didn't know Kei's true name or origin, but the mysterious old monster had likely lived longer than him and possessed terrifying strength.

Flying, invisibility, and Dust Release—Kei's abilities surpassed even Kakuzu's strongest ultimate move.

This attribute completely restrained him, and if he didn't escape, he would be doomed.

Therefore, Kakuzu decisively abandoned Hidan.

Kei was also astonished by Kakuzu's decisiveness.

However, he didn't immediately chase after Kakuzu. Instead, he first floated in front of Hidan, who was still screaming, and stepped on Hidan's mouth, looking displeased.

"It's so noisy, I can't bear this pain. Is your own immortal body not enough?"

After speaking, Kei raised the palm wrapped in Chakra and patted Hidan's body.

Then a tadpole-shaped spell quickly spread across Hidan's body, taking control of his tumbling body and silencing him, leaving a black lotus pattern on his body.

Having finished this, Kei took off the "three" ring from Hidan's hand, then floated up again and flew towards the direction where Kakuzu was escaping.

Just after Kei left, a figure wrapped in a cloak appeared beside Hidan without warning, grabbed Hidan's arm, and disappeared without a trace.

The figure was not Sato's real body but Sato's Wood Clone, who had come to take Hidan away and let the body devour him back.

"...Don't struggle, your companions have already been eaten by me. You might as well submit and be eaten by me obediently."

Kei quickly caught up with Kakuzu.

Kakuzu ignored Kei's presence and continued to run towards the Land of Rain at top speed. He controlled the two masked monsters on his body and once again used Earth Grudge Fear: Final Shot against Kei.

"It's useless, elemental ninjutsu is just like thin paper in front of Kei."

Kei effortlessly released another white light beam, smashing the ninjutsu that came from Kakuzu.

Kei's voice suddenly changed from playful to indifferent. "It seems that you're hoping for rescue."

"In that case, I can't continue playing with you."

"I no longer desire your body, but I'll take your soul without hesitation."

Finishing his words

, Kei clasped his hands again, condensing the transparent white square crystal, and prepared to bombard Kakuzu below.

...

At that moment, bursts of piercing sounds filled the air.

Kakuzu, who was running away below, finally breathed a sigh of relief and stopped.

He saw the paper-like kunai raining down from the higher sky, like a torrential rain.

"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"

The sudden rain of paper successfully interrupted Kei's attack. He could only push out the square crystal temporarily, and then the square's barrier expanded in the air, forming a huge wall, blocking all the paper rain from the explosion.

The paper rain that had just been blocked by the barrier immediately turned into countless atoms and disappeared.

Looking in the direction of the paper rain, under the clear blue sky, Kei seemed to see an angel with a pair of white wings.