Naruto: Sovereign of Genjutsu Chapter 196 196: Cramming at the Last Minute

Tonbo Tobitake wore a faint smile, making no move to interrupt the fusion between Kisa and Sahada. However, his sensory perception remained locked onto the man, never wavering for a second.

After the fusion, a chemical reaction occurred between Kisa and Sahada; their chakra didn't just add up, it multiplied in a 1 1 = 3 fashion. It was far more complex than simple addition.

Perfect. This move of mine was only recently perfected, and the range for data collection isn't quite far enough yet!

The "Heartsteel" within him was pulsing, and his mind was racing. The nerves that had integrated into Kisa's body were stealthily mapping out his biological data. At such close range, Tonbo could manipulate these nerves as easily as his own limbs.

He had finally achieved remote data collection. The day when he could coat a shuriken in nerves and infect an enemy just by throwing it was not far off.

Kisa's data was massive, especially after rging with Sahada. The elents within his body—deoxyribonucleic acid, nucleotides, adenine, thymine, guanine, sugar groups, and phosphate groups—were undergoing fission-like transformations. This was likely the reason his chakra continued to surge after the fusion. Kisa must have put imnse effort into developing this particular jutsu.

Uchiha Itachi frowned as he watched Tonbo stand there unmoving, seemingly even enjoying the sight of Kisa's transformation. In Itachi's eyes, this was the only person in Konoha he found truly troubleso. With Tonbo's ability, he shouldn't be giving an enemy an opening like this.

Suddenly, Itachi recalled the slight curl of Tonbo's lips when his blade grazed Kisa's chest, and his one hand that had remained hidden. He had previously assud the "Genjutsu Seed" was planted then, but now he began to doubt. He scrutinized Kisa's body with his Sharingan but found no abnormal chakra fluctuations. It seed everything was just his own suspicion.

"Since I created this form, no one has forced to use it. You are the first," Kisa said. After completing the technique, his tail lashed and the fins on his head turned as he shifted his gaze. He flashed a cruel smile at Tonbo.

"Oh? Then I'm truly honored," Tonbo replied, twirling his tachi with a graceful flourish and a smile.

"Water Style: Great Explosive Water Colliding Wave!"

Rumble!

A colossal wall of water reached for the sky. The sheer scale of the movent drew the attention of figures far off at the Bounty Station. A literal ocean had appeared on land. The decades-old trees of the shinobi world, standing dozens of ters tall, looked like re blades of grass before this deluge.

"Is that... a jutsu?"

The ninjas erging from the Bounty Station were stunned. What kind of battle required such a terrifying technique?

"That's Water Style! Who on earth is fighting?"

"Who cares who's fighting? Run! If that water reaches us, we're dead!"

The smart ninjas vanished in the opposite direction. Of course, there were the reckless ones who thought they had the secret techniques to survive and drew closer, wanting to see the combatants.

You're really giving it your all, aren't you? Did I kill your father or sothing? Tonbo grumbled internally.

He suddenly realized he didn't have a great counter for an AOE attack of this magnitude. Surrounded by a literal sea and seeing the shark-mode Kisa closing in, he used his Eye of the Creator to manifest a whale to et the charge. Because his "Contact Evolution" nerves were still inside Kisa, he realized that any visual or sensory-based Genjutsu was being instantly absorbed by Kisa's body. He couldn't induce an illusion at all.

Damn, I underestimated these locals. I've spent so much ti researching and learning countless techniques that I got arrogant. I thought knowing the 'plot' ant I could just walk through them.

Tonbo's mind was a ss of curses. Having intelligence was one thing; the problem was his current setup focused on "Phantom Taijutsu," which wasn't great for handling a localized ocean. And the range of this jutsu was just too big. Earth Style probably won't stop this! Calculation error!

"Hmph. Without your illusions, are you already at your wit's end?" Kisa smiled as he saw Tonbo standing there without a counter. But he wasn't careless. The Leader had ntioned that the man possessed a powerful Sealing Jutsu—from the description, it was not sothing to be taken head-on.

Kisa wove signs. "Water Style: A Thousand Hungry Sharks!"

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Countless sharks manifested in the water, swarming toward Tonbo like living arrows.

Dammit, he's so cautious. Tonbo held his breath and wove his own signs.

"Hundred Puppets Soul-Binding Jutsu!"

A hundred "special edition" figurines he had crafted over the last few days burst from his ninja tool pouch. So flew, so swam, and so ran—all of them charging at the incoming sharks. Fortunately, his chakra reserves had grown significantly; otherwise, maintaining this would have been exhausting. These custom figurines were already engraved with specific formula runes—a prerequisite for the Soul-Binding technique.

Crun-nch!

The mont the puppets got close, the sharks opened their maws and tore them to shreds.

"Kisa, be careful!" Itachi tried to warn his partner, but Kisa was underwater and couldn't hear a thing. Seeing Tonbo's "clumsy" response—using things that weren't even designed for underwater combat—Kisa's smirk widened.

Snap!

The exchange between ninjas was lightning-fast. In just over ten seconds, all hundred of Tonbo's puppets had been decimated by Kisa's sharks.

"Heh heh. The man the Leader feared is nothing special after all!" Kisa looked at the "defenseless" Tonbo. As Itachi-san always said, every jutsu has its weakness. Ninjas were the sa.

Crack!

The final puppet was torn apart. Kisa wove the final sign to deliver the killing blow.

"Water Style: Water Shark— Wait, what's happening?"

He suddenly found his body paralyzed. No matter how hard he tried to command his limbs, there was no response. He looked at Tonbo, who was now smiling and adjusting his glasses with mock elegance.

"Disperse!"

Splash!

The massive volu of water, which looked like a giant jelly from afar, began to dissolve and vanish like sea foam. Kisa could only watch in horror as his own body "dispelled" his own technique.

Feeling the shift, Kisa's body began to writhe. Sahada forcibly detached itself from the fusion, and Kisa returned to his original form.

"This is... Puppetry?" Itachi stared at Tonbo's fingertips. Threads of chakra were visibly connected to Kisa. "And it's not standard puppetry. Is this a previously hidden jutsu?"

Every ti Itachi thought he had the asure of Tonbo Tobitake, he felt the man was still holding sothing back.

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