"Remember, try to snatch the bells with the intent to kill me!" Uchiha Nagi said, waving his hand gracefully. His real body left, leaving behind a Shadow Clone holding the bells.
"Let's just fight! What's a strategy? Is it delicious? I want both bells, I want two servings of lunch, gahahahaha~~" Xiao Zhuzhu Inosuke drew his twin blades and charged forward.
"Idiot, don't rush in!" Zenitsu quickly pulled him back.
"Strategy, we need to consider strategy…"
"Hmph~ I also think we don't need any strategy. Whoever snatches it gets it. Both bells are mine." Genya Shinazugawa said, pulling out a gun and a sword.
"Bastard, both are mine! Hahahaha, I'm eating two lunches!" Inosuke took out his long sword and, with a Beast Breathing, charged forward.
"As expected~" Uchiha Nagi sighed. Just as he thought, they started fighting without any discussion or cooperation.
He wondered if Kakashi also had such a headache when training his students.
"Beast Breathing, First Fang: Piercing Strike."
Facing the charging Inosuke, Uchiha Nagi's Shadow Clone remained calm. When Inosuke struck, he used a Body Replacement Technique.
Poof!
After a puff of smoke, it turned into a wooden log, which Inosuke chopped in half.
"Huh, where did he go? Where is he hiding? Beast Breathing, Seventh Form: Spatial Awareness." Inosuke closed his eyes to sense his surroundings, then opened them and laughed in a certain direction.
"Haha, found him, huh?!"
Inosuke was dumbfounded, because Uchiha Nagi wasn't standing on solid ground at that moment, but on a small lake nearby, happily watching the three of them.
"Cheating! I protest! We can't float on water!" Zenitsu, who had followed closely, was also dumbfounded and protested loudly.
Although Breathing Technique was powerful, it didn't give them the ability to walk on water without sinking… However, Genya Shinazugawa raised his musket and fired a shot at Uchiha Nagi on the lake. The bullet was fast, of course, but the Shadow Clone Uchiha Nagi had also infused some pupil power, activating his Sharingan.
Before Genya's bullet left the muzzle, Uchiha Nagi had already used his powerful dynamic vision to predict its trajectory and dodged it.
The stunned Genya, seeing someone dodge a bullet for the first time, fired two more shots, but the Shadow Clone happily dodged those as well.
"If you want to defeat me, you must be prepared to face different situations on any battlefield. Once you can adapt to my combat style, you will be able to quickly adapt when facing any unknown subordinates of Muzan in the future." "Ox – Monkey – Rabbit – Rat – Boar – Rooster – Ox – Horse – Rooster – Rat – Tiger – Dog – Tiger – Snake – Ox – Ram – Snake – Boar – Ram – Rat – Water – Monkey – Rooster – Dragon – Rooster – Ox – Horse – Ram – Tiger – Snake – Rat – Monkey – Rabbit – Boar – Dragon – Ram – Rat – Ox – Monkey – Rooster – Water – Rat – Boar – Rooster."
Uchiha Nagi calmly completed over twenty hand seals on the lake. "Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu."
An enormous water dragon soared directly from the lake. Because of the water source, the Shadow Clone didn't expend much Chakra, so Uchiha Nagi specifically gave them an amplified version.
Facing the sudden deluge, the three Genin had no power to resist and were swept away.
Of course, they weren't without resistance; they each used their Breathing Technique to cut through the water, but the continuous torrent that followed scattered them in all directions.
"Indeed, they are at a great disadvantage when fighting different combat systems," Uchiha Nagi lamented.
Because to eliminate demons, they had to fight in close combat and sever their necks, Demon Slayer Corps members had always been very specialized, exclusively close-combat types with strong physical techniques. However, when facing large-scale Ninjutsu attacks, they had no way to defend themselves. But conversely, large-scale Ninjutsu attacks were useless against Muzan and his kind, serving only to waste Chakra with no effect. When even an arm can regenerate in a second, what good is Ninjutsu?
Unless it was an S-rank Ninjutsu, Sealing Technique, Mutual Exploding Tag, or Jiraiya's Sage Art Fire Release: Goemon, these S-rank Ninjutsu like Amaterasu.
They possessed immense power, capable of severely injuring them or burning them to ashes, leaving not a single cell behind.
However, Ninja were also very specialized; high attack, low defense. If Ninja below Kage-level were to fight the Twelve Kizuki, they would likely be exhausted of Chakra and defeated.
"However, there's one particular Ninjutsu: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, that Ninjutsu that can destroy every cell of Kakuzu—" Uchiha Nagi recalled.
He realized that the characteristics of Wind Release: Rasenshuriken were indeed quite suitable for killing demons. Perhaps it could become a Ninjutsu that could kill them without needing decapitation.
"Damn it~ Where did my mask go?" The soaking wet Xiao Zhuzhu Inosuke climbed up from the ground, looking left and right.
Unable to find his mask anywhere, Uchiha Nagi approached at that moment. Inosuke quickly closed his eyes; through repeated practice, he knew that looking into Uchiha Nagi's eyes would immediately trap him in a genjutsu.
"Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu." What appeared in front of Inosuke was merely a dummy, just a Clone Jutsu; the Shadow Clone had already burrowed underground.
Clone Jutsu is one of the Three-Body Technique, a clone without a physical body, tested during the Genin exam. Naruto failed to graduate because he couldn't pass it.
"Without your nichirin blade, your body can't move, and you can't escape using Breathing Technique, right?"
Uchiha Nagi finished speaking and happily ran off to deal with the other two. "Damn it, wait, you fake! Let me out so we can fight again!" He left behind Inosuke, whose head alone was shouting.
On the other side, the other two who had been swept away by the flood, one was washed into the forest, and the other crashed into a rock.
"Damn it, I've never encountered this kind of fighting style. Is this Ninjutsu? It's on par with Blood Demon Art." Genya Shinazugawa stood up, patting the mud and water from his body.
However, his face was filled with even more excitement and fighting spirit, because if he, who couldn't use Breathing Technique, could learn these, he would become stronger, using another method to catch up to his powerful older brother.
"So, I must pass today's assessment~" Genya Shinazugawa secretly made up his mind.
On the other side, Zenitsu, who was still wringing mud and water from his clothes, became Uchiha Nagi's second target for today's special training.
Suddenly, Zenitsu seemed to hear something. As soon as he looked up, he saw a pair of red eyes.
"Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique."
Zenitsu immediately fell into the world of genjutsu:
He married Nezuko, then became a father, and finally gave birth to a baby boy. Zenitsu excitedly took a look and saw that the baby's face was identical to Inosuke's.
Zenitsu felt dizzy… [Hahahaha, truly my child, he really looks just like me!]
Inosuke appeared before him, laughing. It turned out that Inosuke was the one who had been the "neighbor's old Wang."
"Ah~"
Zenitsu, greatly stimulated, frothed at the mouth, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.