"Uh... I think I shouldn't stay here... how about, how about I go back to the Summoning World first?"
"How about you find someone else?" The White Ape King spoke awkwardly, while somewhat fearfully glancing at Otsutsuki Isshiki in the distance.
"In the middle of the night, where am I supposed to find someone else?"
Arisu was speechless.
He should have known this guy got wasted last night.
It's also his own fault. He had a filter for the ancient era of ninjas, thinking the older something was, the more awesome it must be. He trusted the wisdom of the ancestors a bit too much...
It's even more his fault that he didn't bring two peanuts for the White Ape King last night. If there had been even a few peanuts, the White Ape King wouldn't have gotten that drunk...
Arisu tightly grabbed the White Ape King with one hand. "No, the arrow is already on the string, we have to shoot it!"
"Tell me, can Isshiki actually break your defense or not?" Arisu spoke in a deep voice.
The White Ape King scratched his head. "He can't break my defense. I have an indestructible body."
Arisu thought calmly and immediately gave the White Ape King a role.
Low attack, high defense.
"Alright, White Ape King, whether you want to or not, you're going up this time!"
"Hold steady. We're not fighting a long battle. We just need to assist Kaguya in a sneak attack. As long as one strike lands, we're good!"
"If it fails, I'll run." Arisu said in a deep voice.
The White Ape King gritted his teeth, then said, "Fine! I'll charge! Let's go all out!"
At this moment, Otsutsuki Kaguya slowly walked toward the Ten-Tails.
Otsutsuki Isshiki had a blank expression and showed no guard at all.
Mainly because he didn't believe Kaguya would dare have the thought of a sneak attack.
On top of that, Isshiki had always looked down on the natives of this planet. In his eyes, on this planet, he, Isshiki, was invincible.
"Begin!" Arisu muttered to himself.
Right after that, countless toads began chanting in the forest.
"Gua gua gua~ gua gua gua~ gua gua~"
The entire bamboo forest instantly echoed with the toads' chanting.
"What's going on!?"
Otsutsuki Isshiki's expression suddenly changed as he covered his ears.
"Now!"
Holding the Golden Stick, Arisu suddenly made his move.
The toads' chanting could only temporarily interfere with Isshiki. It wouldn't actually harm him. It could only serve as interference.
But since it was a sneak attack, that bit of interference was enough.
Sage power burst out in full.
Arisu almost appeared in front of Isshiki as if he had teleported. Aiming at Isshiki's face, he fiercely swung his staff.
Bang!
Isshiki was completely caught off guard. He took the hit head-on and instantly felt dizzy.
Arisu's face hardened.
Aiming at Isshiki's face, "bang bang," he swung two more strikes.
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
"Enough!!!"
Otsutsuki Isshiki's face turned furious as he directly raised his hand to block.
The Golden Stick felt like it had struck steel and could not move even an inch further.
A bit of blood flowed from Otsutsuki Isshiki's nose. He looked at Arisu with cold eyes.
"So it's a native from Earth!?"
"Since when did natives dare to mess with an Otsutsuki!?"
After seeing clearly who it was, Otsutsuki Isshiki became enraged.
Arisu inwardly thought things were bad.
'Damn! The ape tricked me.' After three hits, he still didn't knock Isshiki flying toward the Ten-Tails.
"Looking for death!"
Isshiki suddenly grabbed forward, fast as lightning.
If it were a Kage-level fighter, they wouldn't even be able to react to this strike.
But Arisu, who had mastered Sage Mode, possessed a special ability.
That was killing intent sensing.
Whoosh!
Arisu crouched down and barely dodged it.
"Hm?!"
Otsutsuki Isshiki was slightly surprised, then suddenly reached out with his other hand and clawed downward.
Arisu moved again, instantly flashing behind Isshiki.
Otsutsuki Isshiki was shocked.
This native's reaction speed is pretty good, not inferior to Momoshiki or Kinshiki from the neighboring duo.
"Native brat, your body is pretty fragile!" Otsutsuki Isshiki said coldly.
The moment Arisu flashed behind Isshiki, he fiercely swung the Golden Stick. "But my stick is pretty hard!"
BOOM! Bang!
With a loud explosion, this strike directly smashed into the back of Otsutsuki Isshiki's head.
"Bastard!!"
Otsutsuki Isshiki staggered from the hit. His face twisted viciously, and he immediately countered with a backward whip kick.
Arisu's pupils shrank sharply.
Before he could react, the kick hit his abdomen directly.
This strike directly pierced through Arisu.
The overwhelming force punched straight through his abdomen.
His entire bone frame was shattered.
"Pfft!"
Arisu spat out a mouthful of blood. Holding the Golden Stick, he was sent flying backward.
The moment he landed, the White Ape King immediately released the Golden Stick form, stretched out his hands, and caught Arisu to prevent him from taking secondary damage from the fall.
"Arisu! Arisu!"
The White Ape King looked at Arisu's injuries in horror. After this strike, it would be hard to survive...
"Hmph!"
Otsutsuki Isshiki couldn't even be bothered to look at them. After taking his full-power kick, death was certain.
The urgent matter, in Isshiki's view, was to deal with those annoying toads.
Isshiki clapped his hands together.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In an instant, countless black rods appeared in midair.
Not far away, Otsutsuki Kaguya was stunned.
It's not that she didn't want to act.
It was that she didn't have time to act. The two of them were too fast. Their moves were almost finished within two seconds.
If Kaguya didn't activate her Byakugan, she could only see two afterimages.
In just a flash, the two had already exchanged blows.
She didn't expect that this native could last two moves against Isshiki and even catch him off guard once. His reaction speed was even stronger than hers.
Because Otsutsuki Kaguya had used a toad talisman beforehand to block the chanting, she wasn't affected by the toads' chanting.
"Great chance!"
Otsutsuki Kaguya suddenly activated her Byakugan. Taking advantage of the gap while Isshiki was controlling the black rods, she suddenly made her move.
"Isshiki! Go to hell!"
Otsutsuki Kaguya burst forward, both palms striking out together.
She slammed Otsutsuki Isshiki toward the Ten-Tails.
"Kaguya!? You!!!!"
Otsutsuki Isshiki was both shocked and furious. He never expected Kaguya to dare betray him.
———
[On The Other Side]
"Arisu, Arisu, are you okay!?" The White Ape King looked at Arisu's miserable state, his eyes turning red.
Pain filled his heart, and he couldn't help but feel regret and unwillingness.
If only he truly had the ability to fight Isshiki for three days and three nights...
Arisu wouldn't have been injured so badly...
"Cough cough... do I look okay to you?"
Arisu looked down at himself. He was almost kicked in half at the waist. His entire stomach area was gone, and his bones were broken...
Arisu cursed in his heart. 'Good grief!'
'This guy is unbelievably strong! That kick went straight through me!'
'I almost saw my life flash before my eyes...'
'But it's normal.'
Isshiki might be able to kick apart a complete Susanoo.
He only managed to endure it because of the Sage body he had trained for many years.
If it were anyone else, they would've been kicked into a mist of blood already.
To prevent the Illusion Sound Toads from being killed, Arisu immediately canceled the summoning jutsu.
"...Arisu, I'll take you away right now... we're not fighting anymore... let's go back to the Summoning World to heal!" The White Ape King said with a choked voice, tears falling from his eyes.
Arisu gave a bitter smile.
For the sake of the chakra fruit, he had to gamble.
"Don't cry. Help me take out the Toad Sage Talisman from my chest and stick it on my face." Arisu said gently.
"Okay!"
The White Ape King wiped his tears, quickly took out the Toad Sage Talisman from Arisu's chest, and immediately stuck it onto Arisu's face.
The next second, divine light burst out.
Arisu's body began to recover with unbelievable power. In just one second, he returned to his original state.
Not even a scar was left behind.