Chapter 171: Did You Walk Onto the Wrong Set?

"Huh?"

Feeling the gusts of wind pressure coming from above, Uchiha Gin's curly hair was blown into a complete mess.

Had the people from the Senju clan caught up so quickly?

Moreover, the newcomer possessed considerable strength, actually managing to evade his perception.

Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow, about to make a move to deal with the attacker descending from the sky, but before he could even look up, he heard the other party's fierce shout:

"Go to hell! Mr. Human Trafficker!"

???

This familiar title awakened Uchiha Gin's sealed memories. He hurriedly looked up, only to see a flash of red charging toward him, with two fiery red hair buns swaying freely in the wind.

Wait, no, why did it become four?

"Tsk! What a mood killer."

The young girl holding Uchiha Gin's arm had also sensed the newcomer. Having finally found an opportunity to get close to Gin, she found it absolutely heinous that someone would come to disturb her.

Uchiha Hikari's eyes instantly turned scarlet. She looked up, her beautiful eyes glaring with anger at the person descending from the sky.

As the bewitching patterns emerged in her eyes, a cold and obscure aura rose around Uchiha Hikari.

With a slight lift of her eyelids, a cherry-red transparent skeleton slowly condensed behind the girl, until it manifested into a half-body Susanoo.

Uchiha Hikari's cherry-red Susanoo used its massive frame to shield Uchiha Gin and herself underneath, its manifested hand gripping a several-meter-long wood-chopping blade, which it swung without hesitation toward the figure rapidly falling from the sky.

"Ah? Hikari, stop for a second!"

Everything happened too fast. By the time Uchiha Gin finally managed to pull his gaze away from the fiery red hair buns, the girl beside him had already launched a vengeful attack in Gundam form.

This was truly a case of the floodwaters flooding the Dragon King's temple—family members failing to recognize their own kin.

However, Uchiha Hikari, in her state of fury, had faint traces of black energy swirling between her brows. She treated Uchiha Gin's words as wind passing by her ears, urging the Susanoo on without reducing the force of her strike in the slightest.

Trapped inside the girl's Susanoo, Uchiha Gin felt like his head was going to explode.

He had no choice but to act himself. He tensed his legs, preparing to force his way out to salvage the situation, but he never expected the scene that followed to shatter his worldview completely.

"Huh? This technique is..."

Before her fist, enhanced with super strength, could land, Mito Uzumaki—having just finished shouting—spotted the eerie half-body giant condensing beside Uchiha Gin. A certain ninjutsu recorded within her clan flashed through her mind; it was the form only attainable by the Uchiha clan when they reached their peak.

"I didn't expect Mr. Human Trafficker to have become this strong already?"

For some reason, a glimmer of joy arose in the girl's heart, a faint light swirling in her beautiful eyes, though it was unclear what she was thinking.

However, I haven't fallen behind either.

A flash of golden light crossed Mito Uzumaki's pitch-black eyes, and the fiery red robe she wore moved without wind.

The girl activated all the power hidden within her Uzumaki bloodline, and the already massive chakra on her body directly sublimated and manifested.

"Holy crap, you've got to be kidding me?"

Uchiha Gin's dead-fish eyes widened like copper bells, his mouth hanging open, forgetting to close it.

Countless massive golden chains extended from behind Mito Uzumaki, scattering outward like an angel's steel wings. Each one bore sharp conical tips, and these giant chains began to interweave and entangle according to her will.

Countless chains stacked together, piecing together a golden chain giant several dozen meters tall. Its massive body enveloped the girl's slightly petite and slender figure, and the golden chain giant swung its several-meter-wide iron fists, carrying the force of ten thousand jun, as it descended from the sky.

【Adamantine Sealing Chains: Chain Colossus】

Making a grand entrance!

"Slap!"

The stunned Uchiha Gin couldn't help but use his super strength to slap himself across the face. Feeling the slight pain on his cheek, he regained his senses and subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

I transmigrated into Naruto, right? Not some giant-robot tokusatsu show, right?

"BOOM!!!"

The cherry-red wood-chopping blade collided with the golden chain iron fist. The airflow generated by the intense impact blew the clueless bystanders into a state of utter confusion.

Uchiha Chirori was the first to hide behind a giant boulder to avoid the shockwave brought about by that world-destroying collision.

Feeling the tremors coming from the boulder she was pressed against, the girl felt not only terror but even more so, envy. A flicker of determination crossed her narrowed eyes; she would become this strong in the future too.

Fine, fine, fine, another reserve member for the Gundam squad.

"Ahhh!!!"

The brothers Kinkaku and Ginkaku didn't have it so easy. The two boys were right in the middle of the battlefield, facing the powerful energy head-on, and were blown into a complete mess on the spot.

Kinkaku, with his sturdy body, was fine; he barely managed to grab onto a large tree, avoiding the fate of being blown away. His younger brother, Ginkaku, wasn't so lucky; he was lifted by the strong wind, and it looked like he was about to fall into the bottomless canyon in the distance.

"Brother, save me!"

The terrified Ginkaku couldn't help but scream, but the airflow was simply too strong, and his mouth was filled with dust the moment he opened it.

Just as he was about to lose his life, a thick tree branch shot up from the ground, tightly wrapping around the flying Ginkaku, preventing the boy from ending up with no corpse left.

"Phew~ glad I made it in time."

Inside the Susanoo, Uchiha Gin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and dissipated the pale green light in his hands. He couldn't let these two boys die here; he still had to rely on them to deal with the white-haired guy later!

"Thump!"

As the impact dissipated, Kinkaku and Ginkaku fell to the ground. The older brother, Kinkaku, rushed to his brother's side to check his condition. When he discovered Ginkaku only had minor abrasions, he looked at Uchiha Gin with deep gratitude.

But Uchiha Gin couldn't be bothered with the two boys at this moment; his attention was entirely captured by the duel between the two girls.

Uchiha Hikari frowned; the Susanoo she was driving couldn't move an inch forward. This stranger before her was definitely no ordinary person.

Refusing to admit defeat, she directly increased the infusion of her ocular power. The cherry-red second-stage Susanoo began to undergo a transformation under the girl's lavish expenditure of ocular power.

The girl's cherry-red half-body Susanoo began to rise layer by layer. While growing legs, a pair of bone wings also sprouted from its back, stopping only when its size matched the golden chain giant opposite it.

"Hehe, now we're evenly matched, right!"

The girl, having leveled the playing field, smiled with a strange expression, sending a chill through Uchiha Gin beside her.

The third-stage cherry-red Susanoo exerted force to push away the still-dazed golden chain giant, then swung the wood-chopping blade—which had surged to over ten meters in length—at the giant like a violent storm.

"Huh? Ah!"

Mito Uzumaki, inside the golden colossus, was still dazed when the cherry-red Susanoo, which had been a head shorter than her, suddenly became as large as her colossus.

The sudden change caught her off guard, and due to her carelessness, she was struck by the massive wood-chopping blade, her body staggering.

"Mr. Human Trafficker is truly heartless. Since that's the case, don't blame me. Let's catch up after I beat you to the ground."

Mito Uzumaki wasn't scared by the giant-sized Susanoo; instead, a competitive spirit arose. She fantasized in her mind about catching up with a shocked Uchiha Gin after defeating the Susanoo before her.

She then fully urged the colossus of the Adamantine Sealing Chains, its mountain-like hand slamming mercilessly onto the Susanoo, the resulting loud noise deafening.

"Ugh~"

Uchiha Hikari, who was controlling the Susanoo from within, was almost flipped over by the immense force. She barely steadied herself and wiped the cold sweat from her face. Instead of showing frustration, a beautiful arc curled at the corners of her mouth.

"It's been a long time since I've met an evenly matched opponent. Let's have a big fight!"

Uchiha Gin, hearing this, couldn't help but feel his teeth ache. He hadn't expected the seemingly soft and weak girl to be a hidden battle maniac at heart.

The scene that followed looked exactly like a traditional battle from a tokusatsu show.

Two giants engaged in a fierce duel in the forest. The cherry-red Susanoo held a massive wood-chopping blade, its blood-red edge shining with a cold light in the sun, while the golden colossus relied on its tough fists, each strike against the ground causing a thunderous roar.

"Hehe, this is interesting~"

The two girls in the cockpits hummed simultaneously.

Uchiha Hikari urged the cherry-red Susanoo to swing the massive blade as if to cut through everything blocking its path, each vibration causing the surrounding air and trees to creak.

Mito Uzumaki, operating the golden colossus, used both fists to easily block the cherry-red blade, taking the opportunity to use swift, fierce punches to attack the Susanoo's lower half, causing Uchiha Hikari inside to knit her pretty brows.

Compared to Uchiha Hikari's immersive combat, Mito Uzumaki felt that something was increasingly wrong the more she fought. From the massive Susanoo opposite her, she could indeed sense the human trafficker's chakra, but it wasn't intense; rather, a cold and overbearing aura made her feel increasingly uncomfortable.

Thus, in the gaps of the battle, Mito Uzumaki quietly activated her Mind's Eye, narrowing her wide-range perception to begin precise detection.

【Kagura Shingan】 A ninjutsu exclusive to the Uzumaki clan, a super-wide-range tracking technique. After closing her eyes and opening the Mind's Eye, she could perceive abnormal movements via chakra within a radius of several dozen kilometers. Additionally, if a specific chakra was already known, she could perceive its detailed location and movements, the number of people, their characteristics, and even their movement speed in great detail.

"Huh? Why is that girl the one controlling it?"

Through the perception of the Mind's Eye, Mito Uzumaki accurately located the master controlling the Susanoo. It wasn't Uchiha Gin, whom she had assumed at the start, but the poor girl who appeared to be coerced by him. Her heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

"Could it be that Mr. Human Trafficker is the one being coerced? Was the hand he raised earlier actually a surrender?"

Unable to grasp the situation, Mito Uzumaki's little head began to run wild with thoughts.

"Hikari, can we stop fighting for a moment?"

Uchiha Gin, who was feeling dizzy from being shaken inside the Susanoo, held the girl's shoulders and pleaded.

"No!"

The girl, fired up by the battle, refused without looking back. How could she be the first to admit defeat? If it were to stop, the person on the other side should stop first.

"Sigh, what a pain~"

Seeing that verbal persuasion was fruitless, Uchiha Gin helplessly turned around, walked to the corner of the girl's Gundam cockpit, and placed a hand on the girl's cherry-red Susanoo, preparing to force his way out.

But to his surprise, when he prepared to exert force, the ocular power fed back from the Susanoo made him feel a sense of familiarity.

He raised an eyebrow and tried to make contact with his own ocular power, discovering that the Susanoo didn't resist at all, obediently accepting Uchiha Gin's ocular power.

Looking at this strange situation, Uchiha Gin slapped his forehead, suddenly realizing the truth.

That's right, Hikari's eyes contained a part of his own; the ocular power naturally shared the same origin. He then attempted to open a door from the Susanoo, and to his surprise, the moment the thought occurred, a door automatically manifested on the Susanoo before him.

"It really works!"

Without hesitation, Uchiha Gin pushed the door open and jumped out of this prison that had trapped him for so long.

"Next, it's time to play peacemaker~"

(End of chapter)