Chapter 259: 259. Chapter 259: Shouting

259. Chapter 259: Shouting "6" at Everything Will Only Harm You

Hearing this, Senju Banjian, whose mind was already elsewhere, didn't even bother to look. She tossed the jar behind her back toward Uchiha Gin and sprinted toward the Tailed Beasts like a wild donkey off its leash.

"Hey, hey, hey! Watch it!"

Catching the Amber Purifying Bottle, Uchiha Gin craned his neck and shouted a reminder to Senju Banjian, who was running off like a wild donkey.

"Turtle! My precious turtle~"

Clearly, Senju Banjian hadn't taken Uchiha Gin's words to heart. She swung her small fists and charged at top speed toward Isobu, who was huddled in a corner of the battlefield, trembling inside its shell.

"Sigh, this girl isn't exactly young anymore; why is she still acting like a child?"

Watching Senju Banjian's back, Uchiha Gin sighed like a worried old father. He lowered his head to look at the Amber Purifying Bottle and tried to input his chakra into it.

However, after a while, the jar only took in energy and gave nothing back, eating its fill without offering any response.

Does it feel like I'm being scammed? No way. Nobody gets to take advantage of me—not even a ninja tool!

"Tsk, then how about trying this?"

Uchiha Gin's eyes narrowed as he slowly infused other chakra stored within his body. These colorful strands of chakra were feedback from the massage chair he had gifted to Otsutsuki Hamura.

Although the quantity wasn't large, the quality was top-tier. The moment the Amber Purifying Bottle tasted it, it suddenly became obedient, even sending back feedback to indicate that Uchiha Gin could store whatever he wanted—it was its job, and he didn't need to worry about the rules meant to fool the Otsutsuki Hagoromo clan.

"Sister Zhili! Can you let me handle the subduing of the turtle?"

Taking two steps in one, Senju Banjian jumped onto the head of the Two-Tails, Matatabi. Her large black eyes were filled with anticipation as she spoke softly to Uchiha Zhili, who was currently suppressing the Four-Tails and Seven-Tails.

"Hmm? Little Banjian, are you sure you can handle it?"

Fighting at full power for the first time, Uchiha Zhili's cold face was flushed with a hint of crimson, making her look more charming than usual. She turned to look at the eager Senju Banjian and asked with concern, her own eyes slightly reddened.

"It's fine, no problem!"

Puffing out her impressive chest, Senju Banjian rolled up her sleeves and flexed her fair, delicate little muscles for Uchiha Zhili, her face filled with uncontrollable confidence.

"Sigh, alright. Go have fun, but don't get hurt."

Using the Mangekyo to suppress three Tailed Beasts at once was slightly taxing for Uchiha Zhili. After exhaling a breath of turbid air, she looked at Senju Banjian with doting eyes and nodded, signaling her to go ahead.

"Yay!"

Before the words had even faded, Senju Banjian's figure had already vanished from the spot.

Uchiha Zhili then turned her head to look at Uchiha Hikari, who was controlling the Eight-Tails to beat up the Five-Tails and Six-Tails. A sense of inexplicable frustration welled up in her heart.

In her view, Uchiha Hikari hadn't even used her Susanoo; she had defeated the Eight-Tails—the strongest of the Tailed Beasts—using only her ocular jutsu.

She was performing with such ease, controlling the Eight-Tails to fight the Five-Tails and Six-Tails,

while Hikari herself sat steadily to the side, a playful smile on her face as if she were watching a cricket fight.

"Is this the gap that Mr. Gin spoke of?"

Uchiha Zhili stroked her slightly sore eyes, recalling the words Uchiha Gin had once spoken.

At that time, she had just awakened her Mangekyo and often overused her eyes during training. After being scolded by Uchiha Gin, she had received a second gift from her teacher:

"Little Zhili, wear this pendant, or you'll go blind very quickly."

"Blind? But I see Senior Hikari using hers quite frequently, don't I?"

The young girl, feeling a bit happy as she took the blue pendant Uchiha Gin handed her, raised her head to ask.

"You and she are different. To be precise, your eyes and hers are different."

"Do Mangekyo eyes have ranks, even though they are the same?"

After putting on the necklace, the girl felt a warm current flowing in, and the chakra she had just consumed was recovering at an extremely fast rate. The soreness in her eyes also gradually vanished. Hearing Uchiha Gin's words, she couldn't help but frown and ask in confusion.

"There is a gap between Mangekyo eyes. Hikari's eyes are Eternal Mangekyo, which have no side effects."

As Uchiha Gin spoke, he patted Uchiha Zhili's little head, stopping her from letting her imagination run wild.

"The technology isn't mature yet. When the time is right, I'll get you one too~"

"Eight-Tails, you are simply not a beast!"

Kokuo's slender tail was gripped in the hands of the red-eyed Gyuki. Unable to escape, it turned its head away in pain, looking at Saiken, who was tightly bound by eight tentacles, and couldn't help but curse out loud.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss~"

Saiken, bound by the tentacles, could no longer speak. The acid it secreted upon touching Gyuki's body made a hissing sound, and a foul odor instantly permeated the entire battlefield.

"Cough, cough..."

Uchiha Hikari, who was enjoying the Tailed Beasts' infighting, frowned upon smelling the sour stench. She stood up, covering her nose, and narrowed her eyes, the pattern of her Mangekyo spinning.

"I'll drag you down with me!"

Knowing it couldn't escape, Kokuo turned its head, a black ball of light condensing in its mouth, preparing to wash Gyuki's face with a Tailed Beast Bomb.

However, things didn't go as planned. Just as Kokuo went completely mad, it discovered that the sky had suddenly darkened, followed by a blood-red full moon rising from the horizon.

Terrified, Kokuo felt its vision go black, and control over its body was forcibly seized.

"It's all because this slug is too smelly. I wanted to play a little longer."

Uchiha Hikari frowned, leaped up, and landed on Gyuki's head. She controlled it to release the Five-Tails and Six-Tails.

The two Tailed Beasts, which had been struggling just a moment ago, were now obedient, following behind her as she walked toward Uchiha Gin.

On the other side, the excited Senju Banjian landed in front of Isobu. Looking at the trembling turtle, she immediately stepped forward and tapped on its hard shell with her small hand.

"Bang, bang, bang~"

"Turtle, are you alright?"

Isobu's hard shell was being knocked with a rhythmic thud by Senju Banjian's monster-strength punch. Hearing the crisp girl's voice outside, Isobu, whose head was spinning, finally couldn't hold back and poked its head out.

"Roar! You hateful human, do whatever you want to me!"

Isobu, already knowing its fate, chose to give up. All the other six Tailed Beasts had been controlled by the descendants of Indra, and it was alone and helpless, so it stared with wide eyes, waiting for the other party to hypnotize it.

"... Wait, you aren't a descendant of Indra?"

Isobu, who had been prepared to die, stared for a long time only to find that the other party wasn't taking any action, just touching its shell all over. It lowered its head, looked at the pleasantly surprised Senju Banjian, and said in astonishment.

It had thought this human was also a descendant of Indra, but after sensing the other party, it discovered the truth.

This human, who had no sense of boundaries, wasn't a "Red-Eye Disease" sufferer at all.

"Roar! Go to hell!"

If you don't have a Sharingan, why are you acting so tough? A glimmer of hope suddenly arose in Isobu's heart. It extended its giant claw and swiped at Senju Banjian below.

As long as it killed this human, it would have a chance to escape.

"Uh... is this how you say hello?"

Realizing it was being covered by a black shadow, Senju Banjian, who had been obsessively touching the shell, looked up. Seeing the giant claw about to land on her head, she didn't show the slightest panic, but instead tilted her head in confusion and asked.

"Boom!!!"

Feeling that its strike had landed, Isobu's eyes flashed with a hint of satisfaction.

"Hahaha!!!"

Hmph! Let's see you humans look down on me again!

However, after a brief moment of satisfaction, Isobu suddenly discovered that something was moving under its claw. It lowered its head in confusion, preparing to look at the human who had surely become a meat patty.

"Are you shaking hands? How obedient!"

Suddenly, that crisp girl's voice rang in its ear again, and the source of the sound was right under its foot.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

This human couldn't possibly have survived. Isobu was very confident in its own weight. Except for that chubby raccoon, there was no Tailed Beast of its weight class.

"Hmm... are you holding on a bit too long?"

Isobu, who was doubting itself, found that the giant claw it had used to swat the human was being lifted by a strange, immense force. Then it heard that voice again.

"Boom!!!"

Caught off guard, Isobu was struck by the immense force and flipped over, lying flat on its back, its four limbs waving helplessly in the air as its three tails tried to flip its body back over.

"Phew... you're a bit too enthusiastic, turtle!"

Isobu, lying on its back, was struggling to flip over when a dusty figure landed on it. Senju Banjian, covered in dirt, patted the dust off her clothes, a pure smile on her face as she spoke to the dumbfounded Isobu.

"You... who exactly are you?"

Having confirmed that it was this human who had flipped it over, Isobu's turtle brain was overloaded. It couldn't understand how a thin, small human could possess such terrifying strength.

"Me? My name is Banjian. Can we be friends?"

Senju Banjian smiled and patted Isobu's giant head. There was no fear in her eyes, and the goodwill she radiated left Isobu in a daze, as if it had seen this before.

"This aura... you are a descendant of Asura!"

This familiar feeling allowed Isobu to calm down instantly. Its yellow, single eye stared fixedly at the smiling Senju Banjian, and upon sensing the aura within her body, it understood.

No wonder it felt so familiar. Isn't this the aura of the Old Man's youngest son, who looked innocent but was actually black-bellied?

Recalling the scenes of being bullied by Asura a thousand years ago, Isobu felt a sinking heart. In the end, it couldn't escape the clutches of these two brothers, could it?

"Bang, bang, bang~"

Seeing Isobu staring at her in a daze, Senju Banjian felt a bit displeased and tapped its giant head. She had introduced herself, so why didn't this turtle have any manners?

Are Tailed Beasts really this rude?

"Stop knocking! My head hurts~"

Isobu, feeling discouraged, gave up on resisting. This human possessed a physique not much different from Asura's, and every tap felt like a heavy blow.

Fortunately, Isobu's shell was hard; any other Tailed Beast would have been knocked unconscious by a few punches.

"Stop it! Can you flip me over first?"

Isobu sighed, looking at Senju Banjian, who was squatting on it, and asked in a muffled voice.

"Alrighty~"

Senju Banjian was busy studying the little things stuck to Isobu's shell. Hearing its words, she gave up on the urge to pick off the sea urchins attached to the shell, stood up, and clapped her hands.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey~"

Senju Banjian landed on the ground, spat on her hands, grabbed the edge of Isobu's shell, exerted force from her waist, and heaved upward.

"Boom!!!"

The Three-Tails, which had just been lying on its back, flew straight into the sky. After doing a few 360-degree spins in the air, its heavy shell landed steadily, causing a deafening boom and kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Turtle, let's go!"

Jumping back onto Isobu's shell, Senju Banjian wore a satisfied smile on her face and waved her hand, ordering the Three-Tails to set off.

"Tsk, that girl..."

Uchiha Hikari, sitting on Gyuki's head, witnessed the entire process of Senju Banjian's interaction with Isobu. Seeing her flip the Three-Tails hundreds of meters away with just physical strength, she frowned, and a sense of inexplicable crisis arose.

She had thought Senju Banjian was just a "child-level" powerhouse, but it turned out she was a "max-level" monster.

In the future, she must never compete with her in taijutsu.

"Sister Zhili! I've subdued the turtle~"

Senju Banjian, sitting on the Three-Tails' head, smiled and claimed credit to Uchiha Zhili.

"It's good you aren't hurt. Do you need me to help you hypnotize it?"

Uchiha Zhili looked Senju Banjian up and down, finding that her clothes were only slightly torn, her skin was uninjured, and she looked full of energy, not at all like someone who had just fought a Tailed Beast.

"Roar!"

Hearing Uchiha Zhili's words, Senju Banjian suddenly felt Isobu beneath her butt stir restlessly, so she patted its head comfortingly and looked up.

"No need. Turtle and I have already made a deal; it won't run away~"

"Since that's the case, let's go report back."

Glancing at the timid Isobu, Uchiha Zhili raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything more. Anyway, one Tailed Beast wouldn't be able to cause any trouble, so she nodded to Senju Banjian.

"That was pretty fast~"

Uchiha Gin, sitting comfortably on the lid of the Amber Purifying Bottle—having just reached a consensus with the jar—smiled as he watched the seven Tailed Beasts approaching.

From their aura, six were under the control of the Sharingan, while only the Three-Tails under Senju Banjian was conscious. However, seeing how docile it was, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but be surprised.

"Gin-sensei, what should we do next?"

A beautiful figure landed in front of Uchiha Gin. Uchiha Hikari, with a smile on her face, asked.

"Mr. Gin, how should we handle them?"

"Curly-haired baboon, don't bully the turtle~"

Uchiha Zhili and Senju Banjian followed closely behind.

Three pairs of beautiful eyes stared at the pickle jar under Uchiha Gin, all wanting to know what he intended to do.

On the way here, they had asked Uchiha Gin what Senju Banjian was carrying on her back.

"Do you remember who gave me this thing?"

Uchiha Gin smiled, jumped off the Amber Purifying Bottle, and asked.

"I remember, it was the Otsutsuki Hagoromo clan..."

Uchiha Zhili frowned, as if recalling something, and then replied.

As her first experience going out with Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Zhili remembered that mission vividly, and she also recalled the origin of the Amber Purifying Bottle.

"That's right, this is a Six Paths ninja tool gifted to me by Brother Kinkaku."

Uchiha Gin nodded and informed the girls of the general functions of the Amber Purifying Bottle.

"Uh... Mr. Gin, do you intend to use this ninja tool to seal these Tailed Beasts?"

Uchiha Zhili stroked her chin and asked first.

"Ah? Is Turtle going to be locked up again?"

Senju Banjian was anxious; she hadn't played enough with Isobu yet!

"Gin, if you do that, how do you plan to explain it to the Senju brothers?"

Uchiha Hikari, after a brief moment of thought, frowned and asked.

Senju Hashirama had asked them to help manage the Tailed Beasts, but Uchiha Gin's actions seemed like he intended to claim the Tailed Beasts for himself.

"I never said I was going to lock the Tailed Beasts inside. I just want to collect a tiny bit of Tailed Beast chakra for research."

Uchiha Gin wasn't stupid enough to swallow the Tailed Beasts whole; Senju Tobirama was still counting on these guys to make money, so he shook his head at the girls and made a "tiny bit" gesture with his pinky.

"Hmph! Human, if you think you can subdue us with this ninja tool, I advise you to wash up and go to sleep."

Isobu, the only Tailed Beast still conscious, saw the Amber Purifying Bottle beside Uchiha Gin and its pupils shrank.

It recognized that thing; it was the jar the Old Man used to pickle vegetables. Later, when the Old Man got tired of pickles, he used it to lock up disobedient people and beasts in solitary confinement as punishment.

"Why? Do you think I can't use it?"

Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow, looking at the disdainful Isobu, and smiled mockingly.

"That's right!"

Isobu looked down at Uchiha Gin, finding him unremarkable, and his aura was very average, so it didn't take him seriously.

"Hmm..."

Uchiha Gin had roamed the ninja world for so many years, only to be looked down upon by a shrinking turtle.

This was truly unbearable.

He grabbed the Amber Purifying Bottle, landed steadily in front of Isobu, and said to the disdainful Three-Tails:

"Now, I'll give you two choices: one, you cut off a tiny bit of chakra and put it in yourself; two, you go in whole and come out missing limbs and tails."

"Hahaha!!!"

Hearing Uchiha Gin's arrogant words, Isobu was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly, its voice so loud it could be heard kilometers away.

"Human, did you not wake up?"

Isobu wasn't worried about being locked in the Amber Purifying Bottle. As a turtle raised by the Sage of Six Paths, it naturally knew the prerequisite for using the jar.

Regardless of whether this human knew its name, as long as it didn't answer, the Amber Purifying Bottle couldn't do anything to it.

"Isobu! If I call your name, do you dare to answer?"

Uchiha Gin didn't coddle the Three-Tails; he opened the lid of the Amber Purifying Bottle, aimed it at the mocking Isobu, and said.

"???"

The Three-Tails' pupils shook violently. How did this human know its name?

However, it didn't forget the rules of the Amber Purifying Bottle. In its shock, it chose to remain silent, staring fixedly at Uchiha Gin, wanting to see through him.

"Why aren't you talking? Weren't you very arrogant just now?"

Uchiha Gin wasn't surprised by this result and immediately mocked it.

"I..."

"Isobu!"

"..."

Are you trying to trigger a bug?

The Amber Purifying Bottle worked by sucking in anyone who answered when their name was called. Isobu, seeing its name exposed, chose to remain silent. It wanted to see what the other party could do to it.

"Phew... switch people. Sister Zhili, bring the Two-Tails over."

Dealing with conscious ones was difficult, and time was tight. Uchiha Gin immediately switched targets and said to Uchiha Zhili behind him.

"Matatabi, if I call your name, do you dare to answer?"

"Meow?"

The Two-Tails, hypnotized by Uchiha Zhili, was easily sucked into the Amber Purifying Bottle. Isobu, watching from the side, felt its heart tremble, filled with horror.

It turned out that not only it, but the names of the other Tailed Beasts were also known to this curly-haired guy!

They had roamed the ninja world for thousands of years and had never told any human their names. How did this curly-haired guy find out?

"Very good! Continue~"

"Son Goku, if I call your name, do you dare to answer?"

"Roar~"

"Kokuo, if I call your name..."

"Saiken, if I call..."

"Chomei, if I call..."

"Gyuki, if I..."

"Roar!!!"

As Gyuki's massive body was sucked into the Amber Purifying Bottle, the surrounding view instantly cleared up.

Isobu kept swallowing saliva, feeling terrified and deeply desperate. Even if it refused to open its mouth, the other party had the Sharingan to hypnotize it.

As the Tailed Beast with the worst resistance to genjutsu, even a regular Three-Tomoe Sharingan could easily handle it.

Uchiha Gin patted the Amber Purifying Bottle with satisfaction, sensing that there was still plenty of space inside. He looked up at the last Tailed Beast and smiled.

"What I said just now still counts. Do you choose to cut it off yourself? Or do you want to go in and reunite with them?"

As the most loving Uchiha, Uchiha Gin couldn't do anything like bullying the weak~

"Uh... cutting off the tail to survive is something only Gyuki does. I..."

Clearly, Isobu wanted to choose the first option. Still conscious, it didn't want to go into the "solitary confinement" jar and suffer, so it showed a human-like flattering expression to Uchiha Gin and said in a muffled voice.

"So you choose one?"

"That's for sure! Who would want to go into solitary confinement?"

Isobu shook its head helplessly and said to Uchiha Gin.

"Alright, alright, I'll give you a painless removal~"

You Tailed Beasts only need to make a choice, while I, Uchiha Gin, have to consider much more~

"Ah?... I damn! Six..."

Isobu, still wondering what this human was babbling about, saw Uchiha Gin pull out a shiny black wooden sword from behind his back. Seeing the familiar aura radiating from the wooden sword, its mouth began to tremble.

"Shouting '6' at everything will only harm you~"

Waving the wooden sword, Uchiha Gin used a subtle look to interrupt what Isobu was about to say next.

He gestured at Isobu with the sword, looking for the right spot to cut, and explained:

"This wooden sword is just a souvenir I bought on Pinduoduo. It's not only free shipping, but it also comes with shipping insurance~" (End of Chapter)