Chapter 313: 259. Chapter 259: Shouting

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

Hearing this, Itama Senju, whose mind was already elsewhere, didn't even spare a glance; he threw the jar behind him in the direction of Gin Uchiha and bolted toward the Tailed Beasts like a wild horse let loose.

"Hey, hey, hey! Be careful!"

Reaching out to catch the Amber Purifying Pot, Gin Uchiha craned his neck and shouted a reminder to the runaway-donkey-like Itama Senju,

"Turtle! My dear turtle~"

Clearly, Itama Senju did not take Gin Uchiha's words to heart. She swung her small fists and rushed at lightning speed toward Isobu, who was cowering and shivering inside its shell in a corner of the battlefield.

"Sigh~ This kid is getting on in years, why is she still acting like a child?"

Watching Itama Senju's retreating back, Gin Uchiha sighed like a worried old father, then lowered his head to look at the Amber Purifying Pot, attempting to channel his chakra into it.

However, after a long while, the jar only took in energy without giving any back; it ate until its mouth was oily, but refused to provide Gin Uchiha with any response.

How come I feel like I've been scammed? No way, nobody gets to take advantage of me, not even a ninja tool!

"Tsk~ Then let's try this?"

Gin Uchiha's eyes narrowed as other chakra hidden within his body slowly merged into it. This colorful chakra was feedback from the massage chair he had gifted to Hamura Otsutsuki.

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

"Sister Chiri! Can you let me handle capturing the turtle?"

Taking two steps in one, Itama Senju jumped onto the head of the Two-Tails, Matatabi. With hope in her large black eyes, she said softly to Chiri Uchiha, who was currently suppressing the Four-Tails and Seven-Tails,

"Hm? Little Itama, are you sure you can handle it?"

Fighting at full power for the first time, Chiri Uchiha's cold face was flushed with a hint of crimson, making her look more charming than usual. She turned her head to look at the eager Itama Senju, and the young girl with slightly red eyes asked with some concern,

"Daijobu, Mondai nai!"

Puffing out her magnificent chest, Itama Senju rolled up her sleeves and flexed her fair, tender little muscles for Chiri Uchiha, her face filled with unconcealable confidence.

"Hoo~ Alright, go have fun, but don't get hurt."

Using the Mangekyo to suppress three Tailed Beasts at once was still slightly taxing for Chiri Uchiha. After exhaling a breath of stale air, she nodded at Itama Senju with doting eyes.

"Yay!"

Before the words had even faded, Itama Senju's figure had already vanished from where she stood.

Chiri Uchiha then turned her head to look at Hikaru Uchiha, who was controlling the Eight-Tails to beat up the Five-Tails and Six-Tails, feeling a sense of inexplicable frustration in her heart.

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

She then acted very relaxed, controlling it to battle the Five-Tails and Six-Tails.

As for Senior Hikaru herself, she sat steadily to the side, a smile on her face like someone watching a cricket fight.

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

Chiri Uchiha rubbed her somewhat sore eyes, her mind recalling the words Gin Uchiha had once said.

At that time, she had only recently awakened her Mangekyo and often overused her eyes during training. After Gin Uchiha discovered this and gave her a good lecture, she received a second gift from her teacher.

"Little Chiri, wear this pendant, otherwise you'll go blind very quickly."

"Blind? But I see Senior Hikaru using hers quite frequently?"

Taking the blue pendant handed over by Gin Uchiha, the girl, feeling a bit happy, raised her head and asked.

"You are different from her. To be precise, your eyes are different from hers."

"Even though we both have the Mangekyo, is there a hierarchy?"

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

"There are gaps between Mangekyo as well. Little Hikaru's eyes are Eternal Eyes with no side effects."

Gin Uchiha said, patting Chiri Uchiha's little head to stop her wild thoughts.

"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 endured the sharp pain, turned its head, and looked at the Six-Tails, which was tightly bound by eight tentacles, and couldn't help but curse out loud.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss~"

The Six-Tails, bound by the tentacles, could no longer speak. The acid secreted from its body made a hissing sound upon touching the Eight-Tails, and a foul odor instantly permeated the entire battlefield.

"Cough, cough..."

Hikaru Uchiha, who was enjoying the infighting of the Tailed Beasts, felt a flash of displeasure upon smelling this sour stench. She stood up while covering her nose, her eyes narrowed, and the Mangekyo pattern in her eyes turned slightly.

"I will go down with you!"

Knowing it couldn't escape, the Five-Tails immediately turned its head, condensing a black ball of light in its mouth, preparing to give the irrational Eight-Tails a face-full of Tailed Beast Bomb.

However, things went against its wishes. Just as the Five-Tails went completely mad, it discovered that the sky had suddenly darkened, and then a blood-red full moon rose from the horizon.

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

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

Frowning slightly, Hikaru Uchiha leaped up, stood on the head of the Eight-Tails, and controlled it to release the Five-Tails and Six-Tails.

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

On the other side, an excited Itama Senju landed in front of the Three-Tails, Isobu. Looking at the shivering turtle, she immediately stepped forward and tapped on its hard shell with her small hand.

"Bang, bang, bang~"

"Turtle, are you okay?"

Isobu's hard shell was struck with a banging sound by Itama Senju's super-strength punch. Hearing the crisp female voice outside, the dizzy Three-Tails finally couldn't hold back and poked its head out.

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

Having already accepted its fate, the Three-Tails simply chose to give up. The other six Tailed Beasts had already been controlled by the descendants of Indra, and it was helpless on its own, so it widened its eyes, waiting for the other party to hypnotize it.

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

Isobu, who had been ready to die, stared for a long time only to find that the other party wasn't taking any action, but was just busy touching it all over. In confusion, it lowered its head to look at the pleasantly surprised Itama Senju and said, somewhat dumbfounded.

It had thought this human before it was also a descendant of Indra, but after the Three-Tails sensed her, it finally discovered the clue.

This human with no sense of boundaries was actually not a "red-eye disease" sufferer.

"Roar! Go to hell!"

If you don't have the Sharingan, why are you acting like a big shot? A glimmer of hope suddenly arose in Isobu's heart, and it extended its giant claw to swat at Itama Senju below.

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

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

Discovering that she was shrouded in a black shadow, Itama Senju, 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; instead, she tilted her head and asked in confusion.

"BOOM!!!"

Feeling that its strike had landed, a flash of satisfaction crossed Isobu's eyes.

"Hahahaha!!!"

Hmph! Let's see you humans underestimate 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 already become a meat patty under its foot.

"Are you shaking hands? How obedient!"

Suddenly, that crisp female voice from before rang in its ears once again, and the source of the sound was right under its foot.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

It was impossible for this human to survive. Isobu was very confident in its own weight; except for that chubby raccoon, there was no one among the Tailed Beasts in its weight class.

"Hmm~ did you hold it a bit too long?"

Isobu, who was doubting itself, discovered that the giant claw it had used to swat the human was being lifted by a strange, immense force, and then it heard that voice ring out once more.

"BOOM!!!"

Caught off guard, Isobu, having suffered a heavy blow, was flipped over by the immense force from beneath its feet. Its entire body lay face-up on the ground, its four limbs flailing helplessly in the air, and its three tails were trying hard to right its body.

"Hoo~ You're too enthusiastic, Turtle!"

Isobu, lying on its back, was struggling to flip over when a dusty figure landed on it. The dirty-looking Itama Senju patted the mud off her clothes, a pure smile on her small face, and said to the dumbfounded Three-Tails.

"You... you, who exactly are you?"

Having confirmed that the one who flipped it over was indeed this human, even with its turtle brain overloaded, it couldn't figure out how a thin, small human could possess such terrifying strength.

"Me? My name is Itama, can we be friends?"

The grinning Itama Senju patted Isobu's large head. There was no fear in her eyes, and the goodwill she radiated made the Three-Tails feel a bit dazed, as if it had met her somewhere before.

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

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

No wonder it felt so familiar; isn't this the aura of the old man's seemingly pure but actually black-bellied youngest son?

Recalling the scene of being bullied by Asura a thousand years ago, Isobu felt stifled in its heart—in the end, it couldn't escape the clutches of these two brothers, could it?

"Bang, bang, bang~"

Seeing Isobu staring at her blankly, Itama Senju tapped its large head in displeasure. She had already introduced herself, so why was this turtle not reacting?

Are Tailed Beasts really this impolite?

"Stop tapping! My skull hurts~"

Feeling discouraged, Isobu didn't plan to resist anymore. The human before it possessed a physique not much different from Asura's; every tap felt like a heavy blow.

Fortunately, Isobu's shell was hard; if it were any other Tailed Beast, it would have been knocked unconscious on the spot after a few punches.

"I won't run anymore, can you flip me back over first?"

Sighing, Isobu looked at Itama Senju, who was squatting on it, and asked in a muffled voice.

"Alrighty~"

Itama Senju was busy studying the little things stuck to Isobu. Hearing its words, she immediately gave up the urge to pry off the sea urchins attached to the shell, clapped her hands, and stood up.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"

Senju Itama landed on the ground, spat a few times, then grabbed the edge of Isobu's turtle shell, exerted force from his waist, and heaved it upward with all his might.

"Boom!"

The Three-Tails, which had been belly-up just a moment ago, flew straight into the sky. After spinning 360 degrees in the air, its heavy shell landed steadily, emitting a deafening boom and kicking up clouds of dust.

"Turtle, let's go!"

Jumping back onto Isobu's shell, Senju Itama wore a satisfied smile on his pretty face, then waved his hand, ordering the Three-Tails to set off.

"Tsk, that brat..."

Sitting atop the head of Gyuki, Uchiha Hikari witnessed the entire interaction between Senju Itama and Isobu. Seeing her flip the massive body of the Three-Tails hundreds of meters away using only physical strength, she frowned immediately, and an inexplicable sense of crisis welled up within her.

She had thought Senju Itama was just a child with brute strength, but she hadn't expected her to be a max-level monster of strength.

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

"Sister Uchiha Zhili! I've subdued Turtle!"

Sitting on the head of the Three-Tails, Senju Itama smiled and claimed credit to Uchiha Uchiha Zhili.

"As long as you aren't hurt. Do you need me to help you hypnotize it?"

Looking Senju Itama up and down, she found that the other party's clothes were only slightly torn, there were no wounds on her skin, and she looked full of energy, not at all like someone who had just fought a Tailed Beast.

"Roar!"

Hearing Uchiha Uchiha Zhili's words, Senju Itama suddenly felt Isobu beneath her bottom stir restlessly. She patted its head as if to comfort it, then looked up and said,

"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 cowering Isobu, Uchiha Uchiha Zhili raised an eyebrow but didn't say much more. After all, a Tailed Beast couldn't cause much trouble. She nodded and spoke to Senju Itama.

"You're quite fast~"

Sitting comfortably on the lid of the Amber Purifying Pot, Uchiha Gin, who had just spent some effort reaching a certain consensus with this jar, looked smilingly at the seven Tailed Beasts approaching slowly.

Judging by their chakra, six of them were under the control of the Sharingan, while only the Three-Tails under Senju Itama was in a clear state. However, seeing its docile appearance, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.

"Gin, what are we doing next?"

A pretty figure landed in front of Uchiha Gin. Uchiha Hikari asked with a smile.

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

"Curly-haired baboon, you can't bully Turtle~"

Uchiha Uchiha Zhili and Senju Itama followed closely behind.

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

On the way here, they had already asked Uchiha Gin what the thing Senju Itama was carrying was for.

"Do you remember who gave me this thing?"

Uchiha Gin smiled, jumped down from the Amber Purifying Pot, and asked.

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

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

As it was her first time going out with Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Uchiha Zhili still had vivid memories of that mission, and incidentally, she recalled the origin of the Amber Purifying Pot.

"That's right, this is a Sage of Six Paths tool gifted to me by the Kinkaku brothers."

Nodding, Uchiha Gin informed the women of the general functions of the Amber Purifying Pot.

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

Rubbing her chin, Uchiha Uchiha Zhili asked first.

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

Upon hearing this, Senju Itama became anxious; she hadn't finished playing with Isobu yet~

"Gin, if you do this, 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 let them help manage the Tailed Beasts, but Uchiha Gin's actions seemed to indicate he was preparing 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 alone; Senju Tobirama was still counting on these guys to make a fortune. He shook his head at them and held up his pinky finger to gesture a tiny amount.

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

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

It recognized that thing; it was the jar the old man used to pickle vegetables. Later, when the old man got tired of eating pickles, he used that thing to collect disobedient people and beasts, locking them in a dark room inside as punishment.

"What, you think I can't use it?"

Raising an eyebrow, Uchiha Gin looked at the hostile Isobu and smiled mockingly.

"That's right!"

Isobu looked down at Uchiha Gin, feeling that this person was unremarkable and his internal chakra was very average, so it didn't take him to heart.

"Hmm~"

He didn't expect that after Uchiha Gin had roamed the ninja world for so many years, he would end up being looked down upon by a turtle.

Truly, an uncle can endure it, but an aunt cannot.

So he grabbed the Amber Purifying Pot beside him, landed steadily in front of Isobu, and said slowly to the disdainful Three-Tails,

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

"Hahaha!!!"

Hearing Uchiha Gin speak such wild words, Isobu was stunned for a moment, then laughed very loudly; the sound was so loud it could be heard from kilometers away.

"Human, are you not awake yet?"

Isobu was not worried about being locked into the Amber Purifying Pot by a human. As a turtle raised by the Sage of Six Paths, it naturally knew the prerequisite for using that jar.

Regardless of whether this human knew its name, even if he did, as long as it didn't answer, the Amber Purifying Pot 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 directly flipped open the lid of the Amber Purifying Pot, aimed it at the mocking Isobu, and said.

"???"

The Three-Tails' pupils shook violently upon hearing this. How did the human in front of it know its name?

However, not forgetting the rules of the Amber Purifying Pot, it chose to keep its mouth shut despite the shock, its large eye staring fixedly at Uchiha Gin, wanting to see through him.

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

Having anticipated this result, Uchiha Gin wasn't surprised and immediately mocked it.

"I..."

"Isobu!"

"..."

Are you trying to exploit a bug here?

The rule of the Amber Purifying Pot is that anyone asked their name who answers will be sucked into it. Seeing its name exposed, Isobu chose silence directly; it wanted to see what the other party could do to it.

"Phew~ Change of plans. Little Uchiha Zhili, bring the Two-Tails over."

It's hard to deal with the ones that are conscious. Time was tight, so Uchiha Gin immediately changed targets and said to Uchiha Uchiha Zhili behind him.

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

"Meow?"

The Two-Tails, hypnotized by Uchiha Uchiha Zhili, was easily sucked into the Amber Purifying Pot. Isobu, watching from the side, was shaken to its core, its eyes filled with horror.

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

You must know, they Tailed Beasts had roamed the ninja world for thousands of years and had never told their names to any human. 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 your..."

"Chomei, if I call..."

"Gyuki, if I..."

"Roar!!"

As the Eight-Tails' massive body was sucked into the Amber Purifying Pot, the view around everyone suddenly opened up.

Isobu kept swallowing its saliva on the side. While feeling terrified in its heart, it couldn't help but feel deep despair. Even if it insisted on not opening its mouth, the other party still had the Sharingan to hypnotize it.

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

Patting the Amber Purifying Pot with satisfaction, Uchiha Gin sensed that there was still plenty of space inside. He then looked up at the last Tailed Beast and said with a smile,

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

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

"Uh, only that guy Gyuki would cut off its tail to survive. I..."

Obviously, Isobu wanted to choose the first option. Still conscious for now, it didn't want to suffer in the dark room. It immediately showed a human-like flattering expression on its face and said to Uchiha Gin in a muffled voice,

"So you choose one?"

"That's for sure, who would want to go into a dark room!"

Isobu shook its head helplessly and said to Uchiha Gin.

"Fine, fine, fine. I'll perform a painless excision for you right now~"

"You Tailed Beasts only need to make a choice, but I, Uchiha Gin, have far more things to consider~"

"Huh? What the—! Six!"

Isobu, still wondering what this human was babbling about, felt its entire being go wrong the moment Uchiha Gin pulled a pitch-black, gleaming wooden sword from behind his back; it stared blankly at the wooden sword emitting a familiar aura, its mouth beginning to tremble.

"Shouting 'six' at everything will only be your undoing~"

Waving the wooden sword in his hand, Uchiha Gin used a subtle look to cut off what the Three-Tails was about to say.

He gestured in the air over Isobu's body, searching for the spot to make the cut, and added by way of explanation,

"This wooden sword is just a souvenir I bought on Pinduoduo; it even came with free shipping and return insurance~" (End of chapter)