'Sensei, I need to borrow your power for a moment.' Naruto's voice echoed within the Seal Space. 'It seems I can't handle this opponent alone.'
"Huh?" Goku was taken aback. "Naruto, you have that ability? Sure, take it."
"Hey, hey, Naruto," Kurama's voice chimed in immediately after Naruto finished, sounding displeased. "Why aren't you borrowing my power? I'm plenty strong too."
Kurama struck a few bodybuilder poses as if to demonstrate his strength.
'Kurama, didn't you say you wanted to teach the new guy a lesson?' Naruto replied.
"Roar!"
As if responding to Naruto's words, the Ten-Tails, which resembled a massive slug, clung to the iron bars of the Seal Space and let out a deafening roar. After some... friendly persuasion from Naruto, the beast had submitted. Naruto had then sealed him into the Seal Space since there was plenty of room.
"Shut up." Kurama slapped the Ten-Tails across the face. How strong was Kurama, who was pure muscle and trained regularly with Goku? The slap sent the beast spinning in place, completely dazed.
Kurama raised a threatening fist. "Speak properly. Next time you don't use human speech, I'll hit you again."
"Mmm..." The Ten-Tails slumped against the bars, looking pitiful. Kurama, do you have any idea how much damage a slap does to a juvenile Ten-Tails?
'Sensei, here I come.'
Several black chains extended from behind Naruto, binding Goku's limbs. A vast presence began flowing through the chains into Naruto's body. Feeling the surge of power continuously entering him, Naruto couldn't help but let out a soft grunt of satisfaction.
"I sense an evil ki from that horned guy."
How could the presence of a race tasked with plundering the life energy of entire planets not be evil?
"If we're making a move, we have to go all out."
'No problem.' Naruto's eyes snapped open, their bright azure instantly shifting to emerald.
Then, Naruto's body began to swell. His muscle density rivaled a professional bodybuilder's, but that was hardly the most shocking change. His hair shot straight into the air as if defying gravity, growing wildly and reaching for the heavens. It completely ignored the laws of physics, standing in stiff, upright spikes.
Naruto gave a slight shake of his head, and his hair swayed along with the motion.
Faced with Naruto's sudden power surge, Isshiki felt nervous. A deep sense of foreboding welled up inside him.
Then, Naruto spoke. "The Otsutsuki clan can digitize their data to attach themselves to a host, achieving resurrection through the thawing of the Karma."
'He knows?!' Upon hearing this, Isshiki's unease intensified.
"But what if I could delete all the Otsutsuki information stored within the Karma?"
The humans of this world truly couldn't manage it, but ki could. Ki is a force far beyond ordinary imagination, and its usage are incredibly diverse.
It can transmit memories, create things out of nothing (like when Piccolo created a sword and clothes for Gohan, Piccolo is a fighting-type Namekian), merge two people into a single super warrior (the Fusion Dance), enable Instant Transmission (like the people of Planet Yardrat), heal injuries (like Dende and Kibito), and even manipulate ki from environment itself (like Yamcha's Spirit Ball).
So, what's so difficult about deleting a little bit of data?
If all Otsutsuki-related information is deleted from the Karma, and the Otsutsuki in question happens to die at that moment, then the Karma becomes purely a means to enhance one's power.
This is the fatal flaw in the Karma resurrection method.
If handled poorly, it simply paves the way for someone else's benefit.
"What you're about to say next is, 'How could you possibly know the Karma's weakness?' Naruto looked at Isshiki and spoke methodically.
As soon as Naruto finished, Isshiki blurted out, "How could you possibly know the weakness of Karma?"
Isshiki froze, then exclaimed in shock, "You... you can read minds?"
Naruto shook his head calmly, his chest muscles twitching slightly. "Read minds? I don't know how to do that. I can see the future. I've seen your future."
"Your only future is death."
The next second, Naruto appeared right in front of Isshiki. Before Isshiki could react, Naruto delivered a brutal punch to his abdomen.
Taking the hit, Isshiki felt as though his energy-based body was about to fall apart.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"How can a human possess such immense power?"
Isshiki gritted his teeth, struggling to hold his body together.
"That's only because you have no idea what you're up against," Naruto said, stating a simple fact. "Just among the people I know, there are several who possess power at this level."
On Earth in the Dragon Ball-verse alone, there were Krillin, Yamcha, Tien Shinhan, and maybe also Chiaotzu, Yajirobe, and Master Roshi.
And this was just borrowing a fraction of Goku's power in his normal state. How strong must a Super Saiyan be?
But the immediate priority was dealing with Isshiki. Naruto's body felt like it was about to burst.
"Nagato, the heavy responsibility of leading the Uzumaki clan will fall upon you from now on," Naruto said. He ignored Isshiki and turned to Nagato.
Nagato, enduring immense physical pain, said, "Grandpa, the clan head position..."
Naruto shook his head, cutting him off. "I am now merely a broken body clinging to life. Even if I don't die today, I don't have much time left."
Hearing Naruto's words, which sounded like final instructions, Nagato felt a sense of dread.
'Could it be...'
"Nagato, since we met, I haven't given you anything," Naruto said, his voice unusually gentle. "Let this old man give you one last thing at the end of his life."
As he spoke, Naruto gently touched Nagato's forehead. Under his hand, Nagato felt the pain in his body vanish, replaced by a soothing warmth.
It was like being bathed in the winter sun.
'Grandpa's touch brought him profound peace.'
The ki within Naruto's body flowed through his palm into Nagato's. It quickly located the digitized Otsutsuki information. That evil ki could be easily detected no matter how deeply it hid. Even if Naruto couldn't sense it, Goku could.
Inside Nagato's body, it was as if countless tiny manifestations of Naruto's ki were fighting the digitized Isshiki. The difference in power was far too great. The moment they touched Isshiki's data, his forces were utterly routed and quickly eliminated.
With the Otsutsuki's will gone, a massive surge of chakra flooded from the Karma mark into Nagato's body, continuously nourishing it.
Isshiki's looked with absolute fury. He felt the data he had implanted in Nagato being truly deleted. His own power had become nourishment for the young Rinnegan wielder.
Suddenly, Isshiki remembered something. Naruto had appeared right after he implanted the Karma. And Naruto knew the weakness of Karma. So... was it possible...
"You deceitful human! So all of this was your plan? Everything was part of your scheme?"
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