Chapter 311 – Trash
On the battlefield, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya frowned deeply. Her right arm had just been severed by Hatake Yusuke.
She hadn't even seen the attack.
Even with her Byakugan activated, it had completely escaped her perception. Worse than that, she could no longer comprehend the power flowing inside Yusuke's body at all.
"Ōtsutsuki Kaguya," Yusuke said calmly as he looked down at her disheveled form. "I'll give you one more chance. Release Uchiha Madara's consciousness. I don't like fighting women. If you refuse… don't blame me for what happens next."
"Don't get so full of yourself!" Kaguya snapped.
Black Zetsu was pulled back into her body, and her severed arm rapidly regenerated. The power of her Byakugan surged once more.
"Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!"
This time, the force behind her strike was clearly far greater than before.
"You really underestimate me," Yusuke said in a bored tone.
He raised his right hand and slowly clenched it into a fist.
Under the shocked gazes of everyone watching, the Kekkei Mōra technique—said to shake the heavens with the power of senjutsu—was shattered by a single, casual punch.
The attack dispersed like mist.
Kaguya's body was sent flying far into the distance.
Yusuke slipped one hand into his pocket, then vanished. In the next instant, he reappeared beside Kaguya and stepped down on her with one foot.
She coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The figure who had once looked like a goddess was now pressed into the ground, completely unable to move, no matter how much power she tried to muster.
But Kaguya still didn't give up.
She drew upon the chakra of the Five-Tails within her. A terrifying aura exploded outward from her body.
"Monstrous Strength!"
Scalding steam thickened in the air, as if the battlefield itself was reaching its boiling point. Her body began to stretch and mutate.
Yusuke only smiled in disdain.
He slowly lifted his right foot… then stomped down again.
Kaguya's body was forced back into the ground.
"Stop struggling," Yusuke said calmly. "In your current state, you can't do anything."
"So strong…" Kakashi muttered, his face filled with disbelief.
Earlier, Yusuke had clearly been fighting with difficulty. But now, using nothing but raw physical strength, he was pressing Kaguya into the earth.
This was even more overwhelming than sealing her.
"I never thought just opening the seal would raise his power to this level…" Minato said, stunned.
"There's nothing strange about it," Senju Tobirama replied. "That is the Yin–Yang Blood Seal."
"The Yin–Yang Blood Seal doesn't have ranks or tiers. That's exactly what makes it terrifying. Its strength depends entirely on the user. But it also has a minimum requirement—the one who seals themselves must lock away at least eighty percent of their power. Or more."
"W-What… does that mean?" Senju Hashirama said, eyes wide. "Back then, Yusuke wasn't even using half of the power he has now?"
"Correct," Mito said, equally shaken. "He probably sealed away even more than that."
Even then, Yusuke had already been enough to leave her in awe.
And yet, it turned out he hadn't even been using twenty percent of his true strength.
This man was truly monstrous.
Even Tsunade couldn't hide her shock. She couldn't begin to comprehend how powerful Hatake Yusuke really was.
On the battlefield, Kaguya's pupils shrank.
A crack in space opened behind her. Just as she tried to step into it, Yusuke grabbed the collar of her robe and yanked her back.
"Still not giving up?" he said coldly. "You've lived for a thousand years. Do you really not understand? In my eyes right now, you're not even worthy of being called an ant."
He slowly lifted Kaguya off the ground.
Her hair suddenly hardened and shot forward like countless spears, stabbing toward Yusuke.
He didn't move.
The hair couldn't even pierce his skin, let alone break through Yusuke's Limitless.
"Damn it…" Kaguya felt despair clawing at her chest.
She had never felt such an overwhelming difference in power before.
Not even when facing the Ōtsutsuki main family.
As someone who had dared to defect from them, Kaguya had always possessed the means to evade their surveillance—or even the strength to resist them.
But the man named Hatake Yusuke drove her into true hopelessness.
Even Black Zetsu, hidden within her sleeve, was trembling in fear. He couldn't understand how a mere human could render his own "mother" so utterly helpless.
"I… I still have to try," Kaguya said, her face hardening with resolve.
Her body began to swell rapidly.
Moments later, she transformed into a massive, multi-headed monster.
Everyone recognized those nine heads.
The Nine-Tailed Beasts.
At the center was a rabbit-like form—Kaguya herself—bearing the same Rinne Sharingan with nine tomoe.
In her colossal form, she swung her massive body toward Yusuke.
But everything that came into contact with him vanished instantly, as if it had never existed at all.
Yusuke's expression remained full of contempt.
"Space Spiral Shuriken."
Several shuriken materialized and floated behind him.
This was a special technique he had developed based on Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken—only far more dominant.
Kaguya stretched out her gigantic hand to grab them.
Before she could touch a single one, space itself twisted.
Her arm—and part of her body—disappeared in an instant.
In just a few seconds, less than half of Kaguya's enormous form remained.
"Expanding Truth-Seeking Ball!"
She reverted back to her human form. In her hand appeared a bone-like weapon.
"All-Killing Ash Bones!"
She fired them in a relentless barrage toward Yusuke.
None of them could break through his Limitless.
In truth, this technique couldn't even be blocked by a physical body. Without Limitless, the All-Killing Ash Bones were nearly impossible to defend against.
"Terrifying… what kind of power is this?"
Even those in their Impure World Reincarnation forms felt the shadow of death looming over them.
"To be honest," Yusuke said with a faint smile, "something like this is easy for me to destroy."
"But here… its value is actually perfect."
To him, this attack could be erased with a single breath.
But there were still people around trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Yusuke himself didn't care.
Tsunade and Kakashi did.
"So troublesome," Yusuke muttered with a thin smile. "I wasn't planning on using this."
"Magatsuhi."
Yusuke's eyes transformed into golden Rinnegan, one of them marked with six tomoe.
He raised both hands.
A horrifying black hole formed in front of him.
Slowly, the massive Truth-Seeking Ball was swallowed whole, vanishing before everyone's eyes.
"How can you have eyes like that?" Panic finally appeared on Kaguya's face. "That's impossible… and how can you use such a level of ocular power?"
"You… are you from the main family?" she asked in fear.
"I'm not part of that pile of trash," Yusuke said, his face filled with scorn. "Don't lump me in with them. In front of me, they're not even worthy of carrying my shoes."
Even though he had gained his power by devouring Ōtsutsuki, Yusuke despised that group.
They possessed superior bloodlines, yet refused to truly hone their strength.
To him, that was nothing but waste.
People like that weren't even worth entertaining.
If they had trained seriously, maybe Yusuke wouldn't look down on them so much.
Who knew?
Perhaps someone might have emerged who could give him a truly satisfying battle—though the chances were slim.
But they didn't even try.
He still remembered Urashiki clearly.
If that power had been in Kakashi's hands, he might have already reached the level of the Six Paths.
But in that man's hands, it had only produced an average Kage-level shinobi—
Not even as strong as Senju Hashirama at his peak.
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