I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 485 and 486: Half a Ten-Tailed Beast

"Nine-Tailed Fox!"

Looking up at the monster that had broken free from Chibaku Tensei, Payne, whose face was usually expressionless, showed a hint of surprise for the first time, and said in a deep voice:

"To think he could crawl out of the planet Earth Explosion, what incredible power."

Immediately afterwards, Payne reached out his hands toward the gradually disintegrating Planetary Devastation.

"The Nine-Tails alone is not enough to break the seal of Chibaku Tensei. We need to create an even larger Chibaku Tensei..."

Just then, the surface of the celestial body, which resembled the moon, burst open, purple arcs of electricity burst from the cracks, and dazzling light shone through the giant rocks, as if the real moon were radiating its moonlight.

"Boom!"

A purple sword beam swept down from above, neatly splitting the Planetary Devastation in two, revealing the complete Susanoo within.

Dust billowed and rocks of all sizes tumbled down like rain. The two split hemispheres of the Earth-Exploding Star crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with a deafening roar.

"boom!"

Two new islands, built from piles of rubble, have appeared on the site of the hollowed-out Staten Island, and are even larger than the original island.

"Sasuke!"

Amidst the torrential rain of falling rocks, Uchiha Senmon nimbly dodged and weaved, leaping onto the top of a pile of boulders on the left peninsula. He looked up at the purple martial god in the sky, a look of delight on his face.

The joy on Uchiha Senmon's face lasted only a moment before it suddenly changed.

The aura of the complete Susanoo plummeted, unable to maintain its form, and the ice and snow melted away.

Sasuke plummeted from a height of over a thousand feet.

"Sasuke!"

The Nine-Tailed Fox reacted even faster than the Uchiha Sage Sect.

After the Nine-Tailed Fox fell into the sea first, it used its four legs to leap upwards and caught Sasuke steadily with its forehead, returning to the surface of the sea.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Although there were no visible injuries, Sasuke's face was etched with exhaustion, his breathing was heavy, and he was panting heavily.

Clearly, breaking free from the seal of Chibaku Tensei consumed a large amount of Sasuke's chakra, even depleting the eye power needed to maintain the complete Susanoo.

"However, Pain must be severely weakened after using such a powerful technique as Planetary Devastation. Now is the best time for me to step in!"

Uchiha Senmon turned his gaze away from Pain and shouted to Sasuke, who was standing atop the Nine-Tails:

"Sasuke, I'm going to make my move too! Let's take down Pain together!"

"Don't interfere! I'll avenge Itachi all by myself!"

Unexpectedly, Sasuke was completely unmoved, instead giving him a cold glance:

"Even you cannot interfere with my revenge, Immortal Sect!"

"He actually wants to fight me, Payne, one-on-one? He's brave but reckless."

Pain floated on the waves, scrutinizing the Nine-Tailed Fox and Sasuke:

"To choose to control the Nine-Tails with the Sharingan instead of becoming its jinchūriki is truly arrogant, Sasuke!"

At the same time, the nine-tailed fox's orange fur covered its exposed flesh and tail at a visible speed.

"Awooohoo!"

The Nine-Tailed Fox glared at Pain with its beastly eyes engraved with the black tomoe of the Sharingan, unleashing a dragon-like roar that filled the air with ferocity and arrogance.

Then, a black Tailed Beast Ball was spat out from the Nine-Tailed Fox's mouth and shot forward.

"You've used up too much power, so you're using the Nine-Tailed Fox to deal with me first? Hmph."

Facing the Tailed Beast Ball that had carved a passage through the Atlantic Ocean, Pain stretched out his hands:

"Shinra Tensei!"

After a deafening explosion, a towering column of sea rose into the sky amidst the flames.

Within a radius of nearly one kilometer beneath Pain's feet, the seawater was pushed aside and evaporated by the Tailed Beast Ball, revealing a huge crater on the seabed. Seawater from all directions suddenly filled it back in, taking a full ten seconds to refill it.

"As expected of the Nine-Tails, the strongest of the five tailed beasts I haven't obtained yet."

Payne lowered his hands and praised:

"This is the power I want! The power to restore peace and stability to the world!"

Suddenly, the Nine-Tailed Fox unleashed its second Tailed Beast Ball.

"I'll fight using my tailed beasts until my power is restored."

In his pale purple Rinnegan, layers of black rings shimmered. Pain clapped his hands together and roared:

"The Demonic Statue of the Heretic!"

The Tailed Beast Ball surged like a tidal wave, its towering peaks nearly crashing down on the sun in the sky. But bound by gravity, it crashed down, unleashing a torrential downpour.

"boom!"

A gigantic humanoid silhouette appeared before the Uchiha Senmon amidst the torrential rain.

The demonic statue stood upright, its body and color resembling withered wood, with ten jagged pillar-like structures protruding from its back.

The demonic statue of the heretic has nine eyes on its head, five of which are closed and the remaining four are open.

"It actually managed to block the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball."

Uchiha Senmon stared intently ahead, when suddenly the Wood Release power within him stirred, resonating with the colossal creature before him. He couldn't help but frown.

"The Divine Tree and the Ten-Tails' shell, the Gedo Statue?! But wasn't it sealed on the moon by Madara Uchiha? How could Pain summon it?!"

"Come on, Sasuke! Let me take the Nine-Tails for myself too!"

Standing atop the Gedo Mazo, Payne steered the colossus across the sea, closing in on the Nine-Tailed Fox.

To the Outer Path Demon Statue, the deep Atlantic Ocean was nothing more than a pond that barely reached its thighs.

"Pain!"

Consumed by hatred, Sasuke was naturally unwilling to be outdone. His Nine-Tails spread its legs amidst the waves and pounced on the Gedo Mazo.

"boom!"

The two enormous creatures collided violently.

Like a divine hammer falling, the sea surface within a radius of several miles suddenly collapsed downwards, the sound reverberating for miles around.

After several fierce battles, two fists could not defeat four hands, and in the end, the nine-tailed fox demon was the one who prevailed.

Long, strong fox tails surged out, wrapping around the hands and neck of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, forcibly locking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in place.

The Nine-Tailed Fox opened its blood-red maw and bit down on the withered left wrist of the Outer Path Demon Statue.

"Click!"

Like Fenrir, the wolf who had his arm bitten off by Tyr, the god of war, and who had swallowed Odin, the fox demon tore off the left arm of the demon statue of the Outer Path in one bite!

"After the nine tailed beasts were removed, the Ten-Tails' shell was nothing but an empty shell."

Sasuke scoffed and said disdainfully:

"The next bite will be to sever the neck of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!"

Just then, octopus tentacles covered with suckers emerged from the broken left wrist of the Gedo Mazo, instantly entangling the Nine-Tailed Fox's limbs as well.

"What is this thing?!"

Sasuke's expression changed, his eyes darting around, filled with surprise and uncertainty.

Does the Gedo Mazo have these octopus tentacles?

Suddenly, several milky-white, mollusc-like tentacles shot out from the mouth of the Gedo Mazo, and then sprayed a large amount of liquid with a strong acidic smell at Uchiha Sasuke, who was standing on the head of the Nine-Tailed Fox.

The Nine-Tailed Fox immediately pulled out one of its tails and wrapped it around Sasuke, leaving no opening.

"Hiss hiss hiss—!"

The once-gorgeous orange fur was now riddled with pits and craters from the slime, revealing the dark red flesh beneath.

"Awooooo!!"

The nine-tailed fox howled in extreme pain, its bestial nature aroused. It suddenly exerted its strength, tearing off all the octopus tentacles and retreating rapidly.

"Octopus tentacles and slug-like arms—is this the original power of the Gedo Mazo?"

The Uchiha Sage watched from afar as the Nine-Tailed Fox and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path fought, and the sudden growth of limbs on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path gave him a strong sense of déjà vu.

In a flash of inspiration, he recalled the tailed beast relief on the murals of Turtle Island.

"No! These are the limbs of the Eight-Tailed Gyūki and the Six-Tailed Saiken!"

After the Nine-Tailed Fox had created some distance on the sea surface, Sasuke blinked before tentatively asking:

"The Gedo Mazo contains the power of the other tailed beasts, doesn't it, Pain?"

Payne remained silent, instead clasping his hands together to form a hand seal.

"Roar roar roar!"

The abyssal maw of the Outer Path Golem suddenly opened to its maximum size, spewing out one enormous shadow after another as if giving birth.

The cat demon, Two-Tailed Matatabi, whose flames burn with shimmering, eerie blue ghostly fire!

The five-tailed Koku-oh is a colossal white beast that resembles a dolphin and a steed in one!

A giant slug covered in highly corrosive slime, the Six-Tailed Rhinoceros Hound!

And the bull-headed sea monster with eight octopus tentacles on its lower body, the Eight-Tailed Bull Demon!

Besides the five tailed beasts that have already appeared on Earth, the other four have all gathered together.

All four tailed beasts had illusory chains tied around their necks, the ends of which disappeared into the mouth of the Gedo Statue.

"The remaining four tailed beasts are already in Pain's hands!?"

The Uchiha clan was both shocked and furious; they simply couldn't believe it.

The four tailed beasts, which were thought to be released only during the next Crimson Moon, had already been captured by Pain at some point.

This couldn't possibly have happened on Earth, otherwise the commotion of the Tailed Beast's birth and capture would never have escaped the notice of countries around the world!

"The tailed beasts sealed in the heavens have been chained up, and only the five tailed beasts on Earth are left."

A fanatical glint appeared on Payne's deathly stiff face as he raised his arms and shouted:

"Unify with all the tailed beasts once more, Nine-Tailed Fox!"

As Pain moved, the chains binding the necks of the four tailed beasts tightened, causing them to be swallowed back into the body of the Gedo Mazo.

Instantly, the demonic statue of the heretic exuded a violent aura capable of destroying the world, even the sea was terrified.

A colossal black Tailed Beast Ball condensed in front of the Gedo Mazo's mouth, expanding to a diameter of 100 meters in just a few breaths!

"Damn it! The Gedo Mazo, which swallowed four tailed beasts, is practically half the Ten-Tails!!"

Uchiha Senmon's heart sank uncontrollably, his eyes filled with worry:

"Sasuke's power hasn't recovered yet. Can the Nine-Tailed Fox alone stand a chance against the Gedo Mazo?"

At the same time, facing the Gedo Mazo's colossal Tailed Beast Ball, the Nine-Tailed Fox gathered the tips of its nine hundred-meter-long tails in front of its mouth.

The dense black and white specks of light from the stars coalesced into a black sphere, which was swallowed whole by the nine-tailed fox.

Then its belly swelled up instantly and pressed heavily onto the sea surface.

"Nine-Tails!"

"The Demonic Statue of the Heretic!"

The tailed beast blast exhaled from the Nine-Tails' mouth collided head-on with the super tailed beast ball spewed out by the Gedo Mazo.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"

A terrifying natural disaster struck. The ocean raged violently, with wave crests rising one after another, taller than skyscrapers. Even if the Statue of Liberty were still standing, it would be swallowed up in an instant.

The waves crashed against each other, shattering into pieces and sweeping across the sky. What was clearly daytime at noon turned into darkness in an instant, then was scorched by the crimson light into a blood-red hue.

The clash between the Nine-Tailed Fox and the Gedo Mazo's Tailed Beast Ball caused the Atlantic Ocean and the sky to boil, creating a scene resembling the end of the world.

The pile of rubble beneath his feet was constantly rolling due to the violent aftershocks, but Uchiha Senmon barely managed to maintain his balance and continue watching the battle.

It was a terrifying battle; once you got caught up in it, even you wouldn't be able to escape unscathed.

"The Nine-Tails is actually evenly matched with the Gedo Mazo, which has devoured half of the Tailed Beasts!"

Suddenly his pupils contracted sharply, and he exclaimed with wild joy:

"No! Kurama won!"

After a brief but prolonged stalemate, the Tailed Beast Cannon pierced through the Super Tailed Beast Ball, and the crimson beam struck the Gedo Mazo, instantly creating a massive fireball that rose from the sea.

"boom!"

As the giant fireball gradually dimmed, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was already floating on its side on the sea, bobbing up and down.

A thousand meters above the Gedo Mazo, Pain stood there.

"The Nine-Tails' power actually surpasses half of the Ten-Tails'?"

Although he escaped the blast radius of the Tailed Beast Ball, Pain was in a somewhat disheveled state, his tattered black robe with red clouds almost completely charred.

However, his tone showed no sign of embarrassment at being in a difficult situation; instead, it was filled with a hint of excitement and ambition.

"As expected of the strongest tailed beast, I want it more and more."

"Go to hell and chase after the Nine-Tails' power, Pain!"

With Sasuke's angry roar, the Nine-Tailed Fox was about to unleash the Tailed Beast Ball that had been gathering in its mouth towards Pain in the sky.

"Universal Guidance!"

Just as the Tailed Beast Ball was about to be unleashed, Pain indifferently stretched out his left hand downwards.

The enormous Nine-Tails immediately lost its balance, soared into the air, and its Tailed Beast Ball aimed at Pain missed its target, flying far away.

"It seems that God's power has recovered more quickly."

A dangerous and ruthless aura flickered in Pain's Rinnegan.

He opened and closed his palms, and a small black ball suddenly appeared in his hands.

"Finally, it's all over. It's a victory for God!"

"Planetary Devastation!"

"You were careless, Payne."

A soft whisper was heard, and in the ripples of the void, a figure appeared like a ghost behind Payne.

"What!?"

Payne was startled and turned his head to look.

With his left eye open, wielding the Kamui Mangekyou Sharingan, Uchiha Senmon's face was cold as he held a fist-sized blue Rasengan in his right hand.

When Pain used Planetary Devastation, he was unable to use Shinra Tensei to deflect his attack.

Although Sasuke forbade the Uchiha Sage to intervene, he had finally seized an opportunity when Pain was vulnerable, and he couldn't let such a once-in-a-lifetime chance slip by.

"This is Jiraiya's revenge, Pain!"

The Uchiha Senmon, who arrived via Kamui, gleamed with cold light and immediately slammed the Rasengan into Pain's back, who was unable to dodge in time.

"Rasengan!"

The Rasengan exploded with a deafening roar, and the high-density chakra spun wildly, twisting Pain's body into a pretzel and severing his limbs. He was sent flying hundreds of meters away like a tattered sack caught in a hurricane.

Defeat Pain, the Kage-level powerhouse who considers himself a god!

(End of this chapter)