“Death?”
Yagami Yue smiled.
He spread his arms wide, as though embracing something.
Zzzzt…
Crackling!
Tiny arcs of electricity began appearing around his body.
They crawled and flickered through the air, disappearing before appearing again, repeating endlessly.
An electric field formed around him.
Then came the electromagnetic field.
Under the shocked gazes of the Konoha shinobi, the gold dust surrounding Rasa suddenly began to separate.
It started circling around Yagami Yue.
“What?”
“How is this possible?!”
Rasa was stunned.
“How do you know Lightning Release and Magnet Release?”
“Weren’t you supposed to know only swordsmanship?”
Rasa’s eyes widened as he stared at Yagami Yue in disbelief.
The Konoha shinobi were equally stunned.
They had always assumed that Yagami Yue didn’t know ninjutsu.
That was why he had always preferred fighting with his swords.
But now, Yue was showing them something completely different.
Lightning Release could be terrifying too!
As Yagami Yue’s mastery of Mikoto Misaka’s abilities continued to increase, his electromagnetic field began interfering with Rasa’s control.
Before long, approximately one-third of Rasa’s gold dust had been seized by Yue.
It formed a circular defensive system that continuously revolved around him.
The commotion even caught Orochimaru’s attention from the other side of the battlefield.
Orochimaru was astonished.
“When did he learn Magnet Release too?!”
At this moment, Rasa’s initial shock turned into anger.
“Damn you!”
“You dare use Magnet Release in front of me?”
“You’re asking to die!”
His chakra erupted.
The gold dust around his body rapidly gathered.
“Magnet Release: Gold Dust Attack!”
With a wave of his hand, a massive arc of gold dust swept violently toward Yagami Yue.
Yue’s scalp tingled.
Too fast!
It was like a razor-sharp crescent blade.
He hurriedly dodged.
“Dodge?”
“Do you think you can keep dodging?”
Rasa sneered and flicked his finger.
“Magnet Release: Glass Release Barrage!”
In an instant, countless tiny particles of gold dust transformed into a storm of bullets and shot toward Yagami Yue.
Yue’s eyes narrowed.
He swept out his hand.
A massive wall of gold dust appeared in front of him.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
The barrage slammed into the gold-dust wall.
Every projectile was stopped.
But at that moment, Rasa grinned viciously.
A mass of gold dust floated above his head.
At that instant, Yue’s Observation Haki gave him an overwhelming warning.
Danger!
Yue immediately retreated.
And in the next instant, Rasa’s voice rang out.
“Magnet Release: Gold Dust Boundary Method!”
The mass of gold dust instantly transformed into countless sharp spikes.
They rained down over the place where Yue had just been standing.
Yue barely escaped.
One of the golden spikes only managed to tear the edge of his clothing.
“You actually dodged again?”
Rasa frowned.
He stared at Yagami Yue, his anger steadily increasing.
Every one of his attacks had been avoided.
He was the Fourth Kazekage!
If word got out that he had repeatedly failed to hit a mere chūnin, wouldn’t the entire shinobi world laugh at him?
How would Sunagakure respect him after that?
“Looks like I can’t afford to conserve chakra anymore.”
“Using a large-scale ninjutsu against him might make it look like I’m bullying a child…”
“But I can’t worry about that now.”
With that thought, Rasa formed a series of hand seals.
“HA!”
A blue-green light rose around his body.
Then a platform of gold dust appeared beneath his feet, lifting him into the air like a flying cloud.
The golden cloud carried him higher into the sky.
At the same time, an enormous mass of gold dust began gathering above.
“Magnet Release: Glass Cannon Rain!”
Countless golden projectiles rained down from the sky.
They completely covered the area within ten meters of Yagami Yue.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
The ground was instantly turned into a sieve.
Every hole was nearly a meter deep.
The destructive power of those gold-dust projectiles was obvious.
“You think something like this can defeat me?”
Yagami Yue snorted coldly.
He manipulated the gold dust into a thick wall above his head, blocking the relentless barrage.
But Rasa’s super-scale ninjutsu clearly wasn’t limited to that.
He formed another series of hand seals.
BOOM!
The earth shook violently.
Even the Konoha shinobi dozens of meters away could barely keep their footing.
They stared in shock.
Completely dumbfounded.
“HA!”
With Rasa’s roar, the ground around Yagami Yue suddenly erupted.
Starting from the ten-meter-wide area surrounding Yue, countless masses of gold dust surged upward like a tsunami.
A gigantic circular wave formed around him.
Then it crashed inward.
In less than a second—
The place where Yagami Yue stood was completely swallowed by a sea of gold dust.
Massive.
Shocking.
Even Orochimaru stopped fighting for a moment.
He looked over in astonishment.
“Has Rasa gone mad?”
“He’s using such a massive-scale ninjutsu against a mere chūnin?”
“That has to be at least an S-rank technique!”
Rasa suddenly shouted.
His hands formed a triangular shape before he thrust them toward the center of the battlefield.
“Secret Technique: Gold Dust Grand Burial!”
An enhanced version of Gold Dust Burial!
BOOM!
RUMBLE!
The earth shook once again.
It was as though the entire world had sunk downward.
The area within ten meters of Yagami Yue collapsed directly into the ground, forming a gigantic crater.
“Did he die?”
“How is that possible?”
“He actually died?!”
The Konoha shinobi stood frozen.
For a moment, none of them could accept what they were seeing.
They had been rescued by Yagami Yue countless times on the battlefield.
And now—
They had watched helplessly as the Fourth Kazekage seemingly killed him.
Anger.
Grief.
Sorrow.
Fear…
A mixture of emotions surged through their hearts.
“Hahahaha!”
High above them, Rasa stood upon his golden cloud and laughed wildly.
“This is what happens to geniuses!”
His laughter was filled with the satisfaction of revenge.
The satisfaction of personally crushing a rising genius.
Below, the Konoha shinobi glared at Rasa with hatred, their teeth practically grinding together.
Suddenly—
BOOM!
A tremendous explosion erupted!
The entire mass of gold dust blasted outward.
A figure leaped from within.
“I’ll admit…”
“You almost got me.”
Yagami Yue looked up at Rasa.
A grin spread across his face.
The Fourth Kazekage’s Magnet Release was undeniably powerful.
But…
Yue’s Railgun abilities just happened to be an exceptionally good counter to it.
Rasa’s smile froze.
His expression gradually turned dark.
Meanwhile, Yagami Yue’s smile became even brighter.
“Now it’s my turn to put on a show.”
“Now…”
“Let’s start by flipping a coin…”
A coin appeared between Yagami Yue’s fingers.