Nagato's condition seemed to have worsened, especially when it came to the master and disciple's shared talent for either creating or dealing with absurdity.

But they truly hadn't expected Nagato to say something so outrageous.

The moment she processed his words, Hikari didn't hesitate—she pushed open the window and leaped out without a second glance at the two inside.

Because...

If she stayed any longer, she feared Nagato might actually kneel before her under someone's encouragement, just like that idiot, and start calling her the Sect's Ancestor.

If that happened, Hikari was certain she'd never be able to face Konan again with any dignity.

These outsiders...

Reducing the village leader to such a state was simply unacceptable.

"I'll wait for you outside."

With those parting words, the two left in the room exchanged glances. Nagato remained oblivious to his own problem, believing that inviting someone for such an important role—overseeing the Sect's archives—naturally required sincerity.

But as a god, his knees were too rigid to bend.

Kaito had no idea what was going through his mind and didn't dare comment. He simply grabbed Nagato and vanished from the spot.

A few minutes later.

The three reconvened at the outskirts of Amegakure. Hikari crossed her arms and mercifully declared, "I'll give you some time to prepare."

"No nee—"

Nagato lifted his chin arrogantly, but before he could finish, Kaito yanked him aside and offered Hikari an awkward smile.

"Yes, yes, we need it."

"We'll discuss some tactics."

Nagato: ?

Honestly, Kaito thought Nagato, having just stepped onto the path of immortality, was getting a bit too full of himself—daring to act all edgy in front of their ancestor.

Dragging Nagato to the edge of a small grove, Kaito motioned for him to crouch, then slung an arm over his shoulder and spoke gravely.

"Let's talk strategy."

"What strategy? We can just fight."

Empowered by his newfound strength, Nagato saw no need for overthinking. With his full mastery of the Samsara Eye and a teammate who excelled in space-time Ninjutsu, he was confident they couldn't lose.

"Just to be safe—the Ancestor is really strong."No matter the outcome of this battle, Kaito believed Hikari would choose to take on the role of administrator. Honestly, winning or losing didn't matter—what was important was completing the system's mission.

And besides...

Kaito had a general understanding of Nagato's situation. This guy was currently much stronger than his Edo Tensei counterpart in the original story, and without the burden of the Samsara Eye.

In other words, he had now become the gatekeeper just below the Six Paths level.

But the problem was... Eight Thousand Spears was the biggest cheat in the Shinobi World.

Although Nagato had taken up Cultivation of Immortality, his body still contained vast amounts of Chakra. And as long as there was Chakra, even Hikari's Eight Thousand Spears could take effect.

"Hmm..." Nagato fell into thought for a moment upon hearing this, recalling Uchiha Hikari's Genjutsu from her Mangekyo Sharingan and that technique that controlled people's Chakra and minds. He found it extremely troublesome.

"Do you have any way to counter that controlling technique?"

"Yes."

Kaito slung an arm over Nagato's shoulder, responding with a single word while sneakily glancing back at Hikari, who was standing there in a daze.

"I have an idea..."

"We both have Spiritual Energy in our bodies, right?"

Nagato didn't quite follow but nodded a few times anyway, signaling with his eyes for Kaito to continue.

"As long as we exhaust all our Chakra, she won't be able to control us."

Hearing this, Nagato's face stiffened inexplicably.

He said nothing, just staring blankly at this kid. The two locked eyes, neither speaking another word, as if the air itself had frozen in that moment.

After about half a minute, Nagato shrugged off Kaito's arm, slowly stood up from the ground, took several deep breaths, and after his expression shifted multiple times, finally spoke.

"Then... how do we exhaust all our Chakra?"

Nagato was utterly speechless.

For him, the side effects of the Samsara Eye hadn't disappeared—it was just that his Chakra recovery rate far exceeded the consumption rate of the Samsara Eye.

In this situation, how could they possibly run out of Chakra?

Kaito was also stunned for a few seconds upon hearing this. Feeling the massive reserves of Chakra within himself, he suddenly realized that what he had once most desired had now become his weakness.

"How about... you unleash a few enhanced Almighty Pushes?"

"Super Almighty Push?" Nagato repeated, then took a step back, eyeing this somewhat dangerous guy with a strange look.

"Amegakure would be destroyed first."

For a moment, Nagato, who was dedicated to peace, saw something different in Kaito.

He suddenly felt this kid's ideas were a bit extreme.

After pondering for a few more seconds, Kaito proposed another idea.

"Then just release pure Chakra!"

"How?"

Under the collaboration of the "Idea King" and the "Action Guy," within less than three minutes, Uchiha Hikari—who had been standing there bored—was shocked to see the two lunatics in the distance erupt with violent Chakra, transforming into two towering blue pillars that shot into the sky.

The pillars rose from a hundred meters, to a thousand, then ten thousand meters. The two idiots seemed to be competing to see whose Chakra pillar could go higher, desperately draining their reserves.

In the end, Kaito won. He was the first to propel his Chakra pillar beyond the atmosphere, shooting straight toward the moon.

But in Hikari's eyes, their actions were no different from suicide.

"Have you lost your minds!?""Stop it right now!!"

As everyone knows, if a ninja exhausts their Chakra, they can die. Seeing this, she immediately activated her Mangekyo Sharingan and used the power of Eight Thousand Spears, attempting to influence these two fools.

Not just her, even Konan, who was working in the village, was startled by the situation. Flapping her Paper Wings, she flew over while shouting in this direction.

"Nagato!! What are you doing!?"

"Do you know you could die like this!?"

With Konan's arrival and under the control of Eight Thousand Spears by the elder, the two finally stopped their "suicidal" behavior.

However, what puzzled them was...

Neither Nagato nor Kaito showed any signs of excessive Chakra depletion. In fact, their Chakra fluctuations were even more intense than before.

Kaito only had some sweat on his forehead, while Nagato was slightly worse off, panting heavily, but neither appeared to be overexerted.

Yet, the expressions of the two Foundation Establishment cultivators weren't exactly pleasant.

Good news... their Chakra was now truly inexhaustible.

Bad news... Kaito suddenly realized that, given his peak Foundation Establishment recovery ability, his Chakra reserves seemed to rival that of a Tailed Beast.

Oh no!

Had the ancestor become his Jinchuriki!?

Uchiha Hikari noticed the strange look in the boy's eyes and immediately rushed forward, locking his neck in an elbow hold. Seeing this, Konan hesitated for three seconds before mimicking the move and performing a shoulder throw on Nagato...

For a moment, the scene was filled with lively sounds.

Only on the moon, Toneri, who had inexplicably suffered two attacks, was left as bewildered as a stray dog randomly slapped by passersby.

He was utterly dumbfounded.

It took a full ten minutes for Toneri to recover from those two attacks—not particularly damaging but extremely humiliating.

Then, the moon echoed with the sharp, furious screams of this Byakugan-wielding youth.

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