Naruto Immersive Replay, The Curse of the Sharingan

Chapter 215 - The Final Chapter (4)

Inside the barrier, everyone's hearts were in their throats, their eyes fixed on the area ravaged by destructive energy, their breaths almost stopped.

The sandstorm gradually dissipated.

The first thing that catches the eye is the terrifying pit on the ground, eroded by the ash bones of the All-Killing Ones, its edges still emanating wisps of deathly grayness.

At the edge of the pit, a figure was trembling violently, barely managing to maintain a kneeling position.

Her snow-white robes were now filthy and tattered, stained with blood and dust.

Most shockingly, her clothes were torn on her left shoulder and right waist, revealing stark white bones beneath! Where the ash bones of the killer had brushed against, flesh and blood had been completely obliterated, leaving only horrific mutilations.

The mortal body is as fragile as paper in the face of true divine power.

“Showa…!” Your voice trembled with disbelief as you struggled to squeeze out the name from your throat.

Seeing this woman, who was always arrogant, domineering, and crazy, in such a wretched and miserable state, your eyes are filled with immense shock and overwhelming worry.

If you hadn't lost your strength and found it difficult to even move your body, you would have rushed out long ago without hesitation.

"Cough...Pfft—" Showa coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with pieces of internal organs, his body swayed, and he almost fell to the ground.

But she used her still intact right hand to firmly support herself on the ground, her fingernails digging into the soil.

Then, she actually laughed.

It started as a low, suppressed chuckle, which quickly turned into a wild, unrestrained laugh!

"Hahahaha!! What a pathetic... pathetic body!! Hahahaha!!"

Showa laughed so hard that all her wounds burst open, and more blood gushed out, but she seemed to feel no pain. Her laughter was filled with extreme mockery of her broken body and a chilling madness.

Everyone inside the barrier was so shocked by the horrific and insane scene that they were speechless.

They could clearly sense that the originally powerful and violent Prajna power in Showa's body had completely disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

At this moment, all that sustained her was her mortal body riddled with wounds, and... and a terrifying obsession that had almost materialized!

This is her mad longing for Uchiha Chiri that transcends life, death, and time; it is an indelible madness etched into the deepest part of her soul!

Just when everyone thought she was about to die, and even Kaguya's pure white eyes flashed with a hint of indifference, "That's all there is to her."

A white shadow, moving faster than the limits of visual perception, even faster than the speed of thought, tore through the distance of space!

Kaguya's pure white pupils suddenly contracted. Before she could even react, she felt a tremendous, purely physical impact on her abdomen!

The power was so savage, so violent, that it seemed to shatter her internal organs.

"Ugh!" With a muffled groan, Kaguya was actually knocked back several steps by the punch.

For the first time, genuine astonishment and... a trace of unbelievable pain appeared in her pure white eyes!

She looked down at the slight dent of her fist on her white shirt, then slowly raised her head to meet the eyes so close to hers.

The crimson Rinnegan was bloodshot from excessive burning, but the depths of its eyes were a pure, insane, and extremely sinister darkness.

There was no pain, no fear, only a ruthless and exhilarating desire to drag the god before him into hell.

"The progenitor of chakra...so what?" Showa's voice was hoarse, each word laced with blood and foam, "I still...fight them all!!"

Before she could finish speaking, her attack came again, without any energy glow or spell fluctuations, only the most primitive physical techniques!

Kaguya completely abandoned her last trace of contempt. This madman, this mortal driven solely by obsession and madness without any immense power to support him, had actually managed to hurt her.

She had to concentrate and use her long-forgotten martial arts skills to deal with the situation.

His pure white eyes reflected Showa's blood-stained, grinning face as the two clashed in a small space.

The scene became extremely bizarre and tragic, with one being an immortal chakra progenitor and the other a broken mortal clinging to life by sheer willpower.

With each collision, Showa's body would groan in unbearable pain, her wounds would reopen, and she would be covered in blood.

But she seemed to feel no pain; her attacks grew increasingly vicious and reckless!

Under this crazy fighting style of purely trading blows and risking one's life, Kaguya actually seemed a bit flustered and even slightly suppressed.

Her physical skills relied more on absolute speed and strength; she had never encountered a combat technique that existed solely for killing.

Finally, after dodging Showa's attack, a fierce glint flashed in Kaguya's eyes. Seizing a tiny opening, her body instantly became ethereal...

Showa's determined punch slammed into empty air, the immense force even producing a whistling sound!

The next second, Kaguya's figure appeared like a ghost several meters behind Showa.

Her face was icy cold, and the Rinne Sharingan in her forehead flashed with anger. A jet-black Truth-Seeking Ball instantly condensed in her palm, transforming into a sharp black thorn!

"It's over." The cold voice announced the verdict.

Almost at the same moment she appeared, Showa suddenly turned halfway around, as if he had eyes in the back of his head.

"Pfft—!"

The jet-black Truth-Seeking Ball spike pierced precisely through Showa's right scapula, entering from behind and exiting from the front of his shoulder.

A terrifying annihilating energy instantly invaded her body, frantically destroying all life.

Showa finally let out an uncontrollable scream of pain as his body was thrown backward by the enormous impact, crashing heavily onto the ground dozens of meters away, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The black thorns of the Seeking the Way Jade still remained on her shoulder, like a cruel mark, constantly eroding her life.

She lay on the ground, her body twitching slightly, blood spreading from beneath her.

It seems he will never be able to stand up again.

Inside the barrier, all was deathly silent, except for the sound of your suppressed sobs.

Kaguya hovered in mid-air, coldly looking down at the figure that had finally stopped moving, her pure white eyes devoid of any emotion.

A mortal man attempting to kill a god.

In the end, it was just... a tragic and futile effort.

Consciousness seemed to sink into the cold seabed, constantly falling, surrounded by blurry light and shadow and the gradually receding noise.

The pain becomes numb, and bodily sensation is gradually being stripped away.

Showa gasped for breath, each breath pulling at the terrible wound on his shoulder, bringing waves of suffocating pain as if he were about to die.

Just as the boundless darkness and cold were about to completely engulf her, a soft glimmer of light appeared ahead.

In the light, a figure gradually became clear.

Her long purple hair was gently tied back, and she wore the dark casual clothes commonly seen by the Uchiha clan. There was still some flour on her apron, and she had a helpless yet tolerant smile on her face.

She was holding a simple wooden lunchbox in her hands, and was carefully blowing on it, as if it was still hot from being just made.

"Showa, you got into another fight?" Jiri's voice was as gentle as a spring breeze, carrying a hint of reproach, but more so, heartache.

She put down the lunchbox, squatted down, took out clean gauze and ointment, and skillfully began to treat the wound that Showa's arm did not have.

That might be a trace left from some distant afternoon after Showa-era mischief.

It turned into a rainy night. The young Showa, covered in blood and mud, huddled in a corner of an abandoned shrine, tightly holding a faint figure in his arms.

Chiri's face was as pale as paper, but she struggled to raise her trembling hand and used the last bit of chakra to gather a faint light of medical ninjutsu, trying to heal the scratch on Showa's forehead.

"Don't... don't worry about me... Chiri... please..." The young Showa's voice broke, and tears rolled down his cheeks along with the rain.

"Don't move...it will stop hurting soon..." Zhili's voice was weak, but her eyes were focused and gentle, as if she were dealing with the most important thing in the world.

The real pain abruptly pulled Showa from her beautiful illusion back to reality. The annihilation pain brought by the Truth-Seeking Ball in her shoulder blade swept over her again like a tidal wave, reminding her of her current desperate situation.

“…Chisato,” Showa murmured unconsciously, cold tears finally streaming down his face, mingling with the blood on his cheeks. “It hurts so much…”

She turned her head away, struggling to focus her gaze.

Above her, Kaguya Otsutsuki floated in the air, her pure white eyes coldly looking down at her as if she were an insect about to be crushed. Her gaze was filled with the ultimate contempt of a god for an ant.

Inside the barrier, you were being held tightly by Madara, your mouth pressed tightly against his, your black eyes filled with unspeakable sorrow and helplessness, tears constantly spilling from between your fingers.

Ah...it's happening again.

Once again, he fell so miserably and pathetically before the enemy.

Is she going to make someone important to her show such a sad expression again?

How undignified... Uchiha Showa thought to himself with self-deprecation, his consciousness beginning to blur again.

Just as her consciousness was about to completely sink into the abyss, a voice, traversing a century of time and piercing the boundary between life and death, like the bell of final judgment, once again clearly rang in the depths of her soul.

"Showa...I love you."

These were Shiri's last words, spoken with her last breath, almost drowned out by the thunder and rain.

Those three simple words instantly dispelled all her confusion and despair!

No--!!!

How could she die here?!

She hasn't...she hasn't fulfilled that vow yet!

On that cold, damp rainy night, in front of the Uchiha shrine that was reduced to ruins, she held Chiri's gradually cooling body and made a vow to all the fallen clan souls and to this cruel world.

She vowed that no matter the cost, no matter what she became, no matter how many years she had to wait, she would find a way to reverse life and death and bring Chiri back!

How could she...how could she just collapse here? How could she break her oath to the authorities?!

Her star... her Zhili... is still waiting for her at the end of the River of Oblivion. How could she let Zhili wait in vain for her return, and once again suffer eternal loneliness alone?

First, Black Zetsu's scheme took Chiri's life, and now this so-called progenitor of chakra is trying to extinguish her last hope?

Were she and Chiri truly destined to be...fated but not meant to be?! Did they deserve to be tormented and trampled upon by fate like this?

If this is the answer that fate has given...

She denies it!

Chapter 216 - The Final Chapter (5)

An extremely terrifying, extremely pure willpower, even surpassing the instinct for survival, erupted from the deepest part of Showa's broken body like a volcanic eruption.

It was the deepest pain forged from the most intense love, the madness compressed from a century of obsession, and the inextinguishable soul ignited by the flames of resentment.

"Ugh... Ahh ...

Amidst the horrified gazes of everyone, Uchiha Showa, who should have been on the verge of death, let out a heart-wrenching roar.

With her intact right hand, she forcefully braced herself against the ground, the bones creaking painfully. Then, little by little, extremely slowly, she dragged her body, pierced by the Truth-Seeking Ball, and painfully... stood up again!

The black Truth-Seeking Ball was still stuck in her shoulder blade, swaying with her movements and constantly emitting a black mist of annihilation that corroded her flesh, yet she seemed completely unaware of it.

Blood flowed from her various wounds, pooling at her feet into a shocking puddle of blood.

But she stood up.

She raised her head, her face stained with blood, but the crimson eyes of her past life no longer held the madness and violence of before.

It contained an ultimate love that transcended life and death, the ultimate pain of enduring a century of loneliness, and an ultimate obsession capable of burning everything, including herself!

He was completely different from his previous crazed state.

At this moment, she is more like an eternal soul who has crawled back from the depths of hell to fulfill a promise.

She raised her hand, grasped the black handle of the Seeking Truth Jewel on her shoulder, and gritted her teeth!

With a soft, throbbing sound, she actually managed to pull the Seeking Truth Jade out of her body, bringing with it a large chunk of mangled flesh.

She casually tossed the Truth-Seeking Jewel, which was still emitting an ominous black light, onto the ground, making a crisp clanging sound.

Black mist filled the wound, but no new blood flowed out, as if life there had been completely extinguished.

She simply raised her eyes, burning with obsession, and fixed them on Kaguya, whose expression had slightly changed in the air.

Silent, yet more threatening than any roar.

At the end of the River of Oblivion, the stars bear witness.

Though my body is crippled, my vow remains unchanged.

At the end of time, all is silent and desolate.

The vast illusionary structure of Infinite Tsukuyomi is slowly dissipating like shattered glass, and the mental constraints it imposed are being forcibly broken, allowing the rules of the real world to regain dominance.

This brutal reversal, especially since it involves interference with the very essence of spacetime, has clearly angered some deeper, underlying consciousness that maintains the operation of the world.