After Sailing with the Pirate King, I Returned to Konoha - 196

Chapter 196: Kurama: Yes! This Is the Feeling!

After donning the tailed beast cloak, Killer Bee's speed and strength increased tremendously. This enhancement was even more terrifying than Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

He drew the seven swords from his body. His mouth, neck, knee joints, waist, and abdomen—even his armpits—gripped sword hilts.

"Supervibrato Lightning Release Swords."

This was a special sword technique Killer Bee mastered, relying on flexible skills and unpredictable blade paths. Simultaneously, he covered the blades with Lightning Release chakra, executing "Supervibrato Lightning Release Swords."

If hit by any of these seven blades, the enemy would fall into paralysis, forced to endure the following storm-like assault.

He became like a spiked top, attacking Naruto. Blades appeared from various tricky angles, even shifting positions with Killer Bee's movements.

"Flashy swordsmanship, but—you'd probably have some common ground with that kid."

Naruto first instinctively complained, then involuntarily recalled that green-haired brat who dared challenge Hawkeye. A faint smile appeared on his face.

But the next moment, his expression returned to calm, as if some force was forcibly suppressing this emotion.

Since I'm in combat, I'll deal with this suppression later.

Seeing Killer Bee with swords all over his body, Naruto simply created blade edges on his own arms. After clanging sounds, Naruto was unharmed, while Killer Bee's seven swords were mostly damaged. Several had completely broken, and most of the rest had chips.

"Bastard fool! Really human? Must use real skills!"

Though these seven swords weren't as famous as the Hidden Mist's Seven Ninja Swords, they were still high-quality weapons forged by Hidden Cloud Village using chakra metal. Their craftsmanship drew inspiration from the Iron Country's samurai.

Naruto's body wasn't just as hard as steel—his technique also surpassed Killer Bee's. Though Bee was attacking the entire time, Naruto's every parry and counterattack was precise, always hitting Bee's weakest points.

The seven swords stuck into the ground. Killer Bee simply invoked more tailed beast chakra. Instantly two more tails extended. Black-red tailed beast chakra completely covered his face.

At this time, Jiraiya and others belatedly arrived at the battlefield. Seeing the four-legged beast jinchūriki with a large tail, Jiraiya instinctively thought Naruto had gone berserk.

But then he saw the person standing before it.

Isn't that Naruto? Then who is this guy?

Soon, the Fourth Raikage gave him the answer.

"Bee! Use that jutsu!"

As someone who trained his body long-term, maintaining physical fitness even at sixty or seventy, Raikage A had remarkably recovered control of his body after lying still for a while using Lightning Release to stimulate his cells.

Hearing his brother's voice, Bee immediately reacted, assuming a charging stance. The two brothers, wrapped in chakra, simultaneously attacked Naruto from front and back.

"Double Lariat!"

Their speed was too fast—even though Jiraiya, Sasuke, and Karin immediately reacted and attacked to intercept, they couldn't stop them in time.

Their elbows were like guillotines, simultaneously clamping Naruto's neck. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, their arms didn't budge—completely unlike usual when they could behead enemies.

"What—"

Before Raikage A finished speaking, a large hand pressed his head and smashed it into the ground. His nearly two-meter-tall frame was forcibly "planted" upside down into the earth. This time, getting up would be difficult.

Killer Bee wanted to help but was also grabbed by Naruto. What made Killer Bee even more horrified—Naruto actually opened his mouth toward him.

That was the sound of chakra being torn away.

This guy is actually eating Gyūki's chakra!?

Killer Bee thought of Hidden Cloud Village's two famous rogue ninjas, the "Gold and Silver Brothers." These brothers reportedly once ate Nine-Tails' chakra. Now this same fate had fallen on him.

But there wasn't time to dwell on that. Gyūki was already yelling in his head.

"Bastard Bee! Get back!"

Hearing this, Bee's large tail struck out, using the reaction force to barely break free from Naruto's grasp.

Naruto stood in place, savoring the recent taste.

"Not bad. Though you look a bit strange, your flavor is really excellent."

If a beautiful woman said this, perhaps Killer Bee would be somewhat happy. But these words came from an expressionless killer's mouth—it sounded exactly like a predator appraising its prey.

Killer Bee deeply knew that Naruto before him might be the strongest enemy he'd encountered in his entire life. He simply invoked Gyūki's chakra at maximum power, fully entering tailed beast transformation.

The original small red figure disappeared, replaced by the massive eight-tentacled horned octopus.

"An octopus—"

Looking at the mountain-sized Eight-Tails jinchūriki, Naruto's mouth uncontrollably drooled. Charcoal-grilled octopus legs, skewered octopus tentacles, stir-fried octopus... countless recipes filled Naruto's mind. The desire to eat seemed to be impacting some suppression.

The opposing Gyūki, now merged with Killer Bee, instinctively felt that appetite-filled gaze and involuntarily shrank back.

Inside Naruto, watching Eight-Tails Gyūki show the same reaction as when he first met Naruto, Kurama let out unscrupulous laughter.

"Hahaha! Exactly right! This is the feeling!"

I knew it—back then it wasn't because I was timid, but because Naruto's thought process was too bizarre.

"Bastard!"

An octopus tentacle wrapped around Naruto's body, about to slam him aside. But Naruto instead grabbed that massive tentacle, pulling hard, and forcibly tore it from Eight-Tails' body.

"Good, this works as a midnight snack."

Looking at that tentacle four or five times his size, Naruto nodded with satisfaction. Then he actively attacked.

When Naruto's figure disappeared and reappeared in midair, Killer Bee showed a triumphant smile.

"Right now!"

Earlier he'd hesitated to go all-out with his big brother lying nearby. Now Naruto jumped up voluntarily—right into his firing line.

Eight-Tails Gyūki opened his massive mouth. A Tailed Beast Ball rapidly formed. Seeing this, Naruto instinctively wanted to pull out a Haki Ball for counterfire.

But Conqueror's Haki simply wouldn't activate.

Due to zero-distance firing, this genuine Tailed Beast Ball was launched without accumulating much power. Killer Bee watched the Tailed Beast Ball directly hit Naruto's body, then continue pushing him into the distance.

"It hit!"

Next should come a grand explosion!

But as he watched Naruto fly farther away, the imagined Tailed Beast Ball explosion never came.