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Chapter 154: The Weak Wear Crowns.

It didn’t take long before Kanna had questions.

“Kaguya-hime… why are there so many bandits around? Shouldn’t the shinobi villages have dealt with them long ago?”

“A good question,” I said, before pausing, considering how detailed my answer should be.

However, since we still had a long walk ahead of us and didn’t have much else to talk about, I figured I might as well educate her on the whole story. It would likely be passed down to Karin in the future...

Chapter 253

“I admit,” Maw said, brushing dust from his robe as if he hadn’t just been kicked through a wall, “I did not expect you to find me.

But it seems I may have underestimated you all… a bit.”

His voice carried a thin, grating smugness — like someone trying to pretend they still had the upper hand when every card in their hand was on fire.

“No doubt too used to bullying primitive civilizations,” I replied coldly. “That’s what you and your master a...

Chapter 153: Pity Belongs to the Innocent

Kanna hurried after me as we passed through the gate and left behind the Iwa shinobi who couldn’t follow us since they had to guard the fortress.

“Kaguya-hime, what you said… did you really mean that?” she couldn’t help but ask.

I didn’t blame her for asking, for wondering. After all, she must surely have considered if we would ever stop wandering around, settle down and have a home… or at least a place I could leave them when I was out and about.

“To ...

Chapter 252

As Tony went through the portal, he was met by a sight that scared him; nothing but pure horror could describe what he saw.

He had thought the Chitauri nearly endless before, but now he truly knew what endless meant. Before him, filling the infinite void of space, was a host of Chitauri riders, leviathans, and massive spaceships enough to drown out entire worlds. What Earth was facing was nothing but a tiny fraction of what awaited them.

Should the portal not close...

Chapter 152: Through the Gate of Stone

In the end, we spent nearly a whole month traveling through the Land of Waterfalls, even longer than most civilians would, but we weren’t really in a hurry.

We took day breaks to visit famous landmarks, and we went out of our way to experience this wonderful place, this land that had withstood the last war relatively peacefully.

Then again, if there was one beneficial part of the current shinobi system, it was how it left normal cities and towns on their own; only rarely ...

Chapter 251

Nick Fury was fuming mad; he was worried he might lose his voice from yelling, but clearly, only by causing others to have a splitting headache would they bother to listen to him.

“You are all mad! How could you possibly authorize such an attack? And on your own fucking people!”

“Watch your tone, Fury.” The angry voice of a powerful general came through. “We did what we had to do. We had no choice. We gave your little Avengers a chance, and they didn’t close the...

Chapter 151: Temptation by the Falls

We lingered in the Land of Waterfalls longer than strictly necessary.
Partly because the terrain was kinder.

Partly because I saw no gain in rushing Kanna and Karin through endless stone and ash.
Partly because I was tempted.

Tempted to visit Takigakure.

This was the closest I had been to a tailed beast I could reasonably access. The Seven-Tails would surely allow my chakra to reach entirely new levels, my power to go from just S-rank to beyond that—to the...

Chapter 250

“So,” Loki began, “I assume you have a way of finding Ebony Maw despite his attempts to hide?”

I nodded. “Indeed. Before these eyes, no lies can survive — and hiding… hiding is just a form of lying. To lie to the senses, that too cannot stand before these eyes.”

Indeed, my Fea Eyes A were my secret weapon. The eyes of the Fea were pretty damned broken. Not only did they allow me to see through magic, to see its true essence, but also to see lies and truth. 2025-11-26 15:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 150: Journey to Waterfalls

The road west of the black-market outpost was quiet — unnaturally so.

But that wasn’t the full truth. Ever since leaving the outpost, we had been shadowed. It was the standard way of things. Everyone knew which bounty we had; they knew our rough destination, and they knew that we were valuable.

So they shadowed us, following from behind, using one method or another to track us. This was standard business. I doubted they were foolish enough to attack; at most, they were ...

Chapter 249

Tony looked at Loki. “What’s wrong? Don’t like thunder?”

Loki clearly had conflicted feelings about what was happening and had lost much of his joy. “I’m not too fond of what follows it,” he said cryptically, tightening his grip on Gungnir.

“So he did come,” I muttered, watching the bolt of lightning stretch across the heavens.

“You knew this would happen?” Loki asked, his tone unfriendly.

“I suspected as much. This would either prove him...

Chapter 149: Information, Rumors, and Routes

The black-market chamber hummed with low whispers and the soft jingle of ryō exchanging hands. Most eyes had drifted away from us after the initial shock of recognition, but every shinobi in the room kept a sliver of their senses pointed in my direction. Fear and greed made for sharp attention.

Still, the broker was quick to get me what I wanted: all the information about my target. With that secured, I gave the man a small nod and dragged Kanna over to a corner table that looke...

Chapter 248

With the entrance of the Asgardian army, the situation changed completely and instantly. The Bifrost sent squad after squad down to face off against the Chitauri, filling the streets of New York with not just the slaughter of human civilians, but also of the Chitauri themselves.

From where I stood, I could see the proud and brave Asgardians cut down their enemies with ease.

It was, in all honesty, an amusing sight — the Chitauri flying around on advanced tech, shooting la...

Chapter 148: The Price of a Head

The broker didn’t even blink at my request; he was a smart enough man, one who knew how to use his eyes to stay alive. He could see what most ignored.

He looked at me and Kanna and saw not just fine silk — he saw expensive silk. He saw clean and refined noble-grade clothing. He saw an expensive lifestyle to go along with my great strength.

Most missing-nin burned through coin easily, spending as if there were no tomorrow — because for them, there often wasn’t. They ...

Chapter 247

Crossing the ocean to the Americans didn’t take as long as I had expected; it was the first time I was traveling on my Ehangwen. It wasn’t something I brought out often, being too big and eye-catching to take for a casual spin.

But right now, being eye-catching was exactly what I wanted. The entire world was watching what happened here — I had no doubt about that. Even those who normally kept to themselves, such as the Wakandans, watched and likely planned on entering the f...

Chapter 147: Entrance Fee: Fear

We hadn’t walked long before Kanna spoke up again.

“I was thinking that maybe I could help you… to, you know… repay you for everything you have done for us.”

Her voice was so small it nearly vanished under the whisper of the wind.

I raised an eyebrow and glanced in her direction. I didn’t have to — the Byakugan let me see her perfectly — but old habits clung stubbornly. Turning toward the person speaking was simply… human.

“There is no need f...

Chapter 246

“Keep pushing!” Steve’s voice cut through the static. “Tower’s straight ahead!”

They moved through the wreckage in bursts—cover to cover, block by block—Tony providing air support while the rest advanced on foot. The air smelled of ozone and scorched metal. Every step crunched over glass and alien armor fragments that still hissed from the heat.

“Jarvis,” Tony said, “give me structural integrity on the tower. How bad?”

“Bad, sir. Seventy-four...

Chapter 146: The Politics of Betrayal

With the last body dropping to the ground, I slowly pulled all my bones back into me, turning them into pure chakra; they had grown from it and could become it again, with only minimal loss. It truly was one of the most supreme Kekkei Genkai in existence — elegant, efficient, mine.

My Rabbit Hair Needle was a Kekkei Mōra technique, on the same exalted level as my original Byakugan or my All-Killing Ash Bones.

Even weakened as I currently was, it was no less than some...

Chapter 245

One Leviathan was already a nightmare; few among them could take on one, much less win without risk and significant collateral damage.

Much less, dealing with this many, it was a nightmare come true, a truly hopeless situation, they couldn’t possibly break through that wall of monsters coming their way.

Worse yet, this was likely their own chance… if they failed to break through now, they would be pushed back, having to spend who knows how long trying to deal with just ...

Chapter 145: Shadows Without Names

It had been three days since we left the capital. So far, nothing had happened — but I knew it was only a matter of time.

And the reason I was so sure of that was my Byakugan, hidden under the blindfold. I no longer deactivated them. Or rather, after removing the seal, my chakra had moved closer to that of my original body, and that pushed my current bloodline closer to it as well.

So my Byakugan didn’t really have the same powered-down state anymore. What normal Hyūga...

Chapter 244

It wasn’t that Tony hadn’t thought about reaching the tower and shutting down the machine itself. But he knew that doing so wouldn’t be easy. After all, the person behind all this would surely try to stop them.

He just hadn’t expected such a large portal to be able to sustain itself without any external power. While it wasn’t growing anymore, it was still large enough to allow a massive number of aliens to pour through it every moment — hardly much of an improveme...

Chapter 144: The Calm Before Thunder

We spent the next week within the capital, mostly just touring it like tourists — seeing the sights, eating the local dishes, wandering from one market to the next.
It was mostly for Kanna’s sake.

The poor woman had been through so much; even while traveling with me, she had been a nervous wreck. She kept it together for Karin, but only barely. This week of comfort was meant to ease her into a new rhythm of life — one that didn’t revolve around fear or exhaustion.<...

Chapter 243

The city was burning.
From above, New York looked like a dying constellation — every explosion another star collapsing in on itself. The air was thick with smoke and ash, the cries of the wounded mingling with the unending roar of alien engines.

The Chitauri descended like a swarm of locusts — their numbers endless, their ships darkening the sky. Each new wave poured through the rift above Stark Tower, the wound in the heavens widening by the minute.

Tony Stark b...

Chapter 143: Silk and Gold

Morning light spilled gently through the paper screens, glimmering across polished wood. The capital had woken early — the muffled sound of merchants calling to one another, the faint clatter of cart wheels, the endless heartbeat of commerce.

As I awoke, I looked and saw that both Karin and Kanna were still fast asleep. I admit, I was slightly jealous of how early little Karin started to sleep through the nights; my own boys… they hadn’t been even half as well behaved a...

Chapter 242

Ebony Maw looked up at the blue sky as the beam of spatial energy shot upward and started to open a grand portal. Beyond it, he could already see the Chitauri — those nearly mindless tools of war.

Mindless, yes, but useful.

It had been almost a week of local time since he arrived on this planet, and finally, it was time to carry out his master’s will.

He had to admit, he had been blessed with luck when he found that man, Reed Richards. He hadn’t expected...

Chapter 142

The capital of the Land of Fire was the largest and wealthiest city in the world, home to a staggering number of people and spanning a massive area — all housed within great walls and surrounded by fields and farms.

Which wasn’t all that surprising. The Land of Fire was by far the largest and richest. In this age, the wealth of a nation still came down to the amount of food it could produce; only that

mattered in the end. Sure, metal and gold mattered to some extent...

Chapter 241

That night, the people of Camelot beheld a sight like few others — a sight they would never forget. Or rather, the entire night was one they wouldn’t forget, and not just them.
The people of Earth would never forget this day.

For those in Camelot, the amazement started with a bright pillar of light, shining in all the colors of the rainbow. It was a rare sight, but one they knew — the light of the Bifrost, the bridge that linked the Nine Realms together.

Despit...

Chapter 141: Road to the Capital

I didn’t know why I told Kanna about my past — well, about my children at least. Maybe it was because I never had anyone I could tell anything about that part of my life.
So many things I couldn’t talk about: the past, the future, the way this world was so different compared to Earth… so much. Even now, even as Kaguya, I still felt a slight need to vent, but I had no one I could speak to.

Everyone… everyone I had surrounded myself with saw something I wanted t...

Chapter 240

I didn’t know how much time there was between the attack on SHIELD’s flying aircraft carrier and the battle in New York, but it couldn’t be all that long.

A matter of hours at most, just enough for everyone to catch their breath, talk it out, and — after learning of Coulson’s death — for Stark to fly back home.

That was it, that was the timeline, the clock was ticking.

“Are you sure about this, Arthuria? Your plan is needlessly risky, and while I...

Chapter 140: A Mother’s Burdens

The smoke of Kusagakure still hung in the sky days after the burning. To anyone passing by, the air tasted of ash and copper, the smell of fear soaked into every stone.

Yet the cause of the destruction had left — and with her, the one thing that made Kusagakure stand out among the other minor shinobi villages.

A red-haired woman, her body covered with bite marks, trembled whenever anyone approached her and hugged her little baby girl as if her life depended on it.

Chapter 239

Morning in Asgard was unlike morning anywhere else.
While feasting, I hadn’t had the chance to see it, as we were inside with roaring fires everywhere, but now—it was beautiful.

As Asgard was a landmass floating in space, mornings didn’t work the same; the sun didn’t rise, not truly. Instead, it felt like light bloomed like a flower—gentle light spilling over the horizon like molten gold. The air shimmered with energy; even silence carried the faint hum of life and p...