Naruto: This Genius is Somewhat Ordinary-Chapter 406

In an instant—

Toneri’s golden blade collided head-on with the moon sprite’s golden beam.

BOOM.

The impact detonated like a small star.

The entire moon shook violently.

High above, space itself rippled outward in concentric waves, like water struck by a falling stone. Everything those distortions touched was shredded into nothingness.

Only the Ōtsutsuki palace survived.

Partially ruined, but still standing.

Sasuke stared, dumbfounded.

...That thing is that strong?

Then he noticed something worse.

Toneri’s golden blade was shrinking.

The moon sprite’s beam wasn’t.

The sprite looked completely relaxed, golden chakra pouring out of it endlessly.

The blade shattered.

The beam punched straight through.

Toneri barely twisted aside in time.

The golden beam grazed past him and vanished into deep space.

Any celestial body in its path would have been pierced clean through.

Toneri’s eyes were wide.

"...How is this possible?!"

Then realization hit him.

That creature had absorbed the entire golden Tenseigan, formed from generations of sacrificed Byakugan.

Of course his half-finished version couldn’t compare.

What he didn’t know was that the sprite was also amplifying that power using the crimson Rinne-Sharingan’s chakra.

For it, suppressing Toneri was effortless.

"What are you?" Toneri demanded hoarsely.

"How can you absorb our clan’s relic? How can you use the Tenseigan?!"

The sprite blinked.

It didn’t know.

Another "her" had told it this power would be good for it.

So it came.

As for how it worked...

Yeah, no idea.

That was a future problem.

Sasuke exhaled slowly.

Good thing it didn’t vaporize him.

Otherwise, Hanabi’s eyes would’ve been unrecoverable.

"Moon Sprite," Sasuke called out.

"Leave him alive. We need those eyes back for Hyūga Hanabi."

The sprite tilted its head.

Shook it.

Then nodded.

"...You’ll handle him, but without that attack?" Sasuke guessed.

It nodded again.

Then vanished.

It reappeared directly above Toneri.

"Don’t underestimate me!" Toneri snarled.

His Truth-Seeking Orbs shot toward it.

Golden chakra flared around the sprite.

The orbs froze.

Then their green glow was swallowed by gold.

They turned golden.

And Toneri’s control over them vanished.

"...What."

He went pale.

It had hijacked his Truth-Seeking Orbs.

That was even possible?!

The golden orbs flew past him.

Missed.

Or so it seemed.

Four halted above him.

Four halted below him.

Perfect square.

Toneri’s blood ran cold.

"...No."

He tried to break out.

A golden membrane snapped into place.

BANG.

He slammed into it headfirst.

Blood poured down his face.

He roared and unloaded everything he had.

Nothing.

The barrier didn’t even ripple.

The sprite yawned.

"Truth-Seeking Orbs: Spatial Freeze."

This wasn’t Rinne-Sharingan or Tenseigan jutsu.

This was the sprite’s own space-time ability.

Only someone with superior space-time mastery could escape.

In this world, that meant exactly one person.

Fujimoto Tōma.

And the sprite would never use it on him.

Below, Naruto gawked.

"...That’s Tōma’s cute summon?!"

It used to be just a teleport pet.

Now it was Six Paths tier.

Thanks to Kaguya and the Tenseigan.

The sprite glanced down.

Saw Naruto and Sasuke watching.

Its eyes lit up.

It vanished.

Reappeared on Naruto’s shoulder.

"Huh?" Naruto blinked.

Then space folded.

Naruto vanished.

He reappeared midair.

Inside the frozen cube.

Directly above Toneri.

And started falling.

"...Oh. OH."

The sprite waved at him.

Naruto understood immediately.

Golden chakra exploded around him.

He cocked his fist.

Toneri looked up too late.

BAM.

Naruto’s punch smashed into Toneri’s face.

His skull warped.

He rocketed into the ground.

The cube vanished.

BOOM.

Toneri cratered the lunar surface.

Naruto kept falling.

"...Wait. WAIT—"

The sprite had already left.

"HELP—!!"

Sasuke sighed.

Prepared to use gravitational pull.

Then Naruto froze midair.

"...Huh?"

"I’M FLYING!!"

Sasuke stared.

...You learned it like that?

Below, dust cleared.

Toneri lay broken.

His green chakra vanished.

His eyes reverted to normal Byakugan.

"...The Tenseigan’s power... it’s gone..."

He laughed weakly.

"...Even if I still had it... what would it change?"

He looked toward the palace.

Saw figures running with Hanabi.

Closed his eyes.

Defeated.

By the people he’d called primitives.