"I-It's getting even bigger... This must be over a hundred meters tall now?!"
"Damn... So this is the full power of the CCG's Chairman? That's insane!"
"If it weren't for the fact that we can feel the massive commotion all the way from Tokyo here in Chiba, I'd honestly think I was watching a movie..."
"..."
All of Japan was in an uproar.
Finding herself suspended over a hundred meters in the air, Yoshimura Eto was just about to say something when she noticed sweat already forming on Uchiha Byakuya's forehead, his brows furrowed in clear strain.
It was the first time she had ever seen Byakuya struggling like this. Instantly, a sense of worry welled up within her.
As expected, maintaining such a massive Kakuja form was taking a heavy toll on him.
Or rather, if he could handle such an outrageous transformation with ease, that would have been even more absurd.
"Are you okay?"
Eto immediately reached out and wiped the sweat off Byakuya's face.
"Mm..."
Byakuya merely grunted in response, not even bothering to say another word.
The fourth form of Susanoo was already putting him under immense pressure and he could feel that he wouldn't be able to maintain it for long.
And it wasn't just about the strain.
The Susanoo inflicted intense pain on the user, as it essentially extracted and materialized their own cellular energy.
Right now, Byakuya felt a searing agony coursing through his entire body. It wasn't completely unbearable, but it was enough that his expression no longer carried its usual composure.
As for the Complete Body Susanoo? That was out of the question. With his current strength, there was no way he could activate it.
This needed to end quickly.
Two SSS-rated Quinques, "Owl", suddenly materialized in Susanoo's hands.
By now, both Owls had practically become an exclusive weapon for Byakuya's Susanoo, and just like its wielder, the weapon had also scaled up proportionally in size.
Its twin blades were engulfed in a vibrant blue flame, perfectly blending with Susanoo, as if they were one.
This was, in the truest sense, a hundred-meter-long sword.
From a distance, Yoshimura Kuzen's eyes locked onto the gargantuan weapon.
That... wasn't that his own arm?
A wave of disbelief surged through him. His Kagune, which had been crafted into a Quinque, could actually become this massive?!
At that moment, Byakuya controlled his Susanoo to wield the twin blades, slashing horizontally in a single, decisive stroke; right toward the location he had determined to be the "core."
Two colossal arcs of blue fire, each spanning over a hundred meters in diameter, erupted from the twin blades, roaring toward the Dragon's Core with an apocalyptic momentum.
The sheer force of the attack seemed to tear through space itself, creating a warped visual distortion in its wake.
Everything in its path was reduced to nothing.
Lower buildings were flattened instantly, while skyscrapers were utterly annihilated.
Even the Dragon's body itself, in the face of this slash, was as fragile as paper.
"BOOM!!!"
Even the people watching through their screens could hear the deafening explosion shake the heavens.
They stared, dumbfounded, at what had just transpired.
But the ones most shaken were undoubtedly those in Tokyo, the ones within the immediate blast radius.
All across the city, even the Dragon's spawn, the "Children of the Dragon" halted their rampage, lifting their heads in stunned silence.
"..."
At this moment, Yoshimura Kuzen was utterly overwhelmed.
He had seen many things in his lifetime.
But never had he witnessed something as terrifying as this.
The ghouls from groups such as "Devil Ape," "Black Doberman," and the "Clowns" all stood frozen in place, staring in stunned silence at the distant Susanoo.
"Good thing we never got on that guy's bad side. Otherwise, we wouldn't even have had the chance to witness all this..."
Hoito Roma let out a deep sigh of relief.
"Renji, we really got lucky back then, huh? If he hadn't been in a good mood, we wouldn't be alive right now."
Uta spoke with a bitter smile as he turned to look at Yomo Renji.
"Yeah..."
Renji could only nod in agreement.
The same scene was playing out on the CCG's side.
"This... this kind of power could probably wipe out all of Tokyo in one go, right?"
Marude Itsuki muttered in shock.
At that moment, he couldn't help but feel relieved that Byakuya's ideals were centered around peaceful coexistence between humans and ghouls, especially since the man himself was actually a decent person.
If he had wanted to, with power like this, he could have easily ruled with an iron fist.
Meanwhile, the Washuu estate had also been caught in the blast radius. However, the three people hiding in the library; Washuu Nimura and the others were unharmed.
But that single slash had completely shattered any remaining hope in Washuu Tsuneyoshi.
With destruction on a nation-wrecking scale, obliterating the Dragon was no longer in question.
He was already beginning to think about his final words.
"Nimura, in the end... you win."
Washuu Yoshitoki sighed in what almost seemed like resignation.
However, Nimura himself was completely speechless. He seemed so shocked that he hadn't even heard Washuu Yoshitoki's words.
In almost an instant, the Dragon's Core was engulfed and utterly annihilated by the twin blade arcs.
Even though the core was located underground, Byakuya had calculated the perfect angle for his slash, ensuring that the energy waves were not completely parallel to the ground.
With precise accuracy, the twin arcs struck the Dragon's Core, and within a kilometer-wide radius, nearly everything was reduced to rubble.
Fortunately, Tokyo's civilians had been evacuated beforehand and even those stubborn individuals who refused to leave were forcibly placed under the CCG's protection.
Otherwise, the casualties caused by Byakuya's Susanoo would have far exceeded the destruction caused by the Dragon itself.
At that moment, the Prime Minister, watching through a screen, suddenly realized something:
So that's why Uchiha Byakuya had been so adamant about evacuating the civilians.
With the Dragon's Core destroyed, the entire Dragon's body immediately lost its vitality.
However, it would still take at least two hundred years for the Dragon's body to fully decay naturally.
Furthermore, its hardened exterior was far more durable than any ghoul's kagune, it only looked like paper before the Susanoo because of the sheer disparity in power. It didn't mean the Dragon's body was actually that fragile.
At that moment, a system notification rang out in Byakuya's mind-
[Ding! Host has defeated EX-rank 'Dragon'!]
[Reward: 1000 Attribute Points.]
EX-rank signified that the target had surpassed the measurable scale of classification, which explained the absurdly high attribute point reward.
It wasn't in vain, risking his life to activate the Karasu-Tengu Form of Susanoo, especially for that final slash. It had nearly cost him half his life.
But that wasn't all, the task progress for his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan had also been updated.
[Mission 2: "Tengu Form" Susanoo slays the 'Dragon' (1/1)]
Just that one slash had completely pushed Byakuya past his limits, right now his body was under extreme stress, nearly at the point of collapse.
Without hesitation, he immediately deactivated Susanoo.
Eto's reaction was incredibly fast, she had already noticed Byakuya's body was reaching the brink of exhaustion.
"Stop pushing yourself. Leave the rest to me."
Hearing Eto's words, Byakuya felt reassured enough to entrust everything to her.
Right now, forget about using "Double Kamui" to protect himself, he didn't even want to move.
They were both plummeting from the sky, and below them, a horde of Dragon Orphans was waiting for them.
Just before they could crash down, Eto swiftly wrapped her arms tightly around Byakuya and in an instant, she activated her Kakuja form!