Naruto: Copy System - [718] : The Death of Imu
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Shin stared at Imu with great interest.
“Tell me what Uranus is. If you do, I might let you live.”
Shin, who had been about to command the Susanoo to attack, held back. Among the three Ancient Weapons, Uranus was by far the most mysterious.
“Hmph, why should I tell you?” Imu snorted. Transformed into a phoenix, she had grown to a massive size.
She was dozens of meters tall, but compared to Shin’s Complete Body Susanoo, she was nothing.
Still, a sliver of hope remained in Imu’s heart. Perhaps this giant was all bark and no bite, not as powerful as it seemed.
With a beat of her wings, she launched a massive fireball at the Susanoo. The flames struck the armored giant, causing some minor damage.
Seeing this, Imu’s heart leaped with joy.
But she had celebrated too soon. The damage was repaired in an instant, and her expression immediately changed.
“How did it recover so quickly?” Imu thought in shock, then the sky suddenly went dark.
Looking up, she saw a giant hand reaching for her. Imu flapped her wings, trying to fly away and escape its grasp.
“Not bad. You actually dodged it.”
Shin was slightly surprised that Imu had managed to escape his attack, but he hadn’t been serious.
From the wings on its back, the Susanoo drew a massive katana and slashed at the flying phoenix.
Honestly, this phoenix wasn’t much to look at. In fact, it was rather ugly. At least, by Shin’s standards.
At best, it was a little better-looking than Ho-Oh (Pokémon), but not by much.
So, Shin didn’t hold back, slicing off one of the phoenix’s wings with a single blow.
The fiery bird fell from the sky, crashing to the earth as the Susanoo’s blade continued its descent.
Seeing the blade, Imu didn’t dare maintain her phoenix form and quickly reverted to her human shape.
The phoenix form was powerful, but its size made it an easy target. In human form, dodging attacks was much easier.
She rolled away, narrowly avoiding the Susanoo’s blade as it carved a deep scar across the Red Line.
One of Imu’s arms was gone. The wing that had been severed was her arm.
“Damn it.”
Flames flickered at the wound, and a new arm grew back.
“Limb regeneration?” Shin was slightly surprised. He hadn’t expected her to be capable of that. Marco’s Phoenix Fruit couldn’t do that. It could heal wounds quickly, but limb regeneration was impossible.
“<Banshō Ten’in!>“
Shin, standing within the crystal on the Susanoo’s forehead, used Universal Pull. Imu’s body flew uncontrollably towards him.
“The Dark-Dark Fruit’s ability?” Imu shouted in shock. As far as she knew, only the Dark-Dark Fruit had a similar gravitational ability.
She desperately tried to resist being pulled, but she couldn’t. In the end, Shin grabbed her.
He held her by the neck, his cold eyes staring into hers.
“Tell me about Uranus, or I’ll have to kill you.” Shin’s voice was calm, but his body radiated a terrifying killing intent.
Engulfed in his killing intent, Imu’s body went cold, and she trembled.
The threat of death was upon her, but she gritted her teeth and refused to say a word about Uranus. She was surprisingly tough.
“Did you really think I couldn’t find out just because you wouldn’t talk?”
Shin mercilessly used his soul extraction ability. With his Nine-Tomoe Rinne-Tenseigan, reading her memories was effortless.
“You’re useless to me now. If you had told me before, I might have spared you.”
Shin then crushed her soul. With her soul gone, Imu was dead. Even with a phoenix fruit that allowed for rebirth from flames, with no soul, death was absolute.
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Glancing at Imu’s corpse, Shin ignored it and looked down at the ground, a strange light in his eyes.
“So Uranus is a person too… or rather, a living being…”
By reading Imu’s memories, Shin had learned that Uranus, like Shirahoshi, was a living being.
It was Uranus who had given Imu her phoenix fruit, and the Celestial Dragons served Uranus. And Uranus was sleeping beneath the Holy Land of Mary Geoise.
“If it’s sleeping, and all this commotion didn’t wake it up… did it die in its sleep?”
Shin couldn’t help but wonder. He then returned to his ship, the Pluton.
“Is Imu dead?”
Seeing Shin return, Amatsuki Toki immediately asked him, her eyes filled with anticipation.
“Yes, she’s dead. But let me ask you a question. Do you know about Uranus?”
Shin asked Amatsuki Toki. After all, she was from that era; she should know a lot.
Hearing Shin’s question, Amatsuki Toki first nodded, then shook her head, leaving Shin completely confused.
What does that mean? Do you know or not?
“I’ve heard of Uranus, but I’ve never seen it.” Amatsuki Toki didn’t know much about Uranus either. Even if she had heard of it, she had never seen it.
“Alright.”
Shin wasn’t disappointed. He had already guessed that Amatsuki Toki might not know.
“Let’s leave for now.”
Shin glanced at the ruins of the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, then said to Hancock and the others.
Hearing his words, Kalifa immediately used her Float-Float Fruit ability, making the Pluton rise into the air and fly away.
“Shin, you must have learned something about Uranus, right?” Robin asked Shin.
“That’s right. Uranus is actually in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise right now,” Shin nodded.
However, hearing his words, Robin looked at Shin with confusion. If he knew Uranus was in Mary Geoise, why didn’t he go find it? From what she knew, Shin was very interested in this.
Was it dangerous? No, that couldn’t be right. Even the Celestial Dragons had been wiped out. What danger could Uranus pose? Robin had defined Uranus as a tool, not a living being.
Of course, Shin didn’t think Uranus was dangerous. He definitely wanted to see this so-called Uranus, but to do so, he had to get the Pluton away from Mary Geoise first, to avoid getting it caught in the crossfire.
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