Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

Beast of Molten Fangs

The competing genin did not wait long after the beginning of the match was declared to start their courses to crash collision. Just before the end of the sentence that left Oke's mouth stopped resonating in everybody's minds completely, Tankobaji darted off like a javelin, wielding the iron staff with both of his hands and growling like a wild animal.

Kres-T crossed his wrists in a manner that entrapped Tankobaji's iron staff, making it get stuck in between the two axe handles that laid sharpened and maintained at the sides of Kres-T's bracelets. A loud clang ringed as the iron rings attached to the staff kept on moving out of inertia whereas the staff had fully stopped. With a pair of strong motions, fueled from both his shoulders, strong arms and his beefy chest, Kres-T attempted to break the staff and had it been something made of shoddier stuff he would have undoubtedly succeeded.

In this case, he did nothing else but waste his well-earned time to counterattack.

Without telegraphing his movements or letting out as much as a warning, Tankobaji let go of his iron staff and leaped onto it, using the time that Kres-T took to return to fighting position and prepare for a counter to his own gain. Unfortunately, to the ferocious persona, Kres-T read his moves completely and entrapped the young man's leg between his arms before swinging and tossing him aside, making him smash into one of the bone towers.

With a ferocious and sadistic yell of a psycho who had sniffed weakness and blood of his opponent, Kres-T attempted to drive his flying knee right into his opponent, kneeling him in between his stiffened by chakra augmentations knee and notoriously difficult to break Kaguya bone pillar, crushing and grinding his opponent's bones and innards with such a strike. Tankobaji was ready for this attack, however, using his tight grip he pulled his lower body up and wrapped his thighs around the sides of the bone pillar, appearing almost like a spider lurking for his prey before launching himself with a vicious tackle at his opponent who had missed his mark.

The two continued to plummet down as Tankobaji forced the thighs of his opponent up on his shoulders and wrapped his own legs around the upper body of Kres-T, sending both of them spinning and crashing into the rivers of acid below. A mighty roaring whirlpool of acid burst into motion together with stone, dirt as well as rubble from the sheer force of impact. These two appeared to hold nothing back, the ferociousness of the Tankobaji persona matched the psychotic brutality and the thirst for blood that Kres-T displayed blow for blow and even found chances to return it with some bonus.

A splash of acid followed by a blue flare of chakra neutralizing its persisting effects followed in a short while, signaling that both combatants had hit the bottom of the acid pools and jumped out from its corrosive waters, using the bottom of the rivers for support for their wild leaps. Kres-T utilized the String Reeling Jutsu to zip-line himself to a nearby tower, having the steel wire wrap around the narrower parts of the bone pillar while he zipped himself to its surface, sticking to it with the Art of Tree Climbing.

Tankobaji, on the other hand, simply burst from under the acid's surface surrounded by his hellish flames, using the same showy jutsu that he used for his entrance, the blazing vortex arced in the middle, placing him right in the middle of another bone tower where Tankobaji used a matching method of remaining stuck to it with his feet as his opponent did.

The reason why the primal persona of Gentib took longer than his piledriver'ed opponent to surface was revealed once an audience member glared at the iron rod decorated with clanging iron rings that the bestial genin held in his grasp. The spiky crimson wig, however, had slipped off Tankobaji's head revealing the youth's natural, much shorter than the wig he had adorned, brown spikes.

"Good... You've had enough brain in that head of yours to adorn this persona for me, the brutal one, your strongest one, from what I've heard. That's the only way you'd stand a chance against me, after all!" Kres-T smiled.