If anyone had asked just how powerful Susanoo was, probably no one in the entire Shinobi World could have answered before now.
After all, every last person who had experienced Susanoo's power had already been reunited in the Pure Land. Even their bodies had probably rotted into heaps of mush.
But from this moment on, the Shinobi World probably had one more person who could say exactly how powerful Susanoo was.
Yes, Hyuga Hiashi had survived a blow from Uchiha Chisen's Majestic Attire: Wood Human. Or rather, Tenseigan Chakra Mode had kept him alive.
Even if Hyuga Hiashi's Tenseigan chakra was not true Six Paths-level power, it was still Tenseigan chakra!
"Did I lose?"
Above the magma pool in the Valley of the End, Hyuga Hiashi's body was scorched until black smoke rose from it. Yet he seemed unable to feel any pain, merely gazing at the sky with his Tenseigan.
"Just like Uchiha Madara back then, I wanted to leave Konoha. He wanted to leave Konoha too.
"He died in the Valley of the End, and I'll die in the Valley of the End as well-"
At this point, Hyuga Hiashi discovered that he felt little regret. Or perhaps, ever since he had chosen to slaughter the Hyuga Clan to fulfill Hyuga Hinata's wishes, he had stopped caring all that much whether he lived or died?
He had wanted to leave Konoha for no reason other than to keep the Tenseigan from falling into its hands.
"Could you give this Tenseigan to Neji?"
"He's your student too, and he's inherited your justice. Let Neji inherit the Tenseigan-"
Hyuga Hiashi watched as Susanoo slowly dispersed and even the Wood Human began to collapse. As Uchiha Chisen walked toward him, he made his final request.
There was something pathetic about it.