"What else could we do?" Suikazan Fuguki glared coldly at Kisame. The thought of Kisame being too terrified to make a move earlier filled him with rage. He said icily, "Why didn't you act just now? Were you scared stiff? What a useless piece of trash!"
"This time, our losses were truly devastating. You're the only useless piece of trash who survived!" Suikazan Fuguki cursed Kisame without restraint, gritting his teeth inwardly. That old bastard Yagura Karatachi will definitely make an issue of this. He just became Mizukage, and his first strike was against Biwa Juzo... But I recovered the Executioner's Blade. Even if we lost a few men this time, it should be enough to make up for it! I just hope that old bastard Yagura Karatachi doesn't go too far. Otherwise, I'll have no choice but to make the same decision Biwa Juzo did...
While Suikazan Fuguki weighed his gains and losses, he failed to notice the chilling killing intent that suddenly flashed in Kisame's eyes beside him. It vanished in an instant. Faced with Suikazan Fuguki's rebuke, Kisame said nothing...
"Trash, what are you standing around for? Hurry up and retrieve Biwa Juzo's Executioner's Blade. It's time to leave. If those Konoha Anbu come back after us, we won't be able to run!" Seeing Kisame frozen in place, Suikazan Fuguki's anger flared again. He was no good superior when dealing with his subordinates.
In his eyes, subordinates were merely tools in his hands. As long as they obeyed his commands, that was enough. When danger arose, he would not hesitate to use them as shields to buy himself a chance to escape!
The reason he had managed to escape from Might Dai back then was because, at the very last moment, he had used one of his Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist comrades as a shield!
If those Konoha Anbu came back for another round, he had no ability to resist them now!
"Yes, Captain..." Kisame did not argue. He appeared exceedingly respectful, his head slightly lowered, though a cold glint flashed through his eyes...
He came before Biwa Juzo's corpse and picked up the Executioner's Blade lying nearby. Just as he was about to leave with Suikazan Fuguki, a terrifying commotion erupted from the lake beside them...
"Hahaha, I've finally been revived!!" A roar shot into the sky. Something seemed to awaken beneath the lake in the distance!
The entire lakebed began to churn. Then a vortex formed on the surface, and three enormous tails covered in sharp spikes suddenly extended from it. With just a light slap, they sent the lake water surging, creating a tsunami-like torrent that crashed outward!
"What happened?" Suikazan Fuguki had been vigilantly watching his surroundings. Seeing the disturbance from the lake, his expression immediately darkened. He thought those Konoha Anbu had returned.
Kisame also looked over, his face equally grave.
"Hm, what's going on? Samehada, what are you doing?" Suikazan Fuguki suddenly felt his weapon, Samehada, grow incomparably excited. If he had not restrained it, it might have broken free and rushed over there.
They did not possess Yei's Byakugan and could not see those vast, powerful Chakra fluctuations. However, as the monster emerged from the lake, they saw its full form.
It was a gigantic turtle-like monster covered in spikes, with a ferocious shell and three thick tails lashing about wildly. As it appeared, the entire lake began to heave violently!
Even those who were not sensory-type ninja could sense the immense Chakra fluctuations within that monster!
Suikazan Fuguki suppressed Samehada. When he saw the monster clearly, his eyes widened. "A Tailed Beast? This is the Three-Tails!!"
That was right. The creature that had appeared in the lake was none other than one of the Nine Tailed Beasts—the Three-Tails, Isobu!!
After seeing the Three-Tails, Suikazan Fuguki's expression first turned solemn. Then, as if he had thought of something, delight appeared in his eyes. Yet as he watched the tsunami-like waters crashing toward him, he swiftly leaped onto the crown of a large tree.
Watching the Three-Tails wreak havoc in the lake, Suikazan Fuguki's face lit up with excitement. "Quick, leave this place! We must report this news to the village!"
Suikazan Fuguki was overjoyed. He knew his chance to redeem himself had arrived!
After the Three-Tails died, Mist had continuously searched for its whereabouts, but they had never found any trace of it.
The rebirth of Tailed Beasts followed few rules. Where they appeared was entirely random.
As the strongest weapons of the major ninja villages, Tailed Beasts were naturally of the greatest concern to Mist, which had lost the Three-Tails. They had to bring the Tailed Beast back to their village and increase their strength.
Now that he had witnessed the Three-Tails revive before his very eyes, Suikazan Fuguki was ecstatic.
If he brought this news back to the village, then... even if every member of his team had died during this mission, he would not be blamed. It would even count as an enormous achievement!
Even at full strength, he would not have been a match for the Three-Tails, let alone in his current heavily wounded state. They needed to hurry and send this news back to the village. They could not let the other ninja villages discover it!
Not to mention, that Hyuga Clan Anbu from Konoha earlier had definitely noticed it as well!
Tailed Beasts were coveted by every ninja village. Therefore, they had to recover the Three-Tails before people from the other ninja villages arrived!
That amount of Chakra... A Tailed Beast? If I possessed that much Chakra... then the next time I faced that Hyuga Clan Anbu, I should be able to fight him, shouldn't I? As Kisame watched the Three-Tails throw the lake into turmoil with a mere flick of its tail, an indescribable emotion rose within him.
The desire to grow stronger surfaced in his mind!
However, upon hearing Suikazan Fuguki's order, he did not hesitate. He left at once with Suikazan Fuguki, heading toward Kirigakure!
Elsewhere, Yei activated his Byakugan and looked over. What entered his sight was an orange-red mass of Chakra boiling like the sun. His pupils contracted slightly as he blurted out, "A Tailed Beast?"
In the Shinobi World, only strange creatures like Tailed Beasts possessed orange-red Chakra.
His senses spread outward, revealing the monster's full form. Yei was slightly taken aback. "The Three-Tails? It actually revived here?"
Studying the lake closely, Yei pondered. As if recalling something, he said, "Is this the lake where the Three-Tails appeared in the original story?"
"Tailed Beasts..." Yei did have designs on the Tailed Beasts, but he currently lacked the ability to subdue one...
Even at his peak, he was not confident he could defeat a Tailed Beast...
Without burning his life away, Yei was at most Jonin level. He might not even have reached the level of an elite Jonin. Against a Tailed Beast, he definitely could not win...
"Forget it. I'll consider it later. Tailed Beasts concern all the major ninja villages, and they won't give them up easily. Besides, Tailed Beasts aren't the only sources of such vast Chakra in the Shinobi World. Once I'm strong enough, I'll find a way..." Yei murmured. After one final glance in the Three-Tails' direction, he flashed away.
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