"Here they come," she said.
Before her words had even faded, two ghostly lights lit up in the depths of the darkness.
Huge, golden, vertical-pupiled eyes.
The puppet Sakura Dragon, now fully revealed, raised its head from the shadows of Rōran.
Its massive body nearly blotted out half the sky, its coiled form resembling a mountain range.
"This thing is... the Sakura Dragon." Naruko spoke again. "I can feel it. Although its body is a puppet, this Chakra—"
—Of course it was the same.
They were both Sparkle cosplaying. It would be stranger if they weren't the same.
As the puppet Sakura Dragon appeared, dark clouds began rapidly gathering in the sky.
Even though they were in the middle of a desert, thunderclouds that blotted out the sun had completely covered the heavens.
Compared to "creating a character," setting up this environment was what had truly taken time and effort. Sparkle had prepared for ages to gather enough moisture above Rōran. With the puppet Sakura Dragon's appearance, these "scene special effects" were finally complete.
These Popularity Points were practically pouring in.
[5][Holy shit, what the hell is that?!]
[5][Wait, there's actually a dragon inside this Dragon Vein?]
[5][Meow meow meow?]
[5][Hold on, the Dragon Vein's energy is infinite, and tailed beasts like the Nine-Tails are infinite too. Isn't this thing something like the Ten-Tails?]
[5][Tailed beasts are pure Chakra lifeforms. As long as they have Chakra, they can live.]
[5][The Ten-Tails is a little different.]
[5][The Otsutsuki Clan harvests the entire universe. Hot take: this thing might be a Ten-Tails or Divine Tree from another planet.]
[5][This is what happens when Boruto: Naruto Next Generations rots your brain.]
[5][Non-burnable trash.]
[5][It's burning now, okay?]
[5][What about the art style?]
[5][Fine, this one really is non-burnable.]
Their Guesstimated theories were truly