A Blood-colored Full Moon.
Hung high above the Illusion World.
Below it stood two colossal beings, as though they had stepped straight out of myth.
The ninja world's millennium-long calamity, the Nine-Tails.
The valiant god of war, Susanoo.
"Give it everything you have and entertain me, Kagami Uchiha!"
A cerulean slash.
Split the earth in two!
A massive ravine stretched between the two giants!
Kagami Uchiha said nothing. His eyes were icy as he pressed his palms together.
A drizzling rain of black-red droplets began to fall from the sky.
Arrogance, hatred, sorrow, disgust, desire...
Endless negative emotions flooded the world. An ordinary person would have their mind twisted by merely standing within it for an instant.
There was no Yang Release.
Pure Yin Release particles gathered before the Dark Nine-Tails, forming an enormous sphere of energy.
Crack—
The crushing pressure forced the entire beast's body downward.
"Just a Tailed Beast Ball made of Yin Release?"
"I can't believe you actually managed to form something like that."
"More accurately, it's a Yin Release Rasengan."
Kagami Uchiha curled his lips into a smile. "Though Rasengan Cannon might be a more fitting name."
Inside Susanoo, Uchiha Madara stood with his arms folded, carrying the absolute bearing of the strong.
"Are you ready?"
His black hair whipped wildly as Madara recalled his battle with Hashirama.
No one could judge the value of a moment until it became a memory.
Even time could not erase regret.
Hashirama... if only back then...
No!
In the next instant.
Susanoo gripped its longsword tightly and slashed through the void, as though severing something unseen.
"You really are something!"
Uchiha Madara threw back his head and laughed heartily, leaning forward.
"So your attack had already begun!"
That enormous black sphere of energy had never been