Taking advantage of the lull as Ōnoki and Danzo clashed, Amegakure's Maintenance Squad quietly slipped onto the battlefield to inspect "human stick" Hanzo and replace his body with a new one.
"My Lord Hanzo, please wait a moment. We'll be done right away."
A short while later, Hanzo, dismantled until only his head remained, expressionlessly glanced at the maintenance team tuning his new body. His red Electronic Eye turned and landed on Danzo's imposing back.
"I never thought Konoha today would still have such a heroic figure."
"He took a Dust Release from the Third Tsuchikage head-on and only suffered some superficial wounds. Is he really human?"
Xiu, standing nearby, curiously sized up Hanzo, who had only a head left. Hearing his words, his face filled with doubt and oddity.
"But you know, it actually smells kind of good."
"I have no sense of smell."
"I see. What a shame, Lord Hanzo."
"Hiss—"
Only after confirming that the last Root member had safely retreated did Danzo, feeling the piercing agony coming from his butt, finally bend the back he had held straight through the entire round.
"You're quite a figure yourself."
Seeing that Danzo, in order to let his subordinates withdraw at ease, had never once exposed his charred butt to everyone's sight from beginning to end, even Ōnoki, as his opponent, could not help feeling a measure of admiration.
"I've decided to leave you an intact corpse."
"Who wins and who loses is still uncertain!"
Danzo turned around. The movement tugged at his wound, but he stubbornly did not cry out in pain.
Only then did Senju Hi Shin in the distance see the injury Danzo had been hiding, and the expression on her face froze.
"Danzo's butt..."
"Doesn't it look like two big black pots?"
"You really—Curly, how