"Tch!" *6
As for Shukaku's silky-smooth escape, the few tailed beasts present who knew its character all showed looks of disdain in perfect unison. Clearly, they had long since grown used to such behavior.
"My masterpiece. The Shukaku War Puppet I spent nineteen-point-eight billion to complete..."
Looking at the pile of scrap metal in front of him, Shu shed tears of grief. This War Weapon, into which the village had poured an enormous amount of money, had not even set foot on a battlefield for a single day. How was he supposed to explain this to the village after he went back? His old man would skin him alive.
"Why are you crying? We're saved!"
Unlike Shu, who looked as if his whole family had died, Danzo stared straight at the suddenly descended Senju Hi Shin with shining eyes, a brilliant smile on his face unlike anything he had ever shown before.
"I might as well die on the battlefield."
Shu clutched his head in both hands and crouched on the ground with an expression of agony.
He was not Rasa, who practically minted gold every day. Nineteen-point-eight billion—how was he supposed to pay that back in this lifetime? Great. With such a massive stain on his record, he probably had no chance at the position of Fourth Kazekage for the rest of his life.
"Hmph~ Stupid tanuki. The monk may run, but the temple can't. I'll let you owe me for this time."
The Nine-Tails clicked its tongue regretfully. The huge illusory fox head swept its gaze around, then dissolved into bubbles with a wicked grin.
"That stinking fox is here. How about we withdraw?"
Startled by the Nine-Tails' eerie smile, the Five-Tails quickly and secretly pulled together a four-beast discussion group and proposed it to the others.
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