"Roar!"
Hearing the savage roar that filled their ears, the refugees who had come to support Sara trembled all over in fright. The chubby little boy at their head backed away several steps in terror, nearly falling on his backside.
"What kind of monster is that?"
The once-arrogant Anrokuzan puppet was now being gripped in the hand of a little fox whose entire body was scarlet, gray-black fragments raining down from it without end.
"He's not a monster! That's Naruto!"
Sara lifted her head and shouted.
She had witnessed the entire process of Naruto entering Tailed Beast Mode with her own eyes. Though the shockwaves stirred up by the Nine-Tails' aura had blown her from side to side, there was not a hint of fear in her eyes.
She believed in the big boy who had sworn to protect her. No matter what he became, he would never hurt her.
Anrokuzan tried to struggle a few times, only to find that not only could he not budge in the slightest, but a scorching heat was also coming from the scarlet giant hand. The puppet he had painstakingly built was carbonizing at a visible speed.
"He actually entered Tailed Beast Mode?"
Looking at the scarlet beast whose eyes had already rolled white, Anrokuzan's gaze swept over the four tails swaying behind its backside, his eyes filled with dread.
When he was young, he had personally witnessed the young Gaara going berserk. His appearance had been almost no different from Naruto's now, and the devastation he had caused still shocked Anrokuzan whenever he thought of it.
But Anrokuzan was no longer Mukade, the Genin who had once hidden in a corner trembling. He raised his head and glanced at the Dragon Pulse chakra receding at the top of the tower, then split