"I didn't expect you to even know a specialized term like 'tool person'!"
After teasing him, he said nothing more.
Suddenly, Kitahara Kaede seemed to think of something.
He spun around sharply.
At the site of the previous battlefield.
The Ten-Tails had long since reverted from its Divine Tree form.
That eye had not yet disappeared.
Tsukikawa Isshiki stood together with Itachi Uchiha.
Suddenly, that eye turned toward Tsukikawa Isshiki.
It seemed to have sensed something.
Tsukikawa Isshiki looked back at it as well.
Then his lips moved slightly.
"I told you long ago, I won't interfere in this battle."
Itachi Uchiha, half within the distorted space, still wore a baffled expression.
He did not understand a single bit of what Tsukikawa Isshiki meant.
But he soon found out.
Because he felt something familiar.
It was as though something had wrapped around him layer by layer.
Something around him was moving at high speed!
"Otsutsuki Mana!"
Itachi Uchiha reacted immediately.
But hadn't Otsutsuki Mana been chased off by Kitahara Kaede?
Could something have happened to Kitahara Kaede?
Itachi Uchiha recalled Kitahara Kaede's overwhelming charge earlier.
That figure still lingered vividly in his mind.
Yet asking Itachi Uchiha to accept that incomparably powerful man—
Being suddenly defeated by this wildman-like fellow before him!
Itachi Uchiha could only say—
Sorry, I can't accept that.
But he truly could not see Kitahara Kaede anywhere.
Itachi Uchiha thought rapidly.
Then he gave an awkward laugh.
"Kitahara, don't scare me like that. Come out already."
Itachi Uchiha thought Kitahara Kaede was playing a joke on him.
But in the next second, his gaze froze.
Because he saw that familiar, violent figure.
And that figure had assumed the same preparatory stance as before.
It still looked like he was readying the final blow.
"Damn it!!!"
Itachi