Human and demon... fused.
Sasuke thought of the intelligence left on the strip of cloth.
"So it was you!"
Sasuke had kept the information from the cloth strip in mind all along, but on the way here, all he had encountered were Puppet Corpses, and none of them were particularly strong.
Even if the Scout Ninja had been somewhat weaker, he still should not have been defeated by a few Puppet Corpses.
And the one who had defeated that Scout Ninja should have been the person fused with a demon that he mentioned!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions rang out in the formerly quiet cave.
Sasuke was using Fire Style.
Not far from Sasuke, Naruto dodged the tentacles swinging at him. From time to time, he blasted holes in them with Rasengan, and white liquid resembling blood flowed from the tentacles' wounds.
Strangely, Sakura was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, one of the tentacles swinging at Naruto paused for a moment before striking at him again, but this attack seemed somewhat off target.
"It hurts! It hurts!"
The head standing atop the tentacles suddenly howled again, and the tentacles it swung about became chaotic.
The way it flailed its tentacles was like it was venting its anger.
Having left the tentacles' range, Sasuke watched the howling Tentacle Monster, his eyelids twitching.
This guy was only feeling the pain now?
That reaction was way too slow.
"Sasuke, isn't this guy reacting way too slowly?"
Naruto came to Sasuke's side and watched it vent its rage by swinging its tentacles against the cave walls.
The entire cave trembled beneath the monster's immense strength, and dust occasionally fell from above their heads.
"This is bad. Stop it!"
"Got it!"
At this rate, it would definitely bring the whole cave down.
"Lightning