No one understood how tough Isobu was better than Naruto and the others.
Because the Four Symbols Sealing Barrier had been destroyed, the Konoha group had just been trying to suppress the Three-Tails with brute force.
Yet whether it was Sakura's Super Strength Punch or the combined ninjutsu Naruto and Gamatatsu had used after Naruto trained in Chakra nature transformation, every attack that struck Isobu felt like nothing more than a scratch.
Faced with the enormous and incredibly tough Isobu, although it was slow and practically a living target, the Konoha group still had no way to deal with it.
But no one had expected that such a durable Isobu would not only have its Tailed Beast Bomb blown apart, but would even be sent rolling across the ground by someone's punch.
"Roar—!"
After being sent tumbling several times by Seiya's punch, Isobu finally managed to right itself. Feeling somewhat dizzy, it watched Seiya slowly walk toward it across the water, terror already evident in its eyes.
As weapons of war, and because they were collections of Chakra that could not truly die, the Tailed Beasts had always run rampant throughout the ninja world.
But Seiya now reminded Isobu of another man from decades ago, one who had treated the Tailed Beasts like younger brothers and beaten them senseless.
No... even that man had relied on his bloodline abilities to suppress and defeat them.
A ninja who could hammer it into submission with taijutsu alone—since its birth, Isobu had not only never seen one, it had never even heard of one.
"After taking that punch, you still haven't completely lost consciousness?
Looks like the Three-Tails really is the toughest of the Tailed Beasts. In that case, I don't need to hold back so much out of concern that I might