"Wind Release..."
Gaara inhaled.
At the same time, multiple mouths appeared across his body.
Those mouths sucked in the windblown sand from the endless Great Sand Sea.
"...Infinite Sandstorm Great Breakthrough!!!"
Boom!!
The hurricane roared.
Gaara exhaled a Wind Release technique covering an immense area.
In an instant...
It covered dozens of meters!
"How was that?!"
Gaara grinned viciously.
Hyuga Sho's footsteps sounded from within the smoke.
"Completely ineffective... As expected..."
Gaara recalled how, during the day, his father Rasa had used Absolute Defense to counterattack Hyuga Sho, yet had been unable to break even his skin.
"If that's the case..."
"Gaara...!"
Rasa's shout came from nearby.
However.
Gaara ignored the voice.
Cold sweat covered the foreheads of Rasa and the others.
The next moment...
A black shadow flashed past.
The sound of an explosion rang out.
Countless grains of sand and fragments shot in every direction.
It was as if a monster had propped itself up around Gaara.
The entire ground was transformed into a flat expanse.
The Sunagakure ANBU were thrown to the ground by the earth-shaking tremors.
They stared blankly at a huge black shadow emerging in the night sky.
A tail shot straight into the heavens and began to sway.
Its hide...
Under the moonlight in the cloudless night sky, it gleamed with the grim yellow color of sand.
Its enormous head alone was as tall as two people.
Its form was not human.
It was a gigantic tanuki.
Its massive belly gave it an honest, simple air.
But one look at those eyes radiating a cruel light revealed...
This comical appearance brought with it an uncanny sense of terror.
Looking at the familiar monster before them,
everyone's minds went completely blank...
"It... It's Shukaku...!"
"Hahahaha...!!"
Gaara's wild laughter came from the terrifying figure of the