By the sea, atop a cliff.
Uchiha Hikari stepped across the reef, its surface cracked all over and littered with broken stone from the aftershock of the Tailed Beast Bomb, slowly walking toward Sasuke, who still stood frozen in place.
The sea wind howled, whipping her long black hair and the hem of her clothes with a sharp flutter.
And behind her leisurely stroll, on the vast sea that now seemed like a boiling hell, the terrifying battle between the two tailed beasts appeared to be nearing its end as well.
Mini-Kurama's mountainous body, more than three hundred meters tall, had already taken absolute control.
It suddenly lunged forward, its massive body raising towering waves like mountains collapsing into the sea. Its dark-red giant claw descended as if the sky itself were falling, and it slammed the Nine-Tails, which was fleeing in panic, straight down into the seawater!
"Gurgle—!!!"
Huge bubbles mixed with the Nine-Tails' terrified, furious muffled roars surged wildly up from beneath the surface.
Mini-Kurama's dark-red claw was like a naughty child holding down a disobedient kitten, pinning the Nine-Tails' enormous fox head firmly beneath the sea. No matter how it slapped the water with its claws, struggled, or lashed Mini-Kurama's arm with its tails, it did not budge an inch.
Only the raging seawater kept exploding apart, forming chaotic whirlpools and towering waves.
"Hiss—!"
Mini-Kurama even used its other free claw to rub hard a few times over the fur on the Nine-Tails' back that was exposed above the sea, as if scrubbing someone in a bath.
Dark-red chakra and orange-red chakra collided violently, scattering great sprays of chakra sparks that danced across the sky.
The scene was filled with absurdity and an overwhelming, absolute crushing of power.
The Nine-Tails inside Naruto now was only half of