Suddenly, the Eight-Tails let out a roar. Its incomparably massive body moved with a speed that seemed utterly at odds with its size, advancing instead of retreating as it charged straight toward the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball.
"Boom!!!"
Closing in on the Tailed Beast Ball, the Eight-Tails slammed its two enormous arms into the ground, blasting open a huge pit. Its arms drove deep into the earth, and its entire body sprawled inside the crater.
Because the ground had been smashed into a deep pit, the Eight-Tails lay there with its head low and its back raised, causing the Tailed Beast Ball to slam directly into its back. With a roar, the Eight-Tails suddenly sprang upward. Even though the impact of the Tailed Beast Ball brought a powerful tearing force against its body, scorching its back black, this was the only way the Eight-Tails could knock the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball away. Once the Tailed Beast Ball flew into the camp, countless people would die.
Amid the Eight-Tails' furious roar, the Tailed Beast Ball that had originally been flying in a straight line toward the Kumogakure camp was forcibly lifted up by the Eight-Tails' own body. It traced a semicircular arc over the Kumogakure camp and fell into a stretch of mountains.
"Rumble!!!"
Blinding light erupted, and an explosion thundered out. A gigantic mushroom cloud rose into the sky, as if someone had dropped an atomic bomb into the mountains. Several mountains had sections shaved off because of it, countless rocks collapsed, and landslides were triggered outright. Huge amounts of stone mixed with soil rolled down from the mountains. Fortunately, no one lived nearby; otherwise, they would all have become sacrifices claimed by the two Tailed Beasts.
"After all these years, you're still that clever."
Seeing the Eight-Tails use such