"...I... lost?"
Standing atop the crumbling remains of the Earth Nine-Tails, Urashiki lowered his head to look at his mutated hands, then gazed at the two figures in the distance. Not only had their auras not weakened, but their Chakra remained abundant.
The violet-gold Susanoo Nine-Tails stood towering and unmoving, the radiance flowing around it not diminished in the slightest.
"Defeated... by lowly creatures that are merely at the level of monkeys...?"
Humiliation! Unprecedented humiliation! Yet his instinct to survive forcibly overcame the boiling shame and madness. The remnants of his reason screamed at him.
His trump card had been destroyed, while his opponents remained in perfect condition. They might not even have used their full strength.
Though he had expended a tremendous amount of Chakra, his Otsutsuki physique and the reserves he had devoured earlier still left him with quite a bit remaining.
If he wanted to live... there was only one path left—run!
But when his gaze swept over Naruto and Sasuke, who stood ready for battle, he knew that based on their strength just now, facing the pursuit of both of them at once... his chances of escaping were infinitely close to zero.
Even if he used up all his remaining Chakra in one final gamble... it would likely only be a meaningless death struggle that prolonged his despair.
At that moment, the enormous violet-gold Susanoo Nine-Tails at the center of the battlefield began to dissipate. Naruto released his Complete Tailed Beast Transformation.
As the light receded, Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar—one gold, one black—appeared side by side once more upon the ravaged earth.
The auras around them remained powerful and stable. Clearly, the fierce battle just now had not truly drained them by much.
Urashiki's golden Rinnegan locked onto them. His mutated palms clenched tightly at