"Enough with this pointless bluffing. Your threats mean nothing to me."
A pale red Tailed Beast Cloak likewise covered Naruto as he looked at Moryo with a smile.
"Moryo, I have a solution that benefits us both. Would you like to hear it?"
"What solution?"
Several of Moryo's Snake Heads showed puzzled expressions.
"Don't you want to merge with the Priestess? I can seal you inside Miroku's body. That way, wouldn't the two of you become one as well? Wouldn't that be a win-win solution?"
Naruto's tone was exceedingly sincere, as though he truly were considering Moryo's interests.
"You damned brat! How dare you toy with me?!"
"I'll kill you!"
Moryo was already burning with rage. This brat actually intended to seal it inside the Priestess's body. What kind of merging was that? How was it any different from before?
In an instant, countless thick, enormous tentacles like giant pythons surged out from the magma once more.
The tentacles lunged fiercely toward Naruto at an astonishing speed.
They were unimaginably fast, arriving in the blink of an eye.
Yet as he watched the massive tentacles lash toward him like a horde of dancing demons, Naruto still wore a faint smile.
"Moryo, can you hear the wind?"
"Roar!"
Now Moryo thought the other side was the one bluffing.
As the tentacles whipped down, savage delight flashed through Moryo's blood-red eyes, as though it could already foresee Naruto being ravaged and trampled beneath its power.
But the next moment, it felt as if a gentle breeze had brushed past its tentacles. Immediately afterward, piercing, dense sounds of wind tearing through the air rang out overhead.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
A closer look would reveal something strange.
The falling rubble from the ceiling of the cavern seemed to touch something and was neatly sliced