"Did he get away?"
"Spineless coward..."
"Every day that passes without dancing is a day wasted..."
"If you don't even have the courage to face a strong opponent, how can you bear the title of Kage?"
Madara Uchiha stood on the forehead of the deep-blue Susanoo and spoke with disdain.
Although the Susanoo still hadn't reached its complete form, it stood over a hundred meters tall, clad in gleaming blue fluid armor. Its entire body radiated a cold, merciless aura.
The next moment, Chakra surged from Madara.
The armored giant, already over a hundred meters tall, suddenly grew even larger. A tengu mask covered its face, wings sprouted from its back, and it gripped a pair of massive swords.
Whoosh!
The blue giant, now over two hundred meters tall, beat its wings and shot into the sky, rapidly pursuing Souya!
He wasn't about to hand his Rinnegan over to someone else so easily.
The Rinnegan, the One-Tail, and even Obito's fascinating Mangekyō Sharingan were all supposed to be his!
And so, Souya and Madara Uchiha fled and pursued each other, speeding away from Iwagakure toward Sunagakure.
At this point in time, before Madara's revival, a major event was also unfolding at Mount Myōboku.
"What?!"
"Great Toad Sage, you're going to the Dragon Vein in person to break the seal there?!"
Minato Namikaze stared in shock at the frail, aged Great Toad Sage.
"Someone who doesn't belong to this era has already been revived ahead of time..."
"The souls returning from the Pure Land will drag the entire Ninja World into an abyss of darkness..."
"The progenitor of everything..."
"May once again return..."
"Even the entire land we inhabit may once more be plunged into utter desolation..."
Strange visions flickered through the Great Toad Sage's cloudy eyes, like scenes from