Sarutobi Toru let out a long breath, finally venting the resentment from having just been smashed into the ground.
However, Sarutobi Toru had forgotten that during the last Shinobi World War, he too had transformed into a merciless pile driver, using Gyuki's head like a nail to hammer into the ground.
This time, Gyuki merely wanted revenge. Unfortunately, it did not know that Sarutobi Toru was far stronger now than he had been ten years ago. Gyuki had not been Sarutobi Toru's match back then, and it was even less so now.
A moment later, the enormous Eight-Tails lying on the ground slowly began to shrink, eventually revealing the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Blue B, within.
Turning his head, Sarutobi Toru looked at the Two-Tails Jinchuriki beside him, only to discover speechlessly that the Matatabi, which had just begun to take shape, had retreated back into its Jinchuriki.
"Are Tailed Beasts so good at picking on the weak and fearing the strong? Or is this just Matatabi's personality, an isolated case?"
Sarutobi Toru remembered that in the Parallel World, when he had wreaked havoc in Kumogakure, after knocking Gyuki flat with a single punch, Matatabi had stubbornly refused to emerge from its Jinchuriki's body.
He had not expected Matatabi to use the same trick again this time. Seeing Two-Tails Yugito's face flushed bright red, Sarutobi Toru could not help but look at her sympathetically.
Yugito was currently screaming frantically at the Matatabi inside her. "Get out here already! What are you doing cowering in there? Aren't you a Tailed Beast? Aren't you a natural disaster? Hurry up and fight!"
Matatabi lay curled up in the Sealing Space, clutching its head with both paws. Its fur seemed to have puffed up all over. A closer look would reveal, to one's speechless disbelief, that