"Danzo, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing, Danzo?!"
Voices of shock rang out from his companions. They stared at their friend in disbelief, as though they could not believe he would do such a thing.
"Hokage."
"Why?"
"Why can't the position of Hokage be mine?!"
Danzo howled like a defeated stray dog.
Friendship, bonds, comrades—he could cast them all aside. What he wanted was to become Hokage!
For that goal, he could sacrifice everything.
Including the companions before him!
His gaze turned crimson. Cracks emerged along his arm, then spread to cover his entire body.
A crimson eye appeared on his stomach, and an authority powerful enough to freeze people in place descended upon everyone.
Then, an evil and immense power erupted from Danzo's body, transforming into countless thick, grotesque tentacles that burst through his flesh and smashed everything before them to pieces like an endless tide!
Watching his four friends be caught among the tentacles and relentlessly ground apart, Hiruzen Sarutobi trembled with rage. The fury in his eyes nearly swallowed Danzo whole.
"Danzo, you actually did something like this. I'll never forgive you!"
Danzo, who had already turned into a ball of flesh, stared at the scene before him in astonishment with his one remaining eye.
What terrifying power. He had taken out so many people with a single move.
Then he raised his head and looked at Hiruzen, the Hokage's successor.
"Next is you! Once I kill you, the Hokage position will be mine!"
The densely packed tentacles surged again like a tide.
There was no suspense in the battle's outcome.
Because no one could resist the power of a god.
Danzo looked at the chunks of flesh crushed into fragments before him and revealed a satisfied smile.
"Now, no one can compete with me