"Aah, aah, aah!"
Piercing screams rang through the main hall. They came from Shinnō, who suddenly doubled over and curled up as though gravely injured.
But on closer inspection, his screams hardly sounded pained, and his exaggerated movements were absurdly theatrical. It looked more like a farcical performance, put on solely to play along with someone's earlier declaration.
And once he had achieved that effect, his screams abruptly turned into uncontrollable laughter!
"Hahaha!"
"Just kidding."
Done with his antics, he slowly straightened, the arrogance and disdain in his eyes reaching their peak.
Just as he had imagined, this descendant of the Uchiha Clan who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan had some ability.
But not much.
What he did have was boundless arrogance!
"What was that about two breaths?"
"What Uchiha Clan?"
"Turns out you're nothing but a bunch of boastful lunatics!"
"You're lucky the Land of Sky's research wasn't this advanced during the Warring States Period. Otherwise, the so-called Senju of the Forest and Uchiha Clan would never have had a chance to run rampant!"
He looked at the young shinobi before him, openly pouring out his scorn and contempt.
His powerful physique remained planted in Ancor Vantian's inner hall like an insurmountable mountain.
There was, however, one thing that puzzled and surprised him.
Ancor Vantian, which had been plummeting at tremendous speed, seemed to have stopped falling!
Had the machinery and power furnaces resumed operation using the Zero-Tails' energy?
No, that wasn't right.
Shinnō quickly dismissed that possibility.
Even if the machinery and power furnaces could break free of the ice with the Zero-Tails' energy, restart, and resume functioning...
The enormous momentum this stone fortress had built up during its fall could not be canceled so easily!
Besides, neither he nor the Zero-Tails had done anything during that time