"Why didn't you say so earlier?!" Deidara was losing his mind.
Lingchuan gave him a dead-eyed stare. "Did you ask?"
Watching them start arguing, Killer B hid behind a boulder. Both he and the Eight-Tails inside him felt rather embarrassed for them.
Still, as the one who had actually been there, Killer B didn't believe Lingchuan's explanation at all. With how strong those chains' defenses had been, and how little damage the bomb had done to Killer B himself, how could it possibly have blasted straight through Lingchuan's defenses?
But... as Killer B looked at the newly arrived Akatsuki members, his gaze shifted down slightly, and he suddenly spotted Yugito Nii held in the giant clay bird's beak. His brows drew into a tight frown.
Yugito Nii's chest was still rising and falling. She was clearly alive, just unconscious, and her injuries didn't seem too serious. If he could find a way to rescue her, the two tailed beasts might be able to turn the tables. At the very least, they should be able to escape.
But that idea vanished when he saw Uchiha Itachi arrive right behind them. Killer B sighed. Big Brother, I'm really in trouble this time...
Just as Killer B's attention shifted, a poisoned needle suddenly shot out of the ground beside him! Its timing was perfect!
The poisoned needle sliced through the air, shooting straight toward Killer B's face!
It was too close. Killer B only had time to instinctively raise his arm in front of his face! Feeling the poison spreading through his arm, the Eight-Tails immediately used his own chakra to force it into one corner and stop it from spreading!
"B, hurry! Use Complete Tailed Beast Transformation!" the Eight-Tails urged.
In an instant, an enormous creature appeared before the four of