Kabuto Yakushi's words put Mizuki on guard.
Escape?
That was obviously just a joke. With Kabuto Yakushi's mobility, escaping after Mizuki had tracked him down was nothing but a pipe dream.
Since escape was impossible, he would inevitably fight like a cornered beast.
Second Tsuchikage Mū alone could not turn the tide, so a stronger fighter would have to come to his rescue.
The only one Kabuto Yakushi could place such hopes in was undoubtedly Madara Uchiha's reanimated body-the former head of the Uchiha Clan whose reputation had become pure legend, a veteran on par with the God of Shinobi, First Hokage Hashirama Senju.
Wearing a mocking smile, Kabuto Yakushi waved his clawlike arms and awkwardly formed hand seals in his grotesque state, beginning his Summoning Technique.
Some distance away, Mizuki activated his Tailed Beast Transformation as the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and charged at him at top speed. Unfortunately, the opportunity vanished in an instant. Kabuto Yakushi acted decisively, and Mizuki still failed to stop him from summoning Madara Uchiha's reanimated body.
A coffin covered in eerie sealing runes appeared out of thin air.
Since the lava lake Mizuki had created had disappeared, Kabuto Yakushi naturally would not waste energy maintaining his levitation, whose flight speed was far inferior to Mizuki's. Only with his feet firmly on the ground could he unleash his full strength.
Still, a long lizard that looked as though its hind legs had been severed, crawling on the ground and performing ninjutsu like a human, was rather ridiculous.
But Mizuki could not laugh now.
The coffin opened, revealing a face familiar from his memories. It was none other than Madara Uchiha, who had placed immense pressure on Mizuki all this time.
"Still a step too late. But this works too. I'd have to face him sooner or