Watching his Rinnegan secret technique toy with the enemy in the palm of his hand, Madara Uchiha finally vented his frustration. All the humiliation he had suffered at Mizuki's hands earlier had been repaid here.
"That little schemer no longer dares to show himself... Hm?"
Still wary of Mizuki launching another sneak attack, Madara Uchiha suddenly noticed that the reanimated bodies of several previous Hokage, which had been pierced by the Yin-Yang Release Black Receivers he had fired and pinned to the ground once more, had suddenly been freed from their restraints.
A blond ninja wearing an Anbu mask was helping them out.
"That familiar flavor of power... it's Yin-Yang Release, exactly like that guy called Mizuki. A puppet clone, then!"
The similar chakra fluctuations and the difficult-to-master Yin-Yang Release—either one alone might have been a coincidence, but the odds of both appearing together were minuscule.
"You meddlesome pest, die!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Shinzhen, who was pulling the Black Receivers from the back of Itachi Uchiha's reanimated body, suddenly sensed a lethal threat descending upon him. Before he could react, an invisible hand, fingers held together like a blade, pierced his chest.
"This is bad!"
It was not merely the wound itself. Hidden chakra force churned through his body, inflicting devastating damage on nearly all his internal organs.
"Cough, cough..."
With his alveoli ruptured, Shinzhen could not help coughing up blood.
The sudden turn of events stunned everyone nearby. No one had expected Shinzhen, Mizuki's physical clone, who had not participated in the attack at all and had merely provided support, to draw such immense aggro and be precisely struck down.
Tenzō, who was closest, reacted first. He hurriedly used Wood Release to wrap Mizuki's bleeding wound and stop the blood loss. Then Tsunade rushed