What's About to Come Out?!

Uchiha Chiri saw the Third Mizukage

and that Jinchūriki

put distance between themselves and her.

She lowered her eyes slightly and said calmly,

"Why are you putting distance between us?"

Then she sighed. "What a pointless gesture..."

"Doesn't this only matter in a battle between evenly matched opponents?"

The Yellow Springs Water swirling nearby rippled... and a strange blue glow began to shine faintly across its surface.

For some reason... at this critical moment, the Third Mizukage and Dosaburo both froze, their expressions blank.

In an instant!

Chiri's graceful figure appeared in front of the Third Mizukage.

"See..." Chiri smiled as she placed her delicate hand against the Third Mizukage's chest, his face stricken with shock. "I can reach the door to your heart with ease."

This woman...

When had she appeared beside Lord Mizukage?

And...

Why wasn't Lord Mizukage fighting back?

Dosaburo found it strange that his Mizukage seemed frozen in place, too.

But! This was...

The moment he had to act!

"Raaaaaah!!"

Red, ominous chakra rose from his body, enveloping him in an instant.

Six red tails unfurled behind him like a peacock spreading its feathers.

Boom!

He shattered the ground beneath him and leaped high into the air.

His right hand clenched!

Wrapped in Tailed Beast Chakra, his mighty punch was about to crash down on that terrifying woman.

Then something Dosaburo couldn't understand happened...

The Yellow Springs Water swirled around Chiri.

Dozens of Blue Star Butterflies shot out from the blue glow on its surface.

They drifted before his eyes...

Still in midair, he suddenly felt the Tailed Beast inside him being bound by a powerful force.

At that moment...

His chakra system was struck, leaving him completely unable to move.

Thud!

With nothing to brace himself against in midair, he crashed heavily to the ground.

"What did you do?!" Dosaburo roared, his face twisted in fury. "Why won't my chakra obey me?!"

At the same time, in his mind,

he frantically demanded to know what had happened from the beast inside him.

But the creature that sometimes spoke to him was now so silent it frightened him.

Chiri's Mangekyō Sharingan

glanced his way,

ever so lightly.

"As a Jinchūriki... you're no match for me."

She turned her gaze to the Third Mizukage

and smiled faintly.

"Lord Mizukage, it's time for you to wake up."

It looked as if she had effortlessly dealt with a Kage and a Jinchūriki.

But only she knew how she had done it!

She had noticed the strange ocular power inside the Mizukage as soon as he began his jutsu.

There was no doubt about it: that power surpassed her own!

A few years ago, she would have had no way to deal with it.

But...

After becoming Yuan Ming's follower, and after years of training in Sage Mode,

her ocular power had grown immensely.

She hadn't broken through to another dimension, but she was still more than capable of interfering with that ocular power, now separated from its master.

At that moment,

she had made up her mind and used the terrifying aura of death from Yomotsu to intimidate them.

Then...

She coordinated it with the activation of the fearsome jutsu Izanami-no-Mikoto,

leveraging the ocular power inside the Mizukage and leaving him unable to move.

As for the Jinchūriki?

Heh~

The moment he and his Tailed Beast saw the Hell Butterfly of Izanami-no-Mikoto,

they were already beyond their own control!

Unlike Izanami, which she had developed based on her own ocular technique...

There was no need to sacrifice her eye,

and as one of her core ocular techniques, Izanami-no-Mikoto let her freely control the amount of ocular power she released!

That allowed her to cast a fatal genjutsu.

And Tailed Beasts could generally use their Jinchūriki's senses.

So the Six-Tails... had been so easily controlled by her.

"What a vivid dream..." The Third Mizukage came to his senses and composed himself.

Looking at the terrifying woman before him, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Ah... the Uchiha truly are blessed."

The Yellow Springs Water slowly faded away.

Chiri withdrew her ocular technique and asked the Third Mizukage, her expression grave:

"Was he the one controlling you?"

"That's right... Uchiha Madara. I met him many times during the early days of the shinobi villages. I wouldn't mistake him for anyone else."

Uchiha Chiri bit her lip, deeply worried for Yuan Ming.

As someone who possessed Sage Power, she could sense the Natural Energy roiling across that distant land.

She pushed the thought aside.

There was no time to waste!

"Lord Mizukage, have your subordinates stop fighting... and join us in wiping out this gang of toads."

The girl's expression was resolute as she spoke earnestly:

"We Uchiha can pretend this ambush never happened!"

The Third Mizukage gave Chiri a bitter smile.

"Do I have any other choice?"

Leaving Chiri, who had already joined forces with the Mist Village and begun dealing with the toads, aside,

Uchiha Genmei stared at the Great Toad Sage before him, its face twisted in anger.

He was at a loss.

As expected of a Toad Sage who had lived for thousands of years.

Its combat experience was superb. It was a toad, yet slippery as a snake.

Against his Sword of Blazing Fire, it made full use of its powerful legs.

With Sage Art bolstering it, it often leaped high into the air, dodging whenever it could!

"Weren't you going to eat me, Great Toad Sage?"

"Is that all you've got? All you can do is dodge."

The Great Toad Sage ignored Uchiha Genmei's taunts.

It had great faith in Uchiha Madara.

If Indra's reincarnation quickly killed that girl and came to help it deal with this opponent,

victory would be all but certain.

Indra's reincarnation didn't understand the beauty of divinity... and didn't need to.

By then...

The Great Toad Sage imagined how wonderful it would be, its enormous eyes fixed on Genmei.

It snarled,

"You won't escape, Uchiha brat!"

"Escape?" Genmei, standing at the brow of the Giant God Red Brow, lowered his eyes. "Who's escaping?"

Just then,

boundless malice surged from Genmei, flooding the heavens and earth.

The sheer volume of it made Gamamaru's skin sting!

It widened its eyes, staring at the boy across from it in shock.

It was only malice...

Why did it make its hair stand on end?

Before it could figure it out,

Genmei opened his eyes and roared,

"Why would I run?!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Susanoo answered the boy, the Golden Divine Aura on its back flaring.

Countless Magatama appeared out of thin air...

The winding Magatama rapidly spread behind it... growing larger...

In the blink of an eye,

a gigantic Sacred Ring formed behind the over-two-hundred-meter-tall giant!

"I really have been underestimated," Genmei said with a vicious, cruel smile. "I didn't want to use this move to finish you off."

"Because you're not worth it... but!" A savage intent filled the boy's eyes. "Right now, I want you dead! You old bastard!"

Vmmmm...

The sacred ring slowly began to glow, its light gradually spinning toward the center!

Something was about to come out!

The Great Toad Sage's eyes widened.

"What is that?!!"