"Th-this damned wooden man!"
Within the crowd, in Naruto's Mental Space... Kurama was also using Naruto's eyes to watch everything outside. When he saw the True Several Thousand Hands appear once more, it stirred up the fear in his heart.
Back then,
he had fought alongside Madara. At the time, he had also been encased within Madara's Susanoo, yet beneath that massive True Several Thousand Hands, they had still seemed so insignificant.
Although they had nearly cleared all the palms of the True Several Thousand Hands through the Susanoo and Madara's power, they had ultimately been defeated... and had finally been grasped in Hashirama Senju's single hand.
It was a humiliation—the humiliation of a Tailed Beast.
"Wait... Kurama, did you fight that huge thing before?" Naruto looked at the enormous True Several Thousand Hands, then at the Nine-Tails' reaction, curiosity rising in his heart. "Is this a ninjutsu too?"
"Of course it's ninjutsu! Without this ninjutsu, why do you think Hashirama Senju was hailed as the God of Shinobi? This was his trump card!"
As Kurama watched the scene unfold, memories of fighting Hashirama Senju alongside Madara resurfaced in his mind.
"It really is ninjutsu." Upon hearing Kurama's certain answer, Naruto Uzumaki said seriously, "How could you possibly win against something that huge? It's perfectly normal that you lost!"
Kurama's eyelids twitched at Naruto's remark.
In the end, he spoke indignantly. "What do you mean, it was perfectly normal that I lost? Back then, I was incredibly valiant. Though I narrowly lost in the end, I still left him seriously wounded!"
"Got that, kid?"
Kurama talked himself up extravagantly, portraying himself as a great hero.
"Oh, I get it!" Naruto Uzumaki nodded reluctantly, his expression full of disdain. Clearly, he did not believe Kurama could contend with such a gigantic