The icy torrential rain poured down upon the ruins of Hokage Square, yet it could not wash away the suffocating stench of blood hanging thick in the air.
Sosuke stepped through the puddles, walking toward Shimura Danzō, who sat collapsed in the mud. His white robes remained spotless in the rainy night, while the emerald Yang Release aura flowing over his body forcibly repelled every raindrop, making him resemble a cold god inspecting the mortal world.
"Stop! You bastard spawn of the Senju Clan!" As Danzo watched that white figure steadily approach, his only remaining left eye became bloodshot with extreme terror. Fine cracks had even split at the corners from how wide it was stretched.
The mental backlash from Kotoamatsukami being violently crushed was frantically tearing apart his mind. Worse still, the power in his right eye had been exhausted, causing the right arm he used to suppress the First Hokage's cells to completely run wild.
Beneath his pallid flesh, more than a dozen Sharingan that had once been vivid red with three tomoe had all rolled white and shut. Without ocular power to suppress them, the tyrannical Wood Release cells were like starving wolves that had scented blood, beginning to devour Danzo's life force without restraint. Rough, twisted wooden vines burst directly through his blood vessels and skin, wildly lashing through the air amid thick black blood.
"I am the Root of the Hidden Leaf! So long as I live, don't even think of laying a hand on this village!"
Driven into a corner, Danzo fell completely into madness. He raised his grotesque right arm, already swollen to more than twice its size and half-transformed into wood, and crazily poured the last trace of chakra in his body into it.
Boom!
With a dull tearing sound, seven or