"Careful! He's using the environment!" Danzo's expression darkened as he tried to track Neji.
"Yo~! Playing hide-and-seek, bastard~?!" B was rather excited, tearing apart the crystal prison binding his tentacles with brute force.
Neji's voice came from every corner of the maze, carrying cold mockery. "You want to start a war? First, see if you have what it takes, A! And you, Danzo—how does it feel to be a dog without a home?"
"You sharp-tongued brat! Come out if you've got the guts!" The Raikage roared, smashing through another crystal wall.
"Come out? I'll indulge you." Neji's voice suddenly came from atop a crystal pillar behind B! "First, let me give you a grand gift!"
Before his words had even faded, Neji's hands formed seals in an instant, fluttering like butterflies! A Ninja Talisman of an extremely bizarre design, made entirely of translucent Mystic Crystal and containing a wisp of constantly twisting, leaping dark-purple energy, appeared at B's back as if by teleportation! It appeared without warning, as though it had always been stuck there!
"Mind Disruption Body: Malicious Thought Heart-Draw Talisman: Activate!"
The Ninja Talisman activated instantly! There was no violent explosion, only a cold, twisted spiritual force brimming with extreme malice. Like maggots clinging to bone, it ignored the Lightning Release defenses covering B's body, invaded his spiritual world directly, and slammed fiercely into the will of the Eight-Tails Gyuki sleeping deep within the seal!
"ROAR—!!!"
A beastly roar filled with savagery, pain, and fury seemed to rise from the depths of hell, instantly tearing through the dome of the Raikage Tower and echoing throughout Cloud-Thunder Gorge!
B's body suddenly stiffened! His eyes were instantly flooded with violent scarlet! The Lightning Release Armor covering his body swelled and twisted out of control! His skin turned crimson, and his