The instant the lump of flesh slid down his throat, Danzo's Adam's apple bobbed violently.
That mass of deep-blue Astral Matter slid down his esophagus and into his stomach, its frigid temperature instantly freezing his internal organs.
"Aaargh!"
Danzo's knees slammed heavily into the blood-soaked ground as all ten fingers clawed desperately at his throat. His nails tore through his shriveled skin, drawing streaks of blood.
The pale wood fibers that had been madly spreading toward his heart were forcibly driven back by a violent surge of deep-blue Stellar Chakra. Two utterly different powers used his mangled flesh as a battlefield, waging a brutal war.
Flesh tore. Bones dislocated.
Danzo's body swelled at a visible rate, like a skin forcibly pumped full of air. The bark covering the right half of his body burst apart, and what flowed out was not blood, but blue-green pus that reeked horribly. The temperature in the air plummeted, and a thin layer of frost formed over the blood.
In less than three breaths,
the gaunt, sinister leader of Root was gone. In his place stood a grotesque monster nearly four meters tall, with one half of its body made of coarse wood and the other of swollen flesh.
The six remaining Sharingan in his right arm had all been contaminated by stellar power. Their once-scarlet sclera had turned deep blue, while black tomoe spun erratically within them, radiating nauseating madness.
"Byakugan... I need... high-purity Byakugan!"
The monster expelled great clouds of white vapor. His voice had completely lost its human quality, sounding like two rusty sheets of iron scraping together.
His one remaining left eye locked onto Hinata, who stood behind Xiao. Greed. Hunger. It was the absolute craving of a lower life-form for superior nourishment.
"Boom!"
Violent chakra erupted from the monster and