The moment the little Katsuyu finished speaking, white mist began to rise.
Naruto had considered it himself. Maybe it really had something to do with his identity as Asura's reincarnation—when he had summoned Katsuyu for the first time, she had called him "Lord Naruto."
If Sakura summoned her instead, the form of address was reversed; Sakura had to call Katsuyu "my lady."
Honestly, among the three great sacred lands of the summon world, this big sister was the most outrageous one.
Even the name Shikkotsu Forest carried an eerie air.
"Shikkotsu" needed little explanation. Katsuyu could secrete mucus, leaving everything damp and slick; as for "bones," there were countless skeletons everywhere, the entire territory long since gnawed clean by Katsuyu as snacks.
The other two great sacred lands relied on entire clans banding together to hold the fort. Katsuyu alone was an army.
She was the founding ancestor of Shikkotsu Forest, having lived from Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's era until now—at least a thousand years. Everyone had to respectfully call her Sage Katsuyu.
She could split into Mu-countless smaller bodies, enough to handle large-scale healing.
The amount of Senjutsu Chakra within her was terrifying, and her true body was unimaginably huge.
Unlike the toads of Mount Myoboku and the snakes of Ryūchi Cave, Katsuyu was one whole entity from head to tail.
Whenever Tsunade and Sakura used the Summoning Technique, they could at most pull out a fragment of the giant Katsuyu.
The more chakra they poured in during the summoning, the larger the Katsuyu fragment they summoned.
Even when Tsunade went all out, she could only summon a clone roughly the same size as Gamabunta or Manda.
When she and Sakura joined forces and even activated the Strength of a Hundred Seal, they could only pull out one-tenth of Katsuyu's true