"Boom...!!!!!"
Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan blasted the Nine-Tails deep into the Yomi Swamp.
Shisui Uchiha looked down from above, his Susanoo maintained in its muscular form. A fiery red tomoe burned in its chest, its breastplate opened, and arrows fired like machine-gun rounds, bombarding the Nine-Tails' body!!!
—Susanoo: Ninety-Nine!!!
The surrounding ninja cried out in astonishment. "Shisui is incredible! As expected of the Uchiha's greatest genius—he actually suppressed the Nine-Tails so thoroughly it can't even lift its head..."
At that moment... a gray-robed figure stood atop the Second Hokage's monument on Hokage Rock. The bandage over his right eye had been removed, and the Sharingan hidden beneath it took in the entire scene.
"Shisui Uchiha, at such a young age, has not only awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, but has even mastered the power of Susanoo, which exists only in Uchiha legend..."
Beside him, a man wrapped in a black robe, wearing sunglasses and bearing strange tattoos at the corners of his mouth, said in a low voice, "And who would have thought that a man like him would lose an arm during a mere trap-clearing mission at Kikyo Mountain? There must be more to this..."
Danzo's gaze darkened. "How could I not know there is something suspicious about it? But the Fourth Hokage is deliberately shielding them. With my current resources, it is difficult to keep the Uchiha under the same high-pressure surveillance as before..."
The man beside him said, "Danzo, perhaps you need not worry so much. The Nine-Tails has been extracted, and the jinchuriki will surely die. The Fourth's era may very well end because of this."
"Hm?" Danzo glanced sideways at him. "What do you mean?"
The man asked, "What kind of man do you think Minato Namikaze is?"
After a long silence, Danzo said with