Genma Shiranui looked at the black technique about to erupt and could not help turning his head to mutter to Namiashi Raidō beside him.
"The fish in the lake are about to have a really bad day."
Zero ignored the remark and formed a strange hand seal.
"Iron Coffin Seal: Third Stage, activate."
Bzzzz—
In that instant, every black curse mark on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the secret chamber seemed to come alive.
Like a receding tide, they peeled away from the hard stone and transformed into hundreds of fine black chains, surging toward the dark core formed by the "Reverse Four Symbols Seal" at the center of the room, which was about to devour everything.
The violent chakra shockwave was instantly restrained. That destructive energy was wrapped layer upon layer by countless chains, finally compressed into an extremely unstable black sphere of light that trembled wildly atop Danzo's body.
Genma Shiranui, Namiashi Raidō, and Tatami Iwashi had already taken their positions. Their hands formed seals as three entirely different types of chakra linked together in an instant, creating an invisible coordinate field.
"Flying Thunder Formation!"
There was no earth-shaking blast, nor any dazzling display of light.
Danzo's twisted corpse, along with that black sun condensed from endless hatred and destruction, vanished into thin air before everyone's eyes.
It was as if they had never existed.
The entire secret chamber returned to utter silence.
A moment later.
At a tranquil lake dozens of kilometers from Konoha, the water at the center suddenly bulged upward without warning.
Then, an incomparably muffled boom, as though it had come from the depths of the earth, finally spread outward.
The Reverse Four Symbols Seal swallowed half the lake. Its aftershocks blasted a column of water a hundred meters into the sky, and