Inside Ryūchi Cave.
"Susanoo: Majestic Flame: Two-Sword Dance!"
At Lord Madara's quiet shout,
Susanoo leisurely swung its blades, sending out one flaming blade wave after another.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Yet when those seemingly casual attacks descended on Tagitsuhime on the ground,
they formed an almost complete barrage, sealing off every avenue of escape.
"How is this possible?!"
Tagitsuhime immediately lost her composure.
With Susanoo's enormous size, its attacks should have had blind spots.
Yet her opponent seemed able to see through her thoughts.
Without exception, every slash landed exactly where she wanted to dodge.
Inside Susanoo's cockpit,
Madara folded his arms and smiled mockingly at the bedraggled Tagitsuhime below.
"Heh, heh, heh. How ugly. Can you not even dance anymore?"
"All that power, and you have no idea how to use it. What a disappointing opponent."
Damn it, how could this man be so strong?!
At this rate, I'll die!
Gritting her teeth, Tagitsuhime chose to return to her true form.
She abruptly transformed into a giant white snake dozens of meters long.
"Senjutsu: Dragon Scales!"
Through a mysterious configuration, senjutsu chakra
formed a protective layer as thin as a cicada's wing over Tagitsuhime's body.
These "dragon scales" grew stronger against stronger attacks, absorbing up to half the incoming damage.
Only after the force of the blade waves had been reduced layer by layer did they strike her own scales.
Even so, the pain sent Tagitsuhime writhing back and forth in agony.
She could only twist and shift her body nimbly, avoiding as many attacks as possible.
On another battlefield,
Hidan kept up a seemingly ferocious offensive, trying to draw first blood from Ichikishimahime.
Yet after all that fighting,
the little girl remained completely unscathed, while he had been clawed into a bloody mess.
Hidan was getting worked up again,