Meanwhile, in another corner of the chaos.
Lian leaned against a broken wall, catching her breath.
For some reason, her gaze paused on the captain as she surveyed the battlefield.
From the poison fog spilling over the walls to Shukaku's arrival,
the captain's position throughout it all had been... curious.
The thought had barely surfaced when the beast's roar overhead drowned it out.
"ROAR!!!"
Shukaku's savage roar abruptly changed pitch, brimming with utter destruction.
Chakra gathered wildly in his chest. Black and white Chakra spun at high speed, compressing.
The outline of a pitch-black sphere slowly took shape.
A Tailed Beast Bomb was about to fire.
Inside the main hall of the Daimyo's Mansion.
The Daimyo of the Land of Wind slumped on his throne, his face ashen and his body trembling. Not a trace of his former dignity remained.
Several attendants stumbled into the hall, sobbing as they delivered their report in shaking voices.
"My lord! The Samurai in the city have suffered terrible losses! Fewer than one in ten remain!"
"A monster... a real Tailed Beast monster has descended!!"
The black Tailed Beast Bomb slowly took shape in Shukaku's savage maw.
Violent black-and-white Chakra twisted together, compressing layer upon layer and building toward a force that could burn everything away.
The space for dozens of meters around his mouth warped violently inward, swallowing the air from the night sky.
Flames, splintered wood, and dust all streamed backward, rushing toward the black core.
Shukaku's scarlet eyes slowly swept across the brilliantly lit Capital of the Land of Wind.
At last, his gaze settled on the grandest cluster of buildings in the city, its lights stretching on without end.
The Daimyo's Mansion.
Shukaku's eyes lit up.
So you're the one looking all fancy. I'll smash you, then.
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