If the Tailed Beast Bomb had brought the Konoha forces fear, then the Perfect Susanoo towering before them brought them despair!
Its grandeur and majesty surpassed anything they could comprehend.
Even entertaining the thought, Perhaps we could match it if we all joined forces, was itself a kind of blasphemy!
"Hahahaha... damn it. Looks like this is the end of the road for Konoha."
A Chunin slumped on the ground voiced what everyone was thinking, masking his bitterness with a smile.
"How can anyone have this much chakra...?"
Ino sensed the horror of that chakra firsthand, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.
Shikamaru rushed out of the Control Room and, beyond the densely packed buildings... glimpsed the upper half of that monstrous figure towering between heaven and earth!!
Then this boy, who hated trouble but had always been confident he could solve it, broke into a helpless sweat.
"Dad... I really have no answer for this one. A knight can leap over pieces, but this isn't something you can solve on a shogi board. Is this where it ends?"
As the mountain bearing Kage Rock collapsed, Madara's Susanoo had drawn Izuna inside. Now he stood beside his older brother in the Forehead Chamber within its forehead, looking down on the panicked Konoha forces!
Izuna... this man who had died young and, ever since his Impure World Reincarnation, had simply drifted along without many positive experiences, felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction!
"Yes... this is how it should be!!! Before the legendary power of the Uchiha wielded by my brother!!! These helpless faces of the Senju remnants, their minds ruled by fear—this is what I've truly longed for! The Uchiha Clan's comeback!!!!"
Watching Izuna's flushed, exhilarated profile, Madara's lips curved slightly, though a faint melancholy stirred in his heart. *As long