The white Cursed Seal did not alter Sasuke's appearance as State Two had. Instead, it formed a robe outside his body, connected to him just like the one Obito had worn while wielding the Ten-Tails' power in Sasuke's previous life!
Great Serpent said, "There it is—the 'Cursed Garment' unique to the White Cursed Seal's State Three!"
Hiss! On the back of the Cursed Garment, the crest of the Senju of the Forest appeared in a shade darker than white. Beneath it was the Uchiha Clan's fan crest!
Foxfire-shaped tomoe in the same shade adorned the collar!
To Sage Mode's senses, the increase in power was impossible to miss!
Fukasaku said, "His chakra is nothing like it was before!!!"
Shima said, "At this rate, we're really done for! Use Toad Confrontation Chant again and finish him!!!!"
"Wait..."
This time, Jiraiya interrupted the Two Great Sage Toads!!
"Little Jiraiya...!!"
Jiraiya had already noticed something amiss.
"He came looking for me and fought me. I assumed from the start that he was acting on Orochimaru's orders, up to no good!"
"But... thinking back carefully, he never showed any real killing intent during this fight!"
He recalled the arrows that had nearly hit him time and again before he entered Sage Mode, arrows he had only narrowly evaded!
"Did those arrows... really miss because his aim was off?"
"And he's been speaking respectfully to me all along. That's completely unlike the Sasuke I know."
"If that's the case, then the two fingers he held up before his chest when I first entered Sage Mode might not have been a hand seal for a technique... but the 'Seal of Confrontation' used in Ninja dueling etiquette!!"
"More importantly, just now, he clearly had a chance to kill me from behind, but instead he said all that