Unable to sustain Susanoo any longer, Adult Sasuke coughed up blood and barely kept himself from collapsing.
"Cough, cough... did we do it?"
Gasping for breath, he raised his head to look ahead, a trace of relief in his voice.
To him, their combined attack had surpassed the power he and Naruto had unleashed in their battle against Momoshiki Otsutsuki. No matter how strong Urashiki Otsutsuki was, he could not possibly have survived...
But the very next second—
"Gwaaah..."
A mournful, monstrous roar pierced through the rubble and grated against Adult Sasuke's ears.
He stared in disbelief at the "humanoid creature" crawling out of the pile of rocks.
The creature's face was grotesque, his eye sockets hollow and his body snow-white. Two Golden Rinnegan had split open across his brow, one on either side. Of his winglike arms, one was bent backward as though broken, while the other remained completely intact.
Yet his clothing still allowed Adult Sasuke to recognize the thing before him as Urashiki Otsutsuki!
But his transformation was not the most important part. Despite looking battered beyond repair, Urashiki Otsutsuki's power was still swelling after he had become a monster. Adult Sasuke did not even need to sense him carefully to notice it.
"What... is this?"
His bizarre appearance brought Adult Sasuke back to those three years he had spent at Orochimaru's side during the height of his madness.
He resembled what Orochimaru had called failures in his culture dishes—aberrant things born from an evolution gone wrong.
A monster that could no longer be called a living being.
But there was one thing Adult Sasuke knew for certain—
He was not dead, and he seemed even more dangerous!
"Gu... ah..."
The monster Urashiki Otsutsuki had become let out a rasping roar like the labored breathing of a