Something eerie happened to the old man on the ground. His body shriveled in an instant, collapsing like a popped balloon until only a sheet of human skin remained.
Once that was done, Naruto looked away, turned, and walked into the room again.
Just as before, his body felt that powerful pull once more.
With one attempt under his belt, Naruto knew what to expect and offered no resistance.
The next moment, he returned to the place he had only glimpsed earlier.
Yet despite having braced himself, Naruto still felt his heart tremble when he saw the scene inside again.
It was a cavern-like place, but the surrounding walls were neither rock nor earth. They resembled flesh and blood, and even pulsed faintly.
As though they were alive.
The sight reminded him of the Toad Mouth Binding the Pervy Sage had once shown him. Summoning the esophagus of Mount Myōboku's largest toad had produced a similar scene.
But the human remains littering the floor made a far greater visual impact on Naruto.
Although he was already a Konoha jonin, Naruto had never seen anything like this in his life—
It was a scene straight out of hell.
Actually, Naruto had experienced something like this once, on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre. Unfortunately, his dad had stepped in for him.
The Nine-Tails did not react the way Naruto did. He had seen plenty of this.
Things had hardly been any better when he had rampaged through Konoha, slaughtering its people...
Naruto walked forward, severed hands and feet scattered all around him, yet there was not a trace of blood on their wounds.
After death, once the body lost control, the blood in its vessels could not stop flowing.
Yet these remains had no blood at all. Clearly, the people