"Didn't you hear me? You're in the way," Sasuke repeated expressionlessly. "I still need to take Zero-Tails to get his living arrangements sorted out."
"Enough talk! Eat my Tailed Beast Bomb!"
Yet after that strange shout, Shukaku actually opened his mouth and began gathering chakra. Even Son the Four-Tails and Two-Tails Nekomata, who had come with him, were startled.
Come on, man. Fighting is one thing, but didn't we agree this would just be a demonstration? Why are you actually...
Shukaku tended to get carried away when he had an audience, but even at his craziest, he had never gone this far.
Still, they could more or less guess why. They knew Shukaku really had been training hard lately.
As the only tailed beast who had never particularly liked using Tailed Beast Bombs to attack, he had now abandoned his not-so-powerful Air Bullet and started opening with Tailed Beast Bombs like the others.
Not to mention that he had finally mastered that move...
The instant Shukaku opened his mouth to form a Tailed Beast Bomb, Sasuke moved.
The might of a tailed beast shook heaven and earth, yet Sasuke's expression remained unchanged as he activated his Sharingan, as though long accustomed to it.
Three tomoe slowly rotated within his scarlet eyes as he stared straight at Shukaku.
"Settle down."
Even Sasuke himself did not know how strong his eye power had become. Adult Sasuke had once told him that, at his peak, his eye power could control all nine tailed beasts in an instant.
Eye power was a concept exclusive to those with ocular kekkei genkai. Though it was still chakra, there were differences.
To test the upper and lower limits of his eye power, Sasuke had previously approached the tailed beasts for an experiment.
He had controlled One-Tail through