As Tengai Shinsei's Meteorite tore through the white clouds overhead, each One was so enormous that it seemed poised to destroy the world. Anyone who saw them would have felt their scalp prickle.
Even Hashirama was no exception.
He glanced at the sky, then at the utterly focused Madara Uchiha beside him. Though he felt joy at being able to fight alongside Madara, a far more complicated emotion filled his heart.
When the Reshape Organization said they would lend a hand, they did more than bring Madara back to life... this power was something he had never possessed even when he was alive...
"This is a move that takes everyone down with it."
Madara suddenly spoke, interrupting Hashirama's thoughts.
"Hmm?"
"Weren't we supposed to transmit footage to those people? Are you handling that? We won't have any room to hold back from here on."
The meteors overhead were already less than a dozen meters away, yet Madara spoke to Hashirama as though they were making idle conversation.
"Not me. Tobirama said to leave everything else to him."
"Oh, then we needn't worry..."
Just then, an incredibly low, muffled growl came from the sea of fire.
A figure suddenly burst out of the flames. It was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki—
"You two..."
But before he could say anything more, he saw Madara looking at him with disdain, arms folded, one index finger pointing skyward.
Isshiki realized something was wrong and looked up. The meteors looming right before him made his pupils contract.
Smoke and flames filled the sea of fire. Those flames were formed from Madara and Hashirama's immense chakra, mixed with the senjutsu properties of natural energy, so even Isshiki, who could absorb chakra, could not absorb them quickly.
Everywhere he looked within the sea of fire, he saw chakra. In a