Shimura Danzō and the others saw a gigantic figure rise in the distance from the outskirts of the forest. Unlike the Susanoo from before, this figure had eight heads, and its body looked more like some kind of monster than the imposing, war-god-like Susanoo.
Shimura Danzō instinctively took it for the Eight-Tails—not that he could be blamed for thinking so. From a distance, those eight heads looked like thrashing tails, inevitably bringing the tailed beasts to mind. But he immediately realized that it could not be a tailed beast. It was something else.
Shimura Danzō took a step forward, his mind unsettled by doubt. He did not know what that thing was, but the pressure it gave off was so similar to a tailed beast's that he had nearly mistaken it for one.
He thought of Kazemori Masaki, who was fighting over there. Kagami Uchiha seemed to have gone over as well, since Shimura Danzō had just seen the light of Kagami Uchiha's snow-silver Susanoo. Shimura Danzō hesitated. Could the two of them still handle the situation now?
Any powerful ninja possessed some ability to sense chakra, though they could not compare with specialists. Shimura Danzō narrowed his eyes slightly. Judging solely by the pressure of its chakra, the monster did not seem particularly far removed from the Susanoo they had seen earlier.
"What do you sense?" Shimura Danzō turned to ask the other sensory ninja, having them compare it with the Susanoo from before to judge the monster's strength.
"Lord Danzo, its chakra reserves seem about the same as the giant's earlier. But the quality of its chakra seems a little... peculiar," a sensory ninja said hesitantly.
"Peculiar? Is it stronger or weaker than Susanoo?" Dissatisfied with such an ambiguous answer, Shimura Danzō pressed him.
"Uh, it really is