Shimura Danzō braced himself against the cold, eerily smooth edge of the rock wall, panting heavily. His body trembled, his chakra all but exhausted.
I never imagined... Izanagi... could be this "powerful"...
What surged through Danzo's heart was not relief, but a cold, almost despairing terror at what he had just survived.
In that instant, the power of the Reverse Four Symbols Seal had brought true, absolute annihilation. It had seemingly devoured even part of the surrounding space.
He had clearly "felt" the "process" of being swallowed by that darkness, broken down, and reduced to nothing. It had been a "death" more complete, more final, than any injury inflicted by ninjutsu.
Yet Izanagi, the Uchiha Clan's ultimate forbidden jutsu, had actually... rewritten even the "reality" of his complete erasure by the Reverse Four Symbols Seal.
It had "pulled" him straight back out of absolute nothingness.
This defied all reason! It truly "reversed life and death"!
So this was the power of the Uchiha!
And even after his "resurrection," the "sensation" of being utterly annihilated, the terror of coming infinitely close to absolute death, remained branded deep within his soul, leaving him utterly drained.
He raised his head. His sole remaining left eye met the black-robed figure standing silently at the far end of the hall, as though he had never left.
Naruto mocked him. "I said goodbye. Did you hear me?"
The instant he saw Naruto, Danzo activated the Reverse Four Symbols Seal.
The moment Naruto's figure came into view, a final vicious gleam erupted in Danzo's left eye, mingling utter terror with madness.
He knew.
Rather than let him kill me, perhaps even take something else from me... I might as well try again!
"Aaargh-die with me!"
He roared. With almost no warning, he recklessly drove his remaining chakra