Crack! Crack!
The Raikage's bones crackled like popping beans. His entire frame changed, his muscles rapidly swelling!
Sizzle! Sizzle! His eyes turned red, and dark, patterned fur sprouted across his face, chest, back, and limbs!
His hands became claws, and his front teeth became fangs!
A thick leopard tail dropped from his tailbone, lashing furiously against the ground!
He had become a three-meter-long beastman!!
He was only half beast because parts of him still retained human features, and he walked upright like a man!
"Roooar...!!!" His leopard head rose, his round eyes bulging as a deep, explosive roar erupted from his chest!
Crackle...!
The Lightning Release Armor covering his body erupted violently, growing more than a meter thick!
-Yotsuki Transformation: Moon Beast, Lightning Leopard Form!
Sasuke shielded his face with his hand against the storm blasting toward him, his right eye fixed on the monstrosity the Raikage had become!
"This chakra is even stronger than the Eight-Tails'. Has he become a jinchūriki? No, there's no sign of a tailed beast inside him at all. Then how is this possible?!"
The Raikage put on a pair of Special Goggles. This technology had been secretly developed by Kumogakure. While blocking his vision, built-in sensors used Lightning Release chakra to generate a magnetic field that detected surrounding objects!
It was a ninja tool designed specifically to counter Uchiha genjutsu!
"Sasuke Uchiha, prepare to die!!!"
Crack! The Raikage clenched his fist, veins bulging along his leopard-patterned arm!
Boom...! He shattered the ground beneath his feet. His transformed body weighed a full fifty tons, and, to use a somewhat out-of-place comparison, he barreled toward Sasuke like an out-of-control semitruck!!
If that hit him, he would definitely die!
Sasuke had no doubt about it!
As he retreated, he brought his hands together before his chest.
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