"Liger Bomb!"
He threw a punch, not at his enemy, but at the ground! Raging lightning formed a massive spherical shock wave around him, blasting indiscriminately in every direction. Wherever Danzo teleported, that furious surge of lightning would reach him.
The golden light faltered, and Danzo was forced to materialize in the distance, several tears ripped through his red-cloud robe by the lightning.
"Found you!" Raikage A roared. The earth cracked beneath his feet as he shot forward like a cannonball, bringing an axe-like heel drop down on Danzo's skull with the force of a thunderstorm.
"Liger Bomb!"
Facing a blow powerful enough to split mountains and shatter stone, Danzo neither dodged nor retreated. He simply raised his bandage-wrapped right arm to meet it.
Boom!
Amid an unimaginable crash, the ground collapsed, leaving a crater more than ten meters across beneath the Raikage's feet. Yet Danzo, who should have been reduced to pulp, stood firm at its bottom. That bizarre right arm had blocked the Raikage's full-force strike without a scratch!
The bandages around his arm snapped apart inch by inch, revealing neither flesh nor metal, but a distorted human face that seemed to be composed of countless tiny root fibers.
"That's... Wood Release?!" A flicker of horror crossed the Raikage's eyes.
"Oh my, this just keeps getting more interesting." Outside the village, a White Zetsu Clone poked his head out of the ground, watching the battle with relish. "Old man Sasori's puppet techniques, plus Orochimaru's wood release cells, topped off with the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Technique? Isn't that combination a little too unfair?"
"There's more to it than that." Black Zetsu's voice was icy beside him. "Look at how chakra flows through his arm when he blocks the Raikage's attacks. He's built a core similar to