The air outside the carriage was suffocatingly heavy.
B's fingers whitened around his ninja blade.
He watched Yashiro standing on the carriage shaft, a chill rising inside him.
The three-bladed shuriken patterns in Yashiro's eyes slowly rotated.
Those eyes shone with a deep, blood-red light.
"Everyone, spread out!"
"Prepare the Four Violet Flames Formation and surround him!"
B dared not let his guard down for an instant and shouted his orders.
The twenty Root elites around them swiftly moved.
They drew kunai and ninja tools, trying to put a safe distance between themselves and him.
But Yashiro gave them no time to form hand seals.
The tragedy he had just experienced in the genjutsu world still churned in his mind.
The horrific sight of Chikage being beheaded.
The screams of his wife and children as their eyes were gouged out.
The sight of his clansmen lying in pools of blood all along the street.
That searing pain and fury desperately needed an outlet.
"Danzo's dogs..."
"Every last one of you can die!"
Yashiro threw back his head and howled, a ragged roar tearing from his throat.
Dark purple chakra erupted from his body without warning.
Violent shock waves swept through all of Sunset Gorge like a hurricane.
Crack!
Thick chakra ribs rapidly materialized behind Yashiro.
The massive skeletal structure expanded rapidly in the air.
The sturdy, spacious carriage drawn by four horses could not withstand such overwhelming power.
The thick wooden roof boards groaned, then shattered into a storm of splinters.
All four solid wheels were crushed on the spot by the pressure.
The dark purple chakra bones continued to grow wildly upward, forming a gigantic skeletal upper body.
The skeleton's shoulders struck the cliffs on either side of Sunset Gorge, sending countless rocks tumbling down.
An upper-body Susanoo!
It