In that instant, Kakuzu and Pain realized why Fugaku had jumped up there.
He had already recognized the vessel's importance!
Fugaku brought both blades down without any warning, cracking the vessel's head. Thin wisps of red tailed beast chakra seeped from its two eyes, drifting outward faster and growing denser by the moment.
Fugaku looked down at the chakra leaking beneath him.
It was just as he had thought.
This was the vessel storing the tailed beasts.
Then Fugaku looked in another direction, toward the vessel's lower left. A figure lay there, apparently already dead. After all, despite the long battle and all the commotion inside the cave, he hadn't reacted at all. That man was Han, Iwagakure's host of the Five-Tails.
"So he died after having his tailed beast extracted."
Fugaku murmured to himself.
Then he gathered his strength again. Susanoo raised both blades, ready to slam them down once more.
At the sight, Pain could no longer hold back.
"Banshō Ten'in!!"
Pain thrust out one hand and shouted.
Then Susanoo actually began to sway.
A moment later, Fugaku and his Susanoo were forcibly dragged down together. Even Fugaku was a little shocked. He hadn't expected Deva Path Pain, going all out, to be able to move his incomplete Susanoo to such an extent.
Using the momentum of his descent, Fugaku twisted Susanoo's arms and swung both long blades at Pain.
Shing!
The two long blades blotted out the sky as they descended.
Pain swiftly leaped backward.
Boom!
Both blades slammed down, instantly cracking the ground and sending chunks of stone flying.
Amid the flying debris, Fugaku remained completely enclosed by Susanoo.
A figure flashed past. Kakuzu darted through the rubble and drove a kunai into the bones on Susanoo's back.
Clang!
A sharp metallic ring sounded. Clearly, the