"You're mine."
Those words drifted lightly over the ruins of the Valley of Clouds and Lightning, yet struck like a sledgehammer, shattering the backbone of everyone from Kumogakure.
The Fourth Raikage lay beneath his enemy's foot, his fate unknown. Their strongest combination attack, "Lariat," had been cut apart with a single slash. For Kumogakure, where martial strength reigned supreme, this was nothing short of the collapse of their faith.
"Brother!!!"
Pinned in place by Rikujōkōrō, Killer B watched Chiya trample the brother who had always been tougher and more hotheaded than anyone else like a dead dog. Behind his sunglasses, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot.
Rap? Rhythm? In that instant, towering rage burned them all to ashes.
"Unforgivable..."
"I'll never forgive you!!!"
Boom!
An incredibly violent surge of dark red chakra erupted from Killer B's body. It was so powerful that it forcibly shattered the Rikujōkōrō Chiya had cast!
That was a tailed beast's fury.
The full-force eruption of Killer B and Eight-Tails Gyuki, their hearts acting as one!
"ROOOAR!!!"
With a deafening roar, Killer B's body swelled instantly. His red Tailed Beast Cloak vanished, replaced by solid flesh and bone.
In just two seconds.
A mountain-sized monster with a bull's head, an octopus's body, and eight enormous tentacles whipping behind it appeared in the Valley of Clouds and Lightning!
The complete Eight-Tails-Gyuki!
Its enormous body crushed the surrounding rock, and its vast shadow blotted out the sky, completely engulfing Chiya's tiny figure.
"Chiya! Look out!!"
Feeling that suffocating volume of chakra, Sasuke's expression changed dramatically. He instinctively manifested Susanoo's skeletal frame to defend himself.
This was a fully transformed tailed beast! The strongest one besides the Nine-Tails!
"Give... my brother back!!!"
Eight-Tails Gyuki roared in human speech, its voice like thunder. Without a moment's hesitation, it opened a bloody