The Eight-Tails had last been sighted near the Land of Lightning, on the far side from the Shadow Organization and the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning's Mansion.
In other words, if he sent people out immediately to track down the Eight-Tails and tried to use it, the Second Raikage could get there ahead of the Shadow Organization. He still had a fighting chance.
So he made a swift decision and immediately dispatched some of his men to search for the Eight-Tails.
However, he was missing one crucial piece of intelligence.
He had no idea that the Shadow Organization Leader possessed the Mangekyo-the bane of tailed beasts!
The Land of Lightning was mountainous and rocky, its terrain uneven in the extreme, and the entrance to the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning's Mansion happened to sit in a sunken basin.
When Watanabe Ichiro had unleashed his Susanoo, he had not used its full form and had deliberately kept it hunched over. After the battle, he had even gone out and rounded up the intelligence agents spying on him, adding them to the Shadow Organization.
As a result, only the guards kept under strict control within the Shadow Organization knew this information. Unfortunately for the Raikage, every last one of them had already sworn allegiance to the organization.
Thus, the outside world still knew nothing about Lord Dark's Mangekyo. All they knew was that his close-combat abilities were bizarre, that he could counter the Second Raikage, and that he had sent the man home in crushing defeat.
A week later.
By the water where the Eight-Tails lived.
The Eight-Tails roared, looking utterly wretched. Of its eight tails, only two remained.
The squad under the Second Raikage stood ready. They had paid a tremendous price to subdue the Eight-Tails, sacrificing nearly