The world-shattering Tailed Beast Bomb was useless against the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, intercepted by the enemy before it could reach its target.
Fū had expected all of this. After all, it was a vessel for capturing tailed beasts, so it stood to reason that it could withstand a Tailed Beast Bomb.
In the vast shinobi world, there were plenty of ninja stronger than her.
Having her Tailed Beast Bomb intercepted was hardly enough to leave Fū frozen in midair, unable to accept it.
Instead, she had gotten a clear look at the Susanoo that had cleaved through her Tailed Beast Bomb with its blade. Although the person piloting it was not the black-haired Konoha ANBU, certain features were strikingly similar.
She was almost certain that the ninja before her was the Konoha ANBU who had fought the Akatsuki that night.
Why would a Konoha ANBU appear in the same place as the Akatsuki?
There were only two possibilities: either Konoha was secretly cooperating with the Akatsuki, or that person had already been killed by the Akatsuki and turned into a puppet.
Either possibility made a mockery of her all-out attack.
Did she really have the power to destroy the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path?
Fū did not know. As the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, she did not even dare stay in Takigakure for too long, afraid of bringing disaster upon it again and plunging the village into grief once more.
On the ground, Oto looked up at Fū in midair, wondering whether she intended to give up resisting.
Wasn't it just one intercepted Tailed Beast Bomb? I haven't even used genjutsu or dojutsu to sever the connection between her and her tailed beast yet.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
After she formed hand seals, a fireball drifted up