"A winged purple god?!"
The nuclear clouds and billowing steam in the satellite images had yet to clear, but the towering purple deity dimly visible within them was still impossible to miss.
The wild joy on the faces of the experts, officers, and politicians who had been cheering moments earlier instantly froze. Like roosters seized by the throat, they stared at the screen, their eyes bulging so exaggeratedly that they looked almost comical.
"The Uchiha Clan's forbidden power, Susanoo! But it's enormous! And it has wings!"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Even the island was flattened. No living creature could withstand a nuclear explosion!"
However unbelievable they found it, intellectually or emotionally, however fiercely they denied it, this was a brutal fact they had to face!
Then the armored purple Susanoo drew the long blade at its waist, raising both arms as it unsheathed the sword.
Clang!
An immense purple sword beam split heaven and earth, cleaving the dense leaden clouds ten thousand meters overhead in two before sweeping them away and leaving the night sky clear.
Even the aftershock alone shattered the sky and ocean in the direction of Susanoo's descending blade!
Mount Suribachi, standing in the sea at the southern end of the half of Iwo Jima that remained, was blasted apart along with half the island. The erupting lava evaporated in the purple light before it could fall.
The annihilating slash blazed with overwhelming brilliance, unstoppable as it plowed a bottomless rift of immeasurable length through the seabed.
Rumble-!
Endless seawater surged in from both sides, pouring into the rift in a spectacular torrent.
The dark clouds dispersed, and moonlight spilled down, engraving the figure of that purple giant, as invincible as a god or demon, deep into everyone's souls.
"That power, that power! How is this possible?!"
"Look