Faced with Shihōin Naraku, who could kill him with a single blow, what could Kabuto Yakushi say? Naturally, he could not say anything.
He would just have to take the beating.
He had expected it anyway. He knew that even after learning Sage Mode, he would be no match for Shihōin Naraku.
Even calling himself an opponent was giving himself too much credit.
The two Senjutsu he had unleashed had not hurt Shihōin Naraku in the slightest. Instead, he had taken a hit straight to the face and nearly died.
With that comparison, Kabuto Yakushi did not know what the point had been in risking his life to learn Sage Mode.
Before he mastered Sage Mode, he had been no match for Shihōin Naraku.
Now that he had learned it, he was still no match for him.
The result was no different whether he had learned it or not.
Kabuto Yakushi even felt that this trip to Ryūchi Cave had been a complete waste of time.
But on second thought, the person he had just fought was Shihōin Naraku, after all. This outcome was already pretty good.
"All right, injuries like these aren't much of a problem for you." Naraku walked over and looked Kabuto Yakushi up and down, paying no heed to his miserable condition.
"I told you earlier that I was sending you to Ryūchi Cave to train in Sage Mode because I had a mission for you..."
Naraku had intended to finish everything he had to say in one go, but the dust occasionally falling from overhead interrupted him.
"Forget it. Let's get out first. This place is about to collapse."
After the combined destruction wrought by Kabuto Yakushi and Shihōin Naraku, the underground laboratory was already teetering on the brink of collapse and could cave in