"Huh?"
"This is my base??"
Covered in blood, Danzo cried out in astonishment at the entrance to the Root Base.
He had finally reached an agreement with Fugaku. The man's negotiating skills were as immature as a child's. If not for his Takahashi brother's sake, he could have sold that weak Uchiha Clan Head down the river today.
But now, bracing himself against the wall of the chilly passage, even Danzo was startled by how unrecognizable the Root Base had become.
Burning pine-resin torches were wedged at an angle into the walls of the spacious underground chamber every few paces. Their flames flickered steadily, lighting up the formerly dim underground space while casting people's shadows onto the walls.
With the Kaguya Brutes constantly moving about, the walls were practically hosting a "dance of demons."
The corners along the walls were piled with bones from unknown creatures. The skull of a large creature stood atop one bone pile. Under the torchlight, it was not quite eerie, but it was certainly bizarre and frightening enough.
The brutes had built a stone ring in the center, with wood neatly crisscrossed inside and an enormous, battered iron pot resting securely on top.
With fluffy straw everywhere and scattered piles of bones, Danzo could only feel that the Root Base he had painstakingly built over many years had been contaminated. It could never return to its atmosphere of a "villain's lair" that shouldered the darkness...
Several brutes carefully lifted Takahashi Yū from the stone bench where he lay. Holding an enormous, whole animal hide, Wuren nimbly ducked beneath Takahashi Yū while the others held him steady in the air and spread it across the bench.
He also wrapped the hide around all the bench's edges and corners.
Once everything was finished, Wuren turned around, gently