Two-Tails Matatabi's [Fire Rat Ball] seemed to be warming Uchiha Minamoto's feet.
Isobu's [Water Release: Isobu Great Waterfall] followed close behind. A ring of waves dozens of meters high slammed into the lightning giant's legs with a deafening roar.
Yet the lightning giant remained utterly unmoved.
The towering waves had barely left droplets on the deep-blue armor before the lightning dancing over its surface evaporated them, turning them into mist that dispersed into the air.
They had no power to speak of.
Matatabi and Isobu stopped attacking at the same time.
The two Tailed Beasts stared blankly up at the colossal giant that towered between heaven and earth, their three differently colored eyes fixed on it.
Matatabi finally understood why Minamoto had called her a "big kitty."
In front of this lightning giant, she really was nothing more than a pet cat!
Isobu silently drew his neck another half-inch into his shell.
In front of that lightning giant, he felt like a little turtle lying in a pond.
A name from the distant past surfaced in both Tailed Beasts' minds at once.
Hashirama Senju.
The man known as the "God of Shinobi."
The "super wooden man" in the eyes of the Tailed Beasts.
Matatabi still clearly remembered how Hashirama Senju had grabbed her by the scruff of her neck with one hand after activating [Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands].
It was quite simply one of the most humiliating memories of her life.
And now, Uchiha Minamoto's [Sage Art: Takemikazuchi: Susanoo].
The pressure it exerted on Matatabi was no less than that of Hashirama Senju's [Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands] back then.
It might... even have been a little stronger.
Isobu now understood one thing completely.
When Uchiha Minamoto had beaten him earlier, he had