Inside the mental world, B's face turned pale. He gritted his teeth and said to Gyuki:
"Hachi-san! He's too agile. Staying in full form is useless. Better change back to the half-Tailed Beast form."
Gyuki agreed.
Its body began to contract, the dark red Tailed Beast Chakra flowing back inside, its immense size gradually shrinking.
"Ragnir, Thunderbolt!"
Makoto's voice came again.
"Ree-ree!"
Ragnir raised its two short little hands, made fists, and posed like a bodybuilder showing off its muscles.
Violent lightning erupted from within its body.
Golden electric light spread in all directions like a spiderweb, illuminating the entire canyon as if it were day.
Thunderbolt attacked the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails indiscriminately.
The violent current burrowed into their bodies, numbing their nerves.
"It even... even uses Lightning Release..."
B's voice came from inside Gyuki, choppy like a radio with a bad signal.
'Too strong.'
Pikachu, perched on Nijika's shoulder, had stars in its eyes.
Seeing the two Tailed Beasts momentarily immobilized, Makoto's lips curled slightly, and he said the same words B had spoken earlier:
"Strike while the iron is hot."
"Ragnir, Volt Tackle!"
Ragnir's entire body erupted with lightning again. Golden electricity enveloped Ragnir in a ball of light. It leaped high, charging at the Two-Tails like a thunderous meteor.
Boom—!!!
On the ground.
Ragnir, whose size was only one twentieth of the Two-Tails, slammed the Two-Tails into the sky.
Matatabi let out a scream. Its fur was scorched black, its blue flames extinguished completely. It tumbled through the air several times before crashing heavily to the ground.
"Pochita, Armament Chainsaw Slash!"
Pochita extended the chainsaws on its hands and head, coating the surface of all three chainsaws with a layer of black Armament Haki.
Pochita's figure vanished from its spot again.
Shashashashasha—!!!
The sound of chainsaws cutting through flesh rang out continuously.
In an instant—
It was impossible to count how many slashes were delivered.
All eight of the Eight-Tails' tentacles were severed, the cuts as neat as if made by a laser.
Countless bloody wounds deep enough to see bone were left on its body. Dark red Tailed Beast Chakra gushed wildly from the wounds, but before it could repair them, Pochita's next slash arrived.
The Eight-Tails' massive body crashed to the ground, raising a sky-filling cloud of dust.
The Kumogakure army, which was still engaging the government coalition forces, was stunned, their mouths agape.
They never expected their two Perfect Jinchuriki to be defeated so decisively.
"B-sama... Yugito-sama..."
"How is that possible..."
The Fourth Raikage clenched his fists so hard they cracked. His eyes were fixed on Makoto, bloodshot.
Makoto didn't even glance at the Fourth Raikage. In his hand, he held two Poké Balls he had gotten from Ryo, and a smile played on his lips.
The next second, Makoto raised the Poké Balls high, aiming them at the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, who lay motionless on the ground.
"I've caught Matatabi and Gyuki!"
The Poké Balls traced two beautiful arcs through the air, landing precisely on the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails.
Unfortunately, although the Poké Balls touched the two Tailed Beasts and emitted a red light attempting to draw them inside, after a few seconds of stalemate, they did not succeed.
The Poké Balls closed by themselves and fell to the ground, signifying a failed capture.
"No way—"
Nijika's voice stopped abruptly.
Kessoku Band, who had excitedly stood up ready to cheer, looked dejected at this sight.
Ikuyo scratched her head, her fiery red hair tangling around her fingers.
"As expected... Poké Balls still can't capture animals from other worlds, huh?"
Watching this, Makoto didn't think so.
He narrowed his eyes, suddenly remembering something.
He recalled seeing in the anime once that Ash had tried to recall his own Pokémon but accidentally hit James with the retrieval beam.
And the result, naturally, was that it couldn't be drawn into the ball.
That scene was quite similar to what he was seeing now.
Perhaps... the reason it couldn't be captured was because the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails were currently housed within their Jinchuriki.
If they were in a wild state like the Three-Tails, perhaps they could be captured.
Just then, the bodies of the two Tailed Beasts visibly shrank and deformed, eventually turning into two collapsed figures on the ground.
Killer B.
Nii Yugito.
A deathly silence fell over the Kumogakure army.
When they saw the Poké Balls fail to capture, they had just breathed a sigh of relief.
Their hearts, which had been hanging in mid-air, before they could fall back into their stomachs, were slammed back down into the abyss by another heavy hammer.
"Bastard—!!!"
The Fourth Raikage's roar shattered the silence. Lightning Release Chakra gushed violently from his body, blue electricity dancing on his skin, scorching the surrounding ground with black marks.
He wanted to tear that man named Makoto apart with his bare hands.
However—
"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
A figure charged in from the side.
Hyuga Neji.
His Byakugan was fully activated, his pupils contracted to their limits. The Gentle Fist Chakra condensed in his palms.
"Two palms! Four palms! Eight palms! Sixteen palms! Thirty-two palms! Sixty-four palms—!"
Sixty-four palms struck the Fourth Raikage's body in rapid succession.
Each palm precisely hit A's Chakra Point.
However, the Fourth Raikage didn't move an inch.
The Lightning Release Chakra armor completely absorbed Neji's palm force, not leaving a single mark.
The Fourth Raikage slowly turned his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Neji like an enraged beast.
"Weak little brat..."
"Don't get in my way!"
He raised his right hand, fingers together like a chop, Lightning Release Chakra condensing at the edge of his palm into a sharp blue blade as he swung it down.
Neji's Byakugan couldn't even track it. His pupils contracted sharply, and his body instinctively tried to retreat, but it was too late.
"Neji-niisan... look out!!!"
A female voice called from the side.
A white figure rushed in front of Neji.
The figure's speed was also astonishingly fast. Before the Fourth Raikage's knife hand could land, it was already between Neji and the Fourth Raikage.
"Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm."
The newcomer struck a palm.
An invisible shockwave erupted from their palm, colliding head-on with the Fourth Raikage's chop.
Boom—!!!
The two forces collided, sending a visible shockwave rippling outward.
The ground cracked, and gravel flew in all directions.
The Fourth Raikage stepped back three paces.
He looked down at his slightly numb right hand, his face full of disbelief.
The Fourth Raikage looked up, and when he saw the true identity of the other party, his eyes widened in shock.
He never expected that the person who had just blocked his attack was actually a seemingly delicate little girl.
"From the Hyuga Clan?"
Seeing her eyes, the Fourth Raikage asked instinctively, but then he immediately noticed that her eyes were completely different from the Byakugan he remembered.
"Get ready to get beaten, ugly!"
Hanabi immediately taunted him. "Back then, you tried to kidnap my sister, and Uncle Hizashi's grudge... my sister will personally take revenge!"
"..."
Deep in the rear of the battlefield, enclosed within a venus flytrap, Black Zetsu murmured to himself:
'Finally awakened.'