Seeing that Hikari felt the same way, Shion could not say anything more. After all, they were ultimately helping her. If she kept refusing, it would make her seem overly pretentious.
"Since there's no problem, let's go."
After saying that, Furina was just about to set off when she noticed Shion taking a small bell from her bosom and handing it over. Seeing Furina's puzzled look, Shion quickly explained.
"This is something my mother left for me. She said it could protect me when I encounter danger. But I also know that in this battle I definitely won't be able to help, so I'll give it to you two first."
Without waiting for Furina to respond, Shion stuffed the bell into Furina's hand on her own initiative.
Looking at Shion, who had quickly retreated after handing over the bell as if afraid Furina would refuse, Furina could not help but give a wry smile. It seemed her disciple did not trust her much at all.
After carefully sensing it, Furina could detect the hidden power within the bell. In other words, it really was a useful item. She had no idea how Shion's mother had made it.
"Since this is something your mother left for you, you should keep it properly. Besides, I don't need this thing to protect my safety. The one who needs to worry is that guy Mōryō."
After gaining some understanding, Furina forcibly stuffed the bell back into Shion's hand while muttering under her breath.
Come on, among the three of them, who needed this bell the most was obvious. Even if she or Uchiha Hikari faced Mōryō alone, there would not be any issue. The only one worth worrying about was Shion.
After returning the item to its original owner, worried that Shion would continue to argue, Furina immediately set off toward the direction where the sounds were still ringing out nonstop. In the blink of an eye, she was gone.
Seeing Furina leave, Shion turned her head to look at Uchiha Hikari beside her. Meeting Shion's gaze, Uchiha Hikari immediately understood what the other was thinking. Before Shion could speak, she took the initiative to say,
"Don't look at me either. Compared to us, the one who needs it most is still you yourself. Forget it, saying more now won't help. You'll understand later. Let's hurry up too. If we're any later, Mōryō will probably already have been taken care of by her."
Looking at Shion staring at her expectantly, Uchiha Hikari could not help feeling a bit resentful inside. Seriously, running off so fast and leaving all the trouble to her. She had clearly wanted to fight side by side too.
...
Not long after, Furina, who had set off first, saw the "culprit" causing all this commotion. One of them was Mōryō. Although he had changed bodies again, that distinctive aura still allowed Furina to recognize him at first glance.
The other side confronting him was even easier to identify: a gigantic beetle with six wings flying in the sky. Who else could it be besides the Seven-Tails?
The moment she recognized both sides, Furina roughly understood the current situation. Ever since Mōryō had been rescued by Obito last time, just as she had expected, Mōryō had indeed joined the Akatsuki.
The Akatsuki cloak on the other's body right now was proof of that. Combined with the successive attacks on the other tailed beasts, the reason why Mōryō and the Seven-Tails were fighting here became obvious.
"But where are the others?"
It was well known that Akatsuki members operated in pairs, yet Furina had not detected any trace of anyone else. This either meant Mōryō was so skilled and bold that he was capturing a tailed beast alone,
Or he was extremely good at concealing his presence, which was why she had not noticed. Furina leaned toward the latter. She did not believe Obito would rescue Mōryō from their hands with such difficulty only to let him run around solo.
And coincidentally, both Obito and Zetsu were very good at hiding themselves. Furina guessed they were probably watching from the sidelines right now. The current situation had Mōryō in the upper hand, so they had not shown themselves yet.
Whether it was Mōryō or the tailed beast, the destruction they could cause was catastrophic. As a result of their successive clashes, a large area had already been leveled to the ground.
Although they were fighting fiercely, what left Furina somewhat speechless was that the Seven-Tails had clearly fallen into a disadvantage. Even its full tailed beast transformation seemed to be barely holding on.
In her view, Mōryō was just hard to kill and a bit troublesome to deal with, nothing more. How could a堂堂 tailed beast be beaten so badly by an incomplete Mōryō?
She had originally planned to find an opportunity to sneak attack and hit Mōryō hard. Now it looked like there was no chance, but it did not matter. In a frontal fight, Mōryō could not possibly be her opponent, even if she still needed to spare some attention to watch for Obito's movements.
At the center of the battlefield, the Seven-Tails' massive body crashed heavily down from the sky. Right now its entire body was covered in scorch marks, and it could not stop trembling.
"Tailed beasts really are a bit troublesome, but in front of me, this is as far as you go."
The cause of the Seven-Tails' current state was none other than Mōryō, who was slowly walking toward it. At this moment, the double-bladed weapon in his hand kept flashing with black lightning, just looking at it sent chills down one's spine.
"Hm, I still can't kill you yet. Then I'll just make you temporarily lose the ability to move."
As he spoke, Mōryō raised his double blades and crossed them in front of his chest. With the injection of his unique chakra, the black lightning on the blades instantly surged violently. Just the power of it made the Seven-Tails opposite him feel extremely uneasy.
"I'm sorry, Fū. That person's ability is very strange. I can't save you."
"It's fine. I can feel that you've already done your best to help me. But who knew scale powder would be useless against that bad guy. Being able to fight side by side with you until now has already made me very happy."
In the mental space, the Seven-Tails also expressed its apology to Fū. Although sealed, Fū as its jinchūriki had a very good personality. Under her influence, after spending so much time together day after day, the Seven-Tails had let go of its hatred, and the two had become friends.
In the time before, the Seven-Tails had said it would protect her. It just had not expected to encounter an opponent with such bad compatibility here. Most of the abilities it relied on were countered by Mōryō.
The paralyzing and vision-obscuring effects of scale powder were excellent against ordinary ninja, but against a creature like Mōryō, they had almost no effect at all.
Paralysis did not work on him, and his powerful perception allowed Mōryō to fight normally without relying on sight.
Moreover, the body Mōryō occupied belonged to Kurosuki Raiga, along with his ninja sword "Lightning Blade, Fang," which provided him with very strong Lightning Release capabilities. Combined with Mōryō's vast chakra,
The Lightning Release he unleashed was far more powerful than what the original Kurosuki Raiga could achieve. Even a tailed beast would find it hard to remain completely unaffected, and among the tailed beasts, the Seven-Tails happened to be the one most heavily impacted.