The fight with Kisame and Black Zetsu was done, but the battle with Reanimated Madara was far from over.
Taking advantage of being in the Reanimated state with an immortal body, even though his overall strength was weaker than the Madara from the Second Hokage's era, Reanimated Madara still chose to go all-out and fight back.
This strategy was irritating to the Second Hokage Madara.
He had already defeated the opponent two or three times, but since Reanimated Madara was in an immortal body, he could regenerate in a short time without suffering any real losses.
Meanwhile, the Second Hokage Madara wasn't in an Reanimated state. Every time he was attacked, he had to use chakra to heal himself.
Although after integrating Hashirama's cells, his chakra was practically limitless, there's a saying: "A toad on the back of a foot—doesn't bite, but is still annoying."
It was clear that the Second Hokage Madara was being thoroughly annoyed by Reanimated Madara.
"Enough, I don't want to keep playing with you."
With a single punch, the Second Hokage Madara shattered Reanimated Madara's head and then crossed his arms, looking down with disdain as Reanimated Madara quickly regenerated.
"Bastard, are you insulting me?"
Reanimated Madara felt helpless.
There was nothing he could do, he just couldn't win.
Even though he had an immortal body, he and his younger version were essentially the same, and the Second Hokage Madara's strength and scale of abilities far exceeded his own at this moment.
Facing such a younger version of himself, Reanimated Madara felt disgusted and wanted to end the fight quickly.
But his intense sense of pride wouldn't allow him to run or surrender.
Sticking to his principle of not letting the opponent have an easy time, he abandoned defense and attacked like a madman.
From the look on the Second Hokage Madara's face, it was clear that Reanimated Madara's actions had successfully annoyed him.
So, the Second Hokage Madara, who initially didn't want anyone else to interfere and planned to handle the situation himself, couldn't help but start calling for backup.
"I am you. Do you think I would insult myself? I'm just tired of these passionless battles. I think you should understand how I feel."
Reanimated Madara of course understood, so he was also very aware of what the Second Hokage Madara's next move would be.
Sure enough, after saying this, Second Madara started calling Hashirama and the others into the arena.
"Hashirama, the next part is up to you guys. I'm a bit tired."
"Tired?"
Hashirama looked at Second Madara in surprise, scratched his head, and said, "Madara, this isn't like you. You're already tired after such a short fight? Tell me the truth, did you get too excited last night and didn't sleep well?"
Second Madara responded irritably, "Stop talking nonsense. Finish this quickly and wrap it up."
"Alright, watch me take care of this easily."
"Idiot. The opponent is an older version of me. Do you think you can handle me that easily?"
Seeing Second Madara getting a little annoyed, Hashirama asked, "But you did say it's the older you, so I should be able to defeat him easily, right?"
"..."
Second Madara was speechless.
Hashirama wasn't wrong.
He could indeed easily defeat the reanimated Madara, but Second Madara still felt a bit uncomfortable.
"Whatever, just finish it up quickly."
Waving his hand, Second Madara decided to turn away and not worry about it.
He turned around and smiled as he walked towards the two Izuna.
Double the brothers means double the happiness.
"Let's enjoy the time ahead."
"It's so nice, to see something like this in my lifetime."
Watching Hashirama and Madara argue over there, the reanimated Madara thought about the times when he was younger, spending time with Hashirama.
Although Hashirama often made him angry, overall, Madara was still happy during the days they spent together.
After Hashirama's death, Madara hadn't felt what joy was for a long time.
"I think you definitely won't surrender, so..."
"Yeah, I understand what you mean."
Reanimated Madara glanced deeply at the younger version of Hashirama, then activated his ultimate Sharingan technique: Susanoo.
While reanimated Madara was gathering the energy for Susanoo, Hashirama clapped his hands, entered Sage Mode, and then used the True Thousand Hands.
"Such nostalgia, just like back then."
Floating above Susanoo's head, reanimated Madara looked at the massive statue of Thousand-Handed Kannon, filled with nostalgia.
"It's not the same."
Hearing this, Hashirama, who was also standing on the Thousand-Handed Kannon's head, shook his head and replied, "Back then, you had the Nine-Tails, but now, you don't."
"You know?"
Reanimated Madara was quite surprised.
He had always thought that he and Hashirama were in the early days of Konoha's establishment.
Because back then, he hadn't lost hope in Konoha, and hadn't seen the content on the stone tablet.
At this time, Madara was still full of hope for the future.
But hearing the younger Hashirama say this, reanimated Madara immediately understood.
The other person wasn't as young as they seemed.
Hashirama's next words confirmed his thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm someone who was revived after death."
"Revived?"
"That's right, revived. My good little brother invented a resurrection jutsu with almost no side effects."
"Is that so?"
Reanimated Madara glanced at Tobirama, who was bored in the Konoha team, and praised, "When it comes to developing jutsu, your brother is indeed a genius."
"Yeah, I think he's a genius too, but sometimes the things he does really give me a headache."
"A headache? I think it's him who should be getting the headache."
Thinking of all the crazy things Hashirama did in the past, with Tobirama having to clean up his mess while falling apart, Reanimated Madara couldn't help but laugh.
"I say, how long are you guys going to keep talking?"
While Hashirama and Reanimated Madara were in the middle of their conversation, Tobirama on the other side impatiently started urging them.
"Tsk, I really hated myself when I was young."
He clicked his tongue and mocked himself, but Reanimated Madara knew that this was the final time.
After this period, he might fall into eternal darkness.
"Madara, let's settle this once and for all!"
"Come on, Hashirama, let me see how much you've improved compared to the past."
The two of them shouted, controlling their Susanoo and the Thousand Hands statue, and began to move towards each other.
As the two giant beings were about to clash, Hashirama had a thought and activated his three-tomoe Sharingan.
That's right, in a short period of time, his Sharingan had evolved from one tomoe to three.
Though it hadn't reached the Mangekyō level yet, it was already quite helpful to him.
"This time, I won't let you cut off a single arm of the Thousand Hands statue."
He revealed his Sharingan and enhanced his dynamic vision. Indeed, Hashirama was qualified to say such a thing.
However, what he didn't know was just how shocking this three-tomoe Sharingan was to Reanimated Madara.
"What the hell is going on? Why does Hashirama have a Sharingan?"
Upon seeing such eyes, Reanimated Madara was so stunned that he almost dropped his Susanoo's sword.
The situation was simply too absurd and bizarre.
How could Hashirama Senju possibly have a Sharingan?
Moreover, judging by how easily he could open and close the Sharingan, it seemed like it wasn't an implanted eye, but one that had awakened naturally.
But he had never heard of the Senju clan having any Uchiha Kekkei Genkai?
"Madara, take this! True Several Hands!"
While Reanimated Madara was still trying to figure out why, Hashirama launched his attack.
Unable to do anything about it, Madara had no choice but to abandon his thoughts and controlled his Susanoo to fight back.
After a series of clashes, Madara's Susanoo was shattered, and his body was badly damaged.
"Well, that was a total defeat."
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