"No, Han! Get back!"
On the ground, Rōshi watched Han's fist punch clean through reanimated Ōnoki's chest. The delight in his eyes lasted only a moment before he cried out in horror.
It wasn't just Rōshi. Kitsuchi and the others on the ground saw it too. Ōnoki's shattered chest had merely scattered into particles of ash-and now those broken particles were gathering back toward him!
In barely half a breath, the hole through Ōnoki's chest healed completely.
And most unbearable of all, Han's entire right hand was now encased inside Ōnoki's chest!
"Damn it! What kind of monster is this?!"
Seeing white light flare in Ōnoki's hands again, Han didn't hesitate. Under the eyes of the Iwagakure ninja below, he decisively tore off his own right hand!
At the very instant Han severed his hand, a brilliant white light blossomed where he had just been.
It had been that close. A fraction later, Han's entire body would have been caught in the light of Dust Release!
"A m-monster..."
"Lord Tsuchikage can't die now that he's been resurrected..."
Watching everything unfold in the sky, a young Iwagakure ninja staggered back two steps and collapsed onto the ground.
"How... how is this possible..."
Another Iwagakure ninja stared wide-eyed. He couldn't understand why the dead Third Tsuchikage had reappeared before them, much less why even a fatal wound through the chest could no longer kill Ōnoki.
"He isn't human..."
Some began to tremble. They weren't afraid of powerful enemies, but the man before them was the Third Tsuchikage. He wasn't their enemy-he was their village's Kage!
Rōshi's brow was deeply furrowed as well. As a ninja who had fought in the Shinobi World War, he had encountered many enemies and witnessed many strange things in his lifetime. But even he felt a chill