But this time, he had said fall back-not retreat, not relocate. Fall back.
"Their beads are consuming chakra at the same frequency, and that frequency isn't something they can control themselves.
It's a synchronized frequency Kabuto preset when he implanted the beads.
All ten beads are draining in sync. At the current rate, they have at most fifteen minutes of sustained combat left while maintaining their shields.
After fifteen minutes, the beads will run out of chakra. We won't need to do anything." Chisen tapped his cane against the rubble-strewn ground. "But we can't last fifteen minutes.
Guy's Gate of View has already consumed a great deal of stamina. Neji's chakra is nearing the danger line after using his Byakugan and repeated Vacuum Palms. Tenten has only one iron ball and fewer than ten kunai left.
Our combat resources will run out before their chakra does."
Guy fell silent for two seconds.
He watched the ten Jinchuriki advance step by step: ten ordinary, expressionless faces, ten black beads flickering with dark red patterns.
He could punch through all ten of them with the Gate of Wonder open. He knew he could.
But the recovery period afterward would give Kabuto enough time to clear everything out of Otogakure's old site.
This wasn't a chance encounter-Kabuto was using thirteen lives as speed bumps, trading thirteen ordinary people's lives for time to evacuate.
"Where do we fall back to?" Guy asked.
"There's a side gully on the eastern side of the valley.
Neji saw it during his Byakugan scan. Three hundred meters north of the pass, we turn east into a dry tributary valley.
The tributary valley is narrower than the pass. The narrowest part of its entrance only allows one person through at a time.
Force their shields into a confined space,