"It's begun!"
In an instant, countless cries of alarm rang out across the world.
At the same time, countless currents of air collapsed inward!
The sky itself split apart down the middle, as though even the heavens were bowing their heads to this man!
"Saiki Yuu..." Countless whispers slowly rose throughout the world as countless eyes remained fixed on the man on the screen.
Those gazes held hatred, fear, fanaticism, and worship. Yet regardless of what they meant, the eyes of the entire world were now focused here—on this true absolute overlord, the like of whom the Shinobi World had never seen in thousands of years!
He possessed absolute strength, using countless corpses and rivers of blood to forge his supreme throne high above the skies!
The entire world lay beneath that throne!
And the one seated upon it was Saiki Yuu!
The king of this world!
"Barrier Art—Four-Square Barrier!"
Four low shouts rang out. At the four corners of the execution platform's base, the elites of Konoha's barrier unit, led by Kushina, formed hand seals at the same time.
Their hands slammed into the ground, and four black beams of light shot into the sky, converging overhead and enveloping the entire execution platform.
A powerful black quadrilateral barrier instantly took shape.
At this moment, there were still four hours until the publicly announced execution time.
"Hm? Why haven't those Akatsuki Organization bastards shown up yet?"
Among the observing delegation, the Fourth Raikage was the most impatient. He had come all this way only to be forced into becoming part of the observation group.
Put nicely, they were here to observe.
In truth, they were merely tools for Saiki Yuu to display his supreme authority!
"Have some patience, Raikage."
Ōnoki glanced at the Fourth Raikage and spoke calmly.
Yet inwardly,