"Hirohiko?"
"Yukina?"
After a crowd suddenly appeared before them, Yukina and Hirohiko, who stood at the front, took a closer look and both froze slightly, each name slipping from their mouths.
"Hinata!"
"N-Naruto?"
At nearly the same moment, Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuga Hinata spoke as well.
"Uchiha... Sasuke."
"Hyuga... Neji."
With those two voices, the two prodigies noticed each other, exchanging greetings that clearly carried a hint of hostility.
Did it fail? Haruno Sakura looked at the two groups before her, and that thought surfaced in her heart.
At that moment, Hyuga Neji, Hyuga Hinata, and an unfamiliar girl stood before her. Judging by the situation, the girl was probably not the person they had been trying to reach, but rather the person Uchiha Hirohiko had mentioned—a presence who, though not family, was closer than family.
It seemed the transfer had failed.
"Looks like we failed."
Just as Haruno Sakura had that thought, Hirohiko and Yukina spoke almost simultaneously.
Clearly, they had both moved to each other's side. This transfer had failed.
At the very least, it had not achieved the result they wanted.
"How many of you were locked in here this time?"
At this moment, Yukina and Hirohiko nearly simultaneously turned to look behind them, at the younger generation of Konoha with whom they had deep ties.
Clearly, the few young people from Konoha they had encountered were not the only ones trapped here.
Judging from the groups each side had brought, many members of Konoha's younger generation had undoubtedly been imprisoned in this space.
Not just the ones they had met.
And this was absolutely the situation they did not want to see. Since Uchiha Nobuhiko could open this space, and since all these young people had been locked in here by him—
Then without a doubt,