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Three landing sounds, almost as one, rang softly over the ruins of Konoha, exceptionally clear amid the silence.
"Is this... the village?"
Then, in the next instant, two hesitant voices spoke up.
Hirohiko and Yukina were standing atop the city wall, gazing as far as they could into the village without realizing they had spoken.
To them, the current village was somewhat unfamiliar. Compared to their era, it had clearly grown larger. Not only had it expanded, but even the layout of its buildings had changed. Aside from the addition of Teacher Minato's face among the Hokage Rock Faces, the place looked like an entirely new village.
"Only the city wall is damaged? It looks like the battle wasn't intense. The original body is already gone. He should have gone after the real target."
At that moment, the Slug Sage Art clone, the young Chiba, fixed his gaze ahead. The ground before him was covered in interconnected craters of all sizes. This was clearly where the original body and Uchiha Nobuhiko had fought earlier.
Sure enough...
It was already over.
With a single glance, he quickly spotted Uchiha Nobuhiko's corpse sprawled on the ground in the distance.
"Help me keep watch!"
A glint flashed through the young Chiba's eyes upon discovering Uchiha Nobuhiko's corpse. After calling back over his shoulder, he leaped down and headed toward it.
"Got it!"
Hearing the young Chiba's words, Hirohiko and Yukina tensed slightly. Then, almost instinctively, one looked toward the front of the village, while the other continued facing it, though her field of vision expanded completely, taking in nearly every angle within the surrounding area.
Should anything stir, especially in the current silence—with everyone suspended from the enormous roots and giant trees—their view was even more open. As long as