Otsutsuki and Mangekyo Sharingan

"Jiraiya!!"

Sage Fukasaku, perched on Jiraiya's left shoulder, cried out in shock. Shima, on the other side, also noticed the blood gushing from Jiraiya's left arm and was just as frantic.

Jiraiya clutched the stump of his severed arm, but even so, blood kept seeping through his fingers. His face had gone pale from excessive blood loss, yet he still forced himself to say, "I-It's fine. I can still hold on. More importantly, Lord Fukasaku, you weren't hurt, were you?"

Fukasaku had indeed been standing on Jiraiya's left shoulder just now, but when Kinshiki's blade light came slashing in, he had instinctively pressed inward a little, and so escaped disaster.

Seeing how badly Jiraiya was wounded, Fukasaku shouted to Shima on the other side, "Ma, little Jiraiya's hurt too badly! Sage Mode won't hold much longer!"

Shima immediately replied, "Right! We'll pull back first!"

Jiraiya did not object. He knew his own condition. He truly no longer had the strength to keep fighting.

The two toad sages exchanged a glance. In the next second, they opened their mouths together and unleashed an extremely piercing sound wave at Otsutsuki Kinshiki.

Senjutsu: Frog Call!!

Otsutsuki Kinshiki, whose hearing was already sharper than a human's, twisted into a ferocious expression amid the sound waves, instinctively covering his ears with both hands. Fukasaku and Shima seized the opportunity to carry Jiraiya swiftly backward, retreating to the Ninja Allied Forces in the rear.

Hiruzen Sarutobi hurriedly summoned the medical unit to perform emergency hemostasis on Jiraiya. Sitting on the ground, Jiraiya smiled bitterly and said, "In the end, I still underestimated the power of the Otsutsuki clan. My half-finished Sage Mode alone could never defeat him."

The Raikage stepped forward at this moment and comforted him.

"To be able to genuinely wound an Otsutsuki all