"Hokage-sama, are you all right?"
Seeing that the battle had ended, an Anbu-dressed ninja stepped forward and asked with concern.
"I'm fine."
Hinata's eyes were fixed above Otsutsuki Isshiki's corpse, her pupils utterly motionless. To outsiders, she looked as though she were spacing out.
But the surrounding ninjas worried that she might have been injured in the battle just now.
Otsutsuki Isshiki stared at his hands for two seconds before finally sorting out what had happened.
His face twisted. He could not believe that he had actually been killed by a monkey!
But the most urgent matter now was finding a vessel first!
And Hidden Leaf Village happened to have an excellent vessel.
Uzumaki Naruto!
He then flew toward Uzumaki Naruto.
His purpose in coming this time had been the Nine-Tails' Chakra, so after entering the village, he had flown straight toward the Nine-Tails.
The shortest distance between two points was a straight line.
Although he had been stopped before seeing the Nine-Tails, the place where he died was already not far from it.
What delighted him most was that, because of the alarm, all the ninjas in Hidden Leaf Village were rushing in this direction, including the Nine-Tails!
Now, he was only a dozen or so meters away from the Nine-Tails.
Yet those dozen or so meters remained unreachable no matter how he flew.
Not long after his soul body flew out, it was restrained.
Then, a small, fair, tender hand covered his head.
She kneaded the adult-sized soul body into a ball, rubbing it back and forth as though making dumplings. In the end, Hinata rolled Otsutsuki Isshiki's soul body into a white bead roughly five centimeters in diameter.
Looking at the white bead in her palm that ordinary people could not see, Hinata thought for a moment,