Because he suspected that the target of this mission was likely the "chakra armor" worn by the enemy, a treasure valuable enough to catch the eye of a sage like Hyuga Kagami, Haku regarded the Snow Ninja as formidable first-tier enemies of the Akatsuki. He went all out at once, without holding anything back.
In an instant, surging Senjutsu chakra erupted from his body.
At that moment, everyone present—whether the members of the film crew in the sled convoy or the Snow Ninja aboard the rail train—felt an inexplicable shudder in their hearts.
Then, an enormous sheet of frost spread outward from beneath Haku's feet.
The crystalline frost swelled as it rapidly spread, layer after layer, row after row, sheet after sheet. In the blink of an eye, it froze everything before it solid!
The rolling avalanche created earlier by the Snow Ninja's Ice Release ninjutsu had been fierce and overwhelming, as though it could swallow everything.
Yet beneath the spreading frost, it vanished without a sound. There was not even the clash everyone had imagined. It was like pouring a ladle of water into the sea, without stirring so much as a ripple.
As for the rail train carrying Kazahana Dōtō, it seemed as tiny as a crawling insect in the snow beneath the frost. It was instantly engulfed and frozen solid.
Whoosh...
A blast of cold wind swept through, gradually dispersing the snow mist hanging in the air.
Only then did everyone's vision slowly clear, and they all stood frozen in shock, their mouths hanging open.
Because what stood before them was no longer a vast snowy plain, nor was it Kazahana Dōtō's rail train. It was a glacier dozens of meters high, stretching so far that its end could not be seen!
The director of the film