At night...
Pakkun and the others, who were resting, were suddenly awakened by a noise.
When they went over to investigate, they discovered...
The wounded man had knocked out the Konoha Ninja watching over him and stolen his Scientific Ninja Tool!
Having the Scientific Ninja Tool stolen was tantamount to letting Konoha's secrets leak.
Moreover...
What concerned them even more was... what exactly did the wounded man want to do?
Could it be that he intended to drag his injured body into battle?
The tense pursuit began.
When Pakkun and the others reached the surface again...
They discovered.
That, without realizing it, they had already...
"Th-this is...?!"
Staring at the scene standing before him, Pakkun was stunned.
What appeared here was no ordinary thing.
It was the surface section of the underground research institute that Uchiha Saotome had built beneath the Land of Grass three years ago!
Xi: "What is this?"
"The Saotome Research Institute... it's still here..."
Pakkun murmured.
Boom!!
The sound of an explosion drew Pakkun and the others' attention.
"It came from over there..."
One kilometer away...
Someone was engaged in battle.
"It's an Invader!!"
Pakkun cried out.
"As expected... after being exposed to the Getter Ray, these things still haven't gone extinct!"
The fierce battle was dazzling to watch.
Under the Invaders' overwhelming strength, the humans were steadily losing ground.
They could change their forms at will, just like Ditto.
They could even change their size and split into numerous individuals.
Then, they could fuse those individuals into one, becoming a larger mass and gaining even greater power.
With a sweep of its claws transformed into sickle blades, it severed a corpse in two.
Screams and roars rang out across the battlefield without pause.
"This is the first time I've ever seen such an intense battle..."