Heading to Amegakure

The smoke and dust slowly settled, like a curtain falling on this brief yet brutal battle.

The center of what had once been a dense forest now looked like the end of the world.

A massive charred crater nearly a kilometer across had replaced the former greenery. The trees, earth, and rock inside had all been vaporized or blasted away by the terrifying energy of the Tailed Beast Bomb's explosion, leaving only scorching ground and twisted wreckage behind.

Yet even more shocking than the blast crater was the enormous sword scar that cut across the entire bottom of the pit and continued thousands of meters into the forest on either side!

The mark was several meters wide and bottomless, its edges smooth as a mirror, as if it had been cleaved open by a god's giant sword.

Everything along the sword scar had been utterly annihilated, forming a stark and eerie contrast with the surrounding environment shattered by the explosion's impact.

That scar silently spoke of the golden light sword's destructive power, a force far beyond the Tailed Beast Bomb.

At the far edge of the great crater, Namikaze Minato, Akimichi Dodo, Inuzuka Gaku, and the outpost ninja stood like stone statues, unable to recover from the shocking sight before them for a long time.

The air was filled with the mixed smell of gunpowder smoke, scorched earth, and blood, stinging their noses.

Akimichi Dodo's burly body trembled slightly. At some point, the iron staff in his hand had been driven deep into the ground, supporting his somewhat weakened body.

His eyes were wide as he stared fixedly at Killer B in the distance, held in A's arms, his life or death unknown—especially at the terrifying wound across his chest that had nearly split him diagonally in two. His voice