In the dense forest.
Five figures leaped swiftly from tree to tree.
Whooshing air-splitting sounds, thudding footsteps, and the rustling of shaking leaves rose and fell in quick succession.
Hiashi Hyuga and Inuzuka Gaku led the way, with Aramaki and Minato Namikaze in the middle, while Choza Akimichi followed at the rear, using his enlarged palm to carry Sara as she sat atop it.
At that moment, Aramaki was quite enjoying this ninja way of traveling.
Jumping around like this was pretty interesting.
By Sea Star customs, they would either walk or run on the ground.
Those with more volatile temperaments might simply smash through any trees blocking their path, charging through the forest like savage beasts.
That was hardly strange.
When many pirates explored islands, they looked even fiercer than the wild beasts living there.
At the same time.
Aramaki noticed something else: ever since entering the Land of Fire, he had found the trees unusually massive.
Every one of them appeared to be a century old, perhaps even several centuries old. In comparison, the trees in the Land of Rivers had been entirely normal in both density and size.
Most people might not have noticed such details, but as a Woods-Woods Fruit user, he was especially sensitive to them.
Recalling the intelligence on Hashirama Senju.
Aramaki felt that the trees beneath his feet had most likely been created through the other man's Wood Release.
If this is all there is to it, he seems about on my level. Too bad you're already dead, lahahaha—
Aramaki laughed wildly to himself.
He knew about the Impure World Reincarnation, but he had not feared Hashirama Senju while the man was alive. Why would he dread an Impure World Hashirama said to be noticeably weaker than his living self?
*What Wood Release?