Other Dimension

"Life and Death Control."

Mai was the first to strike. As those four words fell, the Truth-Seeking Orbs floating behind her began to deform, their once-stable spherical structure actively breaking apart.

The pitch-black Truth-Seeking Orbs stretched, elongated, and split apart in midair, turning into countless hair-thin Truth-Seeking Orb Needles.

The tip of every needle gleamed with the annihilating light unique to Truth-Seeking Orbs. The Truth-Seeking Orbs, capable of annihilating all matter, had become needles even harder to evade—far deadlier than simple Truth-Seeking Orb spheres or shields.

There were enough to cover every possible angle of escape, and they were small enough to slip through the gaps in any defensive armor. The annihilating force attached to each needle was enough to utterly dismantle any ninjutsu defense at the molecular level the instant it came into contact with Chakra.

The Nine-Tails Chakra shield and Susanoo armor alone could never completely defend against an attack of such density.

"Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh!"

Countless Truth-Seeking Orb Needles fired at once. As if they possessed minds of their own, they arced through the air and attacked Naruto and Satsuki simultaneously from the front, the sides, above, behind—from every imaginable angle.

"Sun."

Naruto did not dodge. He extended his right hand, and something flickered deep within the pupil of his right eye.

"Roar—!!!"

A Chakra fox head emerged from Naruto, completely enveloping him and Satsuki. But this time, the fox head was not golden. It was white.

A searing white so pure that it was almost impossible to look at directly. The instant the white fox head appeared, Mai saw the Truth-Seeking Orb Needles she had been so proud of strike that layer of white Chakra shell. Then, those Truth-Seeking Orbs that claimed to annihilate all matter and ninjutsu were instead annihilated in reverse the moment they touched the