Justice Thrust

"Sage Art: Ice Release: Ice Pillars!"

In Sage Mode, Duke sensed the disturbance in the sky. His Chakra surged once more, and an ice pillar rose beneath his feet, carrying him straight toward the meteors. In his raised left hand, a massive Ice Release Rasengan gleamed with chilling light.

Duke struggled to maintain the Rasengan's stability, keeping it spinning at high speed like an indestructible drill as it bored a passage through the meteor's surface.

Four loud clangs rang out. Rubble flew everywhere as the Ice Release Rasengan opened the way, followed closely by the ice pillar, which extended endlessly like Shinsō and skewered all four meteors at once.

Mm, ice-candied hawthorn skewers!

The jaw-dropping sight did not last long. Once Duke dispelled his Ice Release, the ice pillar, no longer sustained by Chakra, could not bear the meteors' weight. It crumbled apart in the blink of an eye, and the four oversized candied hawthorn skewers rolled off to the side.

The Five Kage had been beaten to the point of doubting their lives by Madara's Wood Clones. When the four meteors fell one after another, their hearts turned cold. Once Duke resolved the meteor crisis in such an absurdly ingenious way, they all felt the urge to get out of there. Ōnoki, who had been slacking off the entire time, acted first. He used Dust Release to destroy the Wood Clone beside him, then supported the other four Kage as the five of them slowly retreated from the battlefield.

Uchiha Madara stood atop one of the meteors. The wound in his chest had been healed by Hashirama's cells and Sage Art Chakra. Though it still ached faintly, it did not affect his combat ability. After all, his best friend had always been protecting him.

"Among all the shinobi I've