"Dad!"
"Seventh Hokage!"
"Naruto!"
"I got my heart ripped out too?"
Everyone watched as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki suddenly appeared on the battlefield below, successfully ambushed Naruto 6, and devoured the Ten-Tails and Kaguya in one fell swoop.
Boruto and the others inside the floating barrier were also startled.
Boruto, Kawaki, and the adult Sasuke all panicked. They instinctively started to rush out and save Naruto.
Only then did they understand.
They finally understood why Hashirama had just charged out to save Madara 6, throwing caution to the wind. So this was what it felt like to risk everything for someone.
Even if it was only another, younger Naruto 6, they couldn't bear to watch Naruto die!
But at that moment, Naruto 7, the adult Naruto, stopped Sasuke and the others.
"Don't panic. I'm not that easy to kill!"
Other people might not know how resilient Six Paths Naruto was, but how could Naruto himself not know?
Getting his heart ripped out was nothing. It wouldn't kill his younger self.
After all, there was no rampaging Ten-Tails inside him, and Isshiki hadn't injected him with Yang Release to corrode him. Having his heart ripped out wouldn't send him straight to the grave.
Down on the battlefield, Isshiki's ambush instantly jolted everyone into action.
It wasn't that they'd let their guard down.
After all, no one could have expected a powerful enemy to lie in wait after Kaguya had already been defeated.
What ordinary enemy would dare ambush a group of more than a dozen top shinobi from across the Ninja World?
But with a basic attack speed second only to Eight Gates Night Guy, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Six Paths-level stats were nearly unmatched by anyone present, even if he hadn't attacked by surprise.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!"
The two Minatos and three Tobiramas all