Kushina VS Nishikawa Tetsu

Nishikawa Tetsu slowly raised both hands, Senjutsu Chakra rising around him like golden flames.

The immense aura of authority he exuded instantly suppressed the rolling waves around him.

He took a deep breath, preparing to give this soft-looking Giant Sea Hare a vicious blow.

However.

Something utterly astonishing happened.

"Eek?!"

The Giant Sea Hare, which had been evenly matched with Kushina in her Four-Tails state and had been flaunting its absurd regenerative abilities, suddenly stiffened its two thick tentacles the instant it sensed the Senjutsu Chakra erupting from Nishikawa Tetsu.

A trace of humanlike terror actually flashed through its seemingly sluggish little eyes!

Then, the enormous creature hesitated no longer.

"Gurgle, gurgle—!!!"

Its gigantic jelly-like body abruptly contracted downward and dove into the bottomless seawater.

It moved so fast that it left behind a massive whirlpool on the surface before vanishing without a trace.

Not even a remnant of Chakra remained.

Nishikawa Tetsu froze in midair, still holding his hand seal.

"What the hell? It ran?! It just ran away?!"

Nishikawa Tetsu could hardly believe his eyes.

"What the hell does that mean?! Where's that arrogant attitude you had when you were tanking the Nine-Tails' Chakra? I finally entered Sage Mode to show off what I could do, and you took one look at me and immediately ran for it?!"

Nishikawa Tetsu was ninety percent speechless and so frustrated he wanted to cough up blood. What kind of nonsense was this?

Yet something even more aggravating was still to come.

"Roarrr—!!!"

The sea hare had run away, but Kushina, who was on the verge of going berserk, had not.

Having lost her target, Four-Tails Kushina instantly locked her bloodthirsty, crazed vertical pupils onto Nishikawa Tetsu, the nearest person radiating immense Chakra!

Whoosh!

The dark-red figure turned into a savage afterimage,