In an instant.
Across Susanoo and countless branches, Karin and Yakumo's eyes met!
"Someone as insignificant as me... can I really defeat someone like her?"
Karin's gaze was cold.
If attacking Sasuke had been about carrying out the leader's orders, then seeing Yakumo standing majestically atop the branches across from her stirred a genuine urge to test herself against her!
Yakumo felt the hostility and tensed. She carefully used her Red Dragon Eye to examine her comrade, "B," who was trapped in her forest. Then she thought, The blood flow and Chakra flow are both unnatural. There are signs of a transformation. So the face beneath the mask isn't their real one, either? But this Chakra...
The Red Dragon Eye was a top-tier penetrating eye, surpassing even the ordinary Byakugan. It also possessed the special ability to see blood.
A single glance was all it took.
Yakumo discovered that this teammate, whom she had never met before, possessed a terrifying amount of Chakra—enough to make even her, with transplanted First Hokage cells, feel uneasy—as well as a body bursting with vitality!
Just then, Tsunade called out, "Yakumo, don't just stand there! Save Sasuke first!"
"Yes!"
Yakumo had no choice but to obey. She activated Wood Release.
In an instant, the branches wrapped around Susanoo began tugging at the skeletal arm holding Sasuke.
Countless branches slipped through the gaps between the skeletal fingers and wound around them, trying to pry open the tightly clenched hand and rescue Sasuke from within.
"Nice work, Yakumo!"
Feeling the skeletal arm's grip weakening, Sasuke was overjoyed.
At last, he broke free from its grasp. But instead of retreating, he formed Hand Seals on the spot and unleashed Chidori!
On the outskirts of the battlefield, Kakashi's eyes widened. "Don't!"
In the middle of the battlefield.
Seeing