Roar—
Seeing the figure in a Hokage robe, Kurama immediately charged forward with an angry roar.
He looked as if he wanted to tear the man who had suddenly appeared right in front of him to pieces!
"You... You are..."
Naruto Uzumaki, who had regained consciousness, stared at the man before him in astonishment.
"The Fourth Hokage... How could he be here..."
Looking at Minato Namikaze, who wore a Hokage robe and had hair the same color as his own, Naruto couldn't quite process what he was seeing.
" Naruto, this isn't the place to talk."
"Let me reinforce the Nine-Tails' seal first. Then we'll go somewhere else and talk."
Minato Namikaze looked at his twelve- or thirteen-year-old son, Naruto Uzumaki, with a gentle smile.
Naruto still looked completely dazed.
Thud—!!
"Yondaime!!"
Nearby, Kurama angrily slammed against the enormous sealed gate again, baring his teeth and claws at Minato outside.
"Kurama..." Looking at the Nine-Tailed Fox before him, Minato wore a complicated expression.
He couldn't help thinking of Kushina...
Then, coming back to himself, Minato prepared to use what little strength he had left to reinforce Kurama's seal.
Boom—!
But just as Minato was about to act, a burst of blue energy suddenly blasted him away.
It had happened so suddenly... Yondaime didn't have time to react!
And besides, Yondaime wasn't even alive now.
He was only a consciousness made of Chakra!
After Yondaime was sent flying, he had just regained his footing and lifted his head—
When a pair of [Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan] suddenly appeared before him.
"Damn!"
Yondaime cried out instinctively in his heart.
Clang—
Just as expected!
The next instant, the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan unleashed its overwhelming ocular power.
"Eight Gates Guy was the first."
"That rat, Shimura Danzō, was the second."
"You, Minato Namikaze... are the third!"
"Now, undo the seal!"
There,
Chen Yiban, clad in red armor with waist-length hair, stared at the controlled Yondaime with his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
"M-Madara?!"
Seeing Chen Yiban, Kurama stopped angrily pounding on the sealed gate.
Instead, he instinctively took a step back!
But by then, Yondaime had already begun walking over to undo Kurama's seal.
"Damn you, Madara!!" Kurama roared again.
The Nine-Tails nearly burst into tears!
It would've been so much better if the seal had been undone just a moment ago.
Now that this bastard Madara had come in, if the seal was undone now, Kurama would definitely become this man's pet again, at the mercy of his terrifying ocular power.
Damn it!!
Just then:
"Madara...!"
As Yondaime began undoing the seal, Naruto saw Chen Yiban and, once he came to his senses, charged forward in a furious rage, swinging his fist.
"Don't get in the way!" Chen Yiban's ocular power erupted.
Boom—
In an instant, he forced Naruto to his knees!
He couldn't move!
"Damn it..." Naruto gritted his teeth and spat out, unwilling to give in.
Roar—
Nearby, Kurama also snarled at Chen Yiban, trying to intimidate him.
"Don't rush, Nine-Tails." A sinister smile appeared on Chen Yiban's cold face as his crimson gaze flicked toward Kurama behind the sealed gate.
Watching the seal slowly come undone...
Kurama truly didn't know whether he should laugh or cry!
Just as Yondaime was about to undo the seal completely, countless Chakra chains suddenly appeared and shot toward Chen Yiban, trying to bind him.
Clang—
Chen Yiban casually unleashed the overwhelming power of his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, shattering the Chakra chains.
At the same time, the Eternal Mangekyo's exceptional perception easily found the attacker:
Whoosh—
A massive blue skeletal hand appeared in an instant and quickly grabbed the beautiful figure, squeezing her tightly in its bony grasp.
"Kushina Uzumaki!"
"You're not worthy of being the fourth."
Chen Yiban's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan glinted with icy malice as he glanced at the woman trapped in the skeletal hand.
"Minato, Naruto..." Kushina looked tearfully at her husband and son.
Then—
Boom—!
With a thought, Chen Yiban directly extinguished Kushina's Chakra consciousness.
After all, she wasn't truly alive!
If Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were actually alive,
Chen Yiban might have been interested in exchanging a few moves with them.
But they were only fragments of Chakra consciousness. Chen Yiban had no interest in them whatsoever!
He simply crushed them!
At the same time:
Crack—
Kurama's seal was completely undone.
"Ugh..." Naruto suddenly felt as if his heart had stopped beating.
Outside!
"Huff... huff..."
Jiraiya, Tsunade Hime, Kakashi, Hyuga Hiashi, everyone else, and Gamabunta and the other two toads—
Facing only five of Chen Yiban's Shadow Clones, every one of them was already panting with exhaustion.
"Lord Hokage, our Chakra is already..."
Kakashi looked at Tsunade Hime in front of him, about to say that everyone was nearly out of Chakra.
"Damn it...!" Tsunade Hime could feel that the Strength of a Hundred Seal on her body wouldn't last much longer.
"Little Jiraiya, are you all right?" Sage Fukasaku could also feel Jiraiya's strength fading as his severed arm took its toll.
"Ha, I'm fine. I'm all right," Jiraiya said with a forced smile.
"Our opponent truly lives up to his reputation as a legendary figure. He's incredibly powerful. Little Jiraiya, don't push yourself too hard in your current condition!" Sage Shima also urged him.
Jiraiya, in Sage Mode, shook his head. "I can't give up on the village!"
Seeing this, Fukasaku and Shima sighed and stopped trying to persuade him.
They simply watched Jiraiya with concern, feeling that this time... might truly be his death's door!
"Damn it, this is ridiculous! How can anyone's Shadow Clones be so outrageously strong?!"
Nearby, Mitaraishi Anko sat down and threw a childish tantrum.
Kakashi, Hyuga Hiashi, and the others all felt the same!
Were these five really just Shadow Clones?
Damn, they were ridiculously strong!
And they'd been fighting for so long. How could these five Shadow Clones still maintain their [Susanoo, Third Stage] state?
Damn it, you're just Shadow Clones. Could you at least remember your place?
Could you stop acting like you've got some kind of cheat?!
Roar—
Just then, a terrifying roar rang out in the distance.
At the same time:
Boom—
A massive creature hit the ground, shaking the earth.
Then everyone looked up...
In an instant, every one of them stared in stunned disbelief.
The Nine-Tails had fully reappeared in the world!
And Chen Yiban, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan open, sat atop the Nine-Tails as it descended from the sky and landed before every shinobi in Konoha.
This sight...
Left everyone present completely dumbfounded!
"We're... finished."
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