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The ground was scorched and cracked, forest fires raged, and the air was thick with searing, red-hot energy. As far as the eye could see, countless paper cranes flapped their wings, drifting toward them amid the explosions like something out of hell.

"Leave it to me."

Shisui took a deep breath. In the end, he had to shoulder all of this himself!

"Shisui Big Brother!" Itachi Uchiha pulled off his mask and cried, "I'm coming with you!"

"Itachi, don't worry. I'm fine." Shisui patted his shoulder, then turned to Tenzo and the others. "Stay safe!"

"Vice-Captain Shisui!"

"Why don't we retreat first? We're less than two hundred miles from the village. We..."

"It won't help." Shisui shook his head. "Konan can fly. We can't outrun her. Don't worry. I'll defeat her!"

With that, Shisui turned resolutely and walked toward Konan, one step at a time.

The forest fires still raged, and the searing red energy continued to spread wildly. The paper cranes filled the sky, descending on Shisui like a windblown storm as the red energy swept over them.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

Dozens of paper cranes exploded as they neared him. The surging blast of air engulfed Shisui in an instant!

"Vice-Captain?!"

"Shisui!"

Tenzo and the others panicked.

"Shisui Big Brother?!"

Itachi's face paled. The intense emotional shock of life and death sent his mind reeling. In that moment, he felt something in his mind straining to break free, and his black pupils instinctively turned into the scarlet Three Tomoe Sharingan.

But the intense emotional shock ended almost as soon as it began.

Amid the surging blast, a streak of green flame shot skyward like smoke from a beacon. Under the others' astonished, bewildered, and shocked gazes, it transformed into a colossal green demon!

"What is that?"

Tenzo stared blankly