"Your courage is commendable,"
"but the howls of the weak are meaningless."
Uchiha Madara's gaze turned icy as he drove the wooden giant forward, preparing to finish Jiraiya here.
He had already captured three Tailed Beasts, so naturally he could not let the remaining Nine-Tails escape.
Otherwise, if he waited any longer, the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki might flee.
As he spoke, Uchiha Madara once again raised the wooden giant's house-sized fist.
"Flying Thunder God: Dimensional Slash!"
An invisible ripple of spatial distortion flashed, and a familiar figure suddenly appeared before Jiraiya.
It was Uchiha Shisui, who had come to provide support!
"Shisui!"
Jiraiya sighed in relief at the sight. It seemed Teacher Sarutobi had no intention of abandoning him.
With Uchiha Shisui's space-time abilities, even if he could not defeat Uchiha Madara, he could at least easily delay him.
"Your timing really is impeccable."
Jiraiya spoke with a hint of teasing. He suspected that Uchiha Shisui had likely been watching from the sidelines all along, only stepping in when he was nearly done for.
"Can you still hold on, Senior Jiraiya?"
Uchiha Shisui did not deny it and instead asked about Jiraiya's injuries.
Jiraiya nodded and stood beside Uchiha Shisui, both of them watching Uchiha Madara in the distance.
"Space-time Ninjutsu?!"
Uchiha Madara narrowed his eyes, thinking of something unpleasant.
His younger brother, Uchiha Izuna, had died to the Second Hokage's space-time Ninjutsu.
What surprised him even more was that this person capable of using space-time Ninjutsu was actually from the Uchiha clan?!
"Boom?!"
Suddenly, the wooden giant beneath Uchiha Madara collapsed with a thunderous crash. Its enormous body split in two at the waist, the cut so smooth it seemed naturally formed.
This was the effect of Uchiha Shisui's earlier Dimensional Slash. Because the cut made by the spatial slash