The entrance to Mountain Hollow Village was halfway up the mountainside. They only needed to retreat inside and wait for the snow to slide past, and the avalanche would pose no danger. Still—this avalanche was not all that terrifying. For Jonin, it was hardly an insurmountable natural disaster!
"Send the Giant Salamander back first. We're going after them!" Dark Drizzle refused to let this opportunity slip away. The avalanche still posed a considerable threat to the Giant Salamander, though. After all, it disliked places that were too cold.
The next instant—
They no longer needed to worry about the avalanche, either.
Because—
Summoning Technique: Triple Rashōmon!
Three enormous Rashomon gates rose from the ground out of nowhere—
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The enormous gates blocked off three sides of the village entrance. The avalanche could not budge them at all. It struck the red Rashomon gate facing it head-on, then rolled outward along the blue gates angled to either side.
"This is—" At the sight, surprise and delight immediately lit up Ranwu's face.
Rashomon!
We should—be safe now.
Rashomon was a special kind of summoned entity, somewhere between a living being and an inanimate object. Legend held that it was a gateway between the mortal world and the Pure Land—
During the Warring States Period, only the Uzumaki Clan could summon it.
Later, the Uzumaki Clan shared it with the Senju Clan. After Konoha's founding, the Rashomon contract also circulated within the village.
Anyone capable of signing a contract with Rashomon was already powerful. Its greatest and most remarkable feature was that the stronger the summoner, the larger and more powerful the gates they summoned.
Although they could not move or attack like living creatures, they possessed extraordinary defensive strength.
Judging by the size of the Triple Rashōmon before her, Ranwu