"Tch... tch... damn... brat! Pfft..." Kaguya spat blood as she forced herself to her feet.
Although, at the last moment, Kaguya had used Bone Vein Armament—a transformation technique exclusive to the Bone Vein Kekkei Genkai that turned all the bones in her body into an exoskeleton—it had still been a step too late...
Even if it had not been too late, she could not have withstood such an explosion. Half of the bone armor that should have covered her completely had been blown away.
"Kaguya-sama, the distress signal has already been sent. We..." Shiokawa hurriedly tried to persuade Kaguya to stall for time.
At the same time, Akaseki and Ranwu noticed that Minato's Shadow Clone Technique had vanished. It seemed that the battle—or rather, the "pursuit"—at the stronghold had already begun, and Minato had recalled his chakra.
"Shut up! Just two little brats... watch me... urgh..."
Still vomiting blood, Kaguya pulled her own spine out through her mouth.
Kaguya's movements had become strange by then.
After pulling out her spine, there were no hard bones left inside Kaguya's body.
She relied entirely on her exoskeleton and the cartilage around her joints to exert force. Every hard bone in her body apart from her spine had transformed into Bone Vein Armament and wrapped around her body, while her spine had become a whip-like weapon.
Although it was their first time seeing Bone Vein Armament in person, Akaseki and Ranwu had heard of it before.
If Kaguya Isuke had gotten serious from the beginning, Akaseki and Ranwu could only have retreated.
"She even pulled out her spine... She should have lost all sensation in her body now. She's relying entirely on her bones to sense and move," Akaseki said to Ranwu.
Ranwu nodded slightly. This was an inherent weakness of the Kaguya