Early morning, February 15, Konoha Year 39.
After resting for a day, the Stone Ninja launched an offensive against the Kannabi Bridge Outpost...
But... it came to nothing.
Although the Stone Ninja launched an all-out attack together this time, with Roshi, their jinchuriki, charging alongside them...
Roshi wanted to destroy the sealing himself, just as Torifu Akimichi had done, and wipe out Konoha's home-field advantage... but he simply couldn't!
Previously, Konoha had three Uchiha working together to hold Roshi back. Now, however, the Stone Ninja had no one who could hold back Akaseki and Gongzhi Jiu.
Gongzhi Jiu alone could take on several Stone Ninja jonin, and Konoha also had several chunin who could fight those jonin on equal terms-after all, most of those Stone Ninja jonin had only just recovered and weren't at full strength.
Although Roshi's Complete Tailed Beast Transformation was a notch stronger than Torifu Akimichi's Super Multi-Size, Roshi couldn't concentrate solely on destroying the sealing the way Torifu had-if he stayed off the battlefield, the Stone Ninja there would get utterly crushed.
If Rock Eel had still been around, and those jonin hadn't been injured, the outcome would have been completely different. But now...
Roar-
Seeing Akaseki chasing Kitsuchi down again, Roshi roared in fury and could only turn back to fight Akaseki.
Although Akaseki couldn't win a head-on clash, he had agility on his side. Flying made the lack of protection beneath his feet even more obvious, but it also gave him much more room to dodge and maneuver. The Four-Tails' enormous body struggled to strike precisely beneath his feet.
At one point, Roshi considered jumping straight into the battlefield and slaughtering Konoha's ninja-a jinchuriki was supposed to be a battlefield meat grinder!
But not only did the sealing prevent him from unleashing his full