"Big brother! Are we done fighting?"
Shanks and Katakuri both returned to Kamui's side.
Shanks thought they had beaten Konoha into submission, just as they had the Sand Village.
Katakuri was still frowning. He knew Hiruzen Sarutobi was probably still alive.
Yet his Future-Sight Observation Haki never showed the Third Hokage appearing.
Who knew where that old bastard had gone using some sort of space-time Ninjutsu?
He thought of the Enma Hiruzen Sarutobi had summoned.
Could that talking Enma have summoned the Third Hokage back to him instead?
Orochimaru soon confirmed his suspicions.
Ninja and their contracted summons could indeed summon each other. These were Summoning and Reverse Summoning.
"So he's already left this area?"
"No wonder my Observation Haki can't detect him at all."
"This Ninjutsu really is as strange as the Teleport-Teleport Fruit and Door-Door Fruit abilities."
Katakuri had paid the price for his unfamiliarity with these space-time Ninjutsu.
But in their next battle, Hiruzen Sarutobi would not find it so easy to disengage and escape.
No one could escape him twice using the same trick.
"You two zombies actually want my big brother to become Hokage?"
"Are you out of your damn minds?"
"If my big brother wanted to, he could establish a powerful empire in our world right away, with more territory than your Land of Fire and Land of Wind combined!"
"And you actually want him to be a village chief!?"
"Hahaha! You're killing me!"
"Sorry, I don't usually laugh, but that idea is just too hilarious!"
Shanks heard the First Hokage repeatedly invite Kamui to become Hokage, protect Konoha, and lead it forward.
He clutched his stomach and laughed uncontrollably.
Kamui was the family's eldest son, first in line to inherit!
Never mind the Holy Empire and the Floating Divine Realm—even the entire continent