To be fair, Tsunade's choice to save and protect those Konoha ninja at the cost of temporarily losing her combat strength was not the best decision under the circumstances.
But this was the instinct she had developed over decades as a medical ninja.
In other words, when danger struck and there was no time for careful thought, her instinctive choice was to heal the wounded and save lives, protecting her companions as much as possible rather than conserving chakra for her own later battles.
Ultimately, it was her professional instinct as a doctor that had driven her to make a choice that seemed rather ill-timed at this moment.
Because when facing the Mist Village, what Konoha lacked was not a large number of ordinary ninja, but people capable of standing up to experts like Karatachi Yagura and Araki head-on!
Ordinary Konoha ninja were scarcely harder to cut down than blades of grass before them!
Still, things had come to this. All they could do now was see what Jiraiya was truly capable of.
Shadow Dance!
Karatachi Yagura, who had fully transformed into a Tailed Beast—no, it was more appropriate to call him the Three-Tails Isobu now.
The Three-Tails Isobu had always resembled a massive armored turtle covered in spikes.
Under Yagura's control, it curled its entire body up, wrapping itself in the enormous, heavy shell on its back, then rolled forward at high speed like a wheel. Judging from that move alone, it somewhat resembled the Akimichi Clan's Human Bullet Tank.
But its huge body, hard shell, vicious spikes, and terrifying weight were all beyond anything the Akimichi Clan's ninja could compare to.
Calling it a Steel Star was perhaps more fitting.
Wherever it rolled, armies scattered. Nothing could stop it, and every obstacle in its path could only be