Ōnoki's hands had been hidden beneath his body, so Tsunade, who was treating him, and the two Jinchuriki anxiously watching nearby had not noticed his movements at first.
It was not until that flash of white light appeared that they realized something was wrong.
But they never imagined that Ōnoki, whom they were desperately trying to save, had already become one of the enemy's people. Their first instinct was therefore not to flee or restrain him.
Han leaned close to Ōnoki's ear and said, "Lord Tsuchikage, the battle... is temporarily over. You don't need to..."
At that moment, Ōnoki expressionlessly thrust both hands forward. The white light capable of disintegrating all things reached Han in the blink of an eye.
"What..."
"Watch out!"
Just as Han stood there shocked, confused, and at a loss, a mottled python burst from the ground beneath his feet and violently knocked him aside, barely avoiding the fatal strike.
"How could this be? Lord Tsuchikage... wants to kill me?"
Even after crashing to the ground, Han still looked as though his entire world had collapsed. But Ōnoki did not care whether he believed it or not. After missing his first strike, he twisted his wrist and used the white beam of Atomic Dismantling Jutsu as a weapon, sweeping it in a circle around himself.
Aside from Roshi and Tsunade, who escaped fatal injuries with Orochimaru's assistance, all the other nearby shinobi and samurai were killed. Their deaths were gruesome, every one of them severed at the waist.
As for why it was the waist rather than the chest or legs, it was simply because that was as high as the Tsuchikage's raised arm reached.
"Lord Tsuchikage! Why?!"
Han and Roshi stared in disbelief at Ōnoki as he slowly floated into the air, demanding answers at