After Ken Aburame had gone quite a distance, he could still see the enormous bank of dense fog by the sea when he looked back.
He turned around and continued racing toward the Konoha camp with Kureya Inuzuka on his back.
After another few hundred meters, the direction of the shore suddenly lit up.
He looked back and saw a continuous series of explosions erupting along the coast!
The flashes of the explosions pierced through the dense fog.
Only then did the sustained thunderous roars of the blasts reach him!
Kawadera... Kawadera seemed to have truly gotten angry. Had he detonated his entire stockpile of explosive tags?
Kawadera Uchiha stood atop a reef, looking at the stretch before him where the beach was no longer a beach, and the sea was no longer a sea.
It had not been one violent explosion, but countless craters of varying depths.
The sea was the opposite: the blasted-out pits had filled with seawater, while mud had piled into mounds elsewhere.
Faced with a squad of nearly sixty Mist ninja, using his trump card, the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, had been Kawadera Uchiha's only means of retaliation.
If those sixty Mist ninja had not been dealt with and caught up to them, there was no way Ken Aburame could have escaped while carrying the wounded Kureya.
The Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags truly deserved to be called a forbidden technique. Their power was immense, but so was their cost.
The first major cost was the sacrifice of one ninja crow.
A ninja crow's life was still a life.
Kawadera Uchiha had over eighty ninja crows, and now one was gone. It hurt a little.
He summoned the flock of ninja crows and checked, discovering that Ninja Crow No. 31 had died.
The second major cost