The man smiled and said that they had already left the fire scene, but to avoid being pursued by Konoha ninja, he had chosen to take a detour through the grass.
Kushina opened her heavy eyes. There was nothing but darkness before her, and she shuddered from the bone-chilling cold.
Before she could speak, the man holding her was about to knock her unconscious again.
At that moment, the man suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill strike from behind him, making his hair stand on end.
"Lightning Release!"
In an instant, his entire body fused with lightning chakra, forming armor around him.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The next moment, he shot forward like a bolt of lightning.
However, just as he dashed out, a streak of golden light caught up to him.
As the sound of wind blades slicing through the air rang by his ear, the man clad in Lightning Release Armor sensed danger.
The wind blade was aimed at the arm with which he was dragging Kushina.
In his haste, the man shifted his arm aside, but the wind blade seemed to have anticipated it and suddenly split into a row, sweeping across him.
He had no choice but to retreat at once, but he failed to keep hold of Kushina, and the two were separated.
Whoosh!
The wind blades flew straight at him. Seeing this, the man in Lightning Release Armor could not evade them either. With a furious roar, lightning burst from him as he threw a punch.
"Damn it!"
Under that blow, the wind blades shattered into pieces. However, his lightning-wreathed fist was pierced through, nearly reaching his body.
This enraged him. He landed on a tree, stomped down, and then forcefully charged out. His entire body rose into the air like a bolt of raging thunder.
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