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Heaven Slayer's slash suddenly surged in power, and all the natural chakra Sasuke had painstakingly gathered was absorbed by it. Everything happened so quickly that Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata were defeated before they could even react. Even the Three Sacred Treasures were shattered. The three of them could hardly believe what they had seen.
Only after Heaven Slayer left with Black Zetsu did Naruto and the others slowly come to their senses. Minato arrived from afar with the Body Flicker Technique and asked, "Naruto, what just happened? Why did you lose? I clearly saw you block that strike. Why did his attack suddenly grow so much stronger?"
Naruto shook his head. "I don't know either. Sasuke activated the Yasaka Magatama and gathered all the nature energy within a hundred li. But just when we thought we were about to block it again, Heaven Slayer's attack suddenly absorbed all the natural chakra Sasuke had gathered. That was why his attack surged in power, and why we lost."
Minato sank into thought after hearing Naruto's explanation. The others arrived as well and asked Naruto what had happened, and how a battle they had been on the verge of winning could have been turned around like that.
Faced with everyone's questions, Naruto clearly had no desire to explain it all again. He was dejected. For the first time, he felt how insignificant he was. Before a truly powerful opponent, everything he relied on was nothing but a joke.
Naruto had always believed that his knowledge of the Naruto World would let him thrive here. And, in fact, that understanding had helped him do just that. He had revived the Fourth Hokage and Kushina, obtained the Rinnegan and even the White Eye, and received the Dark Demon Dragon's inheritance. With all that, combined