"Naruto, you can't escape responsibility for this either!"
Minato Namikaze appeared at Naruto's side as well, grabbing his ear and scolding him.
"You're the Seventh Hokage. You should know very well that before making any choice, Konoha must come first."
"When Second Pillar challenged Qin Yu, not only did you fail to stop him, you even stood by and encouraged it."
"I want to ask you this: if you had truly angered Qin Yu and that attack had landed in Konoha, what would you have used to stop it?"
At this point, Minato Namikaze instinctively swept his gaze over the ruins around them.
Looking at the deep ravine gouged into the earth, and the mountain that had been leveled, Minato Namikaze still felt lingering fear.
He was indeed more skilled than Naruto at using the Flying Thunder God Barrier and could redirect attacks over a large area.
But whenever he thought of that golden Sacred Elephant nearly a thousand meters tall, the sheer tonnage of that colossal thing was enough to make anyone balk.
If he had forcibly tried to transfer it, the Flying Thunder God Barrier would likely have been blown apart.
"Dad, I know I was wrong." Naruto hesitated for a moment before deflating like a balloon.
"Sasuke and I were worried that Hanabi had been deceived, so we got too worked up."
"We never expected things to spiral so badly. We let Uchiha Qin Yu lead us by the nose, and that was what caused this disaster."
As he said this, Naruto glanced at the despondent Sasuke. "But Dad, is it really impossible for the Uchiha Clan's Susanoo to withstand the Sacred Elephant Heaven-Crushing Charge?"
After personally witnessing Second Pillar, a modern-day legend, suffer defeat, asking such a question did seem a little like rubbing salt in