The real world was very quiet.
On the Light Screen, Hinata Hyuga was being utterly overwhelmed.
Although the girl's resolve had never wavered and she had never stopped fighting, the enormous gap in strength had already doomed the outcome. Unless a miracle happened, nothing could change everything.
At this moment, many people could not help but curse inwardly. Were all the other people in Konoha dead?
Why were they not coming to help? Were they really going to stand by and watch a young girl like Hinata Hyuga bear the burden alone?
In truth, Konoha had not done nothing. Some ninjas who still had the strength to fight were already rushing over, but they needed time to arrive.
As for the others, they were either too badly injured to move, needed to tend to the wounded, or were simply too far away to know what had happened at the center.
Those nearby were the ones most severely injured. Many had already died. After all, under Deva Path's Super—Almighty Push, the closer one was to the center of impact, the worse the injuries.
So, there truly was no one who could reach Hinata Hyuga in time to help her.
In the end, when Deva Path knocked Hinata Hyuga down once again, he gripped a black rod and, amid Naruto's frantic, tense, and agonized shouts, viciously drove it down toward the fallen Hinata Hyuga.
Many people who saw this could not bear it and turned their eyes away, unwilling to watch any further.
The Light Screen showed this scene directly from Naruto's first-person perspective. Since he was lying prone on the ground, he could not see the details clearly. He could only see Deva Path doing this where Hinata Hyuga had fallen.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Deva Path raised