"Ah—!!!"
A shrill scream tore from Lan's mouth.
The next second, his lower body, from the roots of his thighs down, vanished completely!
There was no bloody mess. It was as if it had never existed, leaving only smooth, even cross-sections behind.
The golden aura instantly withered.
"Lan!"
In the distance, Rin and Obito's anxious cries seemed to ring out, but that was only Lan's hallucination.
With the support of his lower body gone, Lan's body plummeted straight down.
"Is it over?" Lan's consciousness began to blur, his scarlet Sharingan filled with unwillingness and rage.
He refused to die like this!
Seeing Lan struck by Dust Release and lose his lower body, the Iwagakure ninja erupted into earth-shaking cheers.
"We won! We won!"
"Long live Lord Tsuchikage!"
Ōnoki also let out a breath, leaning on his cane as he panted slightly.
That battle just now had taken a great toll on him as well.
"Hmph, a brat who didn't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth." Ōnoki looked at the falling Lan without the slightest pity in his eyes.
Countless ninjutsu, shuriken, and kunai shot toward the falling Lan again. This time, he had no strength to resist at all!
"Am I really going to die here?" Lan's eyes filled with despair.
He thought of Rin's smile, Obito's simple honesty, Guy's burning passion, and the teachings of Fugaku and Might Duy...
No! I can't die!
His intense will to survive instantly cleared his consciousness a little!
He suddenly remembered something and silently recited in his heart:
"System, Senzu Bean!"
An indescribable warm current instantly flowed through his entire body!
His originally hazy consciousness became incomparably clear. The agony in his body vanished, and his lost lower body regenerated at a speed visible to the naked