Orochimaru let out a savage, hoarse roar.
"Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation!"
Rumble!
The ruins of the Hokage Building, its roof already torn away, shook violently once more.
Great swaths of broken bricks and tiles slid down, striking the wooden floor below with dull thuds.
Then.
Three enormous wooden coffins, blackened and reeking of rotten earth and cheap paint.
Slowly.
Rose inch by inch from the rubble beneath the ground.
Three elaborate characters had been scrawled crookedly across their lids in blood-laced cinnabar.
"First."
"Second."
"Fourth."
Sen leaned against a broken wall and rubbed his slightly sore nose.
His eyelid twitched hard when he saw the coffin marked "Fourth."
"All right, then."
"Minato can stay out of this."
He thrust both hands outward inside his pockets.
Whoosh!
Sen vanished in an instant, moving so fast that a sharp sonic boom cracked through the air.
Dense, pitch-black Wood Release armor formed over his right leg again, gleaming coldly.
"Out of the way!"
Using his momentum, Sen lashed out with a kick.
His leg smashed hard into the side of the coffin marked "Fourth"!
Boom!
A tremendous crash rang out.
Under the terrifying force of Sen's kick, the coffin, barely more than halfway out of the ground.
Became like a kicked soda can.
It spun wildly more than a dozen times through the air with a piercing whistle.
Then slammed into a distant stone wall, instantly shattering into a mass of wood splinters and dark soil.
"Damn brat!"
Orochimaru trembled with rage, his pale face twisting even further in his fury.
He had never imagined this kid could even interrupt the Impure World Reincarnation ritual!
But before he could act.
The lids of the other two coffins.
Bang!
Bang!
Two heavy blows rang out.
The thick wooden boards slammed onto the dust-covered green