"Oh? So you really do recognize these eyes. Then..."
Black Zetsu barely hesitated. Before he could even hear the rest, he immediately abandoned Tobirama's body.
Shadow Clone Zero moved even faster, pressing his palm to the ground as terrifying sealing power directly engulfed the entire island.
"No!!"
Black Zetsu was terrified out of his wits. He desperately tore off part of his own body and escaped into the sea, transferring a portion of his consciousness in an instant.
The island continuously shrank, becoming densely covered in seals until it finally stopped at the size of a small ball.
Shadow Clone Zero felt a wave of disgust as he looked at the wriggling black mass in his hand.
"What the hell is this thing?"
Black Zetsu had escaped far too quickly. The moment it landed, it fused with the earth, but Shadow Clone Zero, in Tenseigan Mode, showed it no mercy and sealed away the entire island along with it.
Shadow Clone Zero then looked around, grabbed the unconscious Senju Tobirama floating on the sea, and reverse-summoned himself back to the Ninja Cat Clan Grounds.
However, there seemed to be one place he had forgotten. At the border of the Land of Lightning, amid a battlefield that looked as though it had endured a nuclear blast, an inconspicuous pile of rubble stirred.
A bloodied arm reached out and laboriously pushed aside the stones overhead. Then, a head emerged, greedily gulping down air.
Soon afterward, a second person crawled out nearby... then a third...
It turned out that at the instant the Art of Saintly Attainment in Mount Myōboku: Thousand-Hand descended, Konoha's group had scattered and fled. Hiruzen Sarutobi used the staff transformed from his summoned beast to shove himself away, which spared him from the worst of the impact.
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