"Did we make it...?"
Pain Rin murmured, lowering her small hands from the hand seal.
"Just in time." Pain's Preta Path withdrew its Sealing Technique Absorption.
The vanished Dust Release beam became Ōnoki's shock!
His tiny eyes stared fixedly at the dark, muscular blond man atop the Mountain Soil Technique!
Kitsuchi looked up. "Father... he, could he be...!"
Ōnoki clenched his fist. "Yes, Yamagata! He, Dongye, and Amu went missing not long ago during a patrol mission in the Land of Lightning!"
Just now... had that masked little girl formed a summoning seal?
Kitsuchi asked, "What did Yamagata do!!"
Ōnoki said, "He absorbed my Dust Release."
"What!?" Kitsuchi's horror was imaginable.
At that moment, the mechanical arm summoned by Pain A began exerting force, and the cracks across the Mountain Soil Technique kept spreading!!
"Damn it, the Mountain Soil Technique can't hold on any longer!!!"
Kitsuchi struggled to maintain it, but he was ultimately fighting alone!
With a thunderous BOOM, the Mountain Soil Technique collapsed. Rubble shot through the air, and even the distant pyramid was caught in the destruction and reduced to ruins!!
Pain A and the Preta Path landed together on the Yata Crow Pain Rin had summoned again, setting down "Lord Mu (pending)."
Along with another "Lord Mu" (pending), unloaded from the Chameleon's mouth and transferred onto the Yata Crow, Pain Rin marked them with a summoning seal.
"At a time like this, as long as the main body performed a summoning from Amegakure, it could pack all of us up and take us away. But unfortunately, there's someone troublesome watching right beside the main body..."
Watching the Yata Crow rise into the sky, Ōnoki's gaze turned deep and sharp as he stared at "Pain Rin."
He questioned her from afar, "Are you planning to take Lord