The Man Who Only Wanted to Protect His Teammates Had Both Legs Brutally Broken by the Enemy

"Bastard, what else are you trying to do?" A stood in front of Setsuna, his hair standing on end as he entered Lightning Release Armor once more.

"Obviously, I'm trying to kill you!" Setsuna assumed a starting stance that looked bizarre to everyone else. "Wolf Fang Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms."

This was a combination of the Wolf Fang Fist he had secretly learned from Yamcha, Dragon Ball World's foremost victim of cuckoldry, and the Gentle Fist.

The Wolf Fang Fist was not particularly powerful. Its only advantage was its extremely high attack speed. Combined with the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, it could strike the enemy's acupoints all over their body at the fastest possible speed.

Unaware of the danger, A thought Setsuna merely wanted to suppress him with speed. He pushed Lightning Release Chakra Mode to its limit and charged forward to engage Setsuna in fierce combat.

In just a few seconds, the two exchanged over a hundred punches.

But many people noticed that after only a few seconds, A's punching speed had slowed considerably. That was definitely abnormal.

Sure enough, A was soon sent flying by Setsuna when he failed to block in time.

A got back to his feet, his arms hanging limply at his sides as he shouted furiously, "Despicable! You actually used Acupoint Striking to ambush me!"

"What, does Acupoint Striking not count as taijutsu? Besides, doesn't your Nintaijutsu have a paralyzing effect too? The only difference is that I wasn't affected by it." Setsuna shook his head slightly.

"Hmph. Even if my hands can't be used for the moment, I still have my legs. I still have my body!" A burst forward at greater speed, intending to ram Setsuna away like a raging bull.

"Then I'll break your legs!" Setsuna raised his fist and was about to bring it down when he suddenly sensed danger. A pitch-black beam shot toward him.

At that perilous moment, Setsuna's body twisted in an unbelievable manner and evaded the attack. The beam passed by his side and landed in the distant river.

Boom!

A tremendous roar erupted as that stretch of river was instantly destroyed. Violent shockwaves swept in every direction, blowing away any ninja who stood too close. Fish and shrimp constantly fell from the sky, as if a torrential rain of river delicacies had begun.

"Tsk, a Tailed Beast Bomb." Setsuna's eyes showed a hint of wariness. No matter how confident he was in his defenses, he would never use his bare body to withstand a Tailed Beast Bomb.

Of course, if he did not mind exposing his "ki" right now, he could try exchanging energy blasts.

Seeing Setsuna turn his gaze toward Blue B, A shouted, "Blue B, be careful!"

Although Blue B was powerful in his own right and was also the Eight-Tails' Jinchūriki, A did not believe Blue B could defeat this monster.

"Hehe, if you dare interfere in my battle, you'd better be prepared to die!" Setsuna appeared in front of Blue B almost as though he had teleported.

"So fast!" Blue B's pupils contracted sharply. He had not felt much while watching A fight the enemy before, but now that he faced him personally, he could truly feel that terrifying pressure.

Setsuna sent Blue B flying into the air with a knee strike. While airborne, Blue B decisively entered his Tailed Beast transformation. His Chakra Cloak burned like flames, and he let out a furious roar that seemed to come from ancient times.

"Be careful!" Minato Namikaze's expression turned grave. He could be said to understand the power of Tailed Beast transformation better than anyone, but he found it difficult to intervene now and could only seize the time to recover his chakra.

Blue B, having entered Tailed Beast transformation, nearly lost his sanity. His chakra became violent and filled with aggression. Four chakra tails and both hands slammed down at once, blasting Setsuna into the ground. Then another Tailed Beast Bomb was fired, instantly collapsing the earth and filling the sky with dust.

However, before the Hidden Cloud Village ninja could celebrate, they heard a miserable howl from the Eight-Tails within the dust cloud.

In his panic, A dispersed the dust cloud and saw Blue B kneeling on one knee, blood continuously dripping from his chest.

A looked carefully and discovered a finger-sized wound in Blue B's chest, as if it had been pierced through by a bolt of lightning.

The next moment, Setsuna burst out from beneath the rubble, dusting himself off. Though he looked somewhat bedraggled, anyone with eyes could tell that he was in far better condition than Blue B.

"Damn it, what did you do to Blue B?" A demanded furiously.

Setsuna looked at Blue B and clicked his tongue in amazement. "As expected of a Jinchūriki. He took my Dodon Ray and still looks like nothing happened."

With the dust cloud concealing him, he did not mind using a little of his "ki."

A had no idea what the "Dodon Ray" Setsuna mentioned was, but anxiety surged in his heart.

It would have been fine in the past. An attack like that would not have been enough to seriously injure Blue B in his Tailed Beast transformation, but Blue B's condition had been somewhat abnormal lately. An injury of this severity might make it difficult for him to suppress the seal.

If the Eight-Tails broke free of the seal at a time like this, it would undoubtedly be a disaster.

"Oh? It seems your Jinchūriki has developed some problems." A villainous smile appeared on Setsuna's face as he walked toward Blue B.

"Bastard, I won't let you have your way!" A gritted his teeth and lunged forward, desperately wrapping both arms around Setsuna's right leg. Then he shouted to the others, "Get Killer B and Blue B out of here!"

"Oh? You forced your acupoints open through sheer willpower?" Setsuna rubbed his chin. "What moving camaraderie. But why does that make me seem like the villain?"

Though he said that, Setsuna showed no mercy as he punched A in the back.

Pff!

Even with Lightning Release Armor protecting him, A coughed up blood from the blow, yet he still did not let go.

Some Hidden Cloud Village ninja fled with Killer B and Blue B, while the rest charged forward like madmen.

"Protect Lord A!"

"We must hold out until Lord Raikage arrives!"

They surged toward Setsuna like moths into a flame, but most could not even get close before being blasted away by his fist winds. The only one who seized an opportunity to approach him detonated an Explosive Tag in an instant, leaving even Setsuna looking rather disheveled.

Seeing the dead Hidden Cloud Village ninja, A's heart bled, and he was filled with regret.

It was not that he regretted launching this operation. He regretted being too careless and getting caught by the enemy's Acupoint Striking.

If he had not traded punches with his opponent and had instead fought by maneuvering around him, he could never have been defeated so easily.

Now, although he had forced open the acupoints in his arms through sheer willpower, he could only barely move them. Continuing to fight the enemy was simply impossible.

Just then, a thunderous roar came from afar. "A!"

"The old man's here." A's eyes lit up as he hugged Setsuna's right leg even more tightly.

"Such enthusiastic hospitality?" Setsuna smiled. "Senior Minato Namikaze, then I'll have to trouble you to take both him and me back to Konoha."

Hearing Setsuna's words, A's body stiffened, and he obediently released his grip.

Setsuna took the opportunity to hook A with his foot, kicking him into the air, then aimed at A's legs and delivered a flying soccer kick.

A shockwave plowed a trench hundreds of meters long across the ground, yet A at the end of that trench still struggled to prop up his upper body.

Just as Setsuna could not help marveling at the future Raikage's formidable vitality, he heard A roar unwillingly, "Who exactly are you? Leave your name!"

"Konoha Genin, Chiaki Setsuna." After briefly leaving his name, Setsuna teleported away with Minato Namikaze.

"Chiaki Setsuna? I'll remember you..." A gritted his teeth, then suddenly froze. "He's just a Genin?"

A looked around at the forest that seemed to have been ravaged by a natural disaster, the Hidden Cloud Village ninja lying dead and wounded everywhere, and their three severely injured top fighters. For a moment, he was utterly dazed. The one who defeated them was a freaking Genin?