Surprise, Surprise?

Ye stared at the purple pillar of light, his eyelids twitching twice as an inexplicable sense of doom rose within him.

On the core fragment Mukade had left behind, blood-red light flashed blindingly, its pulsing growing faster and faster.

It was like someone was shouting at the top of their lungs: What a surprise! Didn't expect that, did you?!

Boom!

With an earth-shattering explosion, the thing actually detonated where it stood!

The out-of-control Ley Line energy twisted into a vortex in midair, spinning like a bottomless well that could never be filled.

A massive spatial black hole was violently torn open in the air, madly devouring everything around it.

The pulling force grew stronger by the second, as though it meant to drag Rōran's entire underground city, skin and bones included, into the black hole.

Whole sheets of stone flooring were sucked in and crushed into powder before they could even hit anything, leaving not even scraps behind.

Naruto stood within the original pillar of spacetime light, his entire body being yanked wildly from side to side.

He screamed in terror, on the verge of being forcibly dragged into that violent black hole.

"Naruto, hold on tight!"

Kushina's eyes reddened at once. How could she possibly watch her son get swept away?

Golden Chakra interwove in midair, spreading in an instant into a vast net that covered the rift.

Thick Adamantine Sealing Chains tightly constricted the wildly expanding spatial rift, refusing to give an inch.

The immense pulling force slammed against the chains, producing teeth-grinding creaks that made everyone's scalp tingle.

Minato pushed his battle instincts to their limit as well, moving so fast that only a golden afterimage could be seen.

Special Flying Thunder God Kunai scattered in every direction, flashing as they embedded themselves into the blind spots