Before Boruto and the others could react, the sand ahead of them exploded. A red-and-white Dog-Head Robot, about two meters tall and strikingly futuristic, shot into the air.
Two High-Frequency Cutting Blades sprang from its arms, flashing with blinding blue-white light.
It dropped like a phantom among the remaining centipedes. Its blades flashed across the joints and necks of three of them with deadly precision. In the blink of an eye, the enormous creatures fell to the ground in pieces.
At the same time, a girl with short blond hair, oversized headphones, and an indifferent expression appeared on the other side.
She seemed lost in her music. She merely raised a finger toward the last four charging centipedes and gave it a slight curl.
The four centipedes stopped dead in midair, as if they had struck an invisible wall. It was as though countless unseen threads had bound them tight. No matter how they struggled, they could not move.
Yeto curled her fingers into a fist.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four muffled blasts sounded. The centipedes' heads burst as though crushed from within by an invisible force. Thick green fluid and shell fragments sprayed outward, only to strike an unseen barrier half a meter in front of Yeto and slide down it.
She did not even pause her music. She only frowned slightly, as if the noise had thrown off her rhythm.
The off-road vehicle screeched to a stop.
As the dust settled, three figures approached from different directions and gathered in front of the vehicle.
The one in the middle had black hair, dark eyes, a stern face marked with red patterns, and a dark-brown cloak of Iron Sand.
His sharp gaze swept over the people in the vehicle.
On the right stood a boy who looked eight or