When Yeto heard Shinki's shout, the corners of her mouth lifted slightly. A genuine, warm smile broke through her cold facade.
She looked at Shinki. Countless emotions seemed to pass through her green eyes before she whispered, softly enough to be lost in the wind yet clear enough to reach him:
"Shinki, I'm so glad I met you in this life."
She paused, her gaze seeming to sweep over Boruto and Shikadai.
"You have to survive!"
Before her words had faded, blinding light erupted from Yeto's green eyes!
In the next instant, an invisible surge of Psychokinesis burst from her like a tsunami rising beneath a calm sea.
BZZZ!
Boruto and the others felt a gentle but irresistible force wrap around them and pull them away. The world flashed past their eyes.
The force launched them like stones from a catapult, so fast they left afterimages behind!
Within a few breaths, they had flown hundreds of meters from the battlefield and were still moving farther away.
Gaara frowned faintly in midair. At a thought, the sand beneath him spread and curled like countless tentacles, forming walls and waves to intercept them.
But the Psychic Barrier Yeto had wrapped around them proved far tougher than anyone could have imagined!
The sand struck the invisible barrier as though hitting the smoothest, hardest wall in the world. It slid away and broke apart. No matter how fiercely it battered or coiled around the barrier, it could not leave a single crack!
It was as though an uncrossable chasm lay between Gaara's sand and the others.
A hint of seriousness finally entered Gaara's eyes. He stopped trying to intercept them from every direction and slowly raised both hands. Chakra surged around him like a storm!
"Sand Burial!"
RUMBLE!
This was no simple wave of