Minato Namikaze stood at the edge of a half-collapsed rooftop, his blond hair swept back by the hot wind blowing across the battlefield. The hem of his dark blue short-sleeved shirt snapped in the wind.
He looked toward Doomsday as the monster advanced on downtown Metropolis. Beneath his bright smile, a faint dark-gold sheen stirred.
The Anti-Life Equation's command was taking effect.
Doomsday would focus on destruction!
He pressed his hands together. Chakra surged through his body as Natural Energy poured in from all around him.
Natural Energy and Chakra intertwined in his palms, compressing and spinning into an enormous Rasenshuriken edged with serrated wind blades.
The Rasenshuriken was over two meters across. Countless blue-white wind blades churned inside it, each slicing through the air at high speed with a piercing whine.
Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!
Minato Namikaze vanished from the rooftop. A golden flash traced an arc through the air and swept straight into Doomsday's flank.
He raised his right hand high and drove the massive, blue-white Rasenshuriken in his palm into the center of Doomsday's armored chest with all his strength.
Boom!
The instant the Rasenshuriken struck the bone armor, the battlefield erupted.
Blue-white wind blades burst outward from the point of impact, peeling away Doomsday's bone-white chest plates layer by layer, shattering them and hurling them into the air.
The fragments were sliced into finer pieces midair. Mixed with dark-red muscle fibers and scraps of black veins, they spiraled skyward like a rain of blood blown in reverse.
Doomsday threw back his head and unleashed a scream that seemed to tear the world apart.
It was more agonized than any roar before it, sharper and more heartrending. It shattered every remaining window and streetlamp cover within three hundred meters. Even the news helicopters evacuating in the