Fine cracks erupted across the surface of the Adamantine Staff Enma had transformed into. Dark red beads of blood seeped through the fissures, congealing into eerie pearls in the deep sea.
"Clang!!!"
The Flying Thunder God Kunai slotted precisely into the groove atop the coffin, sparks from the collision of special metals illuminating everything within five meters. Before his consciousness faded, Enma finally pulled his bloodied mouth into a grin. "Whew, made it just in time. Mission accomplished!!!"
Had he not asked his previous master, Sasuke Sarutobi, the Third's father, to put him through similar deep-sea pressure training while cultivating his Adamantine Body in his youth, he could never have accomplished such a miracle!
All anyone could say was that fate had arranged everything!
"Poof!" Enma vanished into a sudden burst of white smoke in the deep sea!
On the shoreline... Hiruzen jolted as he felt the Summoning Technique release and shouted, "Minato, Enma did it!! Now!!"
"Understood!!!"
—"Sage Art: Sea-Covering Spiral Creation, Cloud-Turning, Rain-Summoning, Demon Child's Sea-Rampaging Rasengan!"
Giving it everything he had, Minato created a masterpiece that surpassed his previous work! A twenty-meter sphere of chakra formed in his palm, its rapidly spinning air currents sucking away the seawater within a hundred meters to create a vacuum. The Third realized in shock that Minato had compressed natural energy into liquid this time. Dragon-shaped currents could faintly be seen swimming inside the azure sphere.
"Minato..." Watching Minato abruptly vanish, the Third cried out inwardly, Both of you have to come back alive and make up for my regret from all those years ago!!!!
In the silt of the deep sea...!! A golden figure flashed into existence. "Boom...!!!" The instant the Sea-Covering Rasengan touched the seawater, the raging currents were forcibly twisted into a spiral passage. Minato's entire body was