Aboard his warship, Haido sat on his leather sofa, sipping red wine and humming a tune as he imagined the wonderful future awaiting him once he obtained all the Gelel Stones in this mineral deposit.
Suddenly, a pillar of white light descended.
Alarms blared in an instant, and the massive warship shuddered and began to tilt.
"What's going on?!"
Haido screamed, unable to understand what had happened.
In the valley, Ōnoki floated in midair. With a single Dust Release attack, he split the massive warship in two, disintegrating an entire section of it.
"Nice work, Grandfather!"
Seeing her grandfather destroy such an enormous warship with a single ninjutsu, Kurotsuchi cheered excitedly.
Ōnoki sighed.
"Ah, I really am getting old. I'm not much use anymore."
He was not being modest. He had originally expected that blast of Dust Release to disintegrate half the warship.
But that was fine. If one blast could not do it, he would fire a few more.
What he lacked in power, he would make up for in numbers.
"Dust Release!"
Another Dust Release attack began to charge...
The Shinobi World Federation's Research Department.
This was Tetsuya's first visit, too. After Orochimaru founded the department, he had chosen to base it in Otogakure, the village he had established.
As he put it, all the basic facilities were already there. They would only need to expand them later.
As a hands-off boss, Tetsuya had naturally left the decision entirely up to him.
Looking at the futuristic gate to the complex before him, Tetsuya let out a sigh of admiration.
"Well, look at that. This gate is even grander than the old Konoha Gate, and a lot more futuristic."
Curious about everything around him, Tetsuya abandoned his plan to open a portal straight into Orochimaru's laboratory. He decided to