Naruto's shadow clone felt a tightness in his chest after Miki Yūya shut him down with a single remark. In the end, he could only rein in his emotions, turn back into an armored soldier, and leave the secret chamber to resume posing as a guard.
"I wonder how the original's doing..."
Meanwhile, on the coast of the Land of Wind.
The battlefield was a scene of utter devastation.
Both warships, whose technology could easily overpower the Shinobi World's conventional fighting forces, had been destroyed.
Some invisible force had brutally punched through and torn apart their tough hulls. Most of each ship lay tilted between the beach and the reefs, their steel plates twisted and shattered. Wreckage littered the entire coast, while scattered fragments of armor plating and machinery floated on the sea.
Above the desert, fierce winds howled.
High in the sky.
Kamira had already taken on a half-bat form, broad wing membranes spread behind her.
She gripped Naruto and Temujin with one foot each, carrying them in a frantic flight beneath the clouds.
Still shaken as she flew, Kamira could not help asking:
"Naruto, what exactly is that thing called Gaara?"
"He's just one person, so how can he turn into a monster that terrifying?!"
Temujin looked equally grim beside him. Naruto's Clone Technique had already shocked them, but then Gaara had undergone a full Tailed Beast Transformation. Was he even human?
"That guy's power!
It's completely different from ours. Ranke and I had already activated the Gelel Stone, completed our beast transformations, boosted our electricity, and doubled our physical strength."
"But he killed Ranke the instant they met. He didn't even have a chance to fight back!
What kind of power is that?"
Naruto's face was expressionless, as though he were thinking. He really was thinking about