Outside, the God Tree lashed its tentacle-like bandages wildly through the air. Every attack turned someone into another power bank for the tree, and Victor watched it all in a trance.
"Eat more, eat more, and you'll bear fruit sooner. Then I'll be able to..."
In the underground laboratory, Naruto was still playing cat and mouse with Ao. Ao was furious. He had never imagined the gap between their strength could be so vast. He couldn't even touch the hem of Naruto's clothes. Naruto really was a flash of light-impossible to catch.
"Hey, hey, one-eyed old man, let's stop fighting. There's no point in keeping this up."
Naruto could sense the God Tree running rampant aboveground. He desperately wanted to go up and save people, but Ao refused to let him go. He really didn't want to fight the old man before him. After all, during the Fourth Shinobi World War, even if they hadn't accomplished much, they had at least shown up to make up the numbers.
As far as Naruto was concerned, he couldn't be as shameless as his older brother, Meihui.
Meihui: "Shameless? I'll take that as a compliment!"
He had to find a way to incapacitate this one-eyed old man without killing him, which was a tall order. Unlike his brother, he didn't know a whole arsenal of Sealing Jutsu. He couldn't just slap a couple of seals on his opponent and take him out of the fight.
"Hmm... Looks like I'll have to use that Ninjutsu."
"Summoning Technique! Come on out, Giant Toad Technique: Sit Them to Death!"
As soon as Gamahiro appeared, he heard Naruto giving his Ninjutsu ridiculous names again, and such an awful one, too. Sit Them to Death? It left him utterly speechless. That name was even more outrageous than anything