With that thought in mind, Minato Namikaze turned his gaze toward Kushina Uzumaki.
He could see that Kushina, now in his opponent's grasp, seemed to be under some kind of curse. Her eyes were open but vacant, her body could not move, and she could not even communicate with him.
Her condition worried Minato deeply.
While Minato was observing Kushina, Obito Uchiha was secretly gathering energy.
He had not been talking to Minato out of boredom. He was buying time.
The next moment, he pressed his palm against Kushina's abdomen. A sealing formula appeared on his palm, and with a sharp tug, he pulled the Nine-Tails straight out through the Tailed Beast seal inside her, which had yet to close completely.
Across from him, Minato saw what he was doing and immediately activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, appearing beside Kushina.
Then he formed a Rasengan in his right palm and drove it toward Obito, who was within arm's reach.
Unfortunately, just as before, the attack passed straight through Obito's body without harming him.
At the sight, Minato frowned slightly and thought to himself,
Again. Is this spatial displacement, or some other spatial ability?
With his mastery of the Flying Thunder God, he could naturally sense the faint spatial fluctuations caused by Kamui's intangibility.
It was only natural for him to reach that conclusion.
He simply had not yet found a way to counter it.
Still, that attack had not been a wasted effort.
After all, the Rasengan had not been meant to injure his opponent, but to give him an opening to rescue Kushina.
He had succeeded, yet he had also failed.
He had indeed used that opening to rescue Kushina.
But why had he failed?
Because while Minato was attacking and rescuing her, Obito had successfully extracted the