"Earth Release: Earth Moving Core!"
At that moment, Kitsuchi suddenly leaped out with a large group of people to steal the spotlight.
The earth was closing in, attempting to bury the entire Ten-Tails along with Madara Uchiha.
They did not care whether this fellow really was the Madara Uchiha who had fought Hashirama Senju all those years ago, or some punk throwing Madara Uchiha's name around to con people.
Either way, he could get buried!
The dead belonged where the dead ought to be.
Then Madara sneered. Ninjas these days really were arrogant!
"Tengai Shinsei!"
The earth slowly closed in, and Madara's field of vision gradually disappeared.
But the disturbance in the sky made countless people instinctively look up.
"What is that..."
"A... a meteor!"
"Is this really something a human can do?"
"This enemy is on a completely different level."
"I'm tired. Let it all end."
Countless people slumped straight to the ground, without even a thought of resisting or fleeing.
Yet under the gaze of countless eyes, a figure flew into the air at tremendous speed.
The person who stepped forward was none other than Shinji, who had declared war on Madara earlier.
He was not doing it to save anyone, either. He was returning the favor!
"Power of Stopping!"
Shinji flew up to meet it as though he had no idea of his own limits, then raised both hands, seemingly intending to hold up the meteor.
In the original story, Ōnoki had succeeded once using Earth Release: Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique.
Naturally, Shinji had his own method.
He simply stretched the distance between the meteor and his hands to infinity, making it look as though he were holding up the meteor with both hands.
In reality, however, the meteor was still moving slowly and had not actually touched