"Crack-!"
The crisp sound of cracking bone rang out!
"Got you!"
While trying to block Third Raikage A's Four-Finger Nukite, Tsunade had carelessly exposed an opening, and her opponent had seized the chance to strike in an instant!
Intense pain seared into her mind, making Tsunade's body falter involuntarily.
"Hey, youngster, stay focused. At this rate, you'll die for sure!"
Although A showed no mercy in combat, this battle was not his to control.
All he could do was warn his opponent as best he could, lest Tsunade truly fall to him.
If Tsunade could not stop him, the Allied Shinobi Forces nearby would be in danger.
A knew his own fighting strength very well.
Back then, he had fought ten thousand Iwa Shinobi alone, battling for three full days and nights before finally dying of exhaustion.
His end could hardly be called a good one. After all, he had died.
But the ten thousand Iwa Shinobi who had surrounded him had also been almost entirely killed or wounded!
And if he killed Tsunade this time, the situation would be just like it had been back then.
Of course, he now even had two immensely powerful helpers.
The strength of the Second Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage went without saying. If the three of them joined forces, they would undoubtedly inflict enormous casualties on the Allied Shinobi Forces, however unwilling they were.
That was naturally something he wanted to avoid.
So Tsunade absolutely could not fail!
She had to hold on. She had to win.
"Hmph! Don't push yourself at your age. Go back to the world where you belong!"
Tsunade retreated, but her tongue remained as sharp as ever as she continued taunting Third Raikage A.
Agonizing pain kept coming from her shoulder, but what alarmed Tsunade even more