The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path slammed its enormous palm into the ground, whipping up a gale and shaking the earth.
Paper fragments swirled through the air amid smoke and dust.
A huge, distinct palm print appeared in the ground!
Obito Uchiha rolled away in utter disarray. He had been too close to Minato Namikaze, so the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's attack had naturally caught him as well.
But that hardly mattered.
He had already accomplished what he wanted to do.
Resurrect the Ten-Tails!
Whoosh!
Minato Namikaze teleported to Kakashi Hatake's side, frowning as he watched Obito slowly stand up.
"Sensei?!"
"Dad!"
Kakashi and Naruto Uzumaki cried out as they looked at Minato.
The people around them turned their eyes toward him as well.
The reason was that more than half of Minato Namikaze's body was now missing!
Yes, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's palm had pulverized the right half of Minato's body!
And that was already the best outcome he could secure with everything he had.
There had been no other way. Only Minato, with his mastery of the Flying Thunder God Technique, could have carried out that attack.
If he refused to abandon his attack on Obito, he would inevitably have to take a palm strike from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Fortunately, his Flying Thunder God Technique was so refined that he had managed to preserve the other half of his body, keeping it from being destroyed by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
An ordinary ninja could never have withstood that last blow from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path!
"I'm fine!"
Faced with Naruto and Kakashi's concern, along with everyone else's stares, Minato reassured them instead.
"I have a reanimated body now. Injuries like these are