Ōnoki's face suddenly turned deathly pale. Terror tensed every muscle in his body, and he swayed as though standing on the edge of a cliff.
"Madara... Uchiha!!"
Ōnoki trembled as he forced the name that had cast an endless shadow over him out of his throat.
He ignored the agony of his injuries and ailments, utterly unaware even as sweat from his forehead ran into his eyes.
The smile at the corners of Madara's mouth immediately fell, and he looked at Ōnoki's behavior in disappointment.
The endless chakra supplied by his Impure World Reincarnation body surged rapidly, swiftly replenishing the blade of light "devoured" by Dust Release until it was restored.
Old, crippled, his desire to fight gone...
An Ōnoki like this did not even qualify to dance!
He controlled the Susanoo warrior's arm, raising it high. The immense blade of light stood like a towering spire, gleaming lethally beneath the setting sun.
Built among the mountains, Iwagakure, together with the surrounding peaks remodeled into "walls," resembled a gigantic earthen-colored cake.
It was merely waiting for the blue giant to slice it open...
"Tsuchikage!!"
"What are you doing!?"
Kitsuchi clung desperately to the inner wall of the "natural barrier," barely managing to hold his position on the front line facing Susanoo.
Blood continually seeped from his forehead and body, and his honest, good-natured face had become utterly contorted.
"Our home is behind us!!"
"Dust Release..."
As though awakened by Kitsuchi's hoarse cries, Ōnoki gathered chakra into his hands in a violent surge!
Ignoring the "Sword of Damocles" hanging overhead, he pointed his trembling hands at the crystal atop Susanoo's head!
"Boundary Stripping Technique!!"
Dust Release shone with a blinding white light, shooting straight toward the hexagonal crystal containing Madara in the form of a thick pillar!
The dazzling white light