"Sorry, but I need to finish you off as quickly as possible. My companions are still in danger. This move... might be a little cruel."
A flicker of pity crossed Might Duy's eyes as he held Ebizo's head in one hand.
As his words fell, a scarlet aura rapidly enveloped Might Duy's palm.
Ebizo immediately drove his armor's full power output in an attempt to escape Might Duy's grip, but...
"Konoha: Seabed Drop!"
The words fell.
With an earth-shattering boom, Might Duy seized Ebizo by the head and slammed him viciously into the ground.
The impact, wrapped in scarlet steam, tore through the earth. Weblike cracks spread wildly in every direction, and a gigantic, seemingly bottomless crater was smashed straight into the hard rock.
The armor on Ebizo's body shattered inch by inch under the crushing pressure. Broken armor exploded outward amid dirt and stone. Unable to resist at all, he plunged straight into the deep pit, and fragments of rock thundered shut over him, burying him deep underground.
Having done all this, Might Duy observed half a second of silence before the crater, then swiftly turned and dashed toward Mitarashi Shisui and the others.
He had to protect his Konoha companions!!!
The instant Ebizo's head was smashed to pieces.
Inside an underground laboratory far away in Sunagakure, in the Land of Wind.
After an unknown stretch of dark silence, a bone-chilling cold spread along his limbs, and the faint hum of instruments slowly drew his scattered consciousness back.
Ebizo, who should have been dead, abruptly opened his eyes, his cloudy old gaze suddenly focusing.
He was not in the deep crater blasted out by that punch, but lying in a secret laboratory buried deep beneath Sunagakure.
Pale, cold light filled the sealed space. A transparent nutrient tank enclosed