At that thought, a trace of resolve and reluctance appeared in Minato Namikaze's eyes.
Kushina...
Minato Namikaze was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of no longer being able to stay by Kushina Uzumaki's side.
"The Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu? Heh, so that business with Uzushio Village really did involve that Sarutobi fellow. Or rather... that scheming bastard.
"No wonder... no wonder I couldn't find Uzushio Village's Reaper Vessel no matter how hard I searched. I suppose that thing is in Konoha now, too.
"Boy, your space-time Kekkei Genkai comes almost infinitely close to my Kekkei Tōta. Is it worth fighting so desperately just for an Uchiha brat?"
Watching the sealing formulas circling Minato Namikaze, a flicker of understanding crossed Ōnoki's eyes. After murmuring softly, he looked at Minato Namikaze and spoke in a low voice.
Faced with Ōnoki's attempt to sow discord, Minato Namikaze merely twitched his fingertips, and several spatial slashes, condensed to their utmost limits, instantly burst forth.
Spatial blades as thin as cicada wings sliced through the air, cleaving precisely ahead before vanishing without a trace into another dimension.
"Stubborn fool. Then die. Dust Release: Primordial Realm Sundering!"
Ōnoki frowned at the sight.
With a lift of his hand, multiple transparent crystalline barriers spread forward in overlapping layers. In an instant, a vast annihilation field expanded, its successive layers of annihilating power pressing onward.
This attack covered an immense area and completely locked down the surrounding space-time continuum.
No, rather than locking it down, it was more like continually annihilating the surrounding space.
As a veteran Kage, Ōnoki could naturally tell that although Minato Namikaze appeared to be right in front of him, his body had actually been hiding inside the alternate-dimensional barrier inherent to his space-time Kekkei Genkai all along.
But... that was