"No! At a time like this, what Jonin would run away and leave a Chunin behind to die?!"
Choza propped up his exhausted body and, with a trembling hand, fished a red pill from the Ninja Tools pouch behind him, ready to swallow it.
But...
"All right, all right."
Liumu reached out to stop the pill in Choza's hand and said, "That's a dangerous way of thinking. What obstacle could be so insurmountable that you have to eat this?"
Liumu knew how the Akimichi Clan unleashed their potential. The red chili pill, like the final gate of the Eight Gates Released Formation, the Gate of Death, was a means of trading one's life for another.
Choza wasn't Choji. Not everyone had plot armor.
No one could say whether Choza would be as lucky as Choji after taking the chili pill.
"I was being polite when I told you to go. If there really were danger, I wouldn't need you to remind me. I'd be the first to run."
Liumu shot Choza an exasperated look, then glanced at his senior, Minato.
His resolute gaze let Minato understand what he meant.
Without consulting Choza, Minato hauled him up and ran outside with the ninja from the Aburame Clan.
Watching their figures disappear, Liumu turned to Anrokuzan.
At that moment, his entire body seemed covered in lava. Countless streams of steam rose, shrouding the entire ruined factory.
"You're big, all right, but whether you're any good is another question!"
As he spoke, Liumu lowered himself into a lunge, drawing in his aura and clenching his right fist. The powerful force distorted the space around it, even setting off a burst of sonic booms.
According to Sara, the energy pillars were extraction devices built over the Ryūmyaku. Without question, to sever Anrokuzan's current fusion