A cold gleam blazed in Kaguya's pure white eyes:
"Mortal, you court death."
The next second, Kaguya vanished from where she stood!
Lin Ze's pupils contracted sharply. He had no time to react-
Splurt!
A gray-white bone pierced out through the front of his chest, just as it had with Jiraiya. Lin Ze lowered his head to look at the gray-white bone in his chest, the Mangekyō in his eyes spinning rapidly.
"Lin Ze!!!"
Kurenai Yuhi's cry of alarm came from the ground.
Lin Ze gritted his teeth and swung a fist behind him, but Kaguya had already vanished. She hovered in midair, watching Lin Ze coldly with her pure white eyes.
"It's over."
Lin Ze hovered in midair. The gray bone in his chest was gradually turning his body to ash, but a trace of sorrow appeared on his face.
"Indeed... it's over..."
He looked into the distance, where two figures wreathed in steam were racing toward them.
But the steam rising from them was no longer blue.
It was-
Blood-red!
"Guy!"
Might Duy looked at his son, Might Guy, as he ran, a brilliant smile on his face.
"Are you afraid?"
Might Guy was smiling too. His tears mingled with his sweat, instantly evaporating in the blood-red steam.
"No!"
"To die alongside my father, protecting the people who matter-"
"This is youth! This is the best way to die!"
Might Duy laughed:
"Good!!!"
"Then let's show that so-called 'Rabbit Goddess'-"
"What Konoha's-"
"Blue Beast of the Hidden Leaf can do!!!"
Both raised their hands at the same time, pressing them against the Gate of Death in their chests.
"Eight Gates Released Formation-"
"Open!!!!"
Boom!!!!!!
Two streams of blood-red steam shot into the sky!
In the distance, tens of thousands of members of the Allied Shinobi Forces stared