He reached out, grabbed Sara's arm, and pulled her back more than ten meters in an instant, increasing the distance between them and Xin.
"Are you alright, Your Majesty?"
The Minato Sara behind him, his voice gentle yet brimming with absolute confidence.
"I am a ninja from Konoha, ordered to protect your safety."
Sara stared in shock at the suddenly appearing Minato, then glanced at Xin in the distance.
She immediately pointed at Xin and shouted angrily.
"That's him! This dangerous fellow has infiltrated Rōran, capture him immediately!"
Minato heard the order, but did not act immediately.
His deep blue eyes were fixed on Uchiha Xin, his brows furrowed slightly.
As a top-tier ninja who had experienced countless battles, Minato possessed an extremely keen intuition for danger.
The black-haired boy in front of me was not very old.
But the calm and composed aura emanating from him made him feel extremely dangerous.
What puzzled Minato even more was...
He noticed the Forehead Protector that Xin was wearing on his right arm.
The Konoha emblem was clearly engraved on it.
"You're from Konoha?"
Minato asked in a deep voice, his mind racing.
He tried to recall all the young geniuses in the village who matched that age, but he couldn't find any of them.
When Sara saw that Minato not only didn't make a move, but instead started chatting with him, she was instantly filled with rage.
"What are you Konoha ninjas doing?! He almost killed me just now! Are you all in cahoots?!"
Sara questioned loudly.
Xin shrugged, offering an innocent-looking explanation.
"Hey, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."
Xin pointed to the pile of charred puppet fragments on the ground.
"It was clearly Her Majesty the Queen who attacked me first, sending her puppets to kill me; I was merely defending myself."
Minato glanced at the wreckage on the ground, then at Sara, who was agitated and wouldn't listen to any explanation.
He knew the situation was complicated and that he couldn't let the queen stay and cause more trouble.
Minato suddenly raised his hand and delivered a precise chop to the back of Sara's neck.
Sara's eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Two swishing sounds.
Two Konoha Ninja, Akimichi Chōza and Shibi Aburame, emerged from the shadows.
Minato handed the unconscious Sara to Chōza's large hands and made a gesture to the two of them.
"You all take Her Majesty to safety and retreat first. Leave this to me."
Chōza and Shibi nodded, then quickly disappeared at the end of the street with Sara.
Minato turned around and faced Uchiha Xin again.
His expression became more serious than ever before.
"Now, can you tell me your real identity?"
Minato gripped a specially made Kunai, ready for battle at any moment.
Xin did not answer the question about Minato at all.
A playful smile played on his lips as he countered with a question.
"You've come to Rōran in such a grand manner because of Anrokuzan, haven't you?"
These words struck Minato like a thunderclap from Minato.
Minato was greatly alarmed.
This mission is to capture the rogue ninja, Mukade ( Anrokuzan ).
It was a top-secret mission personally issued by the Third Hokage, and no one outside their team could possibly know about it!
"Who are you?! How do you know the details of our mission?!"
Minato instantly concluded that the boy wearing the Konoha Forehead Protector was extremely suspicious and was very likely an accomplice of Anrokuzan.
Without any hesitation.
Minato immediately took action.
He swung his arm suddenly, and the specially made Kunai in his hand transformed into a black Inazuma, heading straight for Xin's face.
Xin tilted his head slightly, and the Kunai grazed his cheek, embedding itself in the wall behind him.
"You people from Konoha are all so short-tempered, resorting to violence at the slightest disagreement?"
Xin dodged the attack, but a surge of anger rose within him.
He rapidly Hand Seals, unleashing a burst of Chakra.
Lightning Release: Thunderbird!
Violent lightning bolts gathered wildly in front of Xin.
Accompanied by a piercing bird cry, a gigantic Thunderbird, entirely formed from lightning, took flight.
With an aura of annihilation, the Thunderbird pounced directly on Minato Namikaze.
Minato was startled; he could clearly sense the terrifying destructive power contained within this Thunderbird.
He immediately extended his right hand, Chakra spun rapidly in his palm.
" Rasengan!"
A high-density Chakra ball instantly took shape.
Minato raised the Rasengan, preparing to withstand the Thunderbird's attack head-on.
But just as the two were about to make contact, Minato's extremely keen combat instincts issued a frantic alarm.
Something's not right!
The power of this Lightning Release is outrageously high; trying to withstand it head-on would definitely result in a huge loss!
At the critical moment.
Minato activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, and his figure vanished from the spot in an instant.
Boom!
The enormous Thunderbird slammed heavily onto the ground where Minato had been standing.
A violent bolt of lightning exploded instantly, shattering the hard stone pavement into pieces.
A huge crater several meters in diameter suddenly appeared, sending rubble and dust flying into the air, and the surrounding buildings shook violently.
Immediately afterwards.
Using the Minato he had just thrown as a coordinate, Kunai instantly teleported to Xin's blind spot to the side.
"It's over!"
Minato let out a low shout and mercilessly pressed the Rasengan in his hand towards Xin's ribs.
However, Xin showed no sign of panic.
He didn't even turn his head.
Xin suddenly flipped his left hand, and a rapidly spinning Chakra ball instantly condensed in his palm.
Moreover, it is larger in size than the Minato and rotates at a much faster speed.
" Rasengan!"
Xin twisted his body at an incredible angle, fiercely meeting Minato's attack head-on with the Rasengan in his hand.
Bang!
The two Rasengan collided head-on.
The violent Chakra currents swept wildly in all directions like a hurricane.
The surrounding stone pillars were scratched by the airflow, leaving deep cracks.
A tremendous reaction force erupted instantly.
Minato felt an overwhelming force surging from the opponent's Rasengan.
He was so shaken that he staggered backward, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground. It took him more than ten steps to regain his balance.
Minato looked up, his face filled with undisguised astonishment.
"How do you know my no-seal Ninjutsu?!"
Minato's mind was in complete chaos; the Rasengan was a unique Ninjutsu he had painstakingly developed.
Besides him, there's simply no one else in the Shinobi World who could do that!
Xin smiled slightly as he looked at Minato's utterly shocked expression.
"What's so strange about that?"
The words had barely left his mouth.
Xin's figure vanished instantly.
Minato felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, a deadly sense of crisis creeping in from behind.
Flying Thunder God Technique!
Minato was horrified.
He didn't have time to think about why the other party even knew the Flying Thunder God Technique; he could only instinctively activate the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport away.
Swish!
Minato appeared next to another Kunai coordinate a dozen meters away.
But as soon as he landed...
Xin's figure appeared behind him again with pinpoint accuracy, like a ghost.