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Minato stared at the masked man, analyzing the flaws in his abilities, searching for a weakness—He believed no Jutsu was invincible.
“<Rasengan!>”
He attacked again, but the Rasengan passed harmlessly through Obito. This time, however, Minato’s attack created an opening—Obito seized the opportunity, lunging forward with a kunai aimed at Minato’s back.
The kunai connected—but the Minato he struck vanished in a puff of smoke.
“Damn it! I’ve been tricked.”
Obito knew he’d been tricked. But it was too late. The real Minato appeared behind him, slamming a Rasengan into Obito’s back.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM—!
Obito was sent flying, his body rolling across the ground.
“So, your intangibility fails when you attack, doesn’t it?” Minato looked at Obito, a knowing glint in his eyes. Compared to Minato, Obito’s combat experience was far worse.
“When did you use the Shadow Clone Jutsu?” Obito asked coldly after getting to his feet.
The Minato he had attacked had been a Shadow Clone. The real Minato had used that feigned attack to create an opening.
Obito’s Kamui intangibility had weaknesses: he couldn’t attack while intangible because he was phasing through another dimension. To attack, he had to become tangible.
He could only maintain intangibility for five minutes. Continuous attacks for five minutes could break through it. Minato, in a short time, had discovered one of Kamui’s weaknesses—a testament to his skill.
Minato ignored Obito’s question and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to close the distance.
He had to get rid of this masked man as quickly as possible. There was still a rampaging Nine-Tails on the other side.
Obito used Kamui intangibility again. Obito was starting to realize this was his only reliable technique.
He could use Wood Release, but his skill was rudimentary, and he hadn’t mastered Madara’s other Jutsu yet.
Relying on Kamui was fine, but it had already failed him twice—once against Shin Uzumaki, and now, this time…
“Damn it! Has the Nine-Tails broken free?”
As Obito activated Kamui, he sensed the Nine-Tails was no longer under his control.
This was understandable.
His Ocular power was waning. Controlling the Nine-Tails had been a strain—using Kamui further depleted his chakra. Maintaining control for so long with a single Mangekyō Sharingan was already impressive.
“Fourth Hokage, you should focus on the Nine-Tails.”
Obito looked at Minato and left directly using Kamui, not planning to continue to entangle with Minato Namikaze.
After fighting for a while, Obito knew that he could not do anything to Minato, and even if he continued to fight—there would be danger.
So after weighing the pros and cons, Obito chose to slip away.
Minato hesitated. He had secretly left a Flying Thunder God Mark on Obito, so pursuing him was possible.
But glancing at the rampaging Nine-Tails, Minato abandoned that idea. Given Obito’s Space-Time Ninjutsu, pursuing him might be futile. The Nine-Tails was the priority.
The beast’s destructive power, now unchecked, posed a grave threat to Konoha. Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave, heading to assist the other Konoha Shinobi.
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Shin, having seen the original work, knew Obito wouldn’t gain an advantage against Minato.
Your teacher is always your teacher—The current Obito could not defeat Minato Namikaze even if he used all his means.
“As expected of the Strongest Tailed Beast,” Mei Terumī said, awestruck by the Nine-Tails’s destructive power.
She finally understood why Shin had said she was no match for the beast.
“With a body that big, it has to have some destructive power,”
Shin said to Mei Terumī.
Tailed Beasts were forces of nature. Average Shinobi were helpless against them. This was evident in the Konoha Shinobi’s struggle against the rampaging Nine-Tails.
Even Elite Jōnin’s attacks were just scratching an itch. Hiruzen Sarutobi could only contain the Nine-Tails, and there was no way to deal with it.
“The Nine-Tails’s preparing a Tailed Beast Bomb,” Kushina said, pointing at the swirling chakra gathering in the Nine-Tails’ maw.
This time, the target wasn’t them, but Konoha itself.
“Konoha’s going to have a hard time blocking that, aren’t they?” Kushina muttered. A Tailed Beast Bomb could level mountains.
As the Tailed Beast Bomb hurtled toward Konoha, Hiruzen and the other Shinobi felt despair. Then, Minato arrived.
“<Flying Thunder God — Guiding Thunder!>”
With the Flying Thunder God Technique, Minato redirected the Tailed Beast Bomb away from Konoha.
He teleported it outside the village, where it obliterated several mountains. As long as Konoha was safe—the damage was acceptable.
“Minato, you’re finally here.” Hiruzen sighed in relief.
Not just him, but all the Konoha Shinobi felt reassured by Minato’s arrival—he was their leader, a beacon of hope.
“Sandaime-sama, we need to seal the Nine-Tails,” Minato said grimly. This wasn’t just a disaster for Konoha, but for him personally as well.
“Yes.”
Hiruzen Sarutobi originally wanted to ask if the masked man had been caught, but now there was no time to ask this question.
“Sandaime-sama, we can’t let the Nine-Tails continue rampaging. Is there a way to force it out of the village?”
Minato Namikaze asked.
In fact, he wanted to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport the Nine-Tails away, but he lacked the chakra. He could teleport a person, but not a behemoth like the Nine-Tails.
“Let me try.” Hiruzen stepped forward, gripping his Adamantine Staff.
“Enma, I need your help.”
“<Adamantine Staff — Extend!>”
The staff extended like Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang—pushing against the Nine-Tails and forcing it out of the village.
The force required for such a feat was immense.
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