A cruel arc split the corners of A's mouth.
"Then we'll have a momentary opening. Two against one, let's kill that brat from the Hyuga Clan."
"No matter which one dies, this disgusting combination will fall apart on its own."
Killer Bee made a rock sign: "Understood, Brother! Let's show them who has the fastest rhythm, Yo!"
Swoosh—!
Before the words had even finished echoing.
The rocks beneath their feet exploded with a boom.
Two beams of light, one blue and one red, carrying white airwaves from sonic booms, instantly charged in front of Minato Namikaze.
It was too fast.
So fast that only afterimages were left on the retinas.
Minato Namikaze's gaze sharpened, his right hand gripping Aokawa's shoulder.
Shua.
The two vanished into thin air.
The next second.
The two appeared thirty meters away on a rocky protrusion where a special Kunai was planted.
The moment Aokawa's feet touched the ground, he drew the Ginrei Kojaku in his hand to full tension.
Before the crimson Chakra Arrow even left the string, the air was already distorted by high temperatures.
However.
A massive hand wrapped in terrifying lightning had already reached Minato Namikaze's face.
"Too slow!!" Fourth Raikage A had predicted Minato's landing point!
The instant Minato disappeared, he relied on beast-like intuition and extreme speed to forcibly catch up with the spatial jump.
Before the wind from the punch even arrived, the skin on Minato Namikaze's face was already being deformed by the pressure.
His pupils shrank abruptly.
Carrying another person indeed affected the rhythm of his technique.
If this punch landed solidly, he would be smashed into pieces.
"Go!"
Without any hesitation.
Minato Namikaze released his grip on Aokawa, his figure turning into a golden light that instantly vanished from the spot.
He had to preserve himself first to find a chance to counterattack.
Aokawa was left alone.
"Die!!" The killing intent in A's eyes almost solidified.
The punch originally aimed at Minato, carried by momentum, slammed unceremoniously into Aokawa's abdomen.
This punch concentrated twenty years of his power.
Without Minato Namikaze's distraction, Aokawa was in a passive position!
Boom—!!!
A dull, teeth-aching impact sound exploded.
Aokawa's feet plowed two deep furrows into the ground, his body bending into a great bow.
A's fist slammed solidly into his abdomen.
His clothes instantly exploded into powder.
But beneath that fair skin, the deep blue Blut Vene patterns pulsed frantically, forcibly withstanding this mountain-shattering blow.
"As I thought!" A felt as if he had struck a block of ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.
This kid... is truly disgusting!
At the same time.
Killer Bee appeared like a ghost behind Aokawa, stabbing a short blade wrapped in high-density Tailed Beast Chakra toward his lower back.
"A pincer attack from front and back, sending you to Hell, Bakayaro, Konoyaro!"
A heavy punch from the Raikage in front.
A backstab from the Jinchuriki behind.
This was a certain-death situation.
The corners of Killer Bee's mouth were just about to lift into a victorious smile.
Suddenly.
His gaze was drawn to the tattered fabric on Aokawa's left shoulder.
There.
Was a black formula mark.
The writing was scrawled, exuding a familiar Chakra fluctuation.
Sword of Ninja's Love.
Killer Bee's pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinheads.
That was a mark left by... Minato Namikaze during their previous encounter!
"Oh no!"
Killer Bee's heart skipped a beat, and he even forgot his rap rhymes.
The next moment!
A crisp hum echoed in the air.
Minato Namikaze, who had already escaped into the distance, appeared beside Aokawa without any warning.
Their faces were only inches apart.
In Minato's azure eyes, there wasn't a single ripple.
In his hand, an azure Rasengan was spinning at high speed, emitting a heart-palpitating screech.
"This is Flying Thunder God: Level 2," Minato Namikaze's voice was very soft.
The next moment.
The Rasengan slammed hard into Killer Bee's defenseless chest.
"Ugh, aaah!!"
Spinning, tearing, exploding.
Killer Bee felt as if his sternum was being ground flat; he was like a ragdoll thrown into a washing machine, spinning as he flew backward.
"Bee!!" A's eyes looked ready to burst.
He didn't care about chasing Aokawa anymore; his figure flashed, turning into lightning to catch Killer Bee mid-air.
The two landed heavily, sliding dozens of meters on the ground before stopping.
Killer Bee clutched his chest; his Tailed Beast Chakra Mode had been blasted open with a large hole, making him look incredibly wretched.
The Battlefield once again fell into an eerie silence.
The two sides faced each other from a hundred meters away, their expressions solemn.
This exchange of blows lasted only three seconds.
But the peril involved made the hearts of all onlookers skip a beat.
Aokawa rubbed his somewhat numb abdomen.
Fortunately, he had Blut Vene; otherwise, taking a punch from the future Raikage head-on would be no joke.
"Are you okay?" Minato Namikaze turned his head, his gaze still alertly fixed on the opposition.
"It's not a big problem!" Aokawa said.
Minato Namikaze's lips moved slightly, his voice extremely low, audible only to the two of them: "They've figured out the weakness of the Flying Thunder God. If we keep this up, they'll eventually catch us."
He paused, his gaze sweeping toward the two beasts in the distance that could go on a rampage at any moment.
"That White Glowing Giant from last time..."
"Can you use it again?"
That was a power capable of going head-to-head with the complete Eight-Tails.
And it was currently the only trump card that could completely suppress the opponent.
"I can't use it now," Aokawa said calmly.
Minato Namikaze's brow furrowed slightly.
This is troublesome.
"If the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki really fully releases the Eight-Tails..."
"It will be hard to deal with."
"Furthermore, if a monster of that size runs wild on the Battlefield, it could easily cause collateral damage to the ordinary Ninjas on our side."
Minato Namikaze's brain worked rapidly.
"We shouldn't push them too hard. We just need to stall these two top combatants. Don't forget our original objective."
...On the other side.
Killer Bee stood up straight with A's support.
The Tailed Beast's incredible recovery power was healing the injury on his chest.
"Big Brother..." Killer Bee's voice was a bit weak, but he still tried to strike a pose.
"Those two bastards are too disgusting."
"How about... I just release the Eight-Tails directly?"
"Just give them a Tailed Beast Ball to clear the area and see where they can run, Bakayaro, Konoyaro!"
Hearing this, the muscles in A's brow twitched violently.
He glanced at the two armies engaged in a chaotic battle in the distance.
The Ninjas of Konoha and Kumogakure were now completely entangled in combat.
They were all mixed together.
"No," A slowly shook his head, his voice low like thunder.
"Look at their positioning."
"Those two are very shrewd; they've been standing on the central axis of the Battlefield."
"If you go into a Full Tailed Beast Transformation now and drop a Tailed Beast Ball, the ones who die the most will definitely be our own people."
Moreover... A's gaze swept over Aokawa warily.
"That white giant the Hyuga kid used to fight the Eight-Tails last time—he hasn't used it yet."
"That kid hasn't used his full strength yet."
"---"
"Thanks to Tang Luoxuan, who loves eating leek and yellow chive potstickers, for the Bobo Milk Tea."
"Thanks to 'Do You Eat Books??' for the like."
"Thanks to Xi Jing for the triple 'support with love' x2."
"Thanks to other friends for their 'support with love'."
"Thank you, thank you, love you all!"
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