Hinata suddenly remembered something, turned her head crying, and shouted to Moeha, who was standing at the back of the crowd: "Moeha! Moeha! Please, save my father!"
"Coming, coming!"
Moeha jogged out from the crowd, her ten fingers interlocked, held together in front of her chest in a prayer position.
Tears slowly fell from the closed eyes of the third of the Fujiwara sisters, scattering in mid-air into countless tiny dandelions.
They landed on the edge of the hole pierced by the Truth-Seeking Ball.
One of the abilities of the Heal-Heal Fruit: Healing Dandelions.
This was Moeha's signature technique.
It could even bring back people on the verge of death from the jaws of the afterlife.
However, although those dandelions landed on the wound caused by the Truth-Seeking Ball, they didn't work.
Moeha, encountering this situation for the first time, had her expression changed, saying in disbelief: "It, it didn't work?"
Hinata, Neji, and the others looked shocked.
"..."
Just then, a loud noise came from behind.
Everyone turned their heads and saw Obito's body, which had been swollen like a ball, beginning to expand irregularly, like an overinflated balloon with lumps bulging on its surface.
Then, his body rushed towards them like a snake.
He's aiming for Neji again.
Seeing this, Makoto couldn't help but sighed in his heart, 'Good grief. Determined to kill Neji, huh?'
'Was this the will of the world?'
The Truth-Seeking Ball spear was less than a meter from Neji's back.
At the critical moment—
A Susanoo arm reached out from beside Neji, its palm firmly gripping the tip of the Truth-Seeking Ball spear, before turning into powder the next second.
Makoto!
The next moment, Makoto pushed Neji aside, rapidly condensed a Fire Release: Rasengan in his right palm, and collided head-on with the tip of the Truth-Seeking Ball spear.
The moment they touched, there was no explosion or shockwave. The Fire Release Rasengan quietly dissipated, like dust meeting the wind.
Disappearing along with it was Makoto's right arm.
"Makoto-kun!"
Hinata screamed in terror, her voice choked with sobs.
Makoto didn't look back, his expression unchanged. His left hand pulled the cord on his chest. With a tearing sound, the chainsaw roared, and chainsaws extended from both his head and arm.
He directly transformed into Chainsaw Man form.
However, his severed right arm did not regenerate.
Makoto made an immediate decision, raised his left arm, and cut off the part two inches above the severed end.
Crack!
The right shoulder fell away, along with that layer of severed end that had been erased by the Truth-Seeking Ball.
At the new severed end, no residue of Yin-Yang Release Chakra remained, and bright red blood splattered out.
"Senpai! Blood's here!"
Yu acted decisively.
He looked towards Hidan, who was being restrained by Four Gay Bros, transformed his right hand into a sniper rifle form, and shot Hidan's left shoulder.
With a 'bang', Hidan's right shoulder was blown off at the shoulder joint, blood gushing out like a fountain.
"Ahhh! You bastard! What are you doing?!"
Hidan writhed in agony, screaming, the blood from his severed arm spraying out as if it cost nothing.
Yu caught the severed arm, jumped to Makoto's side, and presented the arm before him.
Makoto took the arm, looked up to the sky, opened his mouth, and squeezed the arm until it burst. Blood flowed down between his fingers, pouring into Makoto's throat.
In an instant, a brand new arm grew from his shoulder.
The whole process took less than three seconds.
Makoto in Chainsaw Man form flexed his newly regenerated right arm. After confirming there were no problems—
He slashed his blade into the ground.
The black chainsaw tore through the earth, unleashing a world-splitting sword aura.
The sword aura engulfed Obito, who was charging toward Neji, pushing him hundreds of meters away.
The grey-white flesh was riddled with cuts from the residual waves of the sword aura.
Makoto turned his back to everyone.
"Everyone, fall back."
Hinata stepped back a few paces, holding Hanabi. The Hyuga Clan's members also retreated one after another.
Moeha crouched beside Hiashi, wanting to try Healing Dandelions one more time, but he had already stopped breathing.
Mrs. Yuigahama rushed over and quickly pulled her away.
"Gwaaaaaah!"
Just then, Obito, who had been engulfed by the sword aura in the distance, let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Everyone looked up.
Six Paths Obito's body was undergoing a horrifying mutation.
The white flesh on his body was rapidly expanding like it was alive, swelling into various forms of meatballs.
It was as if he had walked straight out of a Resident Evil movie set.
The right half of Obito's face had been completely buried, only the left half, showing extreme agony, vaguely visible.
"Obito!?"
Seeing Obito in such a state, Minato's face was filled with complex emotions.
His eyes, returned to normal, reflected the demonic, inhuman appearance of his former student.
Minato couldn't help but think of that young Uchiha who had once declared he wanted to become Hokage.
'Obito, what exactly did you go through to end up like this?'
Kakashi's expression was even more complicated.
"Obito..."
Kakashi's voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible. "Why..."
Just then, everyone heard Obito, who had become inhuman, muttering something to himself.
Saeko and the others listened carefully with their Observation Haki.
"...It sounded like... 'Rei'?" Kokoro tilted her head, guessing uncertainly.
"No."
Katsura shook her head. "It was 'Rin'."
The expressions of Minato and Kakashi grew even more complicated. Guy remarked, "To be so obsessed with Nohara Rin, to such an extent?"
For him, a training maniac with little interest in women, it was impossible to understand Obito's mindset.
"Too ugly."
Makoto was also speechless.
Although, in the original work, Obito had said more than once that he wasn't doing all these things for Rin, but because he was disillusioned with this hopeless world and wanted to create a perfect new one.
However, for all his loud slogans, his actions showed him to be a hopeless simp. Whenever it came to the critical moment, all he knew how to do was cry "Rin, Rin, Rin."
Makoto turned his head to look at Madara, who was entangled with the Senju brothers.
"Old man, are you coming or not?"
A trace of impatience crept into Makoto's voice. "I'm about to lose it and kill him."
Hearing this, the corner of Madara's mouth couldn't help but curl up again.
"Well, it seems I have no choice but to bring out my trump card."
As Madara spoke, his deep blue Susanoo was temporarily put away, his grey-white figure descended from the air, and his hands began to form seals.
But before he could complete the first hand seal, a wave of immense power suddenly erupted from a corner of the battlefield.
The shockwave of that power swept across the entire battlefield like a tsunami, instantly drawing everyone's attention.
Everyone turned their heads to look.
Naruto's body blazed with golden light.
Golden Nine-Tails Chakra surged from within Naruto, condensing on the surface of his body into a golden coat.
Nine-Tails Chakra Mode!
"That is..." Hashirama stopped his movements, looking at Naruto in disbelief.
He already knew that this young man was the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki of this era, but his own wife, Mito, had never displayed a form like this.
"Nine-Tails Chakra Mode... no, it's more than that..."
Minato's voice carried a hint of uncertainty. Although he had also trained to achieve Nine-Tails Chakra Mode in the Pure Land, it was still very different from Naruto's current state.
Seeing this change in Naruto, Makoto, Sasuke, and others all had a change in expression.
"What, what's happening? This power..."
Sasuke's Mangekyo Sharingan spun in their sockets, the six-pointed star pattern in his pupils reflecting Naruto's golden figure.
He had to admit, up until now, the two of them had been evenly matched, with him even having a slight advantage.
So how come Naruto had suddenly obtained such immense power?
Naruto himself looked down at his hands, closing his eyes and feeling this power.
"Is this... the power of Kurama that the Sage of Six Paths old man talked about?"