One Dragon Tail Kick will shatter your Susanoo dream!

"Hey, you old man who guards the crane, come here..."

"Shinra Tenzheng!"

"Grandpa Shoukaku is angry..."

"All things are attracted by heaven!"

"Shukaku-sama..."

"Shinra Tenzheng!"

"Shukaku..."

"So your name is Shukaku?!"

……

Like a yo-yo, Shukaku, being toyed with at will, is now as helpless as a child. Located on the edge of the desert, although the sandstorms have decreased due to climate change, its power has still increased significantly.

Unfortunately, he was facing an enhanced version of Nagato, and was ultimately humiliated by being bound and restrained by the opponent's Wood Release technique, with the opponent's vines, which were dozens of meters long, constantly whipping his body.

"So you're the only one with a one-tailed tail, huh!"

"So your name is Shukaku!"

"Serves you right for being sarcastic!"

"So you want to kill all of humanity, huh!"

Physical pain is nothing compared to the mental anguish. The fiercely proud Shukaku left with a frustrated remark.

"Your Uncle Shouhe will come back!"

Then, with his eyes closed, his body shrank rapidly, revealing a boy with short red hair and the word "love" engraved on his forehead. A large gourd on his back unconsciously protected the unconscious boy with slowly floating sand.

Seeing this, Nagato slowly stepped forward, just as he was about to reach out and lift the other person up, sand automatically shot out an attack.

Looking at her hand, she noticed that it had been pierced by sand, leaving some minor wounds, but Nagato didn't pay any attention to them.

"Interesting, it can even automatically protect its owner..."

"The Jinchūriki will be our spoils of war!"

Nagato subtly used his eye power to force the sand back into the gourd. Then, he approached the gourd's opening and casually struck a sealing spell with his hand, completing the seal.

Although the sealing technique wasn't particularly powerful, it was sufficient for the few years I spent training in Kusagakure.

As more Sand Ninja arrived and joined the escape, the original 8000-strong army was reduced to less than 2,000 after being slaughtered by the Ame-Kusa Kingdom and a Wood Release monster. Every now and then, white humanoid monsters would drag them underground. The fate awaiting these kidnapped Sand Ninja was to become Orochimaru's victims, forced to sacrifice themselves for science...

The defeat was swift and devastating, but the Sand Ninja's hard-won strength had been completely wiped out in an instant...

Seeing that everyone was in high spirits, Nagato didn't say much. He tapped his chin lightly at Hanzo, who was frowning in thought, and slowly stepped forward.

"Master Hanzo, how have you been?"

"Nagato, you seem to have changed a lot..."

"Everything is for peace. I believe in Caoying. He can lead us to witness an even more glorious era. A small sacrifice is acceptable!"

Hanzo the Salamander smiled, looked at Nagato whose respect for him had not diminished, and patted him on the shoulder.

"Forget it, it's the young people's world now."

"Let's go, leave the cleanup to the Grass Ninja. It's been a long time since I've been home. You must be missing the taste of salamander sashimi, right? Teacher's treating!"

Hanzo the Salamander removed his armor and scythe, and like an ordinary old man, led his disciples into the depths of the dense forest, the direction of home!

On the other side, Rasa and the Sand Ninja who followed, originally intended to support the Kazekage, were repeatedly attacked and killed by a wildly moving sphere. Orianna, dressed in professional attire, slowly walked out, muttering to herself.

"Command? Noise!"

The puppet guards stood in front of her, blocking all the ninjutsu attacks aimed at her.

"Command? Attack!"

The puppet charged wildly, ignoring all defensive ninjutsu. No matter how thick the Earth Release: Earth Wall was, it was easily pierced through, along with the bodies of the Sand Ninja behind it!

The raiding force following Rasa were all highly skilled. After a brief moment of surprise, they quickly began to organize a counterattack. However, as time went on, Orianna manipulated the puppets to attack from afar, continuously slaughtering the remaining Sand Ninja.

Having barely managed to break through the puppet's blockade using their comrades' lives as cover, a Sand Ninja raised his katana and muttered incantations.

"You monster, don't you know that a puppeteer's greatest weakness is being vulnerable to close combat?!"

With a single, heavy slash, the blade struck Orianna's neck, producing a metallic clang. The simulated human skin was sliced ​​open, revealing a technological marvel composed of gears and springs beneath...

The Sand Ninja present looked bewildered. The exquisite katana broke in two. The Sand Ninja who tried to escape by teleporting was grabbed by the leg. What came into view was a cold gaze.

"The puppet is angry."

The windmill spun the same way this Sand Ninja did, the only difference being that after it finished spinning, Orianna only had half a leg left in her hand. She was manipulating the Third Raikage and Kazekage puppets within Hiruko to attack Sasori of Rasa, and she swallowed non-existent saliva.

"Miss Anna, this is terrible..."

"But those gears and springs look as beautiful as ever..."

Orianna casually tossed aside her calf and ripped off the torn mimic skin, revealing her entire body made of wind-up springs and gears. The puppet hovered around her body, and a mechanical female voice rang out.

"Are you ready...?"

"The puppet is about to get serious!"

"Damn it, is this a human or a puppet?"

"Lord Kazekage, save me..."

The remaining Sand Ninjas called out to Rasa for help in a panic, but when they turned around, they were met with an even more terrifying scene.

Rasa was covered in black iron sand, and the Third Raikage puppet only had one severed arm left, which was firmly gripping Rasa's cheek.

Scorpion's icy voice came from Hiruko.

"Get ready, I'm going to turn you into a puppet!"

The remaining Sand Ninja, a dozen or so human puppets that rushed towards Sasori, and another dozen or so that rushed towards Hiruko, were easily dealt with by the Third Kazekage's human puppets that were floating in mid-air.

Before the remaining dozens of Sand Ninja could even make a move, they were all reduced to fragmented corpses with a loud bang.

"Command? Shockwave!"

Having completed his mission to intercept the Kazekage, Sasori manipulated the Third Raikage puppet to carry the helpless Rasa away from the scene. Orianna, after touching the corpse, had White Zetsu clean up the scene.

At the border of the Land of Wind, Chiyo and the others, who were still waiting for the Kazekage, received a relic that proved the other party's identity. They immediately stopped confronting the allied forces and fled a hundred miles away, heading towards Sunagakure.

A war of invasion turned into a war to defend the capital; this is the only one of its kind in the ninja world!

Meanwhile, on the other hand, tens of thousands of Iwa ninja were eating hot pot and singing as they marched toward the heart of the Land of Grass. Surprisingly, the Grass ninja garrison on the border did not stop them at all and simply fled far away.

Onoki assumed that his allies had already infiltrated the enemy's heartland and might even have begun looting Kusagakure, so he ordered his team to speed up their journey into the heart of the Land of Grass!

"A foolish brute and a guy who only knows how to play in the sand, unexpectedly, they're quite reliable..."

While Onoki was comfortably lost in thought, he was completely unaware of the man in front of the ninja army, who was standing with his right arm exposed, striking a Terminator-like pose!