Boom!
After Chiyo was struck, her control faltered. The remaining puppets instantly lost their strings and collapsed to the ground like lifeless dolls.
Yagami landed hard, feet cracking the earth, and rushed straight toward the injured Chiyo.
"Protect Lady Chiyo!!"
The Sand shinobi who had just rushed to her side spun around in panic and charged at Yagami instead.
Shff— Shff—
Blossoms of blood burst into the air with every swing of Yagami's blade.
The metallic scent spread, thick and suffocating.
One after another, the Sand shinobi who tried to block him fell at his feet.
They didn't have Chiyo's strength.
For Yagami, killing them…
Only required a simple movement of his arm.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust Burial!!"
At that moment, Rasa finally arrived.
Seeing Yagami cutting his way toward Chiyo, he quickly formed a seal and thrust both hands toward him.
Shff— Shff—
The ground beneath Yagami suddenly lost its firmness, turning into a sea of churning sand and gold dust.
With nowhere to push off from, his body sank straight down into it.
"RAAAAHHH!!!"
Rasa roared, chakra surging violently from his body.
He didn't care in the slightest whether there were Sand shinobi near Yagami or not.
He simply poured everything into his technique, driving the placer gold from all directions to engulf and crush Yagami completely.
"Did… did it work?!"
Watching Yagami being swallowed by the sands, Rasa gasped, a surge of joy rising in his chest.
But in the next instant—
A chilling sense of danger stabbed into his heart.
Rumble—!!!
A deafening roar exploded across the battlefield.
The dense mass of golden sand swelled—then burst apart from the inside.
A slash more than twenty meters high tore through the sea of sand, carving a path straight toward Rasa in the sky like a howling beast.
"Armor of Golden Sand!!"
Rasa shouted in panic.
The golden sand beneath his feet surged upward, wrapping around his body in an instant and sealing him inside a sphere.
And then—
The incoming slash crashed into him.
Boom—!!
The slash swallowed Rasa's figure completely, sending him hurtling through the air.
From within that raging slash, a faint cry of pain could be heard.
"Rasa!!!"
Chiyo's voice cracked into a scream.
Enduring the pain, she forced herself up just in time to witness Rasa being engulfed and blasted away.
"Retreat!!
All forces, retreat!!!"
Chiyo's right hand clutched tightly at her bleeding left arm as her hoarse roar echoed over the battlefield.
She was already severely injured. Rasa's condition was completely unknown.
The two strongest fighters of Sunagakure were both unable to continue fighting.
If they stayed any longer…
No one would be able to stop Yagami and Orochimaru.
To prevent even heavier losses, Chiyo had no choice but to give the order to retreat.
Boom—!!!
At that moment, another slash erupted from where Yagami stood, tearing through the air as it roared toward Chiyo's position.
"Scatter, quickly!!!"
Pure instinct screamed at her.
The instant she felt the killing intent behind Yagami's slash, Chiyo leapt aside with all her remaining strength.
But the Sand shinobi who had rushed in around her to protect her weren't so fortunate.
The slash screamed past, and wherever it passed—
Blood sprayed in an arc.
The ground was dyed red in an instant.
"Retreat!! Retreat!!!"
"Hurry up and fall back! Lady Chiyo has given the order!!"
Chiyo's shout reached every corner of the battlefield.
Immediately, calls to retreat echoed through the Sand forces like a chain reaction.
Some of the Sand shinobi who had still been attacking turned and fled in a hurry.
Those who had been clashing with Konoha shinobi shoved their opponents back, broke away, and jumped down from the walls without looking back.
"Scorch Style: Super Steam Kill!!"
Pakura, who had been fighting Kushina atop the wall, also heard the retreat order.
She quickly gathered chakra, compressing it into a blazing sphere of heat and fire, then hurled it down toward the ground below.
Having seen that technique's power before, Kushina didn't dare take it lightly.
Adamantine chains burst from her back, forming a tight defensive barrier around her as the blast landed.
Pakura used that opening.
She turned and leapt off the city wall, retreating with the rest of the Sand forces.
In just a few breaths—
The Sand shinobi who had been fighting fiercely around Kikyo Castle…
Pulled back like a receding tide and vanished from the battlefield.
…
Eventually, after Rasa had been blown away, the churning golden sand on the ground began to calm and stop sinking.
With a heavy thud, Yagami kicked off from below.
He burst out of the massive pit of gold dust, tearing through the lingering sand with a sonic boom that shattered the air.
Golden grains trailed behind him like a cape, the light catching on them and making him look, for a moment—
Like a god descending to the battlefield.
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!!"
While he was still in mid-air, Yagami formed a vortex of wind chakra in his hand in an instant—an S-rank jutsu compressed into a whirling shuriken of pure destruction.
He hurled it straight at the Sand shinobi who were retreating in a dense cluster.
Rumble—!!!
A colossal mushroom cloud erupted where it landed.
In an instant, more than thirty shinobi were erased by Yagami's attack.
[Ding! Congratulations to the master for killing 37 enemies. You have gained 2,023,630 prestige points!]
[Ding! Congratulations to the master for completing the hidden mission "Thousand-Man Slash." Reward: 50,000 prestige points.]
"Nani…?"
Yagami had just landed, about to form another Rasenshuriken to finish off more stragglers—
When the system's voice rang out in his mind, making him freeze.
Another hidden mission… completed?
"'Thousand-Man Slash'… and fifty thousand prestige points, huh…"
As he thought about it, a transparent interface appeared in front of his eyes.
The prestige value displayed had already climbed to a staggering 1,220,000 points.
It was enough for an advanced lottery draw.
Looking at the number in front of him, Yagami felt his blood heat up.
"Yagami-kun, you're really going all out with the killing today."
Orochimaru appeared at his side without a sound, his golden eyes fixed on the distant mushroom cloud.
Even in his usual eerie calm, clear interest flickered in his gaze.
"Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!!"
Orochimaru's voice dragged Yagami back to the present.
Glancing at the Sand shinobi still fleeing in chaos in the distance, Yagami didn't hesitate.
He simply raised his hand—
And hurled another Rasenshuriken after them.
To him, those retreating backs…
Were nothing more than walking prestige points.
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