"Sara, this is what Aoba made."
Seramu explained to Sara the reason why this situation had appeared.
"What?", Sara's face was full of disbelief.
"The Dragon Vein contains the power of space-time. Aoba doesn't belong to our era, so he wants to use the runaway power of the Dragon Vein to return to his own time."
Seramu still told Sara the truth that Aoba had been hiding.
"What do you mean?"
But right now Sara only felt her head was a bit confused.
'Didn't sensei just say he was going home? What does it mean to return to his own time?"
———
Unlike Sara's bewilderment, Aoba had already reached the critical moment.
He felt the Dragon Vein raging both inside and outside his body, his hands forming seals rapidly.
As his sealing continued, the sealing array he had laid in advance instantly activated.
In the dark void of the sealed space, several torii gates suddenly fell out of nowhere.
One by one those torii landed on the Dragon Vein's incomparably massive body, pinning it straight to the ground.
From the ground, a great number of charms surged up, covering the Dragon Vein's whole body.
Suppressing it so completely it could no longer move.
This method was very rough, yet simple and effective.
Aoba effortlessly suppressed the Dragon Vein's chakra, while the black seals upon it kept drawing out its chakra for him to use.
This act was indeed a bit like a robber.
Having easily suppressed the runaway Dragon Vein inside the sealed space, Aoba once more turned his gaze to the Dragon Vein raging outside.
By now, the top of the forbidden grounds had already been blown open by the Dragon Vein.
His pupils had become the shape of the Mangekyo Sharingan, but around those blood-red eyes there was still a circle of violet radiance.
Borrowing the Dragon Vein chakra within his body, the sealing space nearly enveloped the entire country of Roran inside.
The whole of Roran was plunged into stillness, collapsing buildings and flying rubble all frozen midair.
Even the Dragon Vein in the sky stopped for an instant.
The next moment, Aoba's entire figure disappeared from the forbidden grounds and appeared upon the last remaining tall tower outside.
Looking at the city he and Seramu had struggled for three years to build, only to see it turn into a wasteland in a single instant, his heart was deeply moved.
Destruction is always far easier than creation.
Years of labor, and collapse takes only a breath.
But he did not feel much sorrow, for to restore Roran to its original state would only be a matter of moments.
The next instant, his gaze turned to the Dragon Vein still in the air.
Now this was the key.
High in the sky, the Dragon Vein's enormous head also locked onto Aoba. Its gaze was as if it had seen an enemy, plunging down without the slightest hesitation.
The Dragon Vein had no consciousness, and so it would not use any flashy ninjutsu, only raw numbers.
That body, dozens of kilometers long, roared downwards.
Facing such a size, even a Tailed Beast would have to consider carefully whether it could take it head-on.
The rampaging Dragon Vein bore down with crushing force.
In this situation, Aoba did not hesitate in the slightest, pressing his hands together and frantically drawing out the Dragon Vein chakra within him.
"Wood Style · Wooden Golem Technique!"
In an instant, the ground erupted with countless thick vines, gradually forming into a humanoid shape that braced against the diving Dragon Vein.
It was a wooden giant nearly a hundred meters tall.
BOOM!
With a thunderous crash, the wooden giant wrapped its arms around the Dragon Vein's head, its legs scraping the ground and plowing out long trenches.
Atop the wooden giant's head, Aoba frantically extracted the Dragon Vein's power.
In that moment, Adamantine Sealing Chains burst out from within him, several chains wrapping around the dragon's head, binding its ferocious mouth shut and further suppressing its power.
The Dragon Vein's plunging speed gradually slowed.
At last, it completely stopped.
And this time of holding on was enough for Aoba to enter the next stage.
In his blood-red pupils, the tomoe patterns spun wildly.
On the surface of the wooden giant, golden phantom outlines began to appear.
First, countless bones formed into an enormous chakra giant, enveloping the wooden giant inside.
But this wasn't the end.
Chakra continued to condense upon the golden skeleton. First the meridians, then the muscles, finally a golden robe.
In only a few breaths, a hundred-meter wooden giant clad in golden chakra armor stood before the Dragon Vein.
For the first time, Aoba summoned Susanoo, making the wooden giant's power surge once more.
An overwhelming surge of strength instantly suppressed the Dragon Vein's ferocity, pressing its massive head directly into the ground.
The Wooden Golem Susanoo easily suppressed the Dragon Vein's head, though its huge body still struggled.
Aoba leapt forward himself.
He pressed his palm upon the Dragon Vein's head, activating the Hungry Ghost Path ability of the Rinnegan, draining its chakra into his own body.
Right now, the Dragon Vein was still too violent, so he had to calm it first before sealing it.
But things did not go as smoothly as Aoba imagined.
ROAR!
With its mouth bound, the Dragon Vein let out a muffled roar.
The chakra it released instantly surged higher.
It actually broke free of the Wooden Golem Susanoo's hands for a moment.
———
At the same time, decades later in the Dragon Vein's forbidden grounds, Yakumo and the others were still confronting Seramu, when the massive pillar of violet chakra suddenly weakened a little.
"What is going on?"
Seramu's face showed a look of horror.
"What's with that expression?"
Yakumo asked in confusion, staring at Seramu.
Seramu murmured, "The Dragon Vein's chakra just dropped drastically."
"Huh? My eyes don't hurt anymore?"
Hinata suspiciously opened her eyes, and in her pure white gaze a faint light appeared.
The Dragon Vein decades later had much of its power absorbed by the present Dragon Vein.
Aoba also sensed the Dragon Vein's sudden surge of violent power.
The sudden outburst of chakra once again resonated with the Dragon Vein within him.
Through the semi-transparent Dragon Vein under his feet, he seemed to see a mighty river, its surface covered densely with bubbles, and inside those bubbles seemed to be strange scenes.
Among them, he saw Seramu as a child, and also Sara.
But in the latter half of the river, there was only a void of bubbles, until the very last bubble.
He saw himself.
That was his own era.
Aoba understood that as long as he followed the current and reached that point, he could return to the future.
His spirit wavered for an instant.
And in that moment of distraction, the rampaging Dragon Vein broke free of its restraints.
Through Aoba's existence, it anchored itself to its future self decades later, siphoning strength from the future to swell the present.
The Dragon Vein's body once again grew larger.
Having regained freedom, it immediately bit down on Aoba still in the air and swallowed him whole.
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