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"Old friend, I can only rely on you!"
Danzo gritted his teeth and formed hand seals.
"Summoning Jutsu: Baku!"
The next moment.
A gigantic figure appeared.
Resembling a mammoth, possessing an extremely long, thick trunk, long, sharp tusks, and very bright orange fur on its body, with much lighter fur on its limbs.
As soon as it appeared, it raised its trunk high.
A burst of extremely strong suction force erupted.
The surrounding Konoha ninja and sand soldiers were all affected.
Rasa's brow twitched.
"Like to suck? Then I'll let you eat your fill!"
Rasa had a thought.
Immediately, a large amount of sand surged on the ground.
Without needing Baku to suck, it actively moved toward Baku's trunk.
It poured fiercely into Baku's nasal cavity.
Danzo, who turned to flee the moment he summoned Baku, vaguely felt something was wrong. Subconsciously looking back, he saw Rasa still appearing not far behind him.
And Baku looked like it was choking on something.
At the same time.
A white explosive egg fell from high in the sky, landing exactly on Baku's position.
Boom!
A huge explosion sounded.
Baku let out a miserable scream.
Suddenly, Danzo felt something wrapping around his body. Looking down, his pupils contracted violently.
"Lightning Blade!"
A bolt of lightning followed the golden thread directly to Danzo's body.
High-voltage current plunged Danzo's figure into a moment of paralysis.
Simultaneously, a sand soldier caught up and thrust fiercely at Danzo.
Danzo tried his best to move his body.
Squelch!
However, he only dodged the vital point.
The spear tip of the sand soldier still hit Danzo, piercing through Danzo's shoulder.
Blood spurted out immediately.
Danzo's expression instantly became ferocious.
Another sand soldier caught up.
Danzo gritted his teeth, took out a kunai, and slashed ruthlessly at his shoulder wound, forcibly freeing his body from the pinned state.
Otherwise, there was no way to dodge the sand soldier's attack.
But just at this moment.
Whoosh!
Then, a golden figure suddenly appeared, blocking the sand soldier preparing to stab Danzo.
"Rasengan!"
The sand soldier was hit.
Bang!
Instantly, the entire body of the sand soldier was sent flying backward, a huge hole appearing in the middle of its body.
Minato Namikaze turned back to look at Danzo.
"Lord Danzo, are you alright?"
Danzo: "???"
Danzo looked at his severed arm held by the sand soldier, then looked at Minato Namikaze, and then looked at the sand soldier puppet sent flying by Minato Namikaze.
For a moment, what appeared in Danzo's heart was not the joy of being saved from near death.
But rather: Minato Namikaze, you didn't appear earlier, didn't appear later, but appeared exactly at that time. You had already appeared, but didn't warn me. Was it intentional or careless?
Danzo was very dissatisfied.
Minato Namikaze intercepted that sand soldier before its spear stabbed him.
This proved that he wouldn't have been stabbed at all.
Then he didn't need to cut off that arm at all.
If Minato Namikaze had given even a slight warning, he wouldn't have lost an arm.
But Minato Namikaze didn't say a word.
"Minato, I... am okay."
Danzo calmed down for a long time, and finally could only utter the word "okay".
Rasa sized up the appearing Minato Namikaze.
Short blond hair, looking sunny and cheerful.
However, Minato Namikaze's life couldn't be considered sunny and cheerful.
The first half of his life was good, but that was only the first half.
Growing up in Konoha, knowing his future wife since childhood, taken as a disciple by one of the Sannin, Jiraiya, and obtaining the summoning contract of Mount Myoboku.
Learned the Flying Thunder God Jutsu created by the Second Hokage, and developed the Rasengan by imitating the Tailed Beast Bomb.
Performed extremely outstandingly in the Third Great Ninja War.
Also earned the title of Yellow Flash.
After the Third Great Ninja War ended, he successfully succeeded to the position of Hokage.
His wife was pregnant again.
Just when he was full of ambition and riding the crest of success.
But at this time, Minato Namikaze welcomed his darkest moment in history.
The Nine-Tails Attack.
The village suffered a huge blow.
His wife died from difficult childbirth.
He died by forcibly using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal.
The son left behind experienced an extremely dark childhood in Konoha.
While Rasa was sizing up Minato Namikaze, Minato Namikaze was also sizing up Rasa.
A touch of appreciation appeared in his eyes.
Minato Namikaze was also clear about the situation of the Sand Village.
Under the terrible situation of the Sand Village, facing the Mist Village's pressing step by step, and even Konoha's pressure from the side, the Sand Village held on forcefully without collapsing.
Not only did it not collapse, but now on the battlefield, it has achieved a huge advantage over the Mist Village.
Forcing the Mist Village to ask Konoha for help and alliance.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had communicated this point with Minato Namikaze. After all, the things the Mist Village offered had a very significant correlation with Minato Namikaze, and Hiruzen Sarutobi also trusted Minato Namikaze.
If the changes in the Sand Village were just Rasa's ability in politics and military deployment.
Then, the annihilation of the Beni-yama clan and the deaths of four of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen demonstrated Rasa's personal strength.
Absolutely not like what was rumored in the ninja world before.
Something about the weakest Kazekage in history.
The weakest among the Fourth Kage.
Even though currently, there were only two Fourth Kage.
One Rasa, one Fourth Raikage.
Previously, some people even said Rasa was inferior to Pakura, and letting Rasa succeed as Kazekage was not as good as letting Pakura.
But now, Rasa's performance proved to the entire ninja world.
He was the most suitable Fourth Kazekage.
He could save the Sand Village.
He was the strongest Kazekage in history.
He could rank among the top among the Kage of the Five Great Ninja Villages.
"Minato Namikaze, interested in joining my Sand Village?"
Minato Namikaze's expression froze.
Next to him, Danzo's expression also solidified, staring suspiciously at Minato Namikaze, thinking in his heart: Good on you, Minato Namikaze, secretly colluding with other ninja villages, right?
Otherwise, why would the other party invite you to join as soon as he spoke?
He didn't do that to this old man.
"Lord Kazekage must be joking. I am a person of Konoha and will only stay in Konoha in this life."
"Really not considering it?"
Rasa pointed at Danzo and said, "This old thing, you just saved him, but he has no gratitude towards you at all, and there is even a hint of resentment in his eyes."
"If you return to Konoha, you will inevitably be targeted by this old thing."
"Might as well join my Sand Village."
Minato Namikaze waved his hand in refusal.
"I cannot betray Konoha."
"Is that so? That is truly regrettable. Since that's the case, let's see the truth under our hands—"
Before Rasa's voice fell, four sand soldiers completely different from before appeared.
"Sand soldiers, emerge!"
"Kill!"