After Naruto's intense battle, the view cut back to Hanabi's side.
Only now, Hanabi was in no mood to check the danmaku.
Kabuto was gone, but the three remaining opponents were trouble enough—and Hanabi's Resonance had limits.
By now, the first Resonance had ended, and she'd activated her second.
Hanabi could only "store" two Resonances total, and her reserves were now depleted.
"Time to end this!"
Orochimaru drew the Sword of Kusanagi.
Hanabi's Ice Sword was sharp, but it was no match for the Kusanagi.
"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
A fire jutsu came flying from behind Hanabi.
Hanabi sidestepped in a flash, and the flames slammed straight into Orochimaru.
But Tobirama appeared in time: "Water Style: Water Formation Wall!"
The water barrier intercepted the Third Hokage's attack.
By then, the Third had reached Hanabi's side.
"Sorry for the wait. Use this—it can seal the Edo Tensei puppets."
The Third handed Hanabi a scroll he'd just finished preparing.
It was nothing compared to the seals of the Fourth Shinobi World War, but as a sealing formula personally crafted by a Hokage, it was more than sufficient against early-stage Edo Tensei puppets.
"Mm. Then let's put an end to all of this."
Naruto's fight and Sasuke's were both wrapping up—her side needed to close out too.
"Indeed. Let's end this."
Orochimaru had no desire to keep this going either.
Continuing to tangle with this Hyuga Hanabi brought him nothing.
This woman was insufferable. She seemed to have calculated every single thing.
"Orochimaru-sama. I, too, am someone who loves change."
Hanabi didn't move to attack right away. Instead, she kept talking.
"But your vision is still far too narrow."
"Oh? And what dream do you have?" Orochimaru was already scheming ways to deal with Hanabi and the Third even as he spoke.
The two Edo Tensei puppets were still here, but the Third's scroll could certainly seal them both.
"You aspire to be the wind that spins the windmill. But I—I aspire to be the gravity that moves the stars."
Hanabi smiled.
"For example—making two celestial bodies collide, and setting off a brilliant display of fireworks."
"Like… this!"
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
Riddler Doll chain explosion!
Absolutely hilarious.
If she'd gone to the trouble of pre-setting Flying Raijin markers, there was no way she hadn't also planted Riddler Dolls.
Aside from the one each on Naruto and Sasuke, every remaining doll had already been buried across this rooftop!
[Ninja Art: Blast-Through-the-Roof Jutsu!]
[This roof is freaking indestructible. Fire, water, nothing works on it—absolutely broken]
[This time it's finally collapsing, right?]
The chaos-gremlin audience's attention was always in the strangest places.
But this move was excellent for splitting the battlefield.
"Hokage-sama!"
"Right!"
Time was short. The Third read the play instantly.
"Summoning Technique!"
The Third immediately summoned his personal summon—Monkey King Enma.
"What in the world is going on?!" Enma took one look at the bizarre scene.
Then he spotted Orochimaru in the distance and understood at once. "I see."
"Enma—Adamantine Staff!" the Third commanded.
"Right!"
Enma transformed into an enormous staff—the legendary Ruyi Jingu Bang.
[Grass (a type of exclamation), I thought they were only raiding Japanese mythology, but Journey to the West got dragged in too]
[Dude, you should've seen it coming when Nezha showed up]
[Yeah—once Investiture of the Gods was on the table, Journey to the West was inevitable]
[Does the production team have Chinese people on it?]
[I think so. Probably quite a few, actually]
[Agreed. I went over the wall and checked—lots of overseas fans think it's great, but some of the jokes go completely over their heads. A lot of the humor is clearly aimed at our side]
[Can confirm. White hair and red eyes is super-effective against me, specifically]
[Ah well, can't help it—that combo from Hanabi is truly forbidden. An absolute anti-audience jutsu]
[With white hair and red eyes, I can forgive anything]
When the Adamantine Staff appeared, another wave of danmaku predictably detonated.
But Hanabi had no mental bandwidth to spare at the moment.
She was already locked in close combat with Hashirama.
"Eight Trigrams Divine Vacuum Attack!"
The Divine Vacuum Attack was a technique Hanabi had "borrowed" from the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, but it still packed a punch.
Its power slightly exceeded the Rasengan, with superior direct destructive capability.
Just as Naruto had the Rasengan and Sasuke had Chidori, Hanabi needed a comparable signature ninjutsu to match.
The Eight Trigrams Divine Vacuum Attack served exactly that purpose.
Hashirama might have been a low-quality Edo Tensei puppet, but he was still a former Hokage. He formed signs swiftly: "Wood Style: Wood Locking Wall!"
A row of wooden walls erupted from the ground, attempting to block Hanabi's advance.
But Hanabi appeared behind Hashirama in the blink of an eye.
A powerful Chakra shockwave launched from her fist, blasting Hashirama and sending him tumbling.
"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
Seizing the opening, her palms fell on Hashirama like a downpour, each strike precisely targeting his chakra nodes.
If this were the real Hashirama—or even the Fourth War version—she wouldn't dream of being this bold. But the game hadn't patched to that version yet.
Meanwhile, the Third had located Tobirama.
Tobirama formed a handful of signs: "Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet!"
[???]
[Hold on—what's happening here?]
[Doesn't that jutsu require forty-four hand signs?!]
Although the Zabuza-Kakashi battle had played out differently because of Hanabi's interference, Kakashi had still fought Zabuza later on and won.
The Water Dragon Bullet had made an appearance in that fight.
Because it was a "large-scale ninjutsu" introduced early in the series, the audience remembered it vividly—especially that absurdly long chain of hand signs.
And now Tobirama just… casually tossed it out??
"Enma—grow!" The Third wasn't surprised in the slightest. He commanded Enma to expand to enormous size, then swept the staff outward, blasting the Water Dragon apart.
All of it happened in a flash.
Orochimaru, caught in the middle of the explosions, was still adjusting his stance when Hanabi and the Third had already suppressed the First and Second Hokage.
The instant the Water Dragon shattered, Hanabi appeared behind Tobirama.
"Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven!"
Tobirama was sent flying and crashed into Hashirama.
And there, on the opposite side, stood the Third.
"Hanabi!"
"Right!"
Both of them unfurled their scrolls simultaneously.
"Heaven! Earth!" the Third shouted.
[Grass (a type of exclamation), just realized—those are the Heaven and Earth sealing scrolls from the second exam!]
[The Third wrote his seals on the exam scrolls!]
"Five Elements: Edo Seal!"
Bandages shot from both scrolls, wrapping around Hashirama and Tobirama.
Then black characters flowed from the scrolls, winding along the bandages to reinforce the binding.
When it was all over, a single character slowly materialized at the center of the script—封. Seal.