The sand soldiers charged fiercely toward Namikaze Minato and Danzo.
Danzo's voice turned cold.
"Minato, kill him!"
Minato moved forward to meet the sand soldiers head-on.
Just as he was about to make contact with them—
Whoosh!
Two kunai flew out, coming at Rasa from two different directions.
At the same time—
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
Minato's figure vanished in an instant.
The next moment, Minato appeared near Rasa.
Holding a kunai in hand, Minato thrust toward Rasa.
But right at that moment—
"Shifting Sand Form!"
Rasa's body vanished instantly, and when he reappeared, he was already near the sand soldiers.
And the sand soldiers were very close to Danzo.
Rasa did not even look at Minato.
He directly moved together with the sand soldiers toward Danzo.
Danzo was immediately shocked.
When Minato saw Rasa disappear, he froze for a moment. Then he heard Danzo's startled cry and hurriedly turned back.
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
Minato used Flying Thunder God once more, arriving at Danzo's side to support him.
"Rasengan!"
He used the Rasengan to force the sand soldiers back.
Minato looked at Rasa, his expression grave and vigilant.
"Danzo-sama, what kind of technique was that?"
"I don't know," Danzo said, "but it seems to be related to those sand puppets of his. Every time he moves instantly, he appears near one of those sand puppets. It's only slightly slower than your Flying Thunder God."
Danzo continued, "Minato, get me out of here first, then come back and kill him."
"I need treatment."
Danzo hated Rasa to the core, but he still kept his rationality.
"Understood, Danzo-sama."
Minato cast a deep look at Rasa.
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
One hand landed on Danzo's shoulder.
The next moment, both of their figures vanished.
A short while later, Minato returned.
The first thing he did after returning was not attack Rasa—
Instead, he looked toward Danzo's severed arm lying on the ground.
But there was no way Rasa would give Minato a chance to take that arm away.
"The Thunder Blade!"
A powerful bolt of lightning fell and instantly blasted Danzo's arm into blackened charcoal.
Minato frowned, looked at Rasa, and took a deep breath.
Then, both of their figures vanished at the same time.
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
"Shifting Sand Form!"
One was a space-time ninjutsu—instantaneous movement.
The other was not a space-time technique, but it was still incomparably fast.
The two figures moved rapidly and continuously across the battlefield, weaving and flashing through it again and again.
The Sunagakure shinobi brought by Rasa finally caught up. When they saw the battle between Rasa and Minato, their eyes widened involuntarily. They stared fixedly at it, but they simply could not see clearly.
"So fast!"
"I can't see them at all!"
"I can only make out afterimages!"
"One streak of gold, one streak of red!"
"They're too fast!"
A Sunagakure shinobi could not stop exclaiming in amazement.
"As expected of the Yellow Flash! As expected of the Flying Thunder God Technique! No wonder he could suppress Kumogakure's Fourth Raikage and Killer B by himself!"
"But our Kazekage-sama is not inferior in the slightest!"
"He looks a little slower, but Minato's kunai are fixed points. Kazekage-sama still has his sand soldier puppets, and those sand soldier puppets are absolutely not weak!"
Another Sunagakure shinobi asked nervously,
"Who do you think will win?"
"It must be Kazekage-sama! Kazekage-sama will definitely win!"
"But Namikaze Minato isn't weak either. Could Kazekage-sama be in danger? Should we help?"
A middle-aged shinobi stepped forward.
"Don't get close. With our strength, if we interfere in a battle like this, we'll only become a burden. We'll only distract Kazekage-sama and turn into living targets for Namikaze Minato."
High in the sky, Yatagarasu flapped its wings continuously, looking somewhat anxious.
"Shifting Sand Form!"
Rasa dodged Minato's attack and appeared elsewhere.
At the same time, a sand soldier beside him raised its spear and thrust toward Minato.
But before the strike could land, Minato had already used Flying Thunder God to leave again.
The two went back and forth.
Rasa's attacks could not hit Minato.
Minato's attacks were also unable to affect Rasa.
In a one-on-one battle, their combat styles were astonishingly similar.
Rasa took a deep breath.
As he was about to approach Minato, an intense burst of lightning exploded from Rasa's body, covering the surrounding area, while at the same time, a large amount of gold dust floated around.
The Byakugan in the sky captured Minato's movement trajectory firmly.
"Gold Dust Binding Cage!"
A mass of gold dust clung to Minato's lower leg.
"Yatagarasu!"
Receiving the signal, Yatagarasu cried out in excitement.
A white explosive egg dropped straight down.
Minato instinctively looked up, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
The next moment, an unusual aura rose from Minato's body.
The gold dust restraint was forcibly broken free.
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
At the exact moment the explosive egg fell, Minato's figure vanished out of thin air.
When he reappeared, he was already far away.
Minato glanced back at Rasa, bent his legs slightly—
"Flying Thunder God Technique!"
And in one instant, he disappeared completely from everyone's sight.
The Sunagakure shinobi hurried forward.
"Kazekage-sama."
"Kazekage-sama."
Rasa gave a slight nod.
Then he pointed at Danzo's severed arm.
"Take that thing with us. Bring it back to the village and make it into a specimen."
Everyone was stunned.
A charred severed arm—what use did it have? And he wanted to bring it back to the village and make it into a specimen?
But since it was Rasa's order, no matter what doubts they had, they would absolutely obey.
At this point, Rasa's prestige in Sunagakure had already reached an extremely high level.
He had exposed the plot of the traitor Shirasuna Koichi and Danzo, killed all the Konoha shinobi sent for the assassination, pursued Shirasuna Koichi all the way to the border of the Land of Wind, killed him, and severed one of Danzo's arms.
If Namikaze Minato had not arrived too quickly, Danzo would have died as well.
And after all the fierce fighting from before, he had faced Minato without falling behind in the slightest.
What kind of strength was that?
"Let's go back."
"Yes, Kazekage-sama."
On the other side, Danzo looked at Minato, who had caught up, his expression ugly.
His operation against Sunagakure had ended in complete failure.
He had lost a large number of subordinates in a single blow.
Even his arm had been permanently left behind in the desert.
If Minato had come just a little faster… if he had just spoken to warn me when he arrived… my arm would never have been severed. I wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable state.
When Danzo saw Minato approaching, he forcibly hid the dissatisfaction in his eyes.
"Minato, why did you suddenly appear here?"
Minato said, "A large number of rumor cards suddenly appeared on the battlefield. I tracked them here, and happened to hear news about your side, Danzo-sama, so I came to take a look."
"What rumor cards?"