Seeing Third risking his life to protect the multitude of ninjas behind him in Konoha, Yu found it difficult to comprehend his so-called great sentiment. After all, Yu remembered in the anime plot when Orochimaru launched the plan to destroy Konoha and confronted Third, only a few ANBU came forward to help him.

"Hiruzen?!"

At this moment, watching Third stand up and fight desperately to resist Ursus Shock, Konoha Elders Elder Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, who crawled up from the ground nearby, couldn't help but be stunned.

"It's worth it, because I am the Hokage of Konoha."

Feeling Yu's complex gaze, Third, covered in wounds all over his body, squeezed out a smile on his face. Despite his old and haggard appearance, his eyes emitted sharpness.

"Don't make any more mistakes, Yu. You can still turn back now. Come back to Konoha with me!"

"Turn back? Turn back to what?"

"Wrong? What have I done wrong?"

Facing Third's final persuasion, Yu remained silent, shaking his head. A deep irony appeared on his face. "Trash like Danzo, you've been shielding and tolerating him for so long. Even if he were killed a hundred or a thousand times, I wouldn't bat an eyelid!"

"For you, perhaps the order and iron rules of Konoha are everything..."

"But for me, they're all nonsense! Nono is already dead. I'm tired of staying a single second longer in this rotten village!"

Speaking to Third in a deep voice, Yu manipulated the four Devil Puppets behind him with Parasitic Threads Manipulation, surrounding himself like loyal subjects to a king. A hint of fierceness shone in his eyes. "I won't repeat myself. Even if you all come at me together, you won't stand a chance against me!"

"Out of respect for our master-disciple relationship, I don't want to harm you. Step aside!"

Magnet Release: Iron Sand Chain World!!

As the words fell, Michael behind Yu released a powerful Magnet Release Chakra, causing countless dark Iron Sand to surge around his body. In the blink of an eye, a needle-shaped protective ring formed in the air, aiming at every Konoha Ninja in front of him. With just a thought, these excruciating black Iron Sand needles would mercilessly be thrown out.

"This..."

"Is this the legendary Magnet Release, the strongest Kekkei Genkai of the Kazekage?!"

Seeing the Iron Sand Jutsu manipulated by Yu through Michael in front of them, the sharp-eyed Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu in the crowd immediately recognized it as the Kekkei Genkai Secret Jutsu that only the missing Third Kazekage of the Hidden Sand Village could perform.

"Hiruzen, this kid's methods are so brutal..."

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"Not only killing fellow village ninjas but also sparing not even the Elders. What should we do now?!"

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Gazing at the four Devil Puppets around Yu, ready to strike at any moment, and feeling the overwhelming and suffocating power emanating from him, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, the two Konoha Elders, finally began to feel a hint of fear.

"Silence!!"

Before Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu could finish speaking, Third interrupted them with a stern shout, his face flushed with anger. "If it weren't for you two taking matters into your own hands, how could things have escalated to this point?!"

"At this point, there's no other way..."

Locking eyes with Yu once again, Third's gaze flashed with a hint of struggle, before ultimately turning into a firm resolve. "Yu, no matter what, I won't let you leave Konoha, and I won't let you harm any ninja of Konoha!"

"Jiraiya! If you don't act now, you'll only come to help us clean up the corpses later!!"

Jiraiya?!

Seeing Third suddenly shout out in front of him, Yu was momentarily stunned, and immediately, his Observation Haki was fully unleashed.

Indeed, nearby, he sensed an extremely formidable Chakra, not inferior to Third's strength, and perhaps even surpassing it.

"Summoning Jutsu: Toad Mouth Bind Jutsu!!"

With a deep, resounding shout, accompanied by a slight tremor in the ground, Yu suddenly felt the environment around him change drastically.

Out of thin air, countless fleshy barriers grew in the air, occasionally emitting corrosive stomach acid, gradually squeezing and enclosing towards the center where Yu was.

"Hahaha! Old man!!"

"I never thought you'd come begging to me one day!!"

As a gigantic toad appeared out of nowhere, swallowing Yu and all the Devil Puppets, everyone looked up to see a tall ninja with long white hair standing beside Third.

"Ji... Jiraiya-sama?!"

"When did he come back?!"

Seeing the white-haired tall man suddenly appear next to Third, many Konoha ninjas immediately recognized him—the disciple of the Third Hokage, the legendary Jiraiya, one of the Three Sannin, and they all showed expressions of joy.

"However, teaming up with you to deal with my junior really tarnishes the prestige of this Mount Myoboku toad hermit!!"

After successfully trapping Yu and all the Devil Puppets with the unique Summoning Jutsu of Mount Myoboku, one of the legendary three sanctuaries, Jiraiya, standing beside Third, couldn't help but show a smirk.

From the beginning, he had been hiding on the sidelines, observing the battle. Only when Yu's attention was entirely focused on Third and the people of Konoha did he finally seize the opportunity to launch a successful surprise attack.

"So that's how it is..."

"You're my elusive senpai, the legendary Jiraiya, one of the Three Sannin?"

At the same time, Yu, trapped in another dimension, saw the surroundings instantly change by Jiraiya's actions. Despite feeling the fleshy barriers pressing in from all sides, his expression quickly calmed down.

"I didn't expect us to meet under these circumstances..."

Casually speaking, Yu was secretly analyzing. Jiraiya's move was likely to summon the gastric walls of the Mount Myoboku toad, trapping the opponent and slowly digesting them. Essentially, no one could escape from it.

In the anime, this technique was once countered by Uchiha Itachi's Amaterasu, but during the battle with Six Paths Pain in the Hidden Rain Village, Jiraiya summoned it again, devouring the hellhounds of the Animal Path.

"Hahaha, sorry, little junior."

"This is the gastric wall of the Mount Myoboku toad hermit. No matter how you struggle inside, it's meaningless. No attack can break through this move."

Seemingly hearing Yu's words inside the gastric wall of the toad hermit, Jiraiya outside, looking at the gigantic toad he summoned using the Summoning Jutsu, chuckled with some satisfaction.

"Hell Stab: One-Finger Nukite!!"

However, as soon as Jiraiya finished speaking, a plain shout came from inside the giant toad.

Boom!!

The entire ground trembled violently, and an incredibly terrifying thunderous explosion erupted.

Just as Jiraiya claimed that "no attack can break through this move" of the Mount Myoboku toad hermit's gastric wall, a huge hole was directly blasted out of it. The figures of Yu and the four Devil Puppets slowly emerged from inside...

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