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  Shin and the Third Kazekage faced each other. The other Suna Shinobi formed a circle around them.

  "Kazekage-sama, do you need assistance?" Chiyo asked.

  "No." The Kazekage refused. He wasn't going to gang up on a kid.

  Chiyo frowhey couldn't uimate this boy. He had ihe Kazekage with a single blow.

  She felt the Kazekage was being arrogant. This could end badly.

  "Vacuum Ssh!"

  Shin swung his sword with full force, slig through the air. A bde of pressed air shot towards the Kazekage.

  Creating an air bde with a sword was far more difficult than with a punch.

  The air bde was incredibly fast. The Kazekage's eyes widened.

  "Mag Release: Iron Sand World Method!"

  Iron Sand swirled around the Kazekage, f an imperable sphere.

  The air bde struck the Iron Sand, sparks flying. It slowly cut through the Iron Sand, but the defense was thick, over thirty timeters.

  The air bde mao pee twenty timeters before dissipating.

  "Couldn't break it. Disappointing." Shihed his sword.

  "But since you like staying in there so much, why don't you stay there forever?"

  "Ice Release: Ice Age!"

  Shin's hands flew through a series of hand seals, fifteen seals in two seds. An icy chill emanated from him.

  Ign the Chakra cost, frost spread from his feet, c the ground in a thick yer of ice.

  The Iron Sand sphere eng the Kazekage was instantly frozen. The ice tio spread outwards.

  "Retreat! Everyone, retreat!"

  Chiyo yelled, leading the Suna forces in a hasty retreat. Those further away were fine, but the Shinobi he front couldn't escape.

  The stronger ones mao flee, but the ioo slow. They were frozen solid, encased in ice. Within moments, a one-kilometer radius was transformed into a world of ice.

  Hundreds of ice pilrs stood frozen in this icy wastend. They were the Suna Shinobi who hadn't been able to escape.

  "Still not as powerful as Kuzan's Hie Hie no Mi."

  Shin observed his Ice Age Jutsu. He had developed it based on Kuzan's Devil Fruit ability, but it was still far weaker.

  Kuzan could freeze dozens of kilometers of o with ease.

  But Shin's Ice Release was still developing. Perhaps one day, he would surpass Kuzan.

  Shin wasn't pletely satisfied, but the Suna and Konoha Shinobi were stunned.

  "That's Ice Release?! When did he get Ice Release? He didn't tell me!" Tsunade was indignant.

  "What incredible power..." Orochimaru's eyes widened in shock.

  "Damn that brat!"

  ost fainted, seeing her frozen rades.

  "Quick! Save the Kazekage!"

  Ebizo, Chiyo's brother, yelled, his eyes filled with worry. The Third Kazekage was trapped in the ice.

  If they didn't rescue him soon, he would suffocate.

  They had to break the ice. If the Kazekage died here, Suna would be in danger.

  Ebizo charged forward, using Wind Release to attack the ig the Kazekage. But the ice was as hard as steel.

  Shin watched them calmly. They wouldn't be able to break it. He wondered if the Kazekage could escape from the inside.

  The Kazekage had deactivated his Iron Sand defense. He looked at the ice surrounding him, his face pale.

  He maniputed the Iron Sand, f various ons, and attacked the ice from the inside.

  With attacks from both inside and outside, and with some Shinobi using Fire Release, the ice finally shattered. The Kazekage emerged, gasping for air.

  The space within the sphere hadn't beehe air had been thin.

  "Retreat!" the Kazekage ordered.

  He didn't try to attack Shin. He chose to retreat.

  The Suna Shinobi wao save their frozen rades, but they khe ces of survival were slim.

  "You think you just retreat? Did you ask me?"

  Shin charged towards them, his sword fshing. A massive air bde sliced through the ice.

  "Puppet Teique: Human Puppet!"

  Chiyo used the Human Puppet Jutsu to defend, and the Third Kazekage used his stro Iron Sand defense.

  The other Suna Shinobi also used defesu. The sight ectacur, even more so than when Shin had faced the bined might of Kirigakure.

  The air bde sliced through ten puppets and broke through the Kazekage's Iron Sand defehe air bde was te, and the Kazekage's Iron Sand wall wasn't thiough.

  But after breaking through the Iron Sand, the air bde's power ent. It was easily blocked by the other Suna Shinobi's defenses.

  The Suna forces retreated hastily, abandoning their frozen rades.

  The ces of survival for those trapped in the ice were slim. The Kazekage wouldn't risk further losses to save them.

  If Shin used another Ice Age Jutsu, the sequences would be dire.

  Chiyo winced as she retrieved the broken Human Puppet. It was a masterpiece by the previous geion's Puppet Master, Monzaemon Chikamatsu. It was irrepceable, and now it was damaged.

  She didn't know if she could repair it.

  As she collected the puppet, she suddenly felt a chill, a sense of danger. She instinctively leao the side.

  A fsh of white, and a sword pierced through her body.

  She had dodged slightly, avoiding a fatal blow. The sword, aimed for her heart, had missed, pierg her side instead.

  "Too bad."

  Shiivated his Mangekyō Sharingan, disappointed. He had almost killed Chiyo.

  He had used Yomotsu Hirasaka to open a small, invisible portal and thrust his Kusanagi sword through it.

  The sword had emerged from another portal near Chiyo, stabbing her from a distance of several hundred meters.

  This was another application of Yomotsu Hirasaka.

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