Setsuna felt utterly speechless, 'I just wanted to fight without holding back, so how did I end up being treated like a hero?
"It seems you still haven't grasped the situation. Right now, I have you surrounded!" Setsuna jumped down from the high platform, forming his fist like a hammer, and struck the ground heavily.
"Vast Knocking."
An invisible wave rippled out. Sunagakure instantly fell silent, the surroundings becoming eerily quiet.
"Huh? What did he do?" Ebizo was quite puzzled. After all, Setsuna's punch clearly looked like a major technique, so why was there no reaction around?
But when he turned his head to look, he realized the Ninja beside him seemed frozen in place.
He looked around and saw that it wasn't just the Ninja near him, most of the Ninjas were unresponsive.
"What did you do to them?" Ebizo demanded angrily.
"Just hitting some pressure points." Setsuna's tone was indifferent.
In the Toriko World, he had once used Knocking on 30 billion people in an instant. Because the power was dispersed, even the slightly capable IGO staff were unaffected.
This time, the range was significantly smaller. Not only were Sunagakure's ordinary villagers affected, but most of the Ninjas were as well.
To be precise, only Jonin and a very few Chunin escaped unscathed.
He said it lightly, but to the ears of Rasa and the others, it was horrifying.
'He could actually use pressure point to stop hundreds of thousands of people in an instant? Such an ability was simply unheard of.'
If Setsuna used this on a battlefield where two armies were clashing, they didn't dare imagine what would happen.
After all, even if this technique was indiscriminate, Konoha could prepare for it in advance.
"We absolutely cannot let him leave!" Onoki felt regret. He should have listened to Chiyo earlier and secretly hit Setsuna with his Dust Release during the fight with Sasori.
"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Triangle!"
At that moment, Sasori manipulated the Third Kazekage puppet to form a sharp iron sand prism and attacked Setsuna.
Without even turning his head, Setsuna raised his hand and fired an energy wave, destroying the prism.
"My apologies, Sasori. The toy exhibition ends here. I don't have time to appreciate it anymore."
Dead silence fell over the scene once more. Everyone stared wide-eyed at Setsuna, feeling their brains were overheating.
'Wasn't he a Taijutsu specialist? What was that powerful long-range attack?'
Sasori's body trembled slightly. For him, this reaction meant he was extremely angry. "You dare call my art... toys?"
Setsuna ignored them, calmly jumped onto Titan's head, and lightly tapped it with his finger.
Under the horrified gazes of the Sunagakure's Ninja, Titan's body actually shrank considerably. It let out a cheerful sound and squirmed out from the pyramid seals.
After the Titan freed itself, Setsuna tapped it again, and its size returned to normal.
"What in the world is this?!" A Sunagakure's Jonin broke down, 'Was everything we did a joke in the other party's eyes?
Even Shukaku felt a chill run down its spine. "Bunpuku, what kind of monster has your Sunagakure provoked? This human is even more terrifying than that giant snake!"
Bunpuku could only smile bitterly. What could he say?
Titan's tail slapped the ground forcefully, creating aftershock-like tremors. Its eyes fixed on Shukaku, as if thinking about how to vent its anger.
However, Setsuna said, "Titan, stop playing around. Go back. If you keep rolling, Minato and the others are going to throw up inside you."
Of course, the main reason was that Setsuna didn't want Titan to waste too much energy.
Snakes could go long periods without eating, but that required maintaining a low metabolic rate.
Hearing Setsuna's command, Titan felt a bit down but still obeyed. However, it destroyed some buildings on its way out as if venting.
Even though they knew the Konoha's group was inside Titan, no one dared to stop it. In fact, they even felt a sense of relief. They had no idea how to stop that monster.
After Titan left, Setsuna continued, "Now, try to stop me. If you can't, I'm going to destroy Sunagakure."
As he spoke, Setsuna released the improved version of the Yin Seal, raised his left hand, and began gathering the energy within his body.
This wasn't a Spirit Bomb, to be accurate. It was more similar to Bartholomew Kuma's Ursus Shock, constantly compressing and condensing the energy within his body to achieve the maximum possible attack power.
The Sunagakure's Ninja looked at each other.
"What is he doing?"
"I have a bad feeling about this."
Setsuna kindly explained, "I'm gathering power. While distracted by combat, it will take me about twenty minutes to gather enough power to destroy Sunagakure. During this time, you can try to stop me. If you can't, I advise you to use these twenty minutes to evacuate everyone. Otherwise, anyone still inside Sunagakure after twenty minutes will die."
The reason Setsuna revealed this information was, of course, because he didn't actually want to destroy Sunagakure.
Although he could defeat Rasa, Chiyo, and the others, if they were determined to escape, he couldn't kill them all.
Ninja might be lacking in other areas, but they were top-tier when it came to escaping. For example, using Earth Release to hide underground or using Shadow Clones to run away… he would find it very difficult to truly kill them.
And if he destroyed Sunagakure, he would actually be cutting off their ties, turning them into 'men with nothing to lose'.
The most likely result would be them hiding in the shadows and then assassinating Konoha personnel recklessly and at any cost.
Furthermore, keeping Rasa, Chiyo, and the others alive had its benefits. Only by letting the main culprits live would Sunagakure's anger be maximally directed at them, reducing resistance when he later sought to conquer Sunagakure.
Of course, the most important point was that he would definitely need to plant the God Tree in the future, and population was a very precious resource.
Hearing Setsuna's declaration, all the Sunagakure's Ninja panicked.
"What? Only twenty minutes?"
"He's lying, right? How could anyone possess such terrifying power?"
At that moment, the figure of an old monk emerged from the top of Shukaku's head and called out loudly.
"Everyone! Shukaku just told me it senses a power in that person's hands more terrifying than a Tailed Beast! We must not ignore this!"
Thanks to Shukaku's earlier actions in saving Sunagakure, the Sunagakure's Ninjas naturally didn't doubt his words.
"What do we do? Try to defeat him within twenty minutes?"
"Are you crazy? What if we fail? Do we want to drag everyone down with us?"
"Then should we all focus on evacuating the villagers?"
"That won't work either. Didn't you hear him? The twenty minutes is the time needed if he's distracted by combat. We must have our strongest Ninja fight him."
"Damn it! There are already so few of us who can move, and now we have to split our forces to harass him?"
The Sunagakure's Ninjas were as frantic as ants on a hot pan, completely losing their composure.
Just then, a clear, bright voice rang out. "I'll hold him off. You all hurry and rescue the villagers."
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice. A heroic-looking Kunoichi, leading a team of Ninja, had returned to Sunagakure.
Seeing the newcomer, the Sunagakure's Ninja seemed to see a glimmer of hope.
"It's Pakura-sama! Wasn't she at the Land of Water for peace talks?"
"Excellent! Pakura-sama is a hero of our Sunagakure!"