Naruto: Let the glory of the giants spread throughout the ninja world!

Akira Ryukura gripped the robotic arm with his hand.

This robotic arm feels cool and smooth to the touch, completely different from the standard weapons of Konoha.

"Technology changes lives, but surely I can't break this thing?"

He tightened his fingers, his knuckles embedding into the joints of the robotic arm, and began to exert force with his palm.

The robotic arm remained completely still.

He changed his posture, crossed his hands and clasped them together at his joints, pressing his entire weight down on them.

The robotic arm didn't even shake.

"Heh, I underestimated you. You're pretty tough."

"...Alright then." Ryukura Akira loosened his grip.

The snow ninjas burst into laughter.

The leader smiled the most restrainedly. "That's the Snow God's skin. It's normal that you Konoha people haven't seen it before."

The Snow Ninja's tone was full of superiority. Even as a captured Snow Ninja, he would hold his head high with pride when he saw the Snow Country displaying weapons.

Naruto leaned closer: "Hey, really? You can't do it either?"

Ryukura Akira shook the frost off his hands and said nothing.

That's enough.

Yukie spoke. She was still hanging from the mechanical arm, her arms restrained by metal clamps, her body suspended in mid-air.

The wind blew her hair down, covering half of her face.

"No need to bother, let's leave it at that."

Naruto turned to look at her: "What do you mean, 'just like this'?"

"That's it," Yukie said, her eyes fixed on the distant sea. "Let them take me back. You've done your best. Go back."

Ryukura Akira squatted down and looked down at her.

What have you decided?

Yuki remained silent.

"Silence means consent." Ryukura Akira sat down cross-legged. "You've decided to die?"

"I don't feel like I should die." Yukie finally raised her eyes. "I just feel that there's no difference between living and dying."

"Oh." Ryukura Akira nodded. "So how did you come to that conclusion?"

Xuehui's response was a long silence.

"My father said it," she said softly. "The Feng Hua family owes Uncle Nu Tao. When that meteorite fell ten years ago, my father didn't give him the power of the Snow God. Uncle Nu Tao did so much for the Snow Kingdom, but my father wouldn't even give him the one thing he wanted."

"so what?"

"So, the death of Father was what the Feng Hua family deserved."

Yukie's voice began to tremble, "I've been running away for so many years just because my father sent me away, so I have to live."

"But then I figured it out. It doesn't matter. Whether I'm found or killed, it doesn't matter."

Ryukura Akira tilted his head and looked at her for a while.

Key information was then extracted from it.

“I’m interested in something else,” he said. “That meteorite fell ten years ago. Your father sealed it away, and Windflower and Tide want it. And you are the key to breaking the seal.”

Yuki didn't say anything.

"Why you? What's so special about you?"

"I have no idea."

Aren't you curious?

"Not curious."

"You're lying," Ryukura Akira said. "If you weren't curious, you wouldn't remember so many details. A truly indifferent person wouldn't remember these things."

"Are you afraid I have ulterior motives? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Alright, alright, I know, I know. Hurry up and figure out a way to rescue Yuki!" Naruto said.

Yukie suddenly turned her head to look at him.

Naruto crouched on the edge of the aircraft, his blue eyes staring straight at her, his face still bearing the red marks from the frostbite.

Yuki glared at him.

Ryukura Akira stood up and patted his knees.

"Okay, okay, Naruto-kun, then I'll get serious~"

Close your eyes.

thump.

A muffled thud came from his chest.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

His heart was beating faster and faster. As his heart rate increased, his right arm began to swell, and the muscles bulged out one by one.

The heat rose from the skin, condensing into white mist in the cold air, enveloping the entire arm.

Advance loan.

At the same location, fine cracks appeared on the surface of the robotic arm, spreading outwards from the fingertip contact point, each millimeter accompanied by a piercing metallic tearing sound.

"H-How is this possible!" The leader, Yuki-nin, exclaimed, her face changing.

"Sugata!" Naruto's eyes lit up as he lay down to watch the crack spread inch by inch.

"Rasengan!"

Naruto couldn't wait any longer and pressed the Rasengan directly onto the crack.

After the ear-piercing crash, a cloud of smoke dissipated.

Snapped!

The crisp sound of shattering glass rang out, the outer shell of the robotic arm shattered completely, and then... brand new parts were revealed inside.

"666, there's a second level."

Naruto stared at his palm, then looked at the mechanical arm.

"...What the hell?"

Ryukura loosened his grip, then clenched his fist again in the same spot, taking a deep breath.

Boom boom boom!

Five shallow dents.

This robotic arm is merely "the skin of the Snow God." Skin is just that hard.

He flexed the fingers of his right hand, and his knuckles cracked.

Then grip the robotic arm again.

"I'm out of options, I'll really show you what kind of dirty tricks I've got!"

The deafening sound of a heartbeat ceased, replaced by vertical pupils.

Purple scales emerged from the base of the nails, covering the fingers, back of the hands, and wrists one after another.

Nails grow, become sharp, harden, and bend into the shape of hooks.

Yukie looked up and saw the purple claw gripping the mechanical arm that was trapping her.

The five claws pierced the surface of the robotic arm without encountering any resistance.

The scale-covered fingers sank deeper and deeper until the entire hand was submerged inside the metal.

He pulled it outwards.

The robotic arm broke.

The half-meter-thick metal column began to disintegrate from where the dragon claw pierced it, and the cracks spread in all directions as if they were alive, reaching the entire gripping device in the blink of an eye.

Metal fragments flew everywhere.

"God, God-sama?!"