"Relic of the old era… I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Facing Garp after all these years, the Third Raikage didn't back down. Instead, he showed an overwhelmingly fierce and domineering aura.
"From the way you're talking… it sounds like this era belongs to you."
Garp raised a brow, a trace of amusement curling on his lips.
In this moment, his expression, his view of the Third Raikage, was exactly the same as Uchiha Madara's.
When the real King is gone, the weakling calls himself king.
The strongest Raikage?
Just another frog at the bottom of a well, blind to how vast the world truly is.
"That's right. This is my era. And it's the era of the Hidden Cloud.
If you have no objections, I'll kill them now.
If you do have objections… then I'll sweep aside you relics of the old era first and toss you into the trash heap of history, then kill them afterward."
With every word spoken, the Third Raikage's aura surged like a rising storm.
By the time his voice fell, the chakra inside him had climbed to its peak. He hadn't moved an inch, yet a violent whirlwind blasted across the battlefield.
"With just you… you think you can bury me?"
Garp shook his head and laughed softly.
"Want to try?"
A flash of killing intent shot through the Third Raikage's eyes. Every muscle in his body tightened as chakra surged into his fist like an opened floodgate.
The ground beneath their feet buckled as if hammered by a colossal pile driver, collapsing deeper with every clash of force.
A violent shockwave, like an A-rank Wind Release jutsu, erupted from the center of their standoff, sweeping dust and shattered debris outward in all directions.
"He hasn't even used his full strength yet?"
Not far away, Danzo and the others went pale, shocked and bitter.
So after fighting them for days… the Third Raikage had just been toying with them.
But just as they were reeling from the bottomless well of power the Raikage possessed, the man himself was experiencing an even greater shock.
Because the moment he saw Garp standing exactly as before, right hand casually holding his fist in place, not even trembling, waves of disbelief crashed in his heart.
"He actually caught my punch."
The Third Raikage stared at Garp, eyes flashing with something close to denial.
He was in his prime.
His chakra, spirit, body, and will were all at the absolute peak of his life.
And his greatest pride was his physique.
Yet this man, who looked young but was actually nearing a hundred years old, was overpowering him with pure strength alone. How could he not find it unbelievable?
"What a pitiful little Kage you are.
If this era truly belonged to you, then even without lifting a hand, you should be able to see the gap between you and me."
Garp didn't budge an inch as he suppressed the Raikage's punch.
No matter how much force the Raikage added, he couldn't move him.
"A decrepit old fossil dares lecture me?
Times have changed. This isn't the Warring States Period anymore."
The Third Raikage's face darkened as arcs of lightning crackled to life across his body.
A heartbeat later, a tidal wave of Lightning Release chakra roared out of him, forming a brilliant armor of lightning.
But just as he prepared to truly show Garp his strength, he realized that the man holding his fist… was snoring.
"He… he fell asleep?"
The Third Raikage's eyes widened in disbelief.
The shock was so great that the Lightning Release chakra coating his body shattered into sparks.
"Lord Garp actually fell asleep."
"Is he underestimating the enemy? Or is he exhausted?"
"What do we do? Should we wake him up?"
Danzo, Choza, and the others stared blankly.
Falling asleep in the middle of a battle like this?
And not just any battle, one against the Third Raikage? Wasn't this a little too insane?
"Don't you dare do anything unnecessary."
Just when the Konoha ninja, trio included, were growing anxious, Tsunade's voice cut in.
"Lady Tsunade, you know what's going on?" Shikaku couldn't help asking.
"Uncle Garp isn't exhausted, nor is he simply careless. There is only one reason he falls asleep in the middle of battle.
The opponent is too weak. So weak he can't even stay interested. That's why he just… dozes off."
Tsunade explained calmly.
After spending days with him, she had a good grasp of this legendary powerhouse's quirks.
On the way to the Land of Fire border, they'd run into Cloud ninja infiltrators more than once, even clashing several times.
And she had personally seen Garp standing off against enemies one second… and snoring the next.
"Too weak?"
Danzo and the others looked toward the Third Raikage.
At the same time, scenes from the past few days flashed in their minds, scenes of them being beaten senseless.
No, fighting wasn't the right word. They'd been pummeled.
This man, who had single handedly held off their entire group and was said to be the strongest of his era, Tsunade was calling him weak?
Their worldview was shattered on the spot.
If even the Third Raikage was considered weak…
Then what did that make them, who'd been beaten into the dirt by him?
"Bastards!"
Danzo and the others felt sick, but the Third Raikage felt worse.
Garp falling asleep combined with Tsunade's explanation was like a full map provocation, instantly dragging his hatred to maximum.
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