Minato Namikaze: "The Herrscher of Wind... personally, I feel like their titles could be a bit more flamboyant. For example..."
Uzumaki Kushina: "Minato! Look at the situation we're in! Stop obsessing over your nicknames!"
Rasa: "Sigh... What I'm worried about now is whether Temari will cause the same terrifying destruction as shown on the Sky Screen if she turns into a Herrscher once this is over."
Temari: "...In that case, should I leave the Hidden Sand Village for a while?"
No, no, no, what you should really do is commit suicide!
At this moment, in the Land of Wind—and indeed in the hearts of most powerful figures throughout the Ninja World—this was the prevailing thought. To them, the only good Herrscher was a dead one. Of course, it would be even better if they could hand over their Authority before they died.
Naturally, they only dared to think such things in private. If they ever voiced them openly, there would be hell to pay!
After all, those Herrschers possessed no humanity! If these elites didn't hurry up and lower their profiles instead of coming out to make trouble, they truly had a death wish.
It wasn't just the nobility; even the civilians of the Land of Wind and the people of the Hidden Sand Village would be lying to themselves if they said they didn't have a single thought about her dying. But they didn't have the courage to say it out loud. If they spoke out of turn, people would actually die!
As a Ninja, how could Temari not notice the changing gazes of those around her?
Now, she could finally understand Gaara's feelings. This placed immense pressure on Temari; she even began to doubt whether she could defeat the other Herrscher personality within her if she became one now.
She didn't know. But one thing was certain: it was time for her to leave the Hidden Sand Village. Staying here any longer would be bad for everyone.
Rasa: "Temari, you... Fine."
What else could Rasa do?
["The Herrscher of Wind?" Temari looked down at her attire. Had all of this not happened, she might have been quite pleased with the outfit; after all, it was beautiful.
But now, she had no heart to admire her beautiful clothes. In fact, she felt a strong sense of repulsion!
"You haven't answered my question. How do you have the Byakugan?"
"And who exactly are you?"
The Golden Eagle could keenly sense invisible forces swirling around Temari, gathering momentum, ready to strike and kill it at any moment.
"I am merely an ordinary Summoned Beast. I have no intention of becoming your enemy. I only came to investigate the strange phenomena in the Land of Wind."
"An ordinary Summoned Beast?" Temari laughed humorlessly.
"You're telling me an ordinary Summoned Beast can dodge my attacks and survive this long in a place where Honkai Energy is this concentrated?"
"Are you joking?"
"Forget it. My patience has run out. Whoever you are, just die!"
Invisible Wind Blades expanded outward with Temari at the center. The Golden Eagle flapped its wings and retreated violently, quickly distancing itself from this dangerous individual.
However, in terms of speed, Temari was far faster.
Whoosh—
Suddenly, a gust of storm exploded beside the Golden Eagle. Countless Wind Blades, like shrapnel from a grenade, shot out in all directions. Even though the Golden Eagle's feathers were incredibly tough, several were sliced away by the Wind Blades.
"And you still claim to be just an ordinary Summoned Beast?"
Watching the feathers on the Golden Eagle's body rapidly regrow, Temari gave a cold smile and struck even harder.
"I've changed my mind. I'm going to capture you alive and train you to be my pet!"
"Your pet? Logically speaking, shouldn't you have your own Companion Honkai Beast?"
The Golden Eagle suddenly realized that the person before it was clearly a bit different from the previous Herrschers.
"Companion Honkai Beast?"
Temari paused, thinking of the giant winged serpent. But she had already killed it.
"So, that Honkai Beast was my Companion Honkai Beast. No wonder it was stronger than the others."
"You killed it?"
The Golden Eagle was stunned, then quickly flew toward the Hidden Sand Village.
En route, it began to sense the village's direction. Although the Honkai Energy interference made it difficult to pinpoint the exact location, it didn't need to find the village specifically—it just needed to know where the Honkai Energy was most concentrated.
Currently, the places with the most Honkai Energy in the entire Land of Wind, aside from itself and Temari, was the Hidden Sand Village!
"Where do you think you're going!"
Seeing the Golden Eagle turn and leave, Temari assumed it was trying to escape and immediately gave chase. But then, she saw a Space Wormhole with golden edges appear in front of the Golden Eagle, which promptly dove inside and vanished.
"Where did it go?" Looking at the desert where the Golden Eagle's trail had vanished, Temari was bewildered.
"Could it be some kind of Space-Time Ninjutsu?"
Temari's first thought was that it had been summoned away by its master, but she immediately dismissed the idea. It hadn't been summoned back; it had entered a wormhole. In other words, it had used some kind of spatial ability to disappear!
"Humph! Unless you've left this desert entirely, I can find you no matter where you are!"
In this desert shrouded by the storm, she could sense any anomaly within the sands! Naturally, that included that Golden Eagle!
"Found you."
Temari closed her eyes. After sensing for a few seconds, she discovered the Golden Eagle's trace at the Hidden Sand Village. After all, they weren't actually that far away.
"But what is it doing at the Hidden Sand Village?"
Meanwhile, looking at the massive corpse, the Golden Eagle's eyes sparkled. It had been worrying about how to obtain a sample of the Herrscher of Wind's Companion Honkai Beast, and now it had practically fallen into its lap.
The Golden Eagle teleported the corpse of the Judgment-class Honkai Beast back.
"Hm? Caught up already?"
"Forget it. I've more or less analyzed the Authority of the Herrscher of Wind anyway. It's time to leave."
"But then again, I think I sensed an unusual Chakra reaction in the desert just now. I'll go take a look before I go."
Thus, the Golden Eagle opened a Space Wormhole leading toward that Chakra reaction and flew in. By the time Temari reached the skies above the village, the Golden Eagle's presence had vanished again.
And the corpse of that Judgment-class Honkai Beast had vanished along with it!
"This place is..."
The Golden Eagle arrived above the source of the Chakra reaction. It could sense a massive amount of Chakra below, mixed with another type of energy.
"I originally thought it was the Akatsuki here collecting a Tailed Beast, but now it seems that's not the case."]