The Allied Shinobi Forces Jutsu

The alliance learns what its headband actually costs. The Ten-Tails, freshly matured, fires a volley of continent-scale Tailed Beast Bombs — and the episode follows the seconds of triage at headquarters as Shikaku Nara, with the calm of a man finishing his life's best move, dictates the alliance's final strategy while the blast bears down on him. Inoichi transmits beside him to the end. The plan that wins the next ten episodes is narrated by two fathers who will not see it executed.