Guy sprang into action in half a second.
Not Morning Peacock, not Daytime Tiger-just a simple frontal charge.
His steps were short and rapid, each foot landing lightly on the flooded rubber floor, splashing water no higher than his ankles.
His target was not Minato-it was Tobirama Senju behind him.
Tobirama's Water Style had already reached its critical point in his palm. A high-pressure water blade was stretching out and taking shape: Water Release: Water Severing Wave.
If he released that blade, the high-pressure jet would slice the entire passage in two and shred everyone inside.
But Guy reached his right side before Tobirama could raise his hand and release Water Severing Wave.
Tobirama had aimed Water Severing Wave straight ahead, toward the stairwell exit.
Guy cut in from his right, forcing Tobirama to adjust the water blade's angle at the last moment.
It was only a slight adjustment-fifteen degrees of his wrist.
But any change in the direction of a high-pressure Water Style attack in an enclosed space had a consequence: the water blade's spillover would strike Hashirama Senju on his left.
The instant Water Severing Wave was released, a high-pressure water blade so thin it was almost invisible swept sideways from Tobirama's palm.
The main blade grazed Guy's left shoulder, slicing a clean slit through his bodysuit without touching his skin, but the air pressure it generated forced his left shoulder down.
The spillover-roughly thirty-one percent of Water Severing Wave's total water volume-veered away from the main blade and splashed diagonally onto Hashirama's wildly growing Wood Style branches.
After absorbing all that high-pressure water, the Wood Style branches suddenly swelled at twice their previous rate.
Within seconds, wrist-thick branches expanded to the thickness of thighs. Their bark began cracking under the rapid expansion, diluted sap seeping through the