"Th-This... Kaiten actually has this kind of power?!"
As the storm gradually subsided, Shinichi Hyuga stood in the middle of the massive crater, staring at the terrain that had been drastically altered by his attack. An astonished look surfaced on his face.
He had used the secret technique Kaiten countless times, but this was the first time Shinichi had seen such destructive power. Clearly... there had been no fundamental change in the way he performed the technique. This time, he had merely unleashed it in midair.
Shinichi did not know whether the Hyuga Clan's predecessors had ever conducted such an experiment, but none of the texts passed down through the generations had ever told him that Kaiten could undergo such a transformation.
What Shinichi himself did not know, however, was that no member of the Hyuga Clan throughout history had ever learned the Flying Thunder God Technique.
The principles behind Kaiten dictated that its user needed to be rooted to the ground. In a place like the air, where there was nowhere to brace themselves, the Hyuga ancestors simply could not have performed Kaiten in midair.
Only Shinichi, who had learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, could build up force on the ground and then use Flying Thunder God to accomplish something like this.
After a brief daze, Shinichi finally remembered to use his Byakugan to inspect the condition of Shisui Uchiha, whom he had struck.
Yet the figure before his eyes had long since vanished. Along with it, the other five figures had also disappeared. Only Shisui's figure in the distance behind him remained, standing there blankly and staring at him.
"A trap..."
"As expected of Shisui Uchiha. If this had been real combat, I would have been the one exposing an opening."
Only after Shisui Uchiha dispelled the