The dispersed thick fog gradually closed in again.
Uchiha Hikari did not rashly charge in. Instead, she used the Levitation Technique to fly toward a large tree at the edge of the mist, intending to observe a little longer.
But the two Kaguya clansmen who had attacked her earlier quickly chased after her.
Thanks to the protection afforded by the Shikotsumyaku, coupled with the fact that Uchiha Hikari's Wind Release had merely been casually unleashed, they had not suffered much injury. As they charged, patches of skin along their bodies split open one after another, revealing dense protrusions of bone, before they leaped toward the tree trunk!
Whoosh—!
The sound of wind rushed toward her!
Uchiha Hikari tilted her head, gracefully evading the bone blades swung at her.
The next second.
With a crack, the thick tree trunk was stomped apart by the two Kaguya clansmen!
The instant she lost her footing, Uchiha Hikari used the Levitation Technique and drifted toward another tree seven or eight meters away. But the third person in the field had already stealthily made his way there. Gripping a long blade in both hands, he sprang into the air when she came within a few meters and viciously slashed at her!
Whoosh—!
Amid the sharp whistle of the blade cutting through the air, Uchiha Hikari glanced back. A slight turn of her Three Tomoe instantly made the man lose focus, and his blade grazed past her face by mere inches.
As they passed each other, Uchiha Hikari casually chopped with her hand, smashing the airborne assassin toward the ground. She herself flew several more meters ahead, lightly landing on another branch before turning around to look back.
"...The Hozuki clan?"
Uchiha Hikari glanced at her right hand.
When that hand chop landed just now, it