Damn it!
I can't break it?
This should have been a simple genjutsu. Why... why... can't I break it?
After blurting those words out in urgency, Hyuga Yukyō's face seemed to stiffen even further. The moment he realized it was a genjutsu, he had immediately tried to dispel it. Yet, to his horror, every method he had for breaking genjutsu proved utterly useless. That deathly terror still hung over his heart, and the pressure on his shoulders still pinned him down, unable even to stand.
Unlike Chiba, he was like Sakura—someone with a talent for genjutsu who could counter it with genjutsu. This sort of genjutsu that induced immense terror without even creating an illusion was actually rather low-level and should have been easy to dispel.
If Chiba had been here, he would surely have thought of the time Sasuke and Naruto first fought Orochimaru, when Orochimaru used a genjutsu on Sasuke that terrified him into retreating again and again, nearly making him give up the fight—a genjutsu that pain alone could almost break.
Yet even with such a genjutsu, Hyuga Yukyō's attempts to dispel it using ocular techniques for breaking genjutsu had accomplished nothing whatsoever.
This was simply inconceivable! Genjutsu might be powerful, but as long as there was a corresponding method to break it, it could certainly be dispelled. No matter how formidable genjutsu was, it was only one branch of the ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu system. If there was a solution, it should be breakable.
What was more, this was a low-level genjutsu.
This situation should have been utterly impossible! No one could cast a genjutsu that could not be dispelled!
If genjutsu could not be dispelled, then it was reality! "Hmph... how naive!"
At that moment, after he had tried to dispel the genjutsu, that icy