So... so amazing...
A faint tremor ran beneath his feet as Sato Hide's eyes slowly widened. In his gaze was the figure of the boy revealed as the dust settled, draped in a grass-green cloak. In the corner of his eye, he could see a deep footprint embedded in the ground not far in front of him, along with the cracks spreading outward from it.
That Body Flicker Technique speed...
The scenes from moments ago involuntarily replayed in his mind: the boy abruptly turning around, his back vanishing the very next second, followed by the gust of wind that swept over them.
Was this the hero of the Third Great Ninja War, second only to the Golden Flash, Lord Minato Namikaze? He had not even seen what the boy did. In an instant—just one instant—he had taken down all three of them! Sato Hide's gaze slowly rose from the exposed figure of the boy, sweeping over the two small pits beside him after the dust had cleared, then to the somewhat larger shallow crater in the distance near the edge of the woods, where earth and stones had been thrown up.
It truly had happened in an instant. As far as he could tell, he had only seen the boy turn around. Then his figure flashed away, a fierce wind struck, and the collision sounds ahead seemed to merge into one. After that, three clouds of dust rose up. He had not seen at all how this boy had attacked or what method he had used to defeat the three of them.
Was this really... Chiba?
That... Chiba?
As those images and thoughts turned over in his mind, Sato Hide could not help swallowing hard.
To be honest, war and the heroes of war had always felt rather distant to