Damn it! He was far more troublesome than expected!
And in that brief span, he had even taken medicine that rapidly restored Chakra. Just now, he had clearly had less than ten percent of his normal Chakra reserves, yet now he had already recovered over twenty percent. In the time it took for a single Exploding Tag to go off, his Chakra had reached twenty-one or twenty-two percent.
At this rate of recovery, wouldn't this go on endlessly?
Could he even turn things around? Slowly lifting his right hand from the water's surface, the Masked Man watched the three foam-flecked ripples spreading outward in his eyes. His face beneath the mask had gone completely cold, and even his Three Tomoe Sharingan seemed to freeze.
His gaze seemed to pass through the waterfall-like spray ahead, through the columns of water that had become a torrential downpour crashing down, and landed on the crouching, silent figure of the boy some distance away, who was likewise slowly lifting his right hand from the water's surface.
At the same time, as his gaze spread outward, the three tomoe in his eyes, which had contracted tightly, slowly began to rotate and distort, faintly seeming as if they were about to merge into one.
He was truly becoming impatient.
Though stalling for time was his objective, and under the current circumstances it did not matter what tricks his opponent pulled as long as he was trapped here, for some reason, seeing that thorn prison burst apart made the Masked Man suddenly feel irritated.
Just looking at Taki Chiba made nameless fury churn uncontrollably within him.
He even felt the impulse to stop considering anything else and directly kill Taki Chiba before him.
No! It wasn't time yet! No, it was not that the time had not