Such powerful Water Release!
This Taki Chiba! Watching the towering wave that resembled a beast opening its jaws, the Masked Man's expression grew increasingly grim as he continued to descend. Beneath the hood flapping against his mask in the gusts stirred by the wave, that single Sharingan slowly began to turn.
He had exhausted all the Chakra he had just recovered? To manipulate the surrounding water and form such a powerful Water Release? Was this...
The struggle of a trapped beast?
Or had he lost his mind?
Still, though his expression worsened and an uncontrollable irritation rose in his heart, the Masked Man remained calm. Through the Sharingan's vision, he easily discerned the condition of the boy standing atop the beast-mawed wave and controlling the jutsu.
At this moment, the mere ten percent of Chakra remaining in the boy's body was fully laid bare before his eyes.
"Clap!"
As the thought flashed through his mind, the unpleasant curve of the Masked Man's lips beneath his mask lifted into a cold sneer. The instant that sneer appeared, he brought his palms together.
"Boom!"
In an instant, the water beneath his feet, which had been steadily sinking, suddenly surged upward. With a thunderous crash, a massive wave rose from the ground, no less imposing than the beast-mawed leading wave before him.
"Rumble!"
Almost simultaneously, just as the wave rose, it collided with the leading wave that came crashing down with open jaws. Amid a roar like thunder, the two enormous waves exploded upward like a volcanic eruption at the instant of impact, becoming a colossal twisting column of water that shot into the sky.
"Crash!"
The water pillar soared upward, then cascaded outward from its peak. For a moment, torrential rain poured down from the heavens. Riding the force of that cascading