Shadow Clone Jutsu? He split up that enormous Chakra? What was he... trying to do? Inside the Water Prison Technique, under the crushing water pressure, the Masked Man barely shifted his eyes and examined the Taki Chiba clones stationed in four directions one by one. Through the Sharingan, he could clearly see that each clone possessed a considerable amount of Chakra. Even the original body, which his Secret Technique allowed him to distinguish clearly, had the same amount of Chakra as every clone.
This time, Taki Chiba had evenly created four clones. Four Shadow Clone Jutsu clones—not Water Clones, nor Earth Clones, but genuine Shadow Clone Jutsu clones.
No! Did he even need to wonder what they were planning? At a time like this, using Shadow Clone Jutsu clones, whose attacks were more varied and nearly indistinguishable from the original, naturally meant he intended to kill him! He could not just sit here and wait for death!
Once the doubt flashed through his mind, the Masked Man almost rolled his eyes at himself for asking such a stupid question. There was no need to think about Taki Chiba's intentions. He was undoubtedly taking this chance to finish him off.
After nearly giving himself an eye roll, the Masked Man naturally did not wait helplessly. Once he had looked over Chiba's surrounding Shadow Clone Jutsu clones, the fingers of his right hand began to tremble and move beneath the immense pressure. The Three Tomoe in his eye slowly began to spin and distort, seeming about to merge into a Mangekyō Sharingan pattern.
Hm? Just as the tomoe spun and warped, on the verge of merging, the suddenly heightened perception allowed the Masked Man to swiftly catch the original Chiba's movements. Surrounded by droplets that separated from the bubbling water around his