Deliberate!
It was deliberate!
Within the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan's field of vision, filled with rising firelight and smoke, everything seemed to slow down. The fine dust churned up by the oncoming blast wave and the slight bulge in the firelight and smoke directly ahead were reflected clearly in Uchiha Nobuhiko's mind.
The timing had been perfect!
It had come exactly when he was distracted for an instant!
There was someone on the other side... someone like Taki Chiba, someone who took advantage of an opponent's psychology from the moment they entered the field! Yet, although he could see everything clearly, although not even the trajectory of a single speck of dust could escape his perception, Uchiha Nobuhiko's heart pounded wildly, and a trace of fear welled up within him.
At this moment, he could clearly see everything before him. He could catch the movement of every speck of dust. He could even predict at what angles the flying sand and stones carried by the blast wave would strike, how many grains of dust and fragments of stone there were, which ones would hit him, how many Kunai would fly out from that slight bulge in the firelight and smoke, and from what angles they would shoot out.
But at this moment, he could not dodge.
Yes, he could not dodge!
He could see it, he could track it, he could even foresee it, but he could not dodge it.
Because Minato Namikaze had come at exactly the right time, precisely during the instant his thoughts had shifted. When his thoughts had shifted just now, the turmoil in his heart had caused his body to relax.
Now, because of that momentary lapse, his body had not reacted in time.
Although his right hand had already risen, it was too late! According