"Not answering?"
As he listened to what sounded like praise from Uchiha Nobuhiko, Minato Namikaze slowly straightened from his guarded stance. The Flying Thunder God Kunai clenched in his hand gradually lowered as well, while his eyes remained fixed on Uchiha Nobuhiko opposite him as he spoke.
By now, his brow had already furrowed slightly.
Uchiha Nobuhiko...
He had never expected it to be him.
That sly bastard had actually joined the organization trying to capture the Nine-Tails. And judging by the look of him, his strength had reached a terrifying level.
That mass of black Chakra was probably formed from highly condensed Chakra, shaped into something resembling a skeleton. This Chakra form, which was neither Shape Transformation nor Nature Transformation, had to be a new ability of the Sharingan—no, the Mangekyō Sharingan.
The black flames he had used just now, the same ones Hirohiko used, were probably another ability of his Mangekyō Sharingan.
Based on everything Hirohiko had said about the Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Nobuhiko had used those black flames without hesitation just now, then maintained that high-density Chakra form before them with such ease...
Did his eyes not suffer from the side effects Hirohiko had described? The pressure on the body with every use of an ability, even the gradual descent of the eyes into darkness—that is, blindness? Hirohiko had suffered considerable damage to his body merely from using those black flames, and for a time, his eyesight had even deteriorated.
And that had only been from using the black flames briefly.
Now, Uchiha Nobuhiko had not only used the black flames, but also an ability that seemed to consume even more ocular power, yet he still looked completely composed, as if it placed no burden on him at all...
And that high-density Chakra could even block Yukina's