I-Intact?
H-How could this be? Completely intact!
His spine had clearly been broken before, and blood had been pouring from all over his body. They had confirmed it while bandaging him just now. There was no way he could stand again.
How... how was he standing there completely unharmed?
And... and we can't move now. That must be a technique he cast, right?
Is this... is this even... even possible? As that bone-chilling voice rang out, before she could even begin to marvel at the defensive ocular technique surrounding Hirohiko, identical to Uchiha Nobuhiko's, the intact man who had suddenly appeared within her three-hundred-sixty-degree vision seized all her attention.
At this moment, the stiff, unnatural expression on her face from Hirohiko's peril and escape had already vanished. Aside from her widened eyes, her face had been overtaken by rigidity. Within her eyes was only a bewildered, horrified expression, as though she could no longer react.
Faced with this situation that overturned all common sense, Yukina no longer knew how she should react.
Shock and suffocation filled her chest, an emotion she could not tell whether to call fear or blank confusion. For a moment, it seemed as if even her breathing had stopped.
Uchiha... Uchiha Nobuhiko?
He...
What is going on?
How could he possibly... Is this...
Another ocular technique? At the same time, as that cold voice fell silent, Kushina's gaze slowly shifted away from the crimson skeletal Chakra-flame figure that stood sideways and caught the arrow. Filled with disbelief, she looked at the young man who had suddenly appeared, as if he had stepped onto the ground from thin air and simply come into existence.
Her face had already become somewhat stiff from the sheer number of changes in that instant. Her expression could no longer keep up