"Chiba!"
The ground suddenly exploded. Amid the billowing dust, a shrill cry, slightly breaking with panic, rang out without warning.
Get out of the way!
Chiba, get out of the way! At that moment, terror and urgency flashed in Yukina's abruptly widened pupils. Her face had twisted from extreme fear, no trace of its usual charm remaining.
Her body had already lunged forward, throwing herself toward the boy radiating emerald light, wanting to shield him from this fatal blow.
But she knew she was too late.
The Byakugan's insight had already told her so. By the time both her feet left the ground, that punch would strike the boy's cheek and blow his head apart.
Yes, blow his head apart.
The Byakugan's vision and insight clearly showed just how much Chakra and power that fist, wrapped in a pitch-black Chakra cloak, contained. If the defenseless boy took that punch head-on, he would undoubtedly die!
That was precisely why she could not stay calm.
She knew this leap would certainly be too late. She might even be caught in the blow and badly injured, perhaps dying alongside him.
But she could no longer think about any of that. She could no longer weigh the pros and cons, nor calculate whether this leap was worth it.
She only knew that she had to save the boy before her.
This boy she had never been able to forget ever since he saved her.
"Don't worry, Yukina."
At that very instant, a gentle voice suddenly sounded.
"Chiba..."
For some reason, Yukina, who had been utterly possessed by panic, had lost all reason and calm, and whose mind had contained nothing but the thought of save him, suddenly cleared at those words. She looked up to see her beloved smiling at her. She froze for