"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
Amid the dull impacts of flesh against flesh, cracks suddenly spread across the ground. Two holes burst open within two adjacent pillars of dust, and two streaks of black and green light shot apart in opposite directions, scattering fragments of solid Chakra in their wake.
It... it hurt! As the cracks in the surrounding dust rapidly swept forward, pieces of the Susanoo armor on Uchiha Nobuhiko's left cheek shattered away. It seemed slightly swollen, his head tilted to the right, while streams of blood slowly trickled from the right corner of his mouth.
Yet all he could see in his mind was the boy from moments ago—his feet braced against the ground and buried deep in the soil, yet still turning steadily and smashing a fist into his left cheek.
Even my armor can't withstand Uchiha Nobuhiko's Susanoo Mode!
At the same time, on the other side, the emerald figure retreated in the same posture: his left cheek tilted and slightly swollen, blood spilling from the right corner of his mouth, the Gate of View armor peeling from his left cheek. As fragments of emerald solid Chakra fell away all along his path, Chiba's eyes, dyed green by the emerald radiance, remained fixed on the increasingly distant black figure ahead of him, his teeth clenched tight.
In his mind was the image of that man planting both feet deeply into the ground, using his waist and back to hurl him down, then striking his left cheek with his right fist without hesitation as he turned to counterattack.
"Tap!"
"Tap!"
At the instant those thoughts flashed through their minds, the two, already dozens of meters apart, suddenly planted their feet heavily on the ground. With a cracking roar, trenches formed beneath them, sending chunks of rock flying.
At the