So fast!
He didn't even need to form hand seals? The countless Rock Spears were already right before his eyes. In just one second, he would be like his clone, his chest pierced through by innumerable Rock Spears, dying here completely.
However, Hada Ichiba's focus was not on the life-or-death crisis before him, but on Kotetsu's hand seal speed. From the explosion and rising smoke to the moment he used the blast's force to retreat three to five meters, only a second had passed, yet the Rock Spear Jutsu had already been activated and reached him.
In other words, in just one second, even while caught in the shockwave, Kotetsu had been able to use such an Earth Release ninjutsu.
That hand seal speed truly startled Hada Ichiba.
"Screech!"
Then, as that thought crossed his mind, a black sword flash swept past.
"Crack crack crack crack crack!"
In an instant, the pointed tips of countless Rock Spears shot skyward, and the momentum of their impalement abruptly stopped.
With that single sword flash, in the blink of an eye, all that remained before Hada Ichiba—aside from the flying Rock Spear tips caught in the corner of his eye—was a field of stone pillars with perfectly even cuts.
And those neatly severed stone pillars were already over a meter away!
Using the recoil of that slash, his backward speed increased slightly.
At the same time, his left hand, which was not holding the sword, had already formed the final seal.
I still can't let my guard down! Such a thought flashed through his mind.
"Tap!"
Just then, as the borrowed momentum from the impact faded, his feet landed. After scraping two shallow tracks across the ground with a series of cracks, at the instant his retreat slowed to a stop, both hands