What...?
The little beast's bright eyes, which carried an overwhelming pressure, gradually widened. Its gaze was fixed on the shoulder of the medium-built Genin named Ikeda Ichiro.
Reflected in those large, bright eyes, filled with undisguised shock, was a sheet of paper that had appeared on Ikeda Ichiro's shoulder.
Whoosh!
Then, in that instant, a violent gust suddenly erupted from Ikeda Ichiro's right shoulder.
In an instant, the little girl felt the scenery before her flip upside down. Pain shot through her foot as her entire body was sent spinning over.
"What!"
At the same time, shock flashed across everyone's faces on the second floor, and their eyes flew wide open.
What happened? What... was... going... on? Their minds were filled with alarm and confusion.
From their perspective, at the very moment they had concluded that Ikeda Ichiro's neck would snap, his skull would shatter, and that he was undoubtedly dead, a violent gust had suddenly burst from his shoulder and blown that swift, powerful kick upward.
That was why the little girl's kicking leg had been flung up so sharply, leaving her upside down in midair from the force of the gust's collision.
Clearly, Ikeda Ichiro had done something.
He had done something to his shoulder.
But none of them had seen what exactly he had done.
Moreover, that sudden gust was clearly a Wind Release ninjutsu, and a remarkably powerful one at that.
The little girl's kick had come in fiercely. If the Wind Release had not been powerful enough, there was no way it could have thrown her over!
And Ikeda Ichiro—never mind how he had used Wind Release ninjutsu from his shoulder—even such a powerful Wind Release was not something he should have been capable of using.
Something had definitely happened here that they could not