O... overlooked it!
Clenching his teeth tightly, feeling the pain from his jaw amid the agony that had nearly numbed his entire body, Might Guy, his head thrown high back, strained to look downward. Beneath his taut, dark-red face was a startled yet helpless thought.
And at that moment, his entire body shot straight upward as he threw back his head.
I didn't expect this guy to come straight in with a sneak attack too!
Then, as his upward momentum ran out, his gaze finally settled. When the image of the white-haired youth, one leg raised in the stance of Shadow Dance Leaf, reflected in his eyes, an unconvinced thought rose in his heart.
E... Eight Gates...
Taki Chiba knows the Eight Gates too?
At that moment, Neji Hyuga, who had immediately looked toward the sound, had his Byakugan emerge once more, veins instantly spreading from the corners of his eyes to his temples. As he opened his Byakugan almost instinctively, his heart was already in turmoil.
At that moment, perhaps no one saw it more clearly than he did. Inside Taki Chiba's body, just like his Teacher's, six of those acupoints had been abnormally opened. Most of the Chakra that had originally been locked behind those gates had likely already been released. Judging from the acupoints, this was undoubtedly the Eight Gates.
And Taki Chiba had opened them to the Sixth Gate as well! Honestly, Neji Hyuga was truly shaken at that moment. Before watching Rock Lee fight, he had known nothing at all about the Eight Gates. But after seeing it, along with that explosive increase in speed and strength, Neji Hyuga was no fool. He understood very well just how formidable this Forbidden Jutsu was.
Still, merely from the effect of abnormally opening acupoints and squeezing out