Morning Peacock!
The spray from the surging water wall brought a faint chill to his face. Watching the fireballs spread toward him like a peacock fanning its tail, Chiba, suspended in midair as though standing atop the water wall that had been split in two beneath his feet, wore a slightly unnatural expression.
Might Guy actually found a perfect opening! That thought surfaced in his heart.
At this moment, he was in midair. Though it looked as if he were standing on the water wall beneath him, that was merely an illusion. The water wall offered no foothold at all. In its current state, it could collapse at any moment, and it was difficult to allocate Chakra properly for Water Walking. If he stepped down carelessly, he might sink before he could even leap away.
In other words, he was suspended in the air with no point of support. He could neither advance nor retreat, neither rise nor fall.
This was the perfect moment to attack!
Clearly, Might Guy, who had seemed to be thinking about something all this time, had seized the crucial opportunity.
"Boom!"
Yet, in the instant that thought flashed through his mind, green flames spiraled upward from beneath his feet. Amid the sound of Chakra spreading through the air, the crimson in Chiba's Sharingan faded, replaced by a hazy emerald glow. With a snap, the water wall beneath him shattered from top to bottom, while a thin layer of green flame, like a skin-tight outer garment, wrapped around Chiba's body and flickered in the wind.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
At that moment, faced with the fastest fireball that was nearly upon him, Chiba did not seem concerned in the slightest. He merely slowly clenched his fist amid a series of popping bones.
"Boom!"
Then he casually threw