"Drip..."
Crimson drops of blood slowly trickled down that tilted cheek, falling from his chin and vanishing into the dust and smoke that was gradually dispersing and thinning.
His pitch-black eyes shifted slightly with the falling blood. At that moment, his stern gaze settled upon the Third Raikage, Dodai, and the Kumogakure Ninja, reflected in their eyes.
Yet in the eyes of Dodai and the Iwagakure Ninja, the scene before them was nothing like what they had imagined.
Under such a dense storm of lightning, they had imagined that the face emerging from the dust would be riddled with holes, with red and white matter spilling out. No—even if it was not riddled with holes, there should at least have been a few punctures, or bits of rock debris, or cracked Rock Skin. It should not have been like this, with merely two shallow bloody marks on his left cheek and one slightly deeper mark on his right! And they knew exactly what the sight before them represented.
This Little Monster's strength had already surpassed their imagination!
In such a dense lightning storm, he had suffered only such minor injuries. And it seemed he had not used the Rock Hardening Technique. They knew the power of Black Lightning all too well. Without protection, a body alone would inevitably be pierced full of holes. Moreover, they all knew that this kid used Water Release and Earth Release. One was countered by Lightning Release, while the other had no advantage against Lightning Release either. Even if the kid had used some form of defense, there was no way it could have blocked that rain of Black Lightning.
The only possibility was that, amidst that dense lightning storm, he had evaded every attack from the rain of Black Lightning, with only three bolts