What!
His burning right foot swept through the air, its trailing Black Flames drawing a dark arc. Without warning, a silent rear high kick howled toward its target. The figure did not move in the slightest. Though his entire body was taut, he seemed completely unaware. This kick looked certain to hit!
Yet at that moment, Chiba, who had delivered that silent kick, suddenly changed expression, his eyes slowly widening.
"...My lord!"
At that moment, the last two words of Dodai's startled cry reached him!
Bang!
The next second, the spot occupied by the taut figure wrapped in the Lightning Release Chakra Cloak, crackling with lightning, suddenly exploded. Large chunks of earth surged upward with the blast, then were struck by the high kick trailing flames and shattered with a resounding crash. The sounds of breaking merged into one, like hard objects cracking apart.
That seemingly certain strike had missed! Damn it!
Too slow!
No, it wasn't that I was too slow!
At the instant shattered rocks and dust erupted from the ground, at the instant the fragments carrying Black Flames scattered along the high kick's trajectory, a trace of astonishment flashed through Chiba's gradually widening eyes.
That's it. That must be it!
This Third Raikage is terrifying!
Then, the next second, his airborne body was swallowed by the exploding dust and broken earth. The shock that had spread from his eyes across his entire face was buried within the rising cloud of dust and debris.
Bang!
At that instant, just before Chiba was engulfed by the rubble and smoke, another sound of something hard shattering rang out. Across from the flying debris, the mound of earth that had risen from the sudden explosion shattered in a flash of lightning! A figure crackling with lightning emerged amid the erupting dust