Boom!
Beneath the water sphere that resembled a spiked ball, an enormous splash suddenly erupted. Extremely compressed water surged forth, spraying diagonally downward and connecting in a straight line with the water jet shooting diagonally upward, spreading outward!
Crackle!
In a flash of lightning, a humanoid figure made of electricity burst from the water exploding beneath the sphere and slammed viciously into the ground.
The earth immediately trembled, and the spot where the lightning struck instantly caved in.
Crack, crack, crack!
As the impact point sank, the trembling ground was instantly covered in cracks. In the blink of an eye, cracks had spread across nearly a kilometer around them. Amid the thunderous impact, they continued extending outward, their sharp cracking sounds mingling with the rumble like the sound of the earth being destroyed.
Cough!
At that moment, from the center of the nearly three-meter-deep crater that had formed instantly, where the surrounding cracks spread outward like hardened scars, a muffled cough suddenly rang out. Amid the crackling electricity, the Third Raikage's eyes slowly widened from between the fingers pressing his head deep into the soil. His lips parted slightly, and that muffled cough escaped.
At this very moment, a hand—an outstretched hand—was pressing his head ruthlessly into the ground from above. Following that arm upward was the figure of a stern, cold-looking young man, his teeth lightly clenched.
He actually...
attacked himself?
As the Third Raikage's eyes widened slightly, a trace of shock rose in his heart.
Yet his gaze passed over the cold young man's face and traveled upward. Through the view obscured by those fingers, visible only through the gaps, he looked straight through the bursting spray and saw the crescent-shaped opening aligned with it. At that opening stood an identical young man, one leg kicking downward.
Then,