For the final blow, he had actually been willing to kill his own Shadow Clone Jutsu, all so I would be unable to react effectively and to ensure that the attack would land.
Moreover, he had launched that final blow only after ensuring it would shatter my Chakra cloak and injure me...
So it wasn't that he was too cautious to attack with his real body! He had merely ensured that the final blow would truly be the final blow! All of that brat's tactics were actually built around this single core principle!
The reason he could use clone tactics so brilliantly was because the core principle of his tactical thinking was the very core principle behind clone tactics!
What were clone tactics? Using clones as bait to lure the enemy into exposing an opening, thereby ensuring that the real body's attack could succeed!
No matter how clone tactics changed, how many branches they developed, or how many forms of combat they evolved into, in the end, every clone existed for this very purpose! Taki Chiba's tactical thinking was no different. It was just that the final stage of his thinking was not to ensure his real body's attack succeeded, but to ensure that his real body's one strike would inevitably be the final blow. No matter how Taki Chiba's tactics changed, how elaborate they became, or how unexpected they were, all those tactical steps ultimately served this "final blow."
This level of tactical thinking...
It seemed overly careful, exceptionally cautious, but in truth, it was a terrifying philosophy of absolute control over the battle! Turning what was not inevitable into inevitability!
Turning a possible victory into certain victory!
This was simply an overbearing level of control over the battle! The gray-black scene flashed past and swiftly contracted into the