Great Fireball Technique Can't Hit Anyone

Chiri crawled forward at high speed, having completely mastered the technique. Her posture was exactly the same as Mimi's before.

Watching Chiri rapidly close in, Hitomi braced herself...

Maai: ten meters...

Five meters...

This was the moment!

Keenly catching the sign of Hitomi's impending attack, Chiri accelerated and continued her charge.

If she did not close the distance, she had no way to touch her opponent.

A blood-red glow lit up in her eyes as the Two Tomoe Pattern spun at high speed.

Even with an Uchiha physique that possessed abundant Chakra, Chiri had grown used to carefully budgeting every bit of it.

Logically speaking, when the sword descended upon her head, even with its extended blade, there should still have been a considerable window to react.

That gap was enough for Chiri to dance along the blade's edge!

But something was wrong!

It was not a downward Tang Zhú!

There was no need to consider defending against frontal horizontal slashes like left and right cuts, because they could not hit her.

Nor was it the upward Reverse Wind, the only move she needed to guard against.

This movement was...!?

She was spinning?

Danger!

In an instant, fine arcs of electricity flashed across Chiri's body. As she forcibly halted her forward rush, her entire body shot up from the ground...

At the same time, Hitomi began to spin.

Heavenly Spin Sword Dance.

Chakra erupted violently from the meridians throughout her body. This was a technique only possible through the Hyuga clan's innate ability to precisely control Chakra.

Yet unlike the usual Hyuga sphere, what spun around her was a storm.

A storm of swords.

Sword shadows filled the sky, twisting into a whirlwind that violently tore apart and devoured everything around it.

She was being drawn in by a strange force!

In midair, Chiri felt an inexplicable pulling force tugging at her entire body.

If this continued, she would be sucked into the eye of the storm and shredded to pieces!

Her left hand reached into her ninja tool pouch and pulled out several kunai, which she hurled out with all her strength, trailing steel wire behind them.

The kunai embedded themselves precisely into the ground in a triangular formation. Using them as anchors, Chiri desperately held onto her wavering body in midair.

Everyone held their breath until the storm Hitomi had stirred finally subsided.

Chiri flipped and landed on the ground.

Hitomi, meanwhile, leaned on her sword and panted heavily.

Her successive attacks had all been effortlessly neutralized by her opponent.

In terms of gains, she had suffered a crushing loss!

She gritted her teeth fiercely.

If I had Chakra like that monster Tsunade, I would never be in such a sorry state!

Hitomi clenched her teeth.

She still had the strength to fight.

She looked up at Chiri.

I should've just not warned her and cut her down!

She was as slippery as a loach.

How sinister! Uchiha (Hyuga)...

At a distance of around five meters, she had nearly been hit. As Chiri flipped down onto the ground, she felt a lingering chill of fear.

Fortunately, she had remained cautious and had not blindly trusted the three-meter range Hitomi had revealed earlier.

But what exactly had that first slash been?

As expected, that move could still be extended.

It was probably some kind of Chakra emission technique.

The Hyuga clan was very skilled at that sort of thing.

A high-density Chakra blade released from the entire body.

What was this move called?

"Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation!" a Hyuga ninja said hoarsely.

It was a secret technique among secret techniques, passed down only within the Main Family. The Branch Family generally had no chance of ever encountering it.

Even when the occasional Branch Family genius comprehended it on their own, its power was still somewhat inferior to the Main Family's secret transmission.

Yet this girl had not only comprehended Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation on her own, but had altered it beyond recognition.

Her wide-open Byakugan saw everything clearly.

She released chakra through the meridians of her entire body, using one portion to form chakra blades and the other to assist her rotation and acceleration.

Dividing her focus in two made it several levels more difficult than a simple Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation!

"What talent!"

Outsiders watched the spectacle; experts saw the intricacies.

The Hyuga ninja felt his worldview shatter. In Hitomi's hands, the Gentle Fist Art had changed beyond all recognition.

His scalp prickled, and his head buzzed.

The Uchiha's Red Eyes also grew serious.

As old rivals dating back to the Warring States Period, they knew full well that the Hyuga Clan's weakness was its severely lacking offensive power.

Yet with just one sword, that situation had been completely reversed!

"Given enough time, not even Susanoo will be able to stop this girl." An old man suddenly laughed. "That fellow Heavenly Ninja finally did it."

"The next Heavenly Ninja..."

Uzumaki Mito, who had not left, looked at the two girls in the arena.

"Perhaps she'll be even more terrifying than Heavenly Ninja."

"But..."

Uzumaki Mito looked at Chiri.

"Will you become the next Uchiha Madara?"

The expression on her face gave no hint of what she was thinking.

The elderly man in traditional kimono, his Byakugan visible, gazed gently at Hitomi and softly said, "Dance. Break free, Caged Bird."

Meanwhile, Mimi, watching from the sidelines, muttered quietly.

"Sword Blade Storm..."

Her face beneath the mask was somewhat blank.

Did I somehow end up on the set of Warcraft?

There was a reason Tsunade could bring out the Nine-Tails—her family was loaded, so she could afford to be willful!

But what about Hitomi?

Could she really be a true genius?

Then again, the Hyuga Clan was loaded too.

At this moment, while Hinata Hitomi was catching her breath, Mimi finally got a clear look at what she held in her hand.

It was obviously an extremely high-end piece of equipment.

The sword still bore the blue gleam of residual chakra.

Chakra Conductive Metal!

Meanwhile, the one in her own hand was cheap junk that could not conduct chakra.

Could this girl be some rich young lady?

Even though she was clearly from the Branch Family.

That explained how she could use that kind of technique.

A chakra blade of inexplicable length.

The weapon accounted for a great many factors.

Still, Mimi thought it looked somewhat familiar.

A chakra sword?

"Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

No wonder. Though the power was worlds apart, it already possessed the beginnings of that technique!

This girl was a monster!

Could she awaken the Tenseigan?

"I have to admit it—in swordsmanship, I lost." Chiri looked at Hinata Hitomi and said softly.

"With the swordsmanship I currently possess, I have no way to break through yours."

"But we are ninja."

"So take a good look at this technique."

Chiri raised both hands and slowly, solemnly formed hand seals.

This was not an imitation technique.

Strictly speaking, the Sharingan did not possess the ability to copy Ninjutsu.

Rather, it saw through the flow of Chakra, allowing one to directly observe the process of a technique.

Thus, whether one could copy Ninjutsu ultimately depended on individual talent.

Chiri had seen many techniques.

That was her pastime.

A pleasure she never tired of.

Without realizing it, she had mastered a great many techniques.

Many Uchiha shared that pastime, but those who could reach Chiri's level were still few and far between.

People were different from one another.

Even among the Uchiha.

After imitating countless Ninjutsu, Chiri would sometimes feel a different kind of impulse. What would a technique that belonged only to her, one no one else possessed, look like?

The answer was revealed at this moment.

She had seen through the essence of Ninjutsu.

Its essence was neither the transformations of Chakra nor its countless forms.

The essence of Ninjutsu was deceit!

One sword was enough to kill a person, so the key was how to place that sword against the opponent's throat.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Here it came—the Uchiha's Fire Release!!

A massive fireball hurtled straight toward the charging Hinata Hitomi!

But the attack was too ordinary.

Something at this level was easy to evade.

The Great Fireball Technique could not hit anyone!

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