"You—"
Through the gaps between the long, slender fingers covering his face, Anrokuzan stared wide-eyed and slack-faced at Uchiha Gin, who stood within the Time Stop domain with a smile that was not quite a smile.
No, this wasn't real. It was all a hallucination brought on by his overexcitement.
Trying to escape reality, Anrokuzan came up with an extremely flimsy excuse for himself.
He had absolute confidence in his Time Stop technique. Even a space-time genius like Namikaze Minato could never break through this Time Stop domain.
Crack—!
However, the crisp sound of his faceplate shattering dragged him forcibly back to reality. Looking at the cracks spreading through his field of vision, he clenched his teeth hard.
"This is impossi—"
Smash!
Before he could continue voicing his doubts, Anrokuzan felt a blaze of light tear through the sky that had been shrouding his head. The scorching sunlight fell straight onto the huge face he now had exposed to the air.
Boom!
But very soon, his vision went black again. His body flipped over, and his entire head was slammed viciously beneath the surface of the ground by a strange, brutal force. Blood sprayed from his mouth.
"Pfft!"
"..."
The utterly unbelievable scene instantly chilled what had originally been a lively atmosphere. Minato, gripping a Flying Thunder God Kunai, subconsciously poked his own thigh with the sharp tip of the blade.
"Hiss... that hurts!"
Only when the piercing pain came back to him did he finally confirm that everything that had just happened was not a genjutsu.
"Isn't this way too ridiculous? How is he acting like nothing happened?"
Naruto pinched his own face hard. He had also tasted Time Stop just now and knew how terrifying this technique was.
"Cough, cough, cough... Why are you fine?"
Anrokuzan, whose entire