"Heh..."
Hyuga Kagami smiled faintly. In an instant, he took in everything on the field.
The five members of the Shadow Guard did not rush in all at once. Instead, they had Sasuke, who possessed both the Tomoe Rinnegan and the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, launch a frontal assault while the others spread out around the area, ready to provide support at any moment.
It was a conventional, steady tactic.
Against an ordinary opponent, it would not have revealed any obvious flaws. But against Hyuga Kagami, their tactic was riddled with openings.
As the cold gleam of Sasuke's blade slashed toward him, Hyuga Kagami remained utterly calm. He casually extended two fingers and lightly pinched the sword blade that tore through the air!
"W-What!?"
Sasuke's expression stiffened as he gripped the Kusanagi Sword. He had anticipated many possible outcomes, but never this. Hyuga Kagami had caught his full-force slash with just two fingers.
However, Sasuke had never expected that single strike to decide the battle. Following the plan at once, he turned to look at Naruto in the distance and activated Amenotejikara, the space-time ocular technique contained within his Tomoe Rinnegan, switching places with Naruto just as he finished forming a Big Ball Rasengan.
Whoosh...
Accompanied by a sharp whistle through the air, their positions switched in an instant.
The corners of Sasuke's lips curled upward as he began imagining how Hyuga Kagami would react to Naruto suddenly replacing him, with a Big Ball Rasengan in hand.
"Don't lose focus during a battle!"
Hyuga Kagami's calm voice suddenly sounded beside Sasuke's ear.
Sasuke shuddered and immediately whipped around. Though he had switched places with Naruto in the distance using Amenotejikara, Hyuga Kagami had somehow switched over with him as well.
As confusion flooded his mind, he noticed that an inconspicuous formula