"What's going on... The airflow around this guy is strange..."
Darui focused his gaze and noticed the bizarre currents in the air.
"Watch out... Yugito!"
Darui cried out.
Invisible blades of air flew toward Yugito.
A gash was carved across Yugito's beautiful face.
Fresh blood sprayed out, signaling that she had been injured.
The attack had been too fast and too sharp.
Yugito hadn't even felt the pain at first.
"This isn't ordinary air pressure... It's the aftershock caused by that attack just now..."
Yugito raised her arm.
She forcibly blocked the cuts from more than a dozen aftershocks.
"It's only a tiny wound... How could something like this frighten me? Compared to the fury I feel over my companion being killed, I—"
"Heh heh heh heh heh..."
Kars suddenly began to laugh.
"What are you laughing at?!" Yugito demanded.
"Heh heh heh... The Ripple Clan always says the same things... They said it two thousand years ago, when I first crossed the ocean from the Western Continent to this place, and they're saying it again now..."
Kars raised his arm.
"'It's only losing an arm, and I can't see out of one eye. How could that frighten me...?' 'How dare you take my companion's life...' That's why I'm laughing..."
After saying that, Kars turned around and walked forward.
"I'm leaving. I'm going to find where the Aja Red Stone is..."
Without looking back, Kars walked toward the Space-Time Chakra Cannon.
He intended to cut the thing open and take a look.
What powerful force was driving this weapon, which could distort space and time?
If it was the Aja Red Stone...
"Stop!"
Yugito pounced with lightning-fast movements.
The claws extending from her hand viciously raked toward the back of Kars's neck.
Pfft!
However.
Kars merely turned around casually and