Boom!!!
Hyuga Sho raised a hand.
He did not bother with any pleasantries.
He simply fired a Kikōhō.
After the earth-shaking explosion, the ground was covered in fragments.
Uchiha Shisui had already fled into the distance.
"White Zetsu?"
Hyuga Sho stared at the fragments on the ground.
Judging by the traces left behind,
around seven or eight White Zetsu had probably blocked the damage for Uchiha Shisui in that split second.
But the question was... where had they come from?
After thinking it over carefully and finding no answer, Hyuga Sho flashed forward and chased after Uchiha Shisui, who was rapidly disappearing into the distance...
"Shisui, run..."
A White Zetsu head emerged from Uchiha Shisui's shoulder.
"Spore Technique."
This technique
had been planted by White Zetsu.
Like seeds, the spores inhabited a person's body.
At a critical moment, they could instantly grow into a mass of clones.
These clones existed independently of White Zetsu.
Even if the White Zetsu that cast the technique died, the clones could still survive.
Just now,
the reason Uchiha Shisui had not died
was the effect of the Spore Technique.
Eight White Zetsu had taken the hit for Uchiha Shisui.
"White Zetsu... you..."
Uchiha Shisui's expression changed, as if he had been moved.
"That Hyuga Sho is catching up. I'll go delay him..."
As it spoke, the White Zetsu clone detached itself from Uchiha Shisui's shoulder and rapidly grew into a humanoid figure.
Before long...
Bang!!
A sound of something being torn to pieces came from behind.
Hyuga Sho had smashed it to pieces.
"Damn it..."
Uchiha Shisui clenched his teeth, realizing his own weakness for the first time.
One day later.
The boundless desert lay beneath the blazing sun, the endless sand reflecting a golden light.
In this hell where ordinary people