Bouncing Around!

Near one of the aerial bridges in Roran City.

The clanging of metal rang out again and again, fading, then ringing out once more.

Brilliant sparks flashed continuously as dark figures crossed paths, accompanied now and then by furious demands.

"Who the hell are you people?!"

"You don't look like Sand Village ninja. How dare you provoke our Cloud-Hidden Village? Are you looking to die?!"

Yet the six opponents had no intention of answering. They were clearly set on taking them down first and talking later.

The Cloud-Hidden squad followed the standard setup of one Chunin leading three Genin.

However, this Chunin was a sensory ninja. His mission had been to investigate whether any ninja were hiding within Roran City.

That was why he had detected Qiao Ya and the others' presence.

The battle unfolding before them was quite spectacular. In particular, whenever the four Genin from Sea Ninja Village swung their kunai, visual effects resembling wind, fire, lightning, and water would appear out of thin air.

This caused the Cloud-Hidden Village side no end of trouble.

Especially at the beginning, when they had yet to realize those were merely illusions. They either wasted Chakra using ninjutsu to block them, or were cut by the blades hidden within the illusions while hastily dodging.

Even after realizing they were illusions, their situation did not improve much.

They could barely see the opponents' kunai, much less realize that those illusions were actually quite dangerous.

There was no blazing heat from flames or crashing force from water, but those cold flashes of steel were more than capable of killing.

This seemed to be some kind of Swordsmanship combined with genjutsu?

"Retreat!"

The Cloud-Hidden Chunin leading the team saw that the enemy had deployed only five people, while a short blonde woman watched from