Where Did You Get a Black Eye?

"Did he teleport away?"

"No—!"

"He shrank!"

Jigen's eyes contracted. At first, he thought Minato had escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique again, but he immediately sensed something was wrong.

He was far too familiar with his own Dojutsu, Sukuna.

Clearly, Minato hadn't teleported away. He had shrunk!

"Clang—!"

A crisp metallic ring rang out as Minato suddenly returned to his normal size right in front of Jigen and stabbed toward his forehead with a specially made Kunai!

Jigen's combat experience and instincts were no worse. In an instant, he activated Sukuna.

Dozens of Black Rods that he had shrunk and scattered in advance suddenly expanded, appearing around his head and forming a sturdy barrier that blocked Minato's fatal thrust.

But the Kunai thrust was only a feint.

Its purpose was to draw Jigen's attention and get Minato beside him.

After all, the original Minato would never have been able to charge right up to Jigen. If he got even a little closer, he would probably be punched to pieces.

Jigen in his second Kama form was strong enough to overwhelm even a complete Susanoo!

Sukuna was clearly powerful enough to evade the vast majority of attacks...

At that moment,

after getting close to Jigen, Minato scattered the countless Black Rods he had shrunk throughout the surrounding space.

The next second,

dozens of Black Rods expanded too, piercing straight through Jigen's body and limbs! Unfortunately, they couldn't pierce his head; Jigen's own Black Rod barrier stopped them.

"What?!"

Jigen was shocked. He had actually been pierced by his own Black Rods?

No, they weren't his Black Rods.

They had been placed by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze!

He could shrink Black Rods too!

The Black Eye in his eye socket was real! It wasn't a fake! It was the