Ice Release: One-Horned White Whale

On the final main battlefield.

Minamoto Takuya watched Nadare Rōga rise to his feet. The man had taken the heaviest blow.

"Are you really going to fall out with us to this extent?" Nadare Rōga asked through gritted teeth.

"Necessary measures are necessary if I want you to obey," Minamoto Takuya said casually as he walked.

Seeing that words were useless, Nadare Rōga stopped wasting his breath and formed hand seals.

"Ice Release: Raging Dragon Fierce Tiger!"

As Nadare Rōga completed the seals, one ferocious beast after another emerged from the ice around him, baring their fangs at Minamoto Takuya.

"Tear him apart!" Nadare Rōga shouted.

The beasts then charged at Minamoto Takuya with their gaping maws wide open.

Minamoto Takuya watched the scene and casually formed a single hand seal.

"Ice Release: Ice Blade Rotation Technique!"

The Water Blade Technique, which should have formed flowing water blades, instead transformed into incredibly sharp ice blades that spun around Minamoto Takuya.

The instant those beasts approached Minamoto Takuya, they struck the sharp ice blades and were sliced apart in an instant, without exception.

Seeing this, Nadare Rōga formed hand seals again, firing several ice bullets at Minamoto Takuya.

However, the ice bullets failed to touch Minamoto Takuya, blocked outside by ice shields rising around him.

"Ice Release: Ice Prison Technique!"

At that moment, Nadare Rōga gathered a massive ball of ice in his hands. The best way to use it was to roll it down from a snowy mountain, but he clearly could not afford to care about that now. Using chakra, he launched the ice ball toward Minamoto Takuya.

He wanted to use its weight to destroy the ice shields around Minamoto Takuya.

But Minamoto Takuya had never intended to use the ice shields for defense. When he saw the