Shikaku had yet to recover from his shock.
Minato, standing beside him, comforted him. "This is your first time fighting alongside Sen. Once you spend more time with him, you'll realize that his fighting style is just this outrageous. Every time, he leaves people in disbelief."
The others within Shikaku's sight also nodded with bitter expressions.
Might Duy said, "He even learned my Eight Inner Gates. I used to think becoming a Chunin was already incredible, but after seeing Sen fight, I'm starting to question my whole life."
"I even feel like he brought me along just for sightseeing—"
Hearing this, Nara Shikaku could not help looking at Sen, inwardly sighing at how formidable the younger generation had become.
At Sen's age, he had probably been nothing more than an ordinary Chunin. Yet now, even with the intelligence others envied, he might not measure up to Uchiha Sen in the slightest.
Thinking of this, he said to Sen, "Besides the possibility that spies have infiltrated our ranks, there's another issue—"
"What issue? Just say it," Sen responded.
Nara Shikaku looked somewhat embarrassed. "Let's support the other battlefields first. This battlefield should be able to rest for the moment. I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly. The Flying Thunder God kunai haven't been distributed, so we can only transfer over there now."
"For a strategist like you to be forced into battle personally, if we hadn't hurried here, wouldn't things have gotten even worse?"
Nara Shikaku froze for a moment. He had not expected Sen to see through everything.
These ninja were indeed not weak, but that was relative. If their opponents were Jonin or even Elite Jonin, they naturally would not have worried.
But this time, their enemy was the Kazekage. Before the crushing power of the strongest Kekkei