"That's Souya from Sunagakure..."
"Wasn't he supposed to have gone missing?"
"Why has he shown up again now?"
"And that chakra of his... It's just absurd..."
"Could that eye be the legendary..."
The Cloud ninja who had survived Kisame's slaughter murmured in shock.
Ignoring the surprise of the surrounding nobodies, Kisame focused all his attention on Souya.
This guy was absolutely the strongest opponent he had ever faced!
"Heh heh heh~"
"I never expected you to give the Ninja World such a huge surprise the moment you came back, after being missing for so long!"
The blood vessels in Kisame's eyes grew more pronounced.
Souya's immense strength both shocked Kisame and sent him into a state of excitement unlike anything he had ever experienced.
To be able to fight an opponent this powerful—even if he died, he'd have no regrets...
In this chaotic Ninja World, only battle could make Kisame truly feel the meaning of life!
Kisame rapidly formed a series of hand seals, then suddenly spat out another enormous sphere of water from his swollen cheeks.
"Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave!"
This was a move that had never failed Kisame. As long as he trapped his enemy inside this water prison, they'd be nothing more than meat on a chopping board.
Kisame had a very unusual physique, with strange gills on either side of his shoulders that let him breathe freely underwater.
And with the Three-Tails sealed inside him, he was even more at home in the water after undergoing Partial Tailed Beast Transformation, moving through it with incredible ease.
Most opponents facing Kisame for the first time had no idea he could use Water Release Ninjutsu on such a vast scale. That was also why he had been able to crush the Raikage.
The mud-like shell