Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had been closing in on "A" step by step, suddenly felt dazed and stopped in his tracks without thinking.
"What's going on?!"
He lowered his head and looked at his hands.
The sudden daze instinctively told him that something was wrong, yet strangely, his body gave no warning at all.
Soon, the feeling of dizziness vanished as quickly as it had appeared.
The next second, his mind fully recovered, as though the daze just now had been a dream—or merely a momentary lapse of attention!
"No, how could I have been distracted?!"
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's heart tightened, and he immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Immediately afterward, agonizing pain spread throughout his body. His Chakra also flowed sluggishly, as if it had been disrupted by Black Rods.
He didn't dare take his eyes off "A" across from him. He could only sweep a glance over his own body from the corner of his eye. The instant he did, he was horrified, and every hair on his body stood on end!
His body was now just like "A"'s had been before the daze. More than a dozen Black Rods pierced him from head to toe. On closer inspection, even the locations where the Black Rods had pierced him were exactly the same, without the slightest difference.
He focused on "A" across from him again, only to find that the Black Rods originally embedded in the other man had all vanished without a trace.
Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized what had happened and cursed inwardly, "Damn it, I must have fallen victim to some kind of ocular technique!"
Across from him.
Behind his mask, Shinji looked tense. He wasn't sure whether the Tamatsukuri Spear would work completely against an enemy of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's level.
Only after he saw the Black Rods in