After two seemingly sure-fire attacks, Sasuke had somehow ended up taking heavy falls at the hands of Haku and Karin. Lying hard on the ground, his mind short-circuited for a moment.
Haku and Karin clearly had not expected this either. The two exchanged baffled looks, completely at a loss.
"Did Sasuke just slip?"
"It must have been!"
"Haku and Karin are way too lucky!"
Another buzz of discussion rose from the sidelines. Everyone pointed at the arena, some confused, some astonished, and others openly gloating.
After all, not everyone liked the cocky look Sasuke wore all day long.
On the teaching building.
"Hm?!"
Danzo furrowed his brows.
The surprise and panic that naturally showed on Haku and Karin's faces had not escaped him, so he deduced that Sasuke's two defeats had not been prearranged by them.
But precisely because of that, he was puzzled by Sasuke's repeated setbacks.
Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura were equally perplexed.
Utatane Koharu asked, "Could his body still be recovering from losing to Kimimaro just now?"
Mitokado Homura said, "It should be something like that."
Although the two were both powerful members of the Advisor Elder Council, they were not Bloodline Ninjas with special ocular abilities. From this distance, they could not observe many of the details in the arena, so they could only make guesses based on experience.
Third, the Ninjutsu Professor, had a much sharper eye than they did.
He carefully replayed Sasuke's two exchanges with Haku and Karin, sensing that something was wrong.
But just as Utatane Koharu had guessed, Sasuke had only just lost to Kimimaro, and Third could not determine his physical condition either, so he said nothing.
In the arena.
Shinji was arguably the person who understood what had happened most clearly.
The others might think Sasuke's condition had