The sea breeze carried drifting ice crystals and gradually dispersed the sea fog.
Haku, Mei Terumi, and Kisame stood on the heaving sea, each wearing a different expression.
At first, Mei Terumi and Kisame had both thought they'd dealt with the mysterious swordsman. But when they saw Haku's grave expression, their extensive combat experience immediately alerted them that something was wrong. They both turned to look at the area where the swordsman had fallen into the water.
Mei Terumi looked puzzled, while Kisame's face was filled with wariness.
Just then, the waves gradually calmed, revealing a figure.
Mei Terumi's pupils contracted, and an inquisitive look appeared on her pretty face.
That was right—inquisitiveness!
In the Shinobi World, the status of samurai was a curious one. Although samurai still held a place in the Shinobi World and wielded power within their countries, compared to shinobi, samurai groups were clearly inferior in both size and strength.
As a result, shinobi naturally felt superior to samurai.
Even when one or two samurai of extraordinary strength had appeared in the Shinobi World, shinobi had merely condescended to call them impressive.
The limits of samurai were set in stone; no single genius, or even two, could change that. So samurai posed little threat to the hidden villages.
But this mysterious samurai before them was different.
Not only did he match elite Jonin like them in both movement and speed, he had also mastered a strange sword technique that could wield Chakra!
As she observed him, Mei Terumi was shocked to discover that he could use nothing but sword techniques—without Hand Seals—to unleash a Water Style ninjutsu similar to the B-rank Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
In other words,
he had mastered a sword technique that could replace Hand Seals and let him unleash powerful ninjutsu!
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