Trapping Juzo Biwa temporarily with Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals, Haku put his all into his high-speed secret technique, his figure vanishing at the end of the street in just a few bounds.
Looking at Haku's departing figure from inside the Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals, Juzo Biwa curled his lip. "Hmph, this guy."
Afterward, he swung his Kubikiribōchō and began destroying the Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals trapping him.
Yet he was not nearly as anxious as Haku; having survived the Third Shinobi World War, he possessed his own set of standards for measuring who was strong and who was weak.
As for his partner Itachi, his assessment was that he was ridiculously strong—a true genius!
Over on Haku's end.
While speeding through the long streets of the Infinite Castle, he kept a sharp eye on his surroundings, searching for Sasuke's whereabouts.
Sasuke awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, after all. Even if he couldn't win, he should at least have caused some sort of commotion, right? How is there not a single trace of a fight here? Could he have been swapped to somewhere else by this bizarre city?
When they first broke into the Infinite Castle, Haku and Sasuke had their positions swapped by the Infinite Castle, so Haku knew that space could be shifted within this massive and bizarre city.
If that was the case, however, there was no way for him to provide backup to Sasuke.
Just as Haku felt a mounting sense of urgency, his peripheral vision caught sight of a mansion with its courtyard gates wide open on the side of the street.
Hesitating for a moment, he flashed inside and found that Sasuke was indeed in the estate.
Only, Sasuke was standing frozen in place, acting as though he had been cursed.
After carefully scanning the surroundings