Shinji slowly walked over to the Root ninja's corpse and glanced at it.
Then, with a flick of his wrist, he reeled in the Spider Silk, shook off the blood staining it, and wrapped it back around his wrist.
The situation just now had been too dangerous. If he hadn't used the Mangekyō Sharingan, he could only have resorted to Spider Silk, his trump card.
So once he decided to counterattack, he quietly tied the Spider Silk hidden around his wrist to a kunai. Then, using the thrown kunai, he silently set the Spider Silk across the path the Root ninja had to take to reach him.
In the dim light of the forest, Spider Silk was difficult to spot.
Besides, the Root ninja had been moving at high speed, so he hadn't reacted until he crashed straight into the Spider Silk.
At that moment, footsteps sounded out. A few breaths later, Neji rushed over with an anxious expression.
Looking at the fake mysterious man lying on the ground with his head separated from his body, he was stunned. "Y-You took him out?"
Shinji nodded lightly. "He let his guard down and fell into my trap."
Thinking of the astonishing ninja tool traps Shinji had set up during the day, Neji suddenly felt that it wasn't so hard to accept that this fake mysterious man had died in an ambush.
Crouching down, Neji inspected the body and asked, "Shinji, why do you think he impersonated the mysterious man to attack us?"
Leaning against a large tree, Shinji panted. "I don't know."
Though the man had been a fake, he had at least been a special Jonin. Their clash had been brief, but Shinji was already covered in injuries.
That was only because the man had avoided using powerful ninjutsu to