"Please enlighten me, Senior!"
Tamura Hiroshi took a deep breath, stored Giant Cat in the Sealing Object Spell, and took Little Cat back out, along with its matching scabbard.
"Don't die!"
After saying this seriously, Mifune bent his knees slightly and placed his right hand on the hilt.
Tamura Hiroshi recognized this as a standard Iaido stance—specifically, a standing draw used for frontal confrontations. Its core principle was one word: speed.
Without delay, he bent his knees in the same manner and placed his right hand on the hilt. His eyes locked onto Mifune opposite him—or, more accurately, onto the other man's sword.
He pushed the Sharingan's Dynamic Vision and the Byakugan's penetrating ability to their absolute limits. With the Golden Finger's boost to his comprehension as well, he watched Mifune's bodily eruption with all his might.
This was Mifune's strongest killing move. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, he had used it to defeat Hanzo of the Salamander, even cutting through Hanzo of the Salamander's sickle.
Faced with such a lethal sword technique, he had to give it everything he had.
The lightning around his body gathered toward his right arm, driving the stimulation of his muscles and bones to an extreme.
Seeing that Tamura Hiroshi was ready, Mifune stopped waiting. His figure vanished in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was already behind Tamura Hiroshi.
At the same time, Tamura Hiroshi had somehow drawn his sword, but only half the blade remained. The other half spun through the air before finally stabbing into the ground.
The half-blade in his hand fell to the ground as well. His right arm hung limply, and blood began flowing from his sleeve.
His breastplate had also been cut open, from the right side of his abdomen to his left shoulder. Even