"A great opportunity!"
Despite enduring the bombardment of ice crystals, the Young Ai, coughing up blood, maintained his Lightning Armor. However, the blood continuously gushing from his mouth and nose stained his upper body, making him look particularly gruesome.
With the ice statue no longer continuously emitting freezing air, Young Ai regained his high mobility and charged straight towards Kazashiro.
"Magic Mirror Ice Crystal!"
Facing the Raikage's fist, which was as big as a sandbag, Kazashiro did not dodge. After creating several Ice Mirror, he was knocked off the head by the Young Ai with a single punch.
After shaking for a while, the headless corpse collapsed to the ground with a thud, turning into ice crystals that were about to cover the Young Ai.
"Ice Clone, where is the real body?"
Easily dodging the ice crystal attack, Young Ai quickly retreated, returning to the side of Killer B and Toroi who had just arrived.
"Ahem, thank you so much, Toroi."
The Young Ai, who had thanked Toroi, looked at the several Ice Mirror in front of him with a serious expression.
"Um."
Toroi, with a scroll in his mouth, nodded in response.
"Brother, your injury..."
Seeing the pitiful state of Young Ai, Killer B also stopped rapping and looked at his older brother with concern.
"It's nothing serious, just some damage to my lungs. I've already eliminated the foreign objects using Chakra stimulation. Be careful, the enemy might invade your body by spewing Ice Mist."
The Young Ai, waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.
"I see. As expected of you, you actually managed to fight against the frozen clouds in this way."
Upon seeing his figure reflected in the Ice Mirror, Kazashiro sincerely praised him.
"Hmph, brat, you have such strength at such a young age, no wonder the transport team is no match for you."
Seeing Kazashiro's figure appearing repeatedly in the Ice Mirror, the Young Ai once again covered his entire body with Lightning Armor: "What's your name?"
"Shimura Kazashiro."
As Kazashiro finished speaking, an Ice Mirror suddenly appeared behind Toroi, followed by the throwing of three poisoned Senbon.
Without turning his head, Toroi instinctively ducked forward, dodging the attack of the Senbon, and then swung the giant cube shuriken to shatter the Ice Mirror behind him.
"The opponent can teleport instantly using the Ice Mirror!"
The brief exchange allowed Young Ai to understand Kazashiro's attack methods.
Upon hearing the Young Ai's words, Toroi immediately unleashed a large number of square shuriken from his sleeves, throwing them towards all the Ice Mirror present, preparing for another precise targeting attack.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
With his face swollen high, Shimura Ikko, barely regaining his senses, used Wind Release to stop Toroi's actions.
"It doesn't matter, I'll take action!"
Having memorized the locations of all the Ice Mirror, Young Ai prepared to use his speed advantage to shatter Ice Mirror all in one go.
"Good, go help quickly!"
On the other side, Zen also shook his head and slowly woke up, and then heard Iku's loud call.
"Ah?"
Yamanaka Zen to focus his eyes and finally caught a glimpse of the Young Ai Shanshen.
The next second, his years of combat experience made him instinctively roll over to dodge, and several square shuriken accurately struck the area where he had just been lying.
"Don't even think about it!"
Toroi, who could speak freely even with a scroll in his mouth, frantically threw shurikens at the two to prevent them from supporting Kazashiro.
"One side, two sides, three sides, and there's still..."
Having shattered multiple Ice Mirror in succession, the Young Ai looked at the last remaining Ice Mirror and believed that victory was assured.
"Who told you I can only move within a complete Ice Mirror?!"
Emerging from the shattered mirror, Kazashiro slammed his giant fist, formed from solidified ice, into the back of Young Ai. Because the two were too close, Young Ai had no way to dodge and could only take the blow head-on.
"Sealing Jutsu: Ice Coffin Sealing!"
The ice crystals on the fist rapidly spread to the Young Ai, who had already been blasted to the ground. A large number of Fuinjutsu emerged, preparing to completely immobilize the Young Ai there.
"Big brother!"
Killer B shouted loudly and swung out his giant octopus tail, stopping the Fuinjutsu from spreading.
Having dodged the octopus tentacles' attack, Kazashiro struck the surface with his palm, leaving behind the Flying Thunder God Formula before disappearing back into one of the Ice Mirror fragments. He then reappeared from another direction, and seeing that the Sealing Jutsu was only half-finished, he quickly made a decision:
"Since we can't seal it, let's decide the outcome with this move! Wind Release: Vacuum Great Ball!"
"Foolish! The ice crystals you use to seal me will weaken the power of your Wind Release!"
The Young Ai, with only his head sticking out, looked at the massive Wind Release and mocked Kazashiro's lack of combat experience.
"Is that so? Ice Release: Ice Explosion!"
This technique was developed under Hiruzen's tutelage after mastering the Five Release Ninjutsu. It achieves the goal of detonating ice crystals by injecting conflicting Chakra into ice-style Chakra.
Before the Wind Release could touch Young Ai, the massive explosion caused by the ice crystals shattered his Lightning Armor, followed immediately by the Wind Release attack.
Boom!
After the explosion and the dust settled, the Young Ai, his back mangled and bloodied, stood unsteadily in the center of the battlefield, no longer able to maintain his proud Lightning Armor.
Beside him, a large amount of octopus tentacle flesh proved the power of Wind Release. If it weren't for Killer B's extreme attack, Young Ai would probably have crashed by now.
"Truly tenacious! Wind Release: Vacuum Wave!"
Impressed by the tenacity of Young Ai's vitality, Kazashiro began to finish him off.
Without his Lightning Armor, Ai's remaining mobility was no threat at all; he was practically a sitting duck.
"Not good."
Meanwhile, Toroi, who was holding off Yamanaka Zen and Shimura Ikko, noticed the Young Ai's defeat. While using Magnet Release to force the two back, he threw his cube shuriken in Young Ai's direction.
Killer B once again extended his octopus tentacles, attempting to protect his older brother.
The sharp wind blades severed the octopus's tentacles. Thanks to Killer B, Young Ai, at this critical moment, endured the pain and once again condensed his Lightning Armor.
With a loud thud, Kazashiro's Wind Release tore through the Lightning Armor's defenses, leaving a huge cross-shaped wound on the Young Ai, which showed signs of deepening.
It was at this moment that Toroi's shuriken finally arrived, and the instant it touched Young Ai, it activated Magnet Release, using the attraction of magnetism to pull Young Ai towards its direction, thus saving him from being torn apart.
Toroi supported the Young Ai's body and helped him to Killer B's side. Just as he was about to ask about Young Ai's condition, he felt a pain in his waist. Before he could realize what had happened, he saw a Senbon being inserted into his body by a small, fair hand.
Flying Thunder God Technique.
Using the magic seal on Killer B, Kazashiro completed the attack.
The reason the target chose Toroi was because Killer B, for some reason, realized his purpose first and protected the Young Ai in the first place, which meant that he had no choice but to put the poisoned Senbon into the body of this middle-aged man who looked like an extra.