As the gray mist dispersed, Munashi Jinpachi saw what he had struck, and the blood throughout his body turned cold.
What he had hit was not the Tsunade he had expected, but merely a massive stone block.
Just as he silently cursed his bad luck and tried to pull away and turn around, a delicate little hand, like a scalpel, pierced his left shoulder without resistance.
After pain flared through his pierced shoulder, it was followed by a peculiar numbness.
That numbness rapidly spread from his shoulder throughout his whole body.
"Thud."
With all the strength drained from his muscles, he could no longer support himself and fell to his knees.
He struggled to use every ounce of strength in his body to turn his head slightly and look toward his rear left.
The first thing that entered his sight was Tsunade's lovely face. Her right hand was shaped into a hand blade, stabbing into his left shoulder like a real sharp blade.
A faint, translucent Chakra pervaded the area around her hand blade, with tiny flashes of blue electric light flickering within it.
This was the New Ninjutsu Tsunade had created by combining the Chakra Scalpel with Chidori.
She used the scalpel to easily cut through an enemy's physical body, then used precise control over Chidori to send electric currents into the enemy's body, causing paralysis.
Perhaps because of Tsunade's talent as a healer.
Compared to Chidori's inherently devastating style of attack, Tsunade was far more adept at this kind of fine control.
Munashi Jinpachi was currently immobilized by this New Ninjutsu.
Seeing a trace of fear in his eyes, Tsunade clenched her left hand into a fist and waved it in front of him.
She gave Munashi Jinpachi a sweet smile and spoke words that terrified him in