There was little suspense in Sasuke and Neji's battle. Just as Hyuga Aya had said, at this stage, the Sharingan indeed held a slight advantage over the Byakugan.
Most crucially, Sasuke's strength now seemed unexpectedly formidable.
This strength was not due to the level of development of his Sharingan, nor was it because his Chakra had surged by much.
Rather, his use of techniques seemed to have become far more refined. The way he combined and coordinated Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and Genjutsu was truly impressive.
The reason lower-ranking Ninja could defeat higher-ranking ones, aside from the opponent being careless and the fact that Ninja generally did not possess excessively powerful physiques, was largely due to differences in combat experience.
When one's use of techniques reached an extreme, it was not impossible to defeat a Ninja stronger than oneself.
Uchiha Kei had been paying considerable attention to Sasuke.
After all, the boy possessed the Indra Chakra that Kei had long coveted. It was impossible not to pay attention to him.
Therefore, he knew that the boy's strength had not actually been all that great—at least, it had not seemed impressive to him before.
Even though he had awakened the Sharingan early, received a good education, and mastered a technique like Chidori.
Overall, however, his use of his own abilities had truly been mediocre, even inferior to Kei's own back then.
But now, he had inexplicably become so powerful, which piqued Uchiha Kei's interest.
"Looks like after the matches are over, I'll have to carefully examine this guy's Chakra."
Although Uchiha Kei wanted to open his Rinnegan and take a look right now, there was nothing he could do even if he saw something.
So it was better to wait until everything was over and properly observe and analyze him then. That was