Quinque Form Changes

Uchiha Clan Grounds lakeside training field.

At this moment, two young men were training here, drenched in sweat.

One had light blond hair and held a knight's lance in his only remaining arm as he charged forward with all his strength.

The other had jet-black hair and wore a black high-collared short-sleeved shirt beneath standard Konoha ninja plate armor. He gripped the Ninja Blade on his back with one hand, his eyes warily fixed on the incoming enemy.

That was right. The two fighting at the Uchiha Clan Grounds lakeside training field were Kishou Arima, the first man to create and master a Quinque and a survivor of Yugakure.

His opponent was the Uchiha prodigy recommended by Kakashi and personally appointed by the Third Hokage as Arima's protector—the Uchiha clan head's son, Itachi Uchiha.

Facing Arima's attack, Itachi's expression turned slightly more serious.

His hand moved at lightning speed, drawing the Ninja Blade from his back and slamming it against the incoming lance.

Itachi was not especially skilled in taijutsu, so he naturally would not choose to take such a powerful thrust head-on.

Instead, he used the recoil from the collision between blade and lance, pushed off the ground with his toes, and darted backward like a cunning leopard.

As an elite ninja proficient in combat and killing, Itachi would not simply keep dodging.

The instant he flipped through the air, several shuriken had already flown from his hand.

There were four in total.

Two shot directly toward Arima's face, while the other two traced strange curved arcs through the air and closed in from his left and right.

Moreover, the four shuriken moved at different speeds.

That meant Arima could not calculate their trajectories and sweep them all aside with a single strike. He had to either evade or