Powerful, impossible to kill, unlimited chakra, and the Sealing Squad members being too incompetent to complete the sealing—these factors filled every member of the Second Combat Division, from top to bottom, with despair.
Once their spirits dropped, their combat strength was naturally affected. The clone army immediately launched a counterattack, frantically employing all sorts of suicidal, mutual-destruction tactics. In an instant, hundreds of ninja across the vast battlefield were killed by the clone army.
"Everyone, what the hell are you thinking?!"
A female ninja suddenly stepped forward. Chakra Blade in hand, she fearlessly charged at the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. "Since we're standing here, we should have been prepared to die! Damn it! Cloud Style—Front Slash!!"
This female ninja was named Karui. Her name was simply Iruka, Naruto's academy instructor, reversed. She came from the Cloud Ninja, had very dark skin, and in the original story, she eventually married Choji Akimichi.
When Karui came within ten meters of Hozuki Mangetsu, she swung her blade diagonally, sending a dazzling arc of sword energy shooting forward.
Hozuki Mangetsu smiled faintly. As the sword energy reached him, he neither dodged nor used the Hydrification Technique to evade it, instead taking the attack head-on with his body.
A sharp glint flashed through Karui's pupils, only to fade the next instant.
An attack like that simply could not truly harm Hozuki Mangetsu, who possessed an immortal body.
Kushimaru Kuriarare stepped out with a strange laugh. His body became an afterimage as he crossed more than ten meters in an instant. Several steel wires shot out from the Nuibari in his hand, intending to skewer Karui alive.
"Bastard!"
Karui was a taijutsu ninja with quick reactions. Facing Kushimaru Kuriarare's assault, she swung her blade diagonally and blocked Nuibari. However, several impossibly thin steel wires pierced through her