Araki gripped the azure longsword crackling with dense violet lightning tightly in his hand.
Though his small frame stood only a little over a meter tall, he wielded a gigantic blade more than ten times his own length.
What should have been an utterly incongruous sight instead appeared perfectly harmonious at that moment.
As though everything had always been meant to be this way.
As Araki swung both arms, the long blade traced an elegant crescent arc through the air before viciously cleaving down toward White Zetsu Obito's head!
Though it was the blazing midday hour, when that blade roiling with wind and lightning came crashing down, Obito suddenly realized that everything around him seemed to have gone dark.
It was as if all the light in the world was less dazzling than this violet-and-azure sword radiance!
It ripped through the sky, dragging behind it a jagged trail of light like lightning splitting the darkness or sunlight piercing storm clouds. The deeper and darker the surroundings, the more they highlighted its brilliance and majesty.
Swish!
When Obito came back to his senses, all he could see was half of his own back.
Split apart along with him was that enormous Buddha head.
Wind and lightning were both exceptionally swift, to say nothing of Araki's foundation in High-Speed Flow Swordsmanship. The three combined made this seemingly slow yet truly swift strike exceed the limits of human vision.
Thus, the sword image in Obito's eyes, whose radiance even eclipsed the blazing sun, was in truth merely an afterimage left behind by excessive speed.
Boom!
A sudden explosion rang out in midair, like thunder on a clear day.
After Araki decapitated Obito, the Wood Golem's arms, having lost their controller, naturally could no longer stop the Third Raikage's advance.
Using the extreme speed