"Eight Inner Gates, Night Guy!"
With a mighty roar, Guy, his entire body shrouded in red steam, charged at Shin like a beast unleashed from its cage.
In the distance, tears of blood streamed from Kakashi's eyes. The Mangekyo pattern was an eerie crimson as searing heat and pain surged into his mind at once. Instinct kept warning Kakashi to close his eyes, yet he forced himself to endure. He felt as though his eyeballs might burst from their sockets at any moment, and the distortion of space grew even more severe.
Shin's expression remained calm. The space around him became increasingly chaotic. In the blink of an eye, Might Guy was already before him. With a kick, the distorted space shattered completely. Before absolute power, nothing was absolutely unbreakable.
Whether it was space or time, once power reached a certain level, it could be broken.
The red steam condensed into the head of a giant dragon, and the world trembled beneath this power. Under Night Guy, the force capable of shattering space shot toward Shin's heart. The fatal blow was inches away.
In truth, no matter how powerful Guy's move was, if Shin had faced it alone, he still could have avoided the strike by inverting space or through some other method.
If one layer of spatial barrier was not enough, then he could simply add another. Shin had no shortage of ways to deal with this sort of ninja who relied purely on power.
However, under the effects of Kakashi's Kamui, he was unable to use those methods immediately. In that single instant, Guy's attack had already reached him. That was the timing the two of them had been counting on.
Though Six Paths Level experts stood above all ninja and possessed power akin to that of "gods,"