"Mm!" When he charged forward at high speed while using Causality Reversal, even a grunt made him suffer. This time, to ensure the effect, he not only stopped resisting the painful pull as he had the previous times, but also searched out every bit of chakra in his body and fed it into the pain! As a result, that strange force absorbed even more energy, and its pulling speed increased more than threefold.
"Urgh...!" In response, the smug Munashi Jinpachi suddenly opened his eyes. He felt his heart abruptly swell as though it were about to burst, bringing him excruciating pain. It was enough to scare the soul out of anyone, but his mental fortitude was exceptional. Having hovered on the brink of life and death countless times, he quickly calmed down upon encountering this strange and terrifying situation and immediately mobilized the chakra throughout his body to suppress the abnormal swelling of his heart.
The graceful, brisk footsteps gradually turned into chaotic stomps. Halfway through the charge, Kimura was clearly no longer able to support himself. His originally straight path bent aside, his steps grew heavy, and he staggered like a drunkard.
However, though his body could no longer support him and he could not move forward, he was unwilling to stop the kunai in his right hand. The so-called process of first creating the result of piercing the heart, then adjusting the weapon's trajectory to make up for that cause, meant that even if its wielder could not complete the movement, the weapon itself would drag him into completing it! Thus, although Kimura's body could barely walk, the kunai in his right hand kept pulling him forward. To the others, it merely looked like Kimura was pointing at the enemy while suffering a heart attack.
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