Damn it.
At that critical moment, a particularly intense bolt of lightning shot out like a faint arrow and collided with the blade he had swung at the little girl!
Damn it.
The pain unique to lightning, which had not struck the ninja blade, caused the blade to tremble violently.
To dispel that force, the shadow instinctively followed the force traveling up his arm and deviated from his original trajectory.
"Who!?"
The shadow cried out in surprise, his gaze instantly turning toward where the kunai had been thrown.
Yet there was no one within the thin mist pierced by the lightning.
Whoosh, whoosh.
Just as the shadow turned around, a figure suddenly appeared beside the kunai that was about to hit the ground.
Mirai had another specially made kunai in hand. After steadying himself, he planted his feet on the ground and shot forward like an arrow released from a bowstring.
The next moment, the shadow felt a sharp pain in his neck. The pain made his entire body convulse, but his throat had already been pierced, leaving him unable to make a sound.
The pain lasted only an instant. He lost consciousness, and the cold gleam in his pupils faded away.
After killing the man, Mirai pulled the kunai from the back of his neck.
This made Musai Shumao slightly uneasy. With his reaction speed and his use of the Flying Thunder God Technique, ordinary people would not have had time to react.
Mirai had originally been hiding around a street corner not far from here. Not long ago, he heard a woman shouting and came over to take a look.
He had arrived just in time to see the shadow ninja seize the brown-haired little girl and prepare to kill her.
"The Third Mizukage really does intend to