The chakra in his palm hissed as it cut through the air before the little girl. It was being corroded at an astonishing speed.
Just as he was about to touch the girl, something like lava sprayed from her mouth.
Whoosh, whoosh.
Mirai's body slid back, and he watched the girl before him with wary eyes.
"Back!"
At the same time, the magma the girl had spewed fell to the ground, corroding even the earth.
"Did it solidify this time?" Mirai wondered. The substance the girl had exhaled just now should have been gaseous. Yet this time, to protect herself, she had launched a fierce attack the moment he approached.
The girl could use a secret technique he had never heard of, but she did not seem to belong to the clan that had been purged by the Third Mizukage.
Just as Mirai was startled and hesitating over whether to save the girl, she tilted her head, shut her eyes tightly, and seemed to have fainted.
Seeing this, Mirai stepped forward again. As before, he went to the girl and carried her away.
He realized that the girl was still slightly conscious. She had likely fainted because the sudden use of that strange secret technique had exhausted her chakra.
Under intense danger, the girl's dormant ability had awakened.
What she had used should have been a bloodline limit.
Even if he had not done it himself... the girl's awakened ability had most likely caused the shadow ninja to be killed while he was off guard.
Hearing the sounds of battle coming from the wall opposite him, Mirai stopped and took the girl away.
But atop the wall, the slaughter continued. This family, which had lived in the village for decades, would be erased from history on this night of