Thinking of Hasegawa's fatal attack before he could even catch his breath, he was overwhelmed by shock.
When he felt no pain from piercing through Mirai's body, he noticed something strange. Sure enough, the Mirai killed by the shuriken turned into a wooden ball amid the thick smoke.
"A Body Double? How is that possible? When did he use it? Can something this small really serve as a substitute for a human body?" Hasegawa stared at the pigeon-egg-sized wooden ball impaled on the tip of the shuriken, his heart full of doubt.
Although Mirai's Body Double Technique had not yet leveled up, the maxed-out technique still showed its advantages.
Besides being able to slightly extend its range for the same chakra expenditure, its greatest advantage was that the size of substitute objects containing his chakra had been drastically reduced.
Mirai no longer needed to use a large piece of wood. As long as he had a pigeon-egg-sized wooden ball infused with chakra, he could complete the Body Double Technique.
Of course, Mirai guessed that this was mainly because he possessed a Mind's Eye sharper than anyone else's, rather than because he had mastered the Body Double Technique.
After successfully using the Body Double Technique to evade Hasegawa's attack, Mirai did not stop there. Limited by his chakra reserves, he used the Body Double Technique again, appearing only a meter behind Hasegawa.
Once Hasegawa reacted, he could be struck by lightning again at any moment. However, there was still some distance between the ninja who had come to rescue him and Mirai, who had been forced to fight to the death.
Under Hasegawa's astonished gaze, Mirai kept his hands raised as four figures simultaneously formed hand seals before him, as though they were locking onto Hasegawa.
The string of changes made