How Fast Can a Blade Be Drawn?

Fresh blood flowed, then stagnated as the pressure vanished.

The headless corpse of the Mist ninja captain finally reacted, slowly toppling over.

One of the Iai Style techniques: Iai: Draw-Sword Technique.

It hides power within the scabbard, striking with thunderous speed and from an unexpected angle.

Iai: Basic Draw-Sword Technique, with the special effect of doubling damage and speed.

The system's basic swordsmanship allows for the preliminary channeling of chakra into both the body and the blade.

It enhances both the speed and power of the draw.

Baiyu himself can achieve one strike per second, but using the Draw-Sword Technique, he strikes in 0.5 seconds with doubled damage.

A lethal strike!

By sacrificing life and exposing a vulnerability, the speed can reach a limit of 0.05 seconds!

That is the speed of his draw right now.

Given the fragile bodies of ninjas, a single strike is naturally fatal.

Coupled with the taijutsu Baiyu has been practicing, his physical speed is immense; all his training has been for this one move.

Under the cover of an ambush and controlled by Shisui's genjutsu.

He appeared before them and delivered a fatal blow.

A ninja's strength is difficult to calculate, usually compared by chakra volume.

But true lethality is not limited to that alone.

Based on chakra volume, Baiyu's strength is that of a Chunin; this is the data obtained during the Chunin Exams, but Baiyu was only rated as a low-tier Chunin. If not for his pair of two-tomoe Sharingan, he would have been eliminated by the examiners during the promotion test.

In the five years since he transmigrated.

Baiyu focused solely on swordsmanship, mastering ninjutsu only to the level of the Body Replacement, Transformation, and Clone techniques, while knowing nothing of genjutsu.

His predecessor awakened the Sharingan at age eight, giving him some proficiency in genjutsu.

His entire strength lies in his swordsmanship.

"Five years, all for the sake of swinging this one sword."

Baiyu felt quite fine after killing for the first time; the nausea and distress described in the books he had read did not appear.

Ding, killed a Jonin, obtained 10,000 draws of experience. Current progress: 20,000/100,000. Note: The path of the sword allows for insights to be gained during combat.

Ding, completed First Blood achievement, unlocking the lottery system.

Baiyu did not notice the two consecutive system prompts.

At this moment, the surrounding Mist ninjas reacted, and a great battle erupted, plunging the area into chaos.

Uchiha Shisui held off three Mist ninjas alone, while Uchiha Itachi faced one. The remaining one, Biwa Juzo, wielding the Kubikiribōchō, charged toward Baiyu.

Several Mist ninjas could not last a single round under Uchiha Shisui.

Itachi restrained one enemy, fighting steadily toward victory.

Baiyu took a deep breath, gripped his sword hilt, and his eyes turned red as a pair of two-tomoe Sharingan emerged.

In an instant, the surrounding scene seemed to freeze, and Biwa Juzo's movements slowed.

The speed of everything slowed down several times over.

This is one of the bug-like abilities of the Sharingan: super-enhanced dynamic vision.

Relying on these eyes, he undoubtedly became a Chunin.

This was not the first time Baiyu had used the Sharingan, and he was very skilled at using the slow-motion effect of his dynamic vision to analyze an enemy's weaknesses.

"Five spots in total, but only three are viable to attack..."

Biwa Juzo was strong.

Baiyu gritted his teeth, selected one of the two openings, and concentrated the power in his katana.

This weakness was the neck.

"Break!"

He drew his sword.

Biwa Juzo lacked a Sharingan, but relying on experience, he held the Kubikiribōchō vertically against his chest to block.

Clack! Crack!

Pfft!

A mixture of sounds rang out.

There was no sheathing motion this time; the sword in Baiyu's hand shattered into several pieces in that instant, the blade splintering into dozens of fragments.

The power amplification of the Draw-Sword Technique had cleaved the Kubikiribōchō, one of the Seven Ninja Swords of the Mist, into two.

The shards of the shattered blade sprayed toward both of them.

Uchiha Shiraha dodged the attack using his Sharingan, but Jūzō Biwa was not so lucky.

The skin from his shoulder to his neck was shredded by dozens of blade fragments, and blood dyed his entire body red.

Jūzō Biwa grabbed two pieces of the broken Kubikiribōchō with one hand, while his other hand pressed tightly against his neck.

A major artery in his neck had been severed, and blood surged out wildly.

"What is your name?"

Jūzō Biwa asked, his voice sounding strange due to the damage to his vocal cords.

Since becoming one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, this was the first time he had suffered such a severe injury.

From the moment he appeared, killing the Kirigakure captain with a single strike, to the clash that shattered the blade in his hand.

This young Konoha ninja had shocked him to his core.

So, a blade could be used in such a way.

An ordinary person might have died instantly from such an injury, but a ninja successfully stopped the bleeding with their bare hands in the first instance.

"Uchiha Shiraha."

"I will remember you! Uchiha Shiraha."

Jūzō Biwa said coldly, his gaze fierce.

Shiraha gripped his broken sword hilt, guarding against an attack from Biwa, but the man suddenly used a Body Flicker Technique and fled with the broken pieces of the Kubikiribōchō.

Jūzō Biwa was well aware that the situation was now disadvantageous.

The few companions around him were no match for the Konoha ninjas; Uchiha Shisui was currently fighting three, having already killed two and captured one alive.

The other Kirigakure ninja entangled by Uchiha Itachi was merely struggling in his death throes.

He himself had an arterial injury to his neck and could not continue to fight.

As a ninja, especially one who had survived the Village of the Bloody Mist, he understood the meaning of trade-offs.

The incredibly powerful Shisui placed immense pressure on him.

The brat in front of him was not strong, but his bizarre swordsmanship was extremely troublesome.

Kirigakure ninjas would not make meaningless sacrifices.

Therefore, Biwa Juzo ran.

His escape speed was very fast.

"How is your body? Can you hold up?"

Shisui walked to Shiraha's side and asked.

The strength Shiraha had just displayed made him look at him with new eyes.

A clansman who had always been obscure in the clan actually possessed such sharp swordsmanship.

When Uchiha Shiraha was young, he had gained some fame within the clan for awakening his Sharingan.

But because his grades in ninjutsu assessments were always too poor, his reputation gradually faded away with time.

The Uchiha clan had never lacked geniuses.

"I'm alright."

Shiraha replied; he had just expended a bit too much energy.

The shattering of his tachi could be considered the biggest loss in this battle.

This sword was a weapon he had obtained with great difficulty.

It was forged from refined iron mixed with metal capable of conducting chakra, costing all the compensation money he had received when his parents died in action.

"That's good."

Shisui clapped his hands together and breathed a sigh of relief.

The two subordinates had just joined the team, and he had originally expected a battle against ordinary ninjas.

Who would have thought they would encounter an elite Kirigakure unit.

Afterward, Shisui confirmed Uchiha Itachi's status, and upon receiving an answer that he was fine, he began to assign tasks.

"Process the battlefield, gather all evidence regarding the Kirigakure ninjas and hand it to me, and clear away any traces of Konoha. Move out!"

As time passed and the battlefield was cleaned up, the three of them began their return journey.

During the trip back to Konoha, the relationship between Shisui and Itachi gradually improved.

Shiraha, however, did not participate.

Because every time they rested, Shiraha would practice his quick-draw technique.

After his previous tachi was damaged, he had seized one from a Kirigakure ninja, which he was barely making do with.

A habit formed day after day was not so easy to change.

Whenever he had free time, Shiraha would habitually begin practicing his draw.

As the entire process of the Iai-style Draw Technique was completed once more, his comprehension of the art ascended to a higher level.

Under such an unusual atmosphere, the trio finally returned to the village.

Uchiha Shisui announced their dismissal at the village gate, telling Baiyu and Itachi to head back first.

He would go to the Hokage Building to submit the mission report.

"Baiyu, why aren't you heading back?"

After Itachi left, Shisui noticed Baiyu still standing there and couldn't help but ask.

"The money from the mission reward hasn't reached my hands yet."

Baiyu replied in a cold tone.

Itachi was a young master from a prominent family and didn't care about money.

But he was currently penniless; without money, he couldn't even afford a sword.

"..."

"I forgot to tell you, I will hand over the mission bounty to you once I receive it; the prize money will be split equally among the three of us."

Shisui explained with a smile.

"Split equally? Really?"

Baiyu's expressionless face twitched slightly as he asked in return.

When Baiyu was a genin, he had learned of an unspoken rule within ninja squads: the squad leader would take 50% of the bounty, and the remainder would be split equally among the subordinates.

The share depended on how many members there were.

That was why squads usually consisted of three to four people; if they recruited too many, neither the leader nor the members would be willing.

Hearing that Shisui intended to split the bounty equally among the three of them, Baiyu felt a glimmer of goodwill toward this Uchiha genius.