Uchiha Gen ran ahead, with an enormous water dragon pursuing him from behind, its jaws gaping wide as though determined to swallow him whole!
Huge sprays of water flew in every direction. Amid the surging current, a kunai flashed past Uchiha Gen's eyes, seemingly engraved with a technique formula: Flying Thunder God Slash!
Tobirama instantly teleported to where the kunai had passed and slashed fiercely at Uchiha Gen with the kunai in his hand. Yet in the very next instant, Uchiha Gen teleported away almost simultaneously.
He missed!
Still, this miss did not come as a surprise to Tobirama. The familiar scene reminded him of Uchiha Gen's earlier fight with the Eight-Tails. That technique again, just as I thought?!
Now he truly understood how troublesome and terrifying Uchiha Gen was.
Most likely, this was an ability of his Sharingan. From what he had seen so far, this technique was even faster than Flying Thunder God! And its activation was almost instantaneous!
"Second senior brother, you're cheating!" Uchiha Gen appeared on the other side, shouting as he "scurried around with his hands over his head."
"Quit acting so familiar! Who the hell is your second senior brother?!" Tobirama snapped, a vein bulging on his forehead.
Because his opening "mistake" had cost him "two lives" in a row, the three-kill limit had long since been reached. But so what?
Seeing that Tobirama was genuinely angry, the easygoing Hashirama looked rather miserable. He was crouching on a tree branch with Minato and Orochimaru. Well—there was no helping it. Tobirama's flood had submerged all the open ground below.
The wait was so boring that Hashirama even turned to chat with Orochimaru. "Orochimaru, I can set aside the matter of you desecrating the dead and reincarnating us however you please for now. But could you