The vast clearing fell into dead silence.
As they watched Might Guy speak with utter seriousness, as though he were spouting nonsense, no one present could process it for the moment.
Sai, who had taken part in the battle just now, looked especially grim.
As an Anbu ninja, his attention to detail should have been more precise than anyone else's.
Yet the Waterloo he had suffered moments ago had hurt this little genius far too badly.
It was precisely because of that that he had overlooked those details.
However, now that he gradually went over the details from earlier, it seemed as though every scene before his eyes corroborated Might Guy's words.
"Heh heh, Teacher Guy, you really know how to joke." Uzumaki Naruto was the first to let out an awkward laugh.
"How could there possibly be someone in this world whose strength increases as the sun rises?"
"I think the changes that happened to Escanor over time were deliberately orchestrated by him. His main purpose was to numb his enemies, making us overthink things and giving us a terrifying impression—so that when we meet and fight again, he can seize the upper hand first."
At first, Naruto could not help but match Might Guy's theory to what had happened.
However, he quickly realized that he was the Seventh Hokage.
If he gave such a judgment too, it was only shortly after dawn now, with another five or six hours before the sun reached its zenith at noon.
If Escanor truly grew stronger with every passing minute and second, then wouldn't he become an invincible existence by noon?
That thought immediately made Naruto firmly join the opposition.
Might Guy also abruptly came back to his senses. As one of Konoha's strongest, second only to the Hokage, he was no