At this sight, everyone outside the arena felt their hearts tighten and thought to themselves.
Had the victor been decided?!
Kurotsuchi's gaze was razor-sharp as she watched Sasuke and Gaara in the arena. She first clenched her fists, then slowly sat back down, murmuring softly.
"Looks like the winner has been decided..."
Naruto's fists were clenched tightly, his teeth grinding audibly as he glared furiously at the situation in the arena!
It was the first time he had ever seen Sasuke in such a weakened state!
Seeing Sasuke bound by sand, his face deathly pale, Naruto did not know why, but at that moment, he desperately wanted to take Sasuke's place and suffer this treatment instead!
"Damn it! You bastard!!"
He glared at the expressionless Gaara and roared angrily in a low voice.
Shikamaru and Sakura beside him both wore grave, worried expressions.
At that moment, in the arena, Gaara coldly stared at Sasuke, who was bound by sand, and spoke indifferently.
"Looks like... I was wrong about you..."
"You're nothing more than the same kind of person as them... Second Pillar..."
"Someone like you... wouldn't be worth pitying even if you died... so..."
Just as Gaara spoke.
A cold voice suddenly interrupted him.
"Have you said enough!?"
The sudden words made him pause slightly. He widened his eyes a little and involuntarily looked at Sasuke before him, whose head alone was exposed, yet whose gaze was incomparably sharp.
At that moment, Sasuke, though bound and pale-faced, did not look defeated in the slightest.
Instead, he stared coldly at Gaara as though looking at a corpse. A sneer rose at the corner of his lips as he said icily.
"The one who keeps babbling is probably the coward running away... afraid of everything around him..."
"Even though you have the