430. Grasping Mei Terumi

"Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu!"

As Mei Terumi wove her hand signs, a pale black, dragon-shaped torrent of water coalesced in the air.

The water dragon was perfectly concealed within the gray, murky mist, accompanied only by the faint, roaring sound of wind being torn asunder.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique."

Shimizu channeled Fire Style chakra into his throat, transforming it into a massive, scorching fireball that he launched in the direction of the whistling wind.

His eyes had already silently activated the Mangekyō Sharingan.

His left eye was a scarlet pupil embedded with six white tomoe and gold-rimmed edges, spinning and shifting incessantly, resembling a "kaleidoscope" in perpetual flux.

His right eye was a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, rotating slowly.

The power of the Byakugan contained within them rendered the dense fog completely useless in Shimizu's sight.

BOOM!

The collision of water and fire transformed into a powerful gust of wind, scattering the mist.

"An ordinary... Fire Style?"

Mei Terumi found it difficult to accept.

She regarded Shimizu as the greatest enemy of her life and had privately researched countless pieces of intelligence on him.

The Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique was a jutsu used by almost every Uchiha ninja, rated only as C-rank.

Yet her Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu was B-rank!

Not only that, but she had also entered Cursed Seal Mode, integrating that special chakra into her Water Release: Water Dragon Jutsu.

This had caused the very color of the technique to shift slightly.

This was not the first time Mei Terumi had used it this way.

During routine missions, she often utilized the power of the Cursed Seal.

It was all because, through countless experiments, she had learned that the power of her ninjutsu would be amplified several times over while in Cursed Seal Mode.

But Shimizu—by