Obito Uchiha slowly raised his head.
Rain dripped from the hair hanging down from his forehead, blurring his vision, but he could still clearly see the Gunbai pattern on Shisui's chest.
Uchiha. Someone you don't know.
He opened his mouth, revealing teeth stained red with blood.
"I don't know you... are you also here to die?"
Shisui shook his head. "No, no, you will only be the one who dies."
There is no Hand Seals, no stored energy. Shisui's right eye Mangekyō Sharingan only lights up slightly.
In Obito Uchiha's field of vision, a huge black shadow appeared out of thin air.
Either it rushed from a certain direction, or it appeared out of thin air, as if it had always been there, but it just didn't appear.
The ghost of Great Tengu.
The face was somewhere between a human face and a bird's face. The red skin was like red-hot iron. A pair of horns on the forehead pierced the sky diagonally. There were no pupils in the eyes, only two burning golden flames.
Its mouth opened, its upper and lower jaws tore apart at an angle that completely violated biological structure, and it swallowed Obito Uchiha vertically from right above its head.
Obito Uchiha's pupils shrank sharply.
His Mangekyō Sharingan captured this phantom immediately. The pattern of the three-edged sickle rotated crazily in his pupils. It was not an entity.
It is some kind of projection of chakra form, something between illusion and entity.
This judgment was completed within a few tenths of a second, but within a few tenths of a second that he made this judgment, Great Tengu's huge mouth had already closed.
Too fast.
It's so fast that Obito Uchiha has no time to activate Kamui. The virtualization of Kamui needs to be actively triggered and requires an idea. Even if this idea only takes one thousandth of a second, in front of Great Tengu, even this one thousandth of a second is a luxury.
It's not that his reaction was slow, it's that this technique didn't move forward at all.
From the activation of ordinary ninjutsu to the hit, there must be a process of chakra movement, no matter how short it is.
The reason why Sharingan can restrain most ninjutsu is because Sharingan can see the trajectory and predict the path during the stage of chakra operation.
But Great Tengu is different.
It does not have any chakra fluctuations before it is activated. After it is activated, it directly skips the flight distance, attack trajectory, and hit determination, which are all links that all ninjutsu cannot avoid.
There is no "process" between "activation" and "hit". The moment you swallow it, the hit is already established.
Obito Uchiha's body froze on the spot for a moment.
The shadow of Great Tengu penetrated his body, poured in from the top of his head, emerged from the soles of his feet, and then dissipated in the rain curtain.
There is no physical damage, no chakra impact, not even a trace of pain.
He looked down at his body.
The chest is still rising and falling, Kamui's virtualization has not started, and Sharingan is still running.
He seemed to have lost nothing. But he knew something was wrong.
It felt like someone had driven an invisible nail into his body. The nail itself had no lethality, but the location where it was driven in happened to be the only intersection of all his evasive routes.
Shisui took action.
There is no trial and error, no gradual progress.
Shisui's right hand left the handle of the knife, his arms spread out in front of him, and chakra exploded in the meridians all over his body at the same time.
Fire Release Chakra Mode.
Orange-gold flames spurted out from the pores all over his body, forming a flowing coat of flames on his body.
The temperature of the flame was so high that rainwater evaporated into white steam three feet away from him, and the steam formed a huge white ring around him.
Different from Lightning Release Chakra Mode of Fourth Raikage, the Shisui version is lighter, thinner, quieter, but the color is more intense.
This is not Raikage's style of play that relies on brute force, but a variant that pursues extreme speed and one-hit kill.
The flame coat flowed on his body, making a very slight sound of wind.
He moved.
Disappeared in place.
Obito Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, with the support of the three-edged sickle pattern, has a dynamic vision that has surpassed the limit of the conventional Sharingan.
He saw the trajectory of Shisui.
But that trajectory has no meaning under the effect of Great Tengu.
Shisui's first blow was a hand knife. The five fingers wrapped in flames came together to form a knife shape, cutting into Obito Uchiha's right side and hitting his neck.
Obito Uchiha saw it and moved his body half an inch to the left - this was his fighting instinct, an automatic and optimal dodge at the moment of being attacked.
But the effect of Great Tengu came into play the moment he deflected his body.
Shisui's hand knife is also half an inch off.
It's not that it's deflecting after him - it's deflecting simultaneously, with exactly the same angles, and completely coincident trajectories.
Half an inch, exactly the distance Obito Uchiha can dodge.
The hand knife wrapped in fire escape chakra struck Obito Uchiha firmly on the right side of his neck.
A dull crashing sound exploded in the rain curtain, and Obito Uchiha's head whipped to the left.
The moment the flame touched the skin, it scorched the epidermis, and severe pain spread from the side of the neck along the nerves to the roots of the ears, and down to the shoulders.
His body was sent flying three steps by this blow, but he did not fall.
His left foot stepped hard into a foot-deep groove in the mud, and he stabilized his center of gravity.
This is his body after being strengthened by Hashirama Cells - before this, this blow was enough to make him faint.
Shisui did not pursue.
In his opinion, the Obito Uchiha in front of him was too weak, and the opponent's eye skills were somewhat compromised by him, so there was no way he could be his opponent.
Alas.
He really wants a rival of the same age.
Among Kumogakure's peers, neither Ai nor Bi is his opponent. As for his brother, he can't beat him.
Will the little devil Uchiha in front of him give him some pleasure in fighting?
He stood three steps away from Obito Uchiha's original position, with orange-gold flames flowing slowly on his body.
His figure stood firmly on the mud, and his feet did not even sink into the mud.
The temperature of the flame coat evaporated the muddy water on the soles of his feet into a hard crust, and the place where he stood was covered with dry gray hard soil.
"Great Tengu, have you experienced the effect? My attack has definitely hit and will automatically track. You can't dodge or block. As long as your time and space pupil requires reaction time, you can't be faster than it."
"Great Tengu is not about predicting your movements, it is faster than prediction - it has already locked your dodge path the moment the spell itself is established. The more you rely on reaction speed, the faster you will die."
Obito Uchiha did not answer. The right side of his neck where he was hit by the hand knife was scorched black, and the skin was burned and cracked, revealing the dark red dermis underneath.
The rainwater pouring on the wound stirred up traces of white air. He was breathing heavily, and the Mangekyō Sharingan in his right eye was spinning crazily in the pupil.
He didn't believe it. The logic of all this pointed to the same point - Great Tengu could lock his dodge path, but it must have an upper limit, a limit of coverage.
But what about space?