Bone-chilling moisture spread rapidly through the air above the Hokage Plaza, and even the white vapor exhaled with every breath froze into frost in an instant.
Tobirama Senju wasted no words. As a man of iron who had fought his way out of the Warring States era, once he locked onto a target, what followed was a thunderous, absolute kill.
He slowly raised his right hand, pressing his index and middle fingers together. Azure Water Release chakra at his fingertips compressed to the extreme, letting out a shrill, high-frequency whine.
"Water Release: Water Severing Wave!"
Screech—!
A high-pressure stream of water as thin as a hair, yet containing terrifying cutting power, split the air in an instant. The hard bluestone slabs along its path were silently sliced in two like tofu, their cuts smooth as mirrors.
This ultimate water blade, capable of severing Divine Tree vines, aimed straight for Uchiha Fugaku's throat. Sosuke, standing before Fugaku, was naturally within the path of death as well.
"So fast!" The three-tomoe Sharingan in Fugaku's eye sockets spun madly. His dynamic vision caught the trajectory of the Water Severing Wave, but his body seemed frozen stiff, leaving him no time to evade.
The killing pressure of the Second Hokage made him truly smell death.
Yet, just as that fatal water blade was about to pierce Sosuke's chest—
Sosuke did not even lift his eyelids. He merely casually extended his left hand, spread his fingers, and met the Water Severing Wave that could cleave through anything.
"Courting death!" Danzo, hiding in the rear, flashed with wild delight. He knew his teacher's mastery of Water Release all too well. Anyone daring to catch the Water Severing Wave barehanded would be instantly shredded, even if they were steel coated in high-density chakra!
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