Restraint

"What was he doing? Forming hand seals—was he planning to use ninjutsu?"

"Idiot, he actually wanted to use ninjutsu against the Daytime Tiger? Wasn't that just courting death!?"

"..."

In the arena.

Before the attack even arrived, a violent gale had already blown head-on, sending Sasuke's long hair flying.

Facing the roaring phantom white tiger, he chose to remain where he stood, his hands rapidly forming seals.

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!

The next moment,

an enormous fireball burst from Sasuke's mouth.

The blazing flames resembled a miniature sun, turning the pitch-black sky as bright as day.

"Th-this terrifying amount of chakra!"

The instant Hiruzen Sarutobi witnessed such a massive fireball being born before his eyes, he could no longer stay calm.

In his memories, the only person capable of using Fire Release ninjutsu on such a scale was that legendary man—Uchiha Madara!

Damn it!

Had another monster capable of rivaling Uchiha Madara appeared in the Ninja World?

Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression darkened. Could this night of clan extermination become Konoha's night of destruction?

The Konoha ninja surrounding them could not help widening their eyes.

Th-this was impossible!!!

A mere B-rank Fire Release ninjutsu had somehow been unleashed with power worthy of an S-rank technique!

This wasn't ninja-like at all!

It completely overturned everything they knew about ninja.

Boom!!

The fireball collided with the phantom white tiger, triggering a violent explosion.

The deafening blast echoed through the night sky as an enormous mushroom cloud formed.

"Th-this was just a casually used escape technique, yet it neutralized my Daytime Tiger!"

Might Guy stood frozen, his eyes dull and pale.

He simply could not believe what had happened before his eyes.

His current strongest move had actually been canceled out by a B-rank Great Fireball.

At that moment, his heart suffered a blow unlike any before.

Even his youth could no longer burn.

His entire body seemed to slump in defeat.

"Heh! Was that all your strongest attack amounted to? It seemed that without opening the Eight Gates, you were still nothing more than an ant before me!"

Sasuke appeared before Guy, his voice calm, though disappointment showed in his eyes.

"It seemed our battle ended here. You made me look forward to it for nothing!"

Whoosh!

He suddenly lashed out with a sweeping kick.

Yet Guy was not sent flying.

That was because he had not been struck.

Sasuke's muscular, powerful thigh halted in midair, unable to complete the kick.

Because at some point, a strand of pitch-black shadow had wrapped around his leg!

"Shadow Imitation Technique, successful!"

Not far away, Nara Shikaku knelt on one knee, his hands held in a seal.

His shadow stretched out, now connected to Sasuke's shadow.

"Puh!!"

The next instant, Nara Shikaku suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and gritted his teeth.

"Damn it! How could this guy have such immense strength? He simply doesn't seem human."

He then hurriedly urged them on.

"Quick! Get Might Guy away from there immediately! He isn't in any condition to keep fighting! Hurry! I can't hold on much longer!"

"Puh!!"

As he spoke, he vomited another mouthful of blood.

"Don't panic, Shikaku. I'll help you right now!"

Seeing this, Yamanaka Inoichi rushed over to support him.

"One of us will attack from within, the other from without. I refuse to believe we can't handle this guy!"

He pressed the index fingers and thumbs of both hands together, closing his four fingers into a square shape.

As though taking someone's picture with a camera, Yamanaka Inoichi aimed the square at Sasuke and immediately used his clan's secret technique.

Ninja Art: Mind Body Switch Technique!

The next moment,

Yamanaka Inoichi's consciousness instantly plunged deep into Sasuke's mind.

"Th-this is!?"

Yamanaka Inoichi's incorporeal consciousness was filled with horror.

For what appeared before his eyes was a towering, majestic giant.

It stood between heaven and earth. He could not judge how tall it was at all; it was like a lofty god.

And he, Yamanaka Inoichi, was merely an ignorant ant arrogant enough to trespass into a god's domain.

"Th-this is that guy's consciousness? It's so enormous—just how immense must his spiritual power be?!"

"I've entered the seas of consciousness of so many people, but I've never seen anyone with such abundant spiritual power. This is simply unbelievable!"

He muttered under his breath, utterly shaken by Sasuke's terrifying spiritual power.

The greater a ninja's spiritual power, the larger the consciousness they could condense.

And Sasuke, who possessed both the Rinnegan and the Eternal Eye, had terrifying spiritual power.

"No good! I have to get out quickly! A consciousness this terrifying isn't something I can control!"

Yamanaka Inoichi abruptly snapped out of his shock.

"Heh! Trying to leave? My sea of consciousness isn't somewhere you can enter whenever you want and leave whenever you please!"

Giant Sasuke spoke with a savage grin, his voice like thunder.

The sound waves alone nearly caused Yamanaka Inoichi to dissipate.

"Damn it! Mind Body Switch Technique, release!"

However,

Yamanaka Inoichi found that he had not returned to his own body.

He stared at the giant Sasuke before him in terror.

"Y-you... who exactly are you? You can even control your sea of consciousness so precisely that I can't escape!"

"Heh! Remember this next time. Don't rely on your clan's worthless secret technique to casually enter someone else's body!"

With a savage grin, Sasuke reached out and squeezed, crushing Yamanaka Inoichi's consciousness as easily as he would crush an ant.

In the outside world, because he had used his clan's secret technique, Yamanaka Inoichi had temporarily entrusted his body to the clan's ninja.

The next moment, his body's consciousness returned.

"Puh!!"

The closed-eyed Yamanaka Inoichi suddenly vomited a large mouthful of blood. His face instantly turned deathly pale, and his body convulsed wildly, but he did not regain consciousness.

Then, the Yamanaka Clan ninja noticed that their clan head's lower body was also soaked.

The surrounding Yamanaka Clan ninja immediately panicked.

"C-clan head has become incontinent!"

"Clan head, Clan Head, what's wrong? Pull yourself together, wake up! Wake up!"

"What is going on with that guy? Why did the backlash injure the clan head so severely!? He even developed the extremely rare symptom of incontinence!"

"..."

Amid everyone's anxious cries, Yamanaka Inoichi finally slowly awakened.

At that moment, his eyes were full of weakness as he looked at his clansmen.

His trembling finger pointed at Sasuke, his face filled with terror.

"Th-this is a monster. Never, never use the clan's secret technique on him!"

After saying that, he promptly fainted again. No matter how his clansmen called to him, he never woke up.

The main reason was that he had actually become incontinent. It was too humiliating!

So he could only pretend to faint to ease the embarrassment.

Over there.

Although Sasuke had taken less than a breath to crush Yamanaka Inoichi in his mind,

Might Guy had already been taken away from in front of him during that time.

At the same time, he discovered that the restraining force on his body had grown stronger than before.

More shadows had wrapped around his body.

Without exerting some strength, he would not be able to break free anytime soon.

"How about it, you muscle-brained monster! Don't underestimate our Nara Clan! I may not be able to restrain you alone, but with my clansmen combined, you might not be able to break free!"

Nara Shikaku gritted his teeth and roared.

His eyes remained locked on Sasuke, as though he wanted Sasuke to prove the Nara Clan's might.

Around Nara Shikaku stood Nara clansmen using their clan's secret technique.

Together, they were using the Shadow Imitation Technique, temporarily restraining Sasuke!