"!"
Obito froze, then slapped his forehead. "Right! That bastard who rode Yatagarasu off with Rin hasn't shown up this whole time! I knew something felt missing on this trip. Yu, you're sharp to have noticed!"
"Save the flattery. Less talk, more action."
Mikami Yu answered without looking at Obito. His gaze swept the surroundings until it settled on a blurry figure on a mountainside several hundred meters from the Hidden Mountain base.
Then—
"Summoning Technique!"
The enormous Yatagarasu appeared in that area.
The figure used the Body Flicker Technique to land on the bird's back, then sent it soaring into the sky. It raced after Mikami Yu and the others, cutting through the air with a fierce rush of wind!
"Ah! It's that bastard! He's still alive, and he's coming after us!" Obito shouted, pointing at Yatagarasu.
"I see him. Black Wing!"
Mikami Yu patted the Giant Eagle's back.
The Giant Eagle understood. Its wings surged, and it shot forward like an arrow through the night sky.
Behind them, Yatagarasu flapped its wings almost simultaneously and accelerated.
Both were large avian summons, but the Giant Eagle was a tier below Yatagarasu.
Yatagarasu had its own species name, which sounded far more impressive. The Giant Eagle was merely an oversized Ninja Hawk. Yatagarasu was also much larger, with a wingspan approaching thirty meters, and its flying speed was clearly superior.
Though Mikami Yu and the others had taken off first, Yatagarasu's speed advantage soon began to show.
The distance between them rapidly shrank.
The figure on its back came into focus. It was another masked man in a black robe. His face was hidden, but the faint pressure radiating from him brought back the humiliation and fear Obito and the others had felt under the Black-Robed Man's power inside the