"Whoosh!"
The flames rapidly swelled, forming a massive fireball nearly twenty to thirty meters across in midair in the blink of an eye, hurtling toward Xia Le.
"You've trained your ninjutsu quite well!"
"Nagato!"
Xia Le's voice rang out amid the metallic clanging.
Nagato's expression shifted slightly, and he immediately turned to look to the side.
"Konan!"
She nodded. "I know!"
Then she hurled the kunai in her right hand toward the opening the three of them had deliberately left.
A second later, Xia Le appeared in that opening, and the massive fireball slammed into the ground with a boom and exploded.
The kunai flew straight toward Xia Le's face, and time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Nagato and the other two stared wide-eyed, full of anticipation.
Kakashi, meanwhile, was utterly stunned.
Was it this terrifying right from the start? The power of that ninjutsu was like something out of a dream.
Senior Brother Nagato, were you trying to kill your own teacher?
With such meticulous coordination between the three of them, he even believed that a jōnin would probably have been killed instantly.
The moment his three seniors made their moves, they displayed terrifying strength far beyond that of ordinary people.
The next second.
Xia Le suddenly turned sideways, opened his mouth, and bit down on the incoming kunai.
"Crunch!"
The steel kunai shattered into fragments beneath his bite.
The sight shocked everyone present.
"Y-you've got to be kidding!"
Kakashi's eyes widened.
Someone could actually bite through a kunai?
But an instant later, Xia Le's smiling expression froze.
"Oh?"
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"
At least a dozen Explosive Tags had somehow been stuck to his chest, and they were now burning with a hiss.
Kakashi was stunned all over again.
Without a doubt, his three seniors were trying to