Nobunaga Kaguya hurriedly turned his head to track his enemy, but all he caught was a fleeting afterimage. Fortunately, his wealth of experience let him judge where the next attack would come from.
He twisted, and his bone spikes blocked the incoming slash again. This time, Nobunaga caught a glimpse of Kazemori Masaki's face. He had never expected the man who had nearly defeated him in a single strike to be so young. Shocked as he was, his movements never stopped. A bone spike suddenly lengthened, piercing Masaki's arm before he could pull away.
Seeing this, Masaki did not immediately retreat. Instead, he raised his blade and thrust it at Nobunaga. Nobunaga hurriedly dodged, but the blade still grazed him, leaving a bloody cut. He paid it no mind and burst out laughing.
Idiot! I thought you would strike once and run, but this was what you were after? How naive.
As Nobunaga laughed, the bone spike continued to lengthen, piercing straight through Masaki's body. Before Nobunaga could savor his triumph, however, the impaled Masaki vanished in a puff of smoke.
Nobunaga froze for a moment. A clone with a physical body? And it was not a water clone that required nature transformation, but a clone made purely from chakra. Did Konoha Ninja Village have such a technique?
Once the clone disappeared, Nobunaga spotted several burning Explosive Tags behind the smoke. His pupils contracted slightly. A deafening blast rang out, and the flames swallowed him whole.
Zhenghui let out a gentle breath as he watched Nobunaga at the center of the explosion from behind a tree. The timing had been perfect. Had the Shadow Clone disappeared a little later, it would have been caught in the blast as well, and he had no desire to experience the sensation of flames