The ice blade in Naruto's hand, along with every ice spike embedded in Danzo's body, suddenly seemed to pierce an illusory phantom.
Danzo's mangled figure, on the verge of collapse, began to twist and ripple violently, like a reflection disturbed by a stone tossed into water, becoming bizarre and unreal.
The arm on the floor vanished as well.
Then-
Pop!
A burst of white smoke, not especially powerful but startlingly abrupt, erupted without warning in the center of the room.
The smoke spread rapidly, carrying a strange ripple of chakra that felt almost like time reversing.
The smoke cleared.
Naruto's pupils contracted slightly.
The spot where a cold corpse should have lain was empty.
A few steps away, an entirely unharmed Shimura Danzō slowly emerged from the lingering smoke.
The bandages still wrapped his right arm, and his right hand had clearly recovered too.
What surprised Naruto was that the socket of the right eye he had just forcibly gouged out, leaving it streaming with blood, was now... completely restored!
Does that mean the eye I put inside the sealing jutsu disappeared too?
Danzo stared coldly at Naruto with his sinister left eye.
Even his bloodstained Hokage Robe had returned to spotless white.
Despite being prepared, Naruto was momentarily stunned by this eerie sight.
He quickly checked the scroll. Its contents were still there.
Then Naruto's eyes lit up. The eye was still inside his sealing scroll, yet his opponent's right eye had recovered?
Holy shit, there's a bug like this?
Seriously?
A real exploit in Naruto had arrived.
"You bastard, die!"
Having just revived through Izanagi, Danzo no longer harbored any desire to probe his opponent or hope for a lucky break. All that remained was overflowing rage and the determination to kill.
His bloodshot left eye locked onto