"Go!" Shikaku Nara forced the word through clenched teeth. His shadow abruptly wrapped around Choza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka, dragging them toward the direction Dan Katō had indicated as they charged desperately through the now much sparser gold dust attacks!
"Trying to run?" Rasa's gaze turned cold. He abandoned his pursuit of Dan Katō's elusive spirit and swept both hands forward. Vast quantities of gold dust surged like living pythons, racing after the fleeing Ino-Shika-Cho trio!
"Your opponent is me!"
Dan Katō's spirit let out a soundless roar. Abandoning all defense and evasion, he gathered every last bit of his spiritual power into a pure psychic storm and slammed into Rasa and the enormous gold dust pythons under his control!
Boom!!
It was not a physical explosion, but a violent collision on the spiritual plane! Rasa grunted, feeling as though a heavy hammer had struck his brain. Dizziness washed over him, and his control over the gold dust faltered for an instant.
The pursuing gold dust pythons also loosened under the psychic storm's impact, their speed dropping sharply.
Seizing that chance, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio finally reached the foot of the cliff.
Choza Akimichi roared and smashed into the rock face with his Human Bullet Tank, forcibly breaking open a gap!
The three charged inside without looking back, disappearing into the tangled network of rocky crevices.
Yet after unleashing that final attack, Dan Katō's spirit had also grown terribly faint, almost transparent.
He tried to return to his body, but Rasa had already recovered from the psychic impact.
"It's over, ghost of Konoha." Rasa's eyes were icy. He abandoned his pursuit of the three escapees, directing all his killing intent toward Dan Katō's body lying on the ground.
He had identified the technique's weakness-the spirit could not stray too far from