Sasuke, Naruto...
Shinji was out of options. After all, those two were children of destiny, no matter how you looked at it. They should be able to take it... right?
If this guy really dared to go to Konoha and pick a fight with those two, he would probably get battered bloody even with his domain active.
"Sasuke, Naruto... why do I remember you calling him Hidan, and him calling you Shinji?"
Seeing that his opponent was not so easy to fool, Shinji remained completely unfazed and made something up on the spot. "Oh, those are our surnames. I'm Sushi... pfft, Shinji Naruto, and he's Meat Chunk... ah, no, Hidan Sasuke."
Saibote carefully committed those two names to memory, then let his gaze linger briefly on the Snake Sword in Shinji's hand.
"Next time..."
"Next time, I'll take back what's mine with my own hands."
"I'll find you in Konoha, Shinji Naruto, Hidan Sasuke."
With that, his entire body turned into yellow sand and sank into the ground.
Then, with a crack, the domain shattered.
Shinji raised his head and squinted at the sun.
"Damn it, that bastard bluffed me."
Clearly, his opponent's final Domain Expansion had only been meant to protect himself.
Either his remaining cursed energy had been insufficient to support the use of his domain's power, or... his domain construction was still incomplete.
Simply put, it was all show, only good for scaring people.
Shinji leaned toward the latter.
Because if cursed energy had been the only issue, given how important that golden Snake Sword was, there was no way his opponent would not have expanded his domain and killed them then.
So the truth was probably that his opponent had already reached the threshold of a domain, but had yet to finish constructing it.
The domain