The surging water thundered apart along both sides of the slash. Millions of pounds of seawater collapsed out of the air, becoming a torrential curtain that battered the sea and sent mist towering into the sky!
In response, the Third Mizukage merely raised his hands to form hand seals, and dozens of thick water mirrors rose before him.
"Heh heh heh."
Amid his strange laughter, the dozens of water walls shattered, leaving behind ten replicas identical to Hatake Sakumo.
Water Mirror Technique!
With that done, the Third Mizukage's cold, eerie laughter echoed across the sea.
That was not the laughter of someone enjoying a battle. That laughter... sounded more like he was playing?!
The Third Mizukage... or rather, the White Zetsu inside the Third Mizukage, was merely treating this battle as a game. From beginning to end, he had never cared about its outcome.
Wind howled over the sea, and mist churned as the ten Hatake Sakumo clones raised their blades and slashed in unison.
Every one of them unleashed the same fierce slash Hatake Sakumo had just used to cleave the sea and sever the waves!
Ten silvery-white blade lights erupted at once, all converging on Hatake Sakumo to cut him down!
"Oh, ten of me. Looking at them like this, I really am unbelievably handsome. Kirigakure's Water Mirror Technique is pretty good, pretty good. Hahaha."
The instant his words fell, the ten clones' blade lights were already upon him!
At that very moment, Hatake Sakumo moved.
He raised his hand and tapped lightly with his blade.
The first water mirror clone instantly burst into a shower of water, dispersing into the sea.
One step, one slash!
He moved too fast for the naked eye to follow!
In just three breaths, all ten replicated water mirror clones had been