"Your skills are quite good, but your mistake was choosing me as your opponent. All I can say is... everything has its counter!" Sōkyū Hatake looked at Aburame Ryoma, who wanted to retreat, and swung the Sword of the Thunder God down.
"I'm with Root! You can't kill me!" Panic surged through Aburame Ryoma as he watched the Sword of the Thunder God draw closer.
"So what if you're with Root? That doesn't seem to have much to do with me!" Sōkyū Hatake hardly cared that Aburame Ryoma belonged to Root. In his mind, Danzo's Root was already on the opposing side.
Presumably, killing Aburame Ryoma now would pose no other problems.
"Take a good look at who I've got!" The beads of cold sweat on Aburame Ryoma's forehead grew larger, but then he suddenly remembered. Right, he still had Mitaraishi Anko and Ayame in his grasp.
At once, a large swarm of Kikaichū surrounded Mitaraishi Anko and Ayame, clearly threatening Sōkyū Hatake.
"Do you really think... they're the ones you caught?" A smile appeared on Sōkyū Hatake's lips.
"What do you mean?!" Clearly, Aburame Ryoma had not understood what Sōkyū Hatake meant.
"Then take a good look." Sōkyū Hatake kept the Sword of the Thunder God hovering at Aburame Ryoma's forehead, and Aburame Ryoma slowly turned to look.
Bzzzt!!!
With a crackle of lightning, Mitaraishi Anko and Ayame, who had just been surrounded by Kikaichū, instantly turned into two streams of lightning, then gave all the Kikaichū on them a round of electric shock therapy.
"When did you switch them out?!" Watching Mitaraishi Anko and Ayame turn into lightning, Aburame Ryoma lost all confidence in an instant.
"Naturally, I switched them out right at the start. Last night, to be precise," Sōkyū Hatake said with a smile.
"So you