Orochimaru moved his hands with difficulty, trying to form hand seals to dispel the genjutsu.
But how could Shisui Uchiha give him that chance?
Body Flicker Technique!
In the blink of an eye.
Shisui Uchiha appeared in front of Orochimaru, the silvery blade of his Kodachi tracing a cold arc through the air, straight for Orochimaru's neck!
Orochimaru's serpentine pupils instantly contracted to pinpoints.
At the brink of death.
Orochimaru unleashed all his strength, desperately breaking free of Shisui Uchiha's genjutsu as he forcibly twisted his body sideways.
He dodged it.
But not completely.
Slash-
The sound of a blade slicing through flesh rang out.
Shisui Uchiha's Kodachi cut into Orochimaru's left shoulder, slashing diagonally down through his entire torso before emerging from the right side of his waist.
Orochimaru's body was cleaved in two!
His upper and lower halves separated, blood gushing from the severed ends like a fountain.
"Heh heh... heh heh heh..."
Yet a low laugh came from Orochimaru's mouth. His severed upper body landed on the ground, and he opened his mouth. A pair of arms reached out from within.
Then came a head.
Then a torso.
Then a pair of legs.
A brand-new Orochimaru, covered in mucus, crawled out of the severed husk.
[Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique]!
Shed his skin!
Run!
Without the slightest hesitation, Orochimaru, who had only just crawled out of his old husk, immediately used an Earth Release ninjutsu, burrowing deep underground and fleeing into the distance without looking back.
Shisui Uchiha looked at Orochimaru's shriveled "corpse" and could not help frowning.
He stepped forward and kicked aside the shed-skin-like "corpse," only to find a hole in the ground.
Orochimaru had fled!
"He ran... way too fast, didn't he?"
Shisui Uchiha deactivated his Mangekyō Sharingan and looked down at the mucus-covered Kodachi in