So Shisui's strategy was to fight as he fled.
The tachi in his hand gleamed dazzlingly, cutting every venomous snake that lunged at him clean through in a bloody spray.
He quickly retreated, intending to put some distance between them.
To the Sharingan, movements in motion appeared very slow, so the venomous snakes posed no threat to him.
Just then, a chilling longsword pierced the night sky. His pupils contracted, and he immediately turned to block, but in an instant, he was driven far back, tracing an arc through the air as the sword kept extending.
"Trying to escape, Shisui?"
The Kusanagi Sword was one of the divine weapons.
This Kusanagi Sword was indestructible and could freely extend and retract, reaching over a hundred meters at its longest. Its limits were unfathomable.
"Good! Just what I wanted! This is my escape route!"
Shisui's hands trembled as he held off the Kusanagi Sword, which kept thrusting against him and extending into the distance. His face flushed.
Clang! With a crisp ring, he deflected the Kusanagi Sword completely aside at an angle, then quickly used the Body Flicker Technique to leave, his figure leaping between Konoha's rooftops.
At the edge of Konoha.
The clouds cut the moonlight into intermittent fragments, scattering them over the low rooftops and deep alleyways.
Few people knew that a brutal massacre had already quietly ended.
A heart-stopping chase was still underway.
Shisui moved swiftly between the rooftops, each step landing on the boundary between shadow and light.
The footsteps behind him were rapidly closing in.
It was not just Orochimaru, but dozens of Anbu ninja, all his former subordinates.
They converged from different directions at once.
The blood remaining on his tachi's blade gradually dried in the night breeze as his scarlet Sharingan rapidly scanned the surroundings,