Chapter 111: The Enemy Being Too Weak... Is Also Very Troubling
"Hehe, all done!" The ponytail-wearing Snow Ninja looked at the snow mist stirred up by the intense collision below his feet and sneered. "There are still two Konoha ninja who haven't appeared... Forget it! They probably died along with her."
"Oh right, I almost forgot to cut off the head. I hope the head and body are still distinguishable! And I still have to find that damned key. Let me see... huh?"
The snow mist gradually settled, and the air regained its clarity. Below the Snow Ninja's feet, the completely unharmed film crew, hiding behind an ice wall, was revealed before him.
"So, whose head were you planning to cut off?" In the instant the Snow Ninja was stunned, a voice as cold as frost suddenly came from behind him.
The girl's figure had, at some point, quietly appeared behind him. The ice kunai in her hand was pressed tightly against the armor on the Snow Ninja's back, and her pair of murderous eyes looked at him coldly.
Unexpectedly, the ponytail ninja was only slightly surprised and showed no panic at all.
"Hehe, you think you've already won, you brat?" the middle-aged ninja said with a strange smile and a mocking tone. Then, he ignored the fatal threat behind him and began to form hand seals without any regard!
Sakura's eyes narrowed, and the kunai in her hand unhesitatingly stabbed towards the Snow Ninja's back—
Crack! The kunai broke on impact.
"What!" The girl's expression changed. She had used all her strength yet couldn't pierce the armor on that ninja's body. On the contrary, the kunai, which was sharp enough to cut through iron like mud after being infused with chakra, had been broken! And while she was shocked, the Snow Ninja had already completed his ninjutsu and turned to blast it at Sakura!
"Ice Style - Swallow Snowstorm!"
The two of them were standing almost face to face. The ice darts shot out as the Snow Ninja completed his hand seals. Sakura, at such close range, had no way to dodge and, caught off guard, took the full brunt of the damage!
Thud, thud, thud! Several dull sounds of flesh tearing. The ice darts opened countless tragic holes in Sakura's body. Fresh blood instantly gushed out, dyeing her teetering body red.
"Hmph, hmph, hmph... courting death!" The ponytail-wearing man admired the girl's body, which was torn like a broken doll, and sneered.
But he saw the dying girl suddenly grin. "It seems... you're the real one!"
The Snow Ninja was stunned.
"Ice Style - Clone Explosion Technique!"
BOOM! Amidst the explosion, Sakura's figure shattered into countless sharp ice spikes, which exploded out like cannonballs!
A ninjutsu at such close range would indeed not miss—closely following in the footsteps of the ice clone, the Snow Ninja was not to be outdone and rushed to prove this point again.
"Your armor looks a bit strange."
Haruno Sakura's real body appeared leisurely on another tree, looking at the extremely miserable-looking Snow Ninja before her. The skin on his body exposed outside the armor had been blown to a terrible state by the clone's explosion. Some ice fragments were still deeply embedded in him, and blood was streaming down his face.
However, what was astonishing was that the armor on his body had actually withstood the force from the center of the clone's explosion. The ice spikes that had scattered out in the explosion had not been able to completely penetrate the armor.
"Most of the damage from the clone's explosion was blocked by the armor... It seems that ninety percent (harmonized) of your skill is in this suit of armor, isn't it?"
She could see that although the Snow Ninja was seriously injured, his vital points were actually unharmed. He wouldn't be dying anytime soon.
This ponytail ninja's Ice Style was powerful, but his reactions and experience were poor. It was entirely his strange armor that had saved his life.
"It really makes one curious, just how high is your armor's tolerance limit?" the girl said with a devilish smile, teasing the battered Snow Ninja.
As she said this, she raised her right hand, her slender fingers pointing at the most intact piece of armor on the Snow Ninja's right arm.
"Water Style - Wind Blade Raging Stream!"
The long-unseen Water Gun Jutsu reappeared in the ninja world: a water line as thin as a silk thread, spurred on by chakra, shot out from along the girl's green-onion-like index finger at an initial velocity of Mach 50 and struck the Snow Ninja's right arm.
Tssss— An almost inaudible cracking sound came from the Snow Ninja's right arm. This was actually two sounds: the first sound of the high-pressure water line breaking through the armor and the second sound of it passing through from the other side, because they happened almost simultaneously, they merged into one sound.
Sakura keenly sensed that the chakra contained in the water line had weakened for an instant, as if the armor had absorbed the chakra from the ninjutsu. However, the beauty of the girl's ninjutsu was that the high-pressure water line, even without containing chakra, was in itself a sharp tool that could cut through steel and even diamonds, so the armor was instantly pierced.
The intense pain from having a bloody hole gouged in his arm instantly caused large drops of cold sweat to appear on the Snow Ninja's forehead, which mixed with beads of blood and immediately flowed into his eyes.
He nearly shattered his teeth, only managing to turn the pain into a muffled grunt. He dragged his scarred body and forcefully jumped away. The water line had still been in the middle of his arm, but with this movement, the Wind Blade Raging Stream instantly cut off half of his arm along with the armor. A bloody and smooth cross-section of muscle was instantly revealed!
The middle-aged ninja's惨 scream could no longer be suppressed. "Aaargh—!"
"Damn it, damn it, damn it! What are you still looking at? Aren't you coming out yet?!" he shrieked like a demon, clutching his arm, his face extremely distorted.
"Oh~ so there really are accomplices?" the pink-haired girl muttered to herself.
She was not a sensory-type ninja. Her high sensitivity to chakra was limited to close range. From a distance, she couldn't tell much.
However, ninja usually complete missions in squads. Sakura felt that the ponytail-wearing Snow Ninja might have companions around, so she had deliberately slowed down the pace of the battle, hoping to draw out the remaining enemies.
Otherwise, if she had directly used a Wind Blade Raging Stream-level water gun jutsu while hiding in the shadows, the world would have been quiet long ago.
"Although I said I wanted to slow down the pace, that clone self-destruction just now was obviously a bit too much!" The girl had the mood to complain about herself because the two enemies who jumped out next were obviously much weaker than the ponytail ninja, in both chakra texture and skill of movement.
The only thing they had going for them was probably that suit of armor.
The newly appeared enemies also clearly saw the gap in their strengths.
Not to mention that astonishingly powerful water jutsu that could directly ignore the armor's defense, even the pink-haired girl's not-so-slow ice clone was not something they could contend with. Although for Sasuke, the clone's speed was far from fast enough, to bully some watered-down ninja from the backwoods, it was a piece of cake. If nothing else, just having the clone rush up to their faces and self-destruct would be more than they could handle.
The scene seemed to be in a stalemate for a while.
The two newly appeared Snow Ninja protected the ponytail ninja, not daring to act rashly because they were wary of Sakura.
And Sakura also made no further move, just standing there quietly. She was currently worrying about how to end this...
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