A fist slammed hard into Molloy's face, denting his cheek and sending his back crashing against the barrier wall.
Thud!
"Pfft!"
Molloy couldn't help but groan, spitting out three bloody molars.
Earlier, he had consumed nearly half his physical strength from the long journey. He'd used the Body Flicker Technique, the Fire Sealing Seal, and the Sealing Circle twice in quick succession. He'd been hit by Uchiha Ci's combined ninjutsu, leaving cuts all over his body.
Finally, he'd used the large-scale sealing technique: Yin-Yang Severing Technique—Raging Slave Seal.
consuming eighty percent of the chakra in his body.
Now, due to the excessive energy expenditure required to produce chakra, he took deep breaths to relieve his physical and mental exhaustion.
But he never expected that
Uchiha Ci, who had been struck by the Raging Slave Seal,
could actually get up and attack him!
Looking at Uchiha Ci's ferocious face, bloodshot eyes, and his evil-ghost-like crawl towards him,
Molloy felt dizzy, his heart seemingly gripped by a devil's hand, his whole body trembling.
Uchiha Ci looked at the Kumogakure ninja before him with a vicious grin, the single tomoe spinning wildly in his eyes.
He forced himself upright and kicked Molloy hard in the face.
He kicked his head against the barrier wall; Molloy could only raise his hands helplessly, cover his face, and howl miserably!
Immediately after, Ci pivoted and delivered a side kick, striking Molloy hard on the left side of his face.
With that one kick, the Special Jōnin of Kumogakure, their leader, was sent flying out, dragging through the dust before slamming into the broken wall of the ruins.
At this moment, in Uchiha Ci's world,
Every detail was visible; even the trajectories of the falling dust could be seen clearly!
From his body, pushed to its limit, a new power surged up from nowhere!
But,
it did nothing to alleviate the anger and fear in his heart at this moment.
Anger at the interruption of his death and fear of the unpredictable future!
Uchiha Ci clenched his fists and tore a detonating tag—one not soaked in ink and still sealed—from his body.
Pulling out the last kunai tied to his trouser leg, he wrapped the detonating tag around its tip.
He pursed his trembling lips, saying nothing. He just activated his Sharingan and approached Molloy with a sinister smile.
The expression on his face was twisted and ferocious, mixed with blood, tears, and squid ink, collecting drop by drop on his chin.
Black and scarlet blood fell to the ground.
But upon closer look, one could see he was shaking——
His teeth chattered, his face trembled, and his pupils darted.
This was the expression of an evil spirit mixed with extreme rage and terror!
Molloy, who had fallen into the ruined wall, spat out a mouthful of blood and shook his head vigorously.
Stars filled his vision, and he could no longer hear out of one ear.
After a long, sharp tinnitus,
he vaguely heard someone calling his name outside the barrier——
"Molloy!"
"Molloy!"
It was Senior Ramie and Senior Todai.
Molloy raised his head blankly and looked outside the barrier.
Ramie looked anxious and shouted urgently, "Get a hold of yourself!"
"Moloy, haven't you realized it yet?"
"He's only been using taijutsu! His chakra has been sealed by the Yin-Yang Severing Technique—Raging Slave Seal!"
Molloy suddenly woke up!
And at that moment,
A kunai was already stabbing toward his face!
Molloy immediately mobilized his chakra, got up, and grabbed Uchiha Ci's wrist.
But the restrained Uchiha Ci laughed ferociously and forcefully twisted his own arm with a crack, dislocating it.
His other hand pulled the detonating tag wrapped around the kunai's tip and pressed it against Molloy's face.
The detonating tag lit up!
Boom!
Thud, thud—two sounds as the two were flung away from the smoke by the explosion's shockwave, landing on the ground.
Molloy gasped for air, a look of horror on his face.
"Madman, madman, madman!"
"Trading life for life, you don't want to live anymore?!"
If Molloy hadn't slapped the detonating tag out of Uchiha Ci's hand at the critical moment,
Both of them would be dead now!
Uchiha Ci stood up unsteadily from the ground, a pair of scarlet pupils glaring with rage.
"You think I'm crazy?"
Uchiha Ci bared his teeth, raised his head, and looked down at Molloy with his scarlet Sharingan, his eyes filled with deep disdain:
"Who do you think you are? Have you ever received nine years of compulsory education?"
"Do you know what a truly peaceful world looks like?"
"Have you ever experienced the joy of comfortably drinking cola in a rented room, typing on a keyboard with both hands, and running toward your dreams?"
"I had everything, but I was thrown into this damn world for some damn reason!"
Uchiha Ci cursed angrily:
"You don't understand anything at all!"
"You, Kumogakure, and Konoha are all a bunch of uncivilized barbarians!"
"With your crippled brains, you're qualified to lecture me on something even zombies wouldn't chew?"
Uchiha Ci covered his face and laughed wildly:
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
"I'm done!"
"Enough is enough, enough is enough, enough is enough, enough is enough!!!"
"In this boring world, there's no wifi, no games, no movies, no music, no one I care about, nothing I long for, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing!"
"Nothing at all!"
Uchiha Ci suddenly stopped speaking. The Sharingan tomoe in his eyes spun madly, full of ferocity, coldness, defiance, and disdain.
And,
the all-consuming rage!
"This world is nothing! It's meaningless!"
As if he had seen through everything, Uchiha Ci looked at Molloy, but his gaze pierced through Molloy, as if looking at the entire world behind him.
He hooked his finger at the other party disdainfully.
"Come on, kill me!"
Molloy's eyes turned cold. He took a deep breath.
He didn't understand what the WiFi, games, movies, or music Uchiha Ci was talking about were.
However, he could hear it—
Uchiha Ci, this good-for-nothing genin, this guy who just awakened the one-tomoe Sharingan, at best a slightly bigger cannon fodder in the Third Great Ninja War,
was actually looking down on him!?
"You have a way to kill yourself!" Molloy's eyes turned icy.
As soon as he finished speaking, he drew the long sword from his back with a reverse grip, narrowed his eyes slightly, held the sword at ready, and lunged into an attack stance.
Now that he knew Uchiha Ci couldn't use chakra, things were very clear.
Although he didn't have enough rich chakra to use ninjutsu now, relying on his taijutsu as a Special Jōnin,
A mere Uchiha brat could be suppressed with a flip of his hand~!
Without a word, Uchiha Ci immediately leaned forward and sprinted, hiding his hands behind his back as if reaching for a weapon from his ninja pouch, and charged at Molloy.
Molloy sneered, shifted his steps, and swung his sword.
This sword was the Cloud-Style swordsmanship of Kumogakure: Deception.
A simple horizontal slash with the katana, giving the opponent the illusion it's just a slash,
forcing them to dodge.
If the opponent dodged left, he could seamlessly follow up with Cloud-Style: Reverse Slash. After further deceiving the opponent, he could spin his body and slash the vital spot on their back.
And if the opponent dodged right, they would face the killing move coming straight on——
Cloud-Style: Three Days Moon Slash!
However, the next moment, the sneer on Molloy's face suddenly stiffened.
Uchiha Ci didn't dodge at all.
He let the ninja sword slash from his left shoulder to his right ribs, opening a hideous gash.
Then, he grabbed the blade of the ninja sword, blood dripping from between his fingers to the ground.
His eyes were cold, insane, and ferocious.
"This is a Jōnin? This is your swordsmanship?!"
"Not enough! This is not enough!"
"Come on, kill me!"
"Use all your strength to kill me!"
Molloy's face was filled with astonishment. He couldn't help but feel that fear again, cursing madly in his heart.
At this moment, outside the barrier,
An angry voice exploded:
"Enough!"
"Moloy, release the barrier!"
"I'll kill him!"
Todai's face was ferocious, his hands quickly forming seals, a trace of madness flashing in his eyes.
Relying on Molloy alone was useless.
With the pressure from Uchiha Setsuna piling up, he was about to lose his mind.
Now,
He just wanted to use large-scale ninjutsu to bury this brat and Uchiha Setsuna together with Molloy in one go.
Earth Release: Earth-Splitting Technique!
Lava Release: Humo River!
Two A-rank ninjutsus were ready to be unleashed!