"How many dishes did you eat to get this drunk?"
The moment Sasuke's words fell, a frivolous voice immediately sounded beside his ear.
Only then did he realize that there was no solid feeling beneath the Kusanagi Sword in his hand at all!
The Kai before him was like foam beneath sunlight—breaking apart at the slightest touch…
No, after being "poked" by the tip of the sword, it merely wavered a little before directly shattering.
An afterimage!
His real second brother had already gotten close to him?
Behind him!
Years of combat instinct made Sasuke swing backward without even turning his head. His sword swept out in a reverse slash.
Zzzzt!
Lightning flashed.
The blade once again cut through empty air.
He had missed again.
But Sasuke did not care in the slightest. The corners of his mouth slowly curved upward.
"As expected of Second Brother. You really are fast."
"But this is what makes things interesting."
He murmured, and the movements of his hand did not pause in the slightest.
Above!
Left!
Right!
His figure turned into streaks of lightning beneath the fine rain, slashing out a sky full of blue-white sword nets!
Zzzzt!
At a certain moment, the rain of blades directly tore through the curtain of rain and struck the ground!
It forcibly carved a charred trench into the already scorched outer land!
But!
It missed.
That deadly slash had missed once again.
Or rather, every single fatal strike could only barely pierce through a sunlit afterimage with baby-fat cheeks and a smiling face, slowly scattering beneath the rain.
"No. Wait! This is—!"
At a certain moment, Sasuke finally realized something was wrong. He withdrew his blade and stood still.
His left eye, the Rinnegan, spun madly as it searched for the real body.
"This is! Brother Shisui's Body Flicker?!!"
After a full ten minutes of chasing, slashing, and cutting, he finally remembered why this technique felt so familiar!
Wasn't this the technique he had seen when he was young?
The other genius of the Uchiha clan.
The genius known for genjutsu and famed for Body Flicker—
Uchiha Shisui!
As a child, he had once been fortunate enough to witness how troublesome this Body Flicker was.
Body Flicker everywhere.
Afterimages everywhere.
Yet every afterimage was not necessarily just an afterimage.
That powerless feeling was exactly the same as now.
But—
How did Second Brother know Brother Shisui's technique?
What exactly had happened in this time-space?
Did Brother Shisui teach him?
"Is that all?"
Kai's lazy voice drifted over, flickering from left to right, impossible to pin down.
"So the future number one Uchiha can only cut air?"
Strictly speaking, he really was the number one Uchiha of the future.
When he was the only seedling left, of course he was number one.
"Hmph! From here on, I'm getting serious!"
Sasuke's single arm suddenly stopped. In his scarlet Sharingan, the six-pointed star crystal spun rapidly!
"Amaterasu!"
Pfft!
In an instant, black, inextinguishable flames ignited before Kai without the slightest warning.
At that moment, even space itself seemed to twist and smoke under the black flames.
"Did it hit?"
Boruto clenched his fists and subconsciously tensed his body.
"How could that possibly hit? That's my big brother!"
At that moment, a young and disdainful voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
Boruto froze for a moment and turned back.
Only then did he discover that a blond kid wearing goggles had appeared beside him at some point!
He was sticking out his butt and swaying it back and forth.
"That blond hair…"
Boruto froze, and an ominous feeling instantly surged in his heart.
The person who had arrived was Naruto.
Noticing Boruto's stare, Naruto turned his head suspiciously, drooped his face, and asked, "Hey, hey, hey, blondie, what are you looking at?"
Boruto: "…"
Smack.
He slapped his forehead, suddenly feeling a powerless sensation like even a slap would not reach.
The blond kid in front of him really was his old man—
The Seventh Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto!
Just as he was feeling speechless, another voice sounded from the other side.
"Hmph. Shut up, fox spirit."
A pale-skinned boy wearing a blue-and-white short-sleeved shirt and a triangular neck scarf glanced coldly over.
His gaze lifted slightly, his expression so arrogant it practically reached the sky.
At a glance, he was clearly someone who had never suffered society's beatings—
No.
Someone who had suffered those beatings, yet still never changed his original heart.
Little Sasuke.
"Hmph! Tsundere guy, what are you acting so cool for?"
After being scolded, Naruto made a face at Sasuke, then turned his head and focused on the battlefield.
Watching this, Boruto's pupils nearly shrank into pinpoints, and his heart screamed wildly.
"If I'm not seeing things, this blond kid can't really be my old man, Uzumaki Naruto, right?"
"Then… this arrogant, smug-faced guy can't be…"
Thinking this, his gaze shifted toward the center of the battlefield, toward the silent and serious Sasuke.
He truly found it difficult to connect these two people together…
Puff, puff—pffft!
On the battlefield, from the moment Amaterasu appeared, even the falling raindrops were instantly evaporated.
For a time, white smoke rose everywhere.
Amid the hazy mist, Kai's figure stood motionless. He looked at the black flames before him, stuck his pinky into his ear, and laughed.
"You really do like using Amaterasu."
Sasuke fell silent for a moment.
He somehow felt that his second brother's words seemed to carry another meaning.
He still could not understand it.
But clearly, Second Brother did not seem surprised by it.
Or rather, he did not seem to find it difficult to handle.
Seeing this, Sasuke activated his Mangekyō and fully released Amaterasu's speed!
Once Amaterasu ignited, it would not die or vanish.
But more importantly—
It was sudden.
It appeared out of thin air!
Its purpose was to catch the opponent completely off guard, burning them before they had time to react.
But what he had not expected was that Kai, who had been unbelievably fast until now, simply stood there this time and calmly watched Amaterasu!
He had no intention of dodging at all!
"Dodge already!!"
By the time Sasuke reacted, Amaterasu was already right in front of him!
Seeing this, Sasuke could only shout with all his strength.
His left eye even lit up, preparing to use Amenotejikara and swap Kai away.
But…
This time, Amenotejikara failed again.
Opposite him, the young man three zhang away once again had a pale, glowing light appear around his body, encircling him.
Within that faint radiance, Uchiha Kai's coordinates vanished from Sasuke's perception.
Or rather, his anchor point could not be captured.
He could only watch helplessly as Amaterasu burned onto him.
"It appeared! The strongest Fire Release—Amaterasu!"
"That's Sa—Lord's strongest Fire Release! In the entire shinobi world, there's no countermeasure against it!"
Among the three children watching at the edge, Boruto suddenly clenched his fists and spoke excitedly.
To be honest, he still hoped Lord Sasuke would win more.
However, considering that two people from this era were beside him, he changed his words midway and only said "Sa."
But the moment his words fell, two rebuttals immediately came.
"What left-lord, right-lord nonsense! My salted-fish second brother won't lose!"
"That's right, that's right! Big Brother is the strongest!"
Boruto: "…"
How had he never discovered that his old man and Lord Sasuke were both Kai worshippers when they were young?
"Amaterasu is—"
Just as he was about to continue arguing, he suddenly saw Kai flick his clothes.
Then…
The Amaterasu on him was just casually flicked away.
Flicked!
Away!
Kai flicked his clothes, and three feet in front of him, repulsive force lightly bounced.
The Amaterasu was like dust on a sieve, shaken right off.
At the same time, a new prompt appeared before Kai's eyes.
[Ding! Conversation with target Time-Space Traveler Uchiha Sasuke has reached three minutes. Attempting to analyze traits…]
[Current copyable traits: Snake-Roasting Expert (Black), One-Armed Wanderer (Black), Purple Six-Tomoe Rinnegan (Gold), Amenotejikara (Gold), Space Portal (Gold), Takemikazuchi-no-Kami (Gold), Kirin (Gold), Complete Body Susanoo (Gold), Lightning Release Grandmaster (Purple)…]
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