"Huff—"
"Huff—"
The light of lightning scattered.
Sasuke supported himself with his sword, kneeling on one knee at the edge of the scorched black crater.
The sleeve around his only arm was somewhat charred, and his entire chest rose and fell violently. In his eyes, one red and one purple, disbelief flickered.
"No mistake! That… that was! Teacher Kakashi's Kamui!"
He murmured, and the doubts in his heart toward Uchiha Kai grew even stronger.
Flying Thunder God.
Kamui.
Amaterasu.
Shinra Tensei.
Body Flicker.
Just what exactly had his second brother in this time-space done to learn so many techniques?
It was practically like he had cheats turned on!
At the bottom of the crater, the ground had been scorched even blacker by the aftershocks of lightning.
Faint traces of electricity could still be seen flickering in and out with soft crackles.
It was clear just how terrifying the might of that Lightning Release attack had been.
But under that kind of power, the boy standing in the center of the crater showed not the slightest panic.
With his little hands clasped behind his back, he strolled over and kicked at the lingering lightning beneath his feet.
His small shoes were warmed by the sparks.
Could this count as a kind of foot bath?
Of course, the space-time power around him was still faintly rippling.
"The commotion was pretty big."
He raised his head and looked at Sasuke, who looked somewhat battered at the edge of the crater. His eyes—one half white, one half red—blinked.
"But lifting metal during a thunderstorm… Little Sasuke, that idea of yours was actually pretty clever."
Although Little Sasuke might not understand the principle, wasn't this basically acting as some kind of lightning rod?
Thinking this, Uchiha Kai glanced at the little Sasuke nearby.
That guy had done something similar before too.
The difference was that this little Sasuke had been tricked by Kai into looking for lightning strikes.
Sasuke: "…"
Here it came.
Here it came.
Here it came!
It was exactly this flavor!
That pure venomous tongue!
This second brother of his was good in every other way. The only problem was that his tongue was too poisonous.
That mouth of his sometimes made Sasuke want to rush up and tear it apart.
Sure enough, even if the time-space and strength were different, certain parts of his personality were still the same.
Of course…
A sense of loss inevitably rose in his heart too.
Kai opposite him was completely unharmed.
He even still had the leisure to comment a little.
As for him!
Sasuke lowered his head, looked at his charred sleeve and the chakra churning violently inside his body. A massive sense of powerlessness suddenly seized him.
He had lost.
Completely and utterly.
The self-created power he was so proud of looked like a joke before his second brother, who was not even ten years old.
"But… this is what makes it interesting."
Sasuke suddenly raised his head and looked at Uchiha Kai.
The weakened aura around his body gradually began to change!
"Next… I'll be using my true strength!"
He took a deep breath, decisiveness flashing through both eyes!
[Ding! Conversation with target Time-Space Traveler Uchiha Sasuke has reached ten minutes. Attempting to copy trait.]
[Copy failed.]
At the same time, Kai looked at the prompt before him and raised his brows.
"Failed?"
"A ten percent success rate really still isn't enough."
"Looks like I still have to beat him up."
He shrugged. The thought of continuing to shake Sasuke's heart faded quite a bit.
Then he raised his right hand and waved it toward Sasuke in front of him.
Clang!
Clatter!
In an instant, three pitch-black, ice-cold Infinite Chains shot out from the shadow beneath Kai's feet without the slightest warning!
They stabbed into the ground!
Then erupted out again!
In a flash, they wrapped around Sasuke's ankle, waist, and only arm!
The three pitch-black chains were like giant pythons, completely winding around him!
"This!"
Sasuke was shocked and immediately prepared to struggle.
"This is the move he used against Urashiki?"
He had witnessed it with his own eyes.
The arrogant Ōtsutsuki Urashiki had looked weak as a baby chick before this chain!
Later, he had even begun begging for mercy!
Sasuke did not think his own flesh was stronger than Urashiki's!
So almost the instant the chains appeared, he raised his eye toward Uchiha Kai opposite him and activated Amenotejikara without hesitation!
Buzz—whoosh!
In an instant, the figures of the two swapped places.
"Without Three Feet Before Me and Body of Light, my coordinates can be captured?"
Kai nodded thoughtfully, then stretched out his hand.
Clatter.
Clatter, clatter.
Those originally sinister and terrifying black chains became like warm, gentle snakes, pressing closely against his palm.
"Huff. Second Brother, don't underestimate me."
"Back then, I was also a true genius!"
"And I was once a genius who saved the world!"
Sasuke took a deep breath. Inside him, a long-lost heroic pride and arrogance gradually began to grow.
This was the high-spirited confidence that had been suppressed for more than ten years.
But just as he was about to move again, a breath of warmth suddenly came from behind him.
"Alright, savior."
Someone was behind him!
Sasuke's mind shook violently. Just as he instinctively wanted to move, he suddenly heard the tone of the warm breath behind him change.
"Three Feet Before Me—freeze."
Buzz, buzz, buzz.
In an instant, a faint glow spread rapidly over Sasuke's entire body!
It was slightly numbing.
He wanted to move, but felt that the faint light covering him had restrained his actions.
He could not move even a little.
"This is…?!"
Sasuke was stunned. The shock in his heart became even harder to describe.
That power!
A rule-like power that stood above everything else. It not only suppressed his chakra so thoroughly that it could not move at all, it even gave him an urge to crawl before it!
What the hell kind of power was this?!
His second brother!
Just what had he done all these years?
"Second Brother… you!!"
He subconsciously opened his mouth and cried out in shock while looking at Kai.
But…
The thin film atop that layer of faint light sealed everything.
"Quiet now."
Kai yawned.
A domain absolutely under his own control like Three Feet Before Me was not limited to attraction and repulsion.
During his development of it, he had naturally discovered other abilities as well.
Including, but not limited to—
Healing, extracting natural energy, changing the flow of light, using spatial restraint, and more!
This Body-Freezing Technique was something he had just thought of on a whim.
In truth, it was only using the power of his spatial domain to form a mold around the opponent's body, blocking and squeezing it.
Then he crooked his index finger.
Buzz.
In an instant, the tall Uchiha was wrapped in an invisible force and dragged in front of Kai.
"Hm? He… he lost?"
"And with no suspense at all… he didn't even touch the corner of his clothes?"
In the corner, among the three little ones watching, Boruto's pupils instantly widened!
Even the brightness in his eyes dimmed somewhat at this moment.
This was the strong person he had admired most since childhood!
And yet, he had lost just like this?!
For a moment, an indescribable emotion rose in his heart.
"Smack!"
At that moment, someone suddenly patted his shoulder.
When he turned his head, he saw Naruto grinning and laughing loudly.
"Losing to Big Brother is normal!"
"Yeah."
Beside him, little Sasuke rarely agreed.
The two of them echoed each other, making Boruto's expression freeze slightly.
Only then did he vaguely remember.
He was merely a time-space traveler.
This place he had arrived in was not the time he had once experienced.
And very clearly, his teacher Sasuke was deeply confused by the people and events of this time-space.
Or rather…
He could not understand them.
But…
What did that have to do with Boruto?
He simply wanted to help Lord Sasuke!
Thinking this, a rush of hot blood shot straight into his brain. His eyes vaguely began to feel scorching hot!
But he did not care. He simply raised his foot and charged straight forward!
Yet the instant Boruto rushed out, his footsteps suddenly screeched to a stop.
At the end of his line of sight, beside a concrete mixer not far away—
A red-haired boy with black rings around his eyes and a huge sand gourd on his back was silently pouring sand into it…
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