Pakura proactively sought out Kannazuki for a fight, and Kannazuki had no choice but to engage.
Pakura manipulated one of the four fireballs behind her, sending it towards Kannazuki, while simultaneously rushing at Kannazuki with a Kunai.
"Can't your desire to fight be a little less intense?!"
Kannazuki manipulated Kannazuki, and Kannazuki's left hand scattered into Sand Iron, forming a Sand Iron barrier that blocked Pakura's fireball.
Then, a Sand Iron spear condensed in Kannazuki's hand, blocking the Kunai that Pakura thrust at a tricky angle.
After fending off Pakura's Kunai, Kannazuki, with a pained expression, pleaded, "Can we just go through the motions?"
Pakura kicked Kannazuki, "No!"
Kannazuki used the elbow of his other arm to block Pakura's kick, then used the momentum to create distance from Pakura.
Kannazuki manipulated Kannazuki back to his side, surprised to find that after using Kannazuki's left arm to form a Sand Iron barrier to block Pakura's fireball, the Sand Iron did not re-form into an arm.
Kannazuki's brow furrowed.
Damn it, Pakura's flames countered his Magnet Release.
Because Pakura's Scorch Release fireballs had extremely high temperatures, and high temperatures would destroy the internal magnetic structure of the Sand Iron, causing its magnetism to disappear.
Kannazuki unrolled a scroll and summoned a mass of Sand Iron, which re-formed Kannazuki's arm.
Pakura looked at Kannazuki's Kannazuki and praised, "Your puppet looks very good."
Kannazuki immediately suggested, "Then I'll make one for you later, and it'll be custom-made, you can have any handsome guy you want, as long as you play along with me now, how about it?"
"You always find fighting troublesome, but if you don't want to fight, then don't appear on the battlefield. The battlefield is like this, it's either you die or I live. You should have known this truth when you stepped in here."
Pakura flung another fireball at Kannazuki.
"Do you believe me if I say I was forced? My initial plan was to just muddle through, but I didn't expect to be brought to the front lines by two idiots! Magnet Release! Sand Iron Wall!"
This time, Kannazuki dared not use Kannazuki to block, instead using ordinary Sand Iron to create a wall to block Pakura's fireball.
Then Kannazuki manipulated Kannazuki to engage Pakura in close combat.
However, Kannazuki found that close combat with Kannazuki and Pakura was not ideal, because Pakura still had two fireballs behind her; not to mention touching them, even getting a little too close would cause large chunks of Sand Iron to peel off Kannazuki's body.
Kannazuki pulled Kannazuki back, deciding to fight from a distance.
Kannazuki's right arm transformed into a cannon barrel, and then began firing rockets at Pakura's position.
Pakura skillfully manipulated her fireballs, detonating the rockets prematurely, rendering them completely ineffective against Pakura.
Kannazuki looked at Pakura, somewhat bothered, wondering why she was so serious.
The best way to fight Pakura was to use Sand Iron Wings to fly into the air and then bombard Pakura.
But if Kannazuki dared to fly into the air now, he would definitely be targeted by other Ninja.
Kannazuki continuously attacked Pakura with Magnet Release, while fending off Pakura's fireballs and trying to prevent Pakura from approaching him.
However, Pakura's combat experience was far superior to Kannazuki's; Kannazuki's Magnet Release basically caused no obstruction to Pakura, and instead, Kannazuki became riddled with holes.
"Wait!"
"Can't wait at all!"
Pakura threw a fireball, hitting the Sand Iron blocking Kannazuki, and the Sand Iron lost its magnetism and fell to the ground.
Kannazuki hurriedly manipulated Kannazuki to defend.
Flames erupted from Pakura's right hand, and she punched a hole in Kannazuki's head: "I've long disliked the look of your puppet! Why make a puppet so pretty!"
Pakura grabbed Kannazuki's collar with her left hand, her right hand's flames dissipated, and then she punched Kannazuki in the face.
Kannazuki flew out, rolling several times on the ground before stopping.
Kannazuki scrambled to his feet, covering his swollen cheek, looking at Pakura in disbelief: "You're serious!"
Pakura once again assumed an attacking stance: "Did I say I wasn't serious?"
Seeing Pakura about to charge again, Kannazuki hastily said, "Wait a minute, do you dare to have a pure Taijutsu duel with me?!"
Pakura looked at Kannazuki with a strange expression: "Are you serious?"
Kannazuki shrugged his shoulders and retorted, "Did I say I wasn't serious? Are you scared?"
Pakura's Scorch Release was simply too much of a counter to his Magnet Release, and Pakura's combat experience was far superior to Kannazuki's; he couldn't win, absolutely couldn't win!
Kannazuki had originally thought that since he had beaten Chiyo like that, dealing with Pakura would be easy.
He didn't expect Pakura's Scorch Release to completely deflate Kannazuki; it countered him too much.
All of Kannazuki's techniques were based on Magnet Release; with Magnet Release rendered useless, Kannazuki was instantly silenced.
Kannazuki decided that once he returned to Konoha, he must figure out how to make his Magnet Release immune to high temperatures.
Pakura agreed, "Alright, then come on!"
"Ha!"
Kannazuki let out a roar to bolster his courage, then actively charged towards Pakura.
"Take this punch!"
Kannazuki punched towards Pakura's chest; it wasn't that Kannazuki didn't want to punch Pakura's face, but because Pakura was a head taller than him now.
He couldn't exactly jump up to hit Pakura.
Pakura twitched the corner of her mouth; just by looking at Kannazuki's movements, Pakura understood. Kannazuki knows Taijutsu? Perhaps, but it was definitely amateur Taijutsu.
Pakura simply reached out and grabbed Kannazuki's punching arm.
"Eh?"
Kannazuki froze, then he was lifted into the air, and then, he was slammed onto the ground.
Pakura looked at Kannazuki, who was lying on the ground, with disdain and said, "You're better off using your Magnet Release."
Kannazuki sprang up with a carp-like maneuver; although his body was in pain, he still retorted stubbornly, "Tch, it doesn't hurt at all. I was just testing your skill just now. Now that I've tested it, your Taijutsu is trash!"
Pakura's eye twitched violently, and she narrowed her eyes at Kannazuki: "Oh? Is that so?"
"That's right!"
Kannazuki charged at Pakura once more, his right fist striking towards Pakura.
Just as Pakura was about to repeat her previous move and grab Kannazuki's arm, Kannazuki suddenly pulled his right hand back, feinting, and swung his left fist at Pakura.
Pakura sneered, "Heh, naive. Let me show you true Taijutsu!"
Pakura was quite skilled in Taijutsu combat; generally, her Scorch Release fireballs were used to complement her Taijutsu attacks.
Therefore, Kannazuki's little tricks were completely useless against Pakura.
Pakura casually slapped Kannazuki's fist aside, then delivered a knee strike directly to Kannazuki's abdomen.
"Cough~"
Kannazuki, whose abdomen was struck, was in such pain that his eyeballs almost popped out.
But Pakura, who had said she would show Kannazuki true Taijutsu, gave Kannazuki no chance to breathe, continuously striking Kannazuki like a sandbag.
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