A heard Obito's malicious sneer full of mockery, and only then pulled himself together.
"Kid, don't get too arrogant. So what if your speed is faster than mine?"
"Your speed is just space-time ninjutsu, not your body. Maybe in long-distance travel you've got more of an edge, but in close combat, I'm still the strongest!", As A spoke, his body once again erupted with sparks of lightning, and he charged toward Obito.
Now the few of them had already come to an open area. He could finally go all out without holding back.
Obito stood in place, watching as A instantly closed the distance. The hand, covered with Lightning Release chakra, was about to slap against his face.
Although Obito could directly warp away, he thought about it for a moment. Then, at the very last instant, he threw a Flying Thunder God kunai from his hand.
The next moment, Obito's figure suddenly vanished.
When he reappeared, it was at the spot he had first warped into when arriving here.
Killer B, as though he had foreseen it, rushed over to that exact place the instant Obito disappeared. Drawing the blade in his hand, he slashed toward the Obito who had just flown in…
In Obito's eyes flashed a hint of admiration. Killer B had probably already deduced that when there were no Flying Thunder God kunai left around, his only teleportation point would be that original location.
So he had already prepared to attack that spot.
Although this was the wrong answer, if not for Obito possessing the space-time Mangekyo that allowed him to substitute pupil power for the Flying Thunder God mark, Killer B really would have guessed right.
Unfortunately, even though he guessed the location, Killer B misjudged the speed of the Flying Thunder God. By the time Obito appeared and B drew his blade, Obito already had time to react.
So, at the very moment when Killer B's blade was about to slash him, Obito vanished with a swish once again.
He had already reappeared at A's side, right in front of the Flying Thunder God kunai that was still spinning in midair.
At that moment, A's chop struck nothing but air. His whole body lost balance and pitched forward, entering a rather long after-swing stage.
Obito appeared exactly at the spot where A had tilted forward. He snatched up the kunai engraved with Rin's name and, taking advantage of the motion, stabbed straight toward A's abdomen.
This time, A had no way to dodge.
Seeing this, A simply didn't dodge at all. Instead, he gathered all his chakra at his abdomen, then thrust himself forward even faster, ramming straight into Obito's kunai.
The kunai and A's abdomen collided head-on.
But the expected scene of the kunai piercing into flesh did not happen.
Relying on his tough body and the defense of his Lightning Release armor, A forcibly knocked aside Obito's kunai.
This time, it was Obito's strike that failed to produce results, leaving himself in stiffness.
A, however, had already adjusted himself with that collision. Taking advantage of the instant Obito was knocked away, a massive surge of lightning chakra gathered in his hand, and he chopped down at Obito with a flash.
"Lariat Water Shockwave!"
At this moment, Obito entered a strange state of mind.
Because in this battle, he didn't want to expose too much information, so he deliberately forced himself into fighting in Minato-sensei's style.
In truth, Minato's strength didn't just lie in the Flying Thunder God technique. It was also in his powerful reflexes and his calm, precise judgment of battle situations.
Especially that last point, that was what made Minato truly terrifying.
In his previous life, when he fought Minato, it only took two exchanges for Minato to see through him and quickly come up with a countermeasure that could defeat him.
So even though his Kamui, in some ways, was a higher-level space-time ninjutsu than Flying Thunder God… even though his ability had an extremely lethal first-strike effect.
The final result of that battle was Minato's overwhelming victory.
Minato's way of thinking in battle was terrifying. It was something Obito had always wanted to learn.
But until now, he had never truly mastered it. Even reborn into this second life, he mostly relied on the various extraordinary abilities brought by his dual Kamui, as well as the accumulated experience of two lifetimes, to solve problems with composure.
And now, because of self-imposed restrictions, he was forced to fight in Minato's way. His thinking, unconsciously, drew close to Minato's.
Right now, A was attacking him. If it were Minato, without Kamui's defense-ignoring abilities and without intangibility as a self-protection method, how would he deal with an opponent like A,one who was fast and had extremely high physical defense?
The instant Obito was knocked away, with A's hand-chop slicing over, and his whole body caught in stiffness, a flash of inspiration struck his mind.
Very naturally, he released the Flying Thunder God kunai that had just been knocked aside. The kunai, following the inertia from A's collision, spun and flew through the air.
At this moment, A's attack had already descended. His eyes shone with excitement. He didn't believe Obito could possibly dodge this Thunder Chop Explosive Cut while in such stiffness.
But the next second, just as A's hand was about to touch Obito, with a swish, Obito's figure vanished. A moment later, he appeared in front of the Flying Thunder God kunai he had just let go of.
A instantly lost his target. Shock gripped his heart, but his body still lunged forward uncontrollably from inertia.
And right at that moment, Obito had already grabbed the kunai he had just thrown.
Because of inertia, the kunai was moving in the same direction as A.
However, because A was faster, he erased that gap almost instantly. At that very moment, Obito's body was positioned directly above A.
Obito gripped the Flying Thunder God kunai tightly and slashed it down heavily at A's back.
This was the most standard Flying Thunder God, Second Stage!
Indeed, A's physical strength, combined with the defense of Lightning Release chakra mode, was incredibly tough, not something a small kunai could easily pierce.
But Obito had noticed. The reason A was able to block his earlier stab was because he had predicted in advance and had already gathered a massive amount of lightning chakra at the spot of impact.
And now, because A had just used the Lariat Water Shockwave, most of his lightning chakra was concentrated in his hands and arms. His back's defense was left unprotected.
No matter how strong a body was, it was still flesh. Without chakra's protection, it wasn't completely impervious.
Although A could, at the end of his attack, quickly shift chakra to his back and eliminate the weakness. At that moment, because the previous move hadn't fully ended, his Lightning Release chakra couldn't yet be reallocated. In that fleeting instant, A revealed an opening.
At that time, Obito's kunai had already stabbed down, striking hard against A's back.
Although the slash itself wasn't strong enough to break through on its own, A's forward momentum hadn't stopped. Under the force of his own inertia, Obito's Flying Thunder God kunai ultimately pierced through A's body.
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