A tightened his fist and regained his composure. "B, keep launching Tailed Beast Balls at Minato Namikaze! We're going all-out on this one!"
Originally, their mission had been to eliminate Minato Namikaze, but that was before they anticipated Seiki Shimaseki's appearance. In this situation, clearly eliminating Seiki Shimaseki provided far greater value!
Seeing his aniki still so strong and completely unaffected by their earlier defeat, Killer B relaxed slightly. He gestured toward Seiki and rapped, "You bastard! You fool! Let me beat you into a vegetable!"
"Legendary AB duo teaming up on me alone—should I feel honored or cursed?" Though he spoke casually, Seiki didn't seem particularly worried.
Under normal circumstances, either of these two would give him significant trouble.
However, one was half-damaged while the other existed only as a clone. Dealing with them now posed absolutely no pressure!
"Here we go, B!" A shouted a warning before activating his physical enhancements and charging forward.
"My rhymes light up the sky—ready for the show, let's fly high?!" Killer B simultaneously performed his rap while pulling out the tanto from his back.
Seiki also steadied himself, carefully watching their movements. At the exact moment when A swung his heavy fist, Seiki instantly teleported onto a large tree nearby.
Killer B, who'd been tracking Seiki's landing points, swiftly altered direction to intercept him.
Though B reacted instantly, he still grabbed nothing but empty air. Without missing a beat, he crushed the kunai Seiki had left embedded in the tree.
Seeing this, A abandoned his earlier aggressive assault too. While chasing Seiki, he casually erased one of the coordinates Seiki had placed beforehand.
"Darn it, kid! I want to see how many techniques you've prepared!"
Yet one minute passed.
The coordinates Seiki set seemed endless, showing absolutely no signs of depletion.
Growing furious, A shouted, "How many damn techniques have you set up?!"
At his speed, he could make two or three pursuit strikes per second. Within just this minute alone, he'd already removed over a hundred coordinates.
Seiki sighed, "Who knows? Why don't you lend a hand with the math?"
"Darn it! We're running out of time like this!" A realized maintaining constant Tailed Beast Ball attacks placed immense pressure on B. Indeed, time for Cloud Village had nearly run out.
Plowing through another one of Seiki's shadow clones, A kept charging forward without changing direction, maintaining his momentum toward one edge of the battlefield.
When he saw a lightning bolt hurtling directly at him, a Konoha Chunin warrior engaged in battle against another Cloud ninja cried in terror, "What is this?!"
"Making me fight face-to-face—how un-ninja-like!" Seiki sighed. [A true ninja avoids direct combat whenever possible.] Just like a bullfighter being ignored while the bull charges into the stands—this was no easy situation.
"Luckily, there should still be enough time!" As he thought this, Seiki's shadow clone previously hidden in the forest activated the Flying Thunder God technique, teleporting beside his original body.
As he released the Shadow Clone Jutsu, a massive wave of Sage Chakra surged into his body.
In the next instant, fresh natural eye markings emerged upon Seiki's face, simultaneously unlocking his inner potential.
Then, using the Technique Form on A's body as a coordinate, Seiki instantly teleported behind him and threw a punch.
"Again with this move?" A swung around with a chopping strike while holding back thirty percent of his strength.
After all, he still had lingering trauma from Minato, so he naturally dared not use full force.
But then, he was sent flying backward like a ball struck hard.
Already in a weakened state and only exerting seventy percent power, he was no match at all for Seiki who had entered Sage Mode and opened the first three gates.
"How is this possible? This bastard's strength actually surpasses mine..." Shock flashed through A's mind as memories resurfaced of that scene during the Chunin Exams. "Is this the same Sage Art he used against Yugito?"
Of course, Seiki wouldn't give him time to recover. While A was still mid-air, Seiki used Flying Thunder God to teleport above him, kunai in hand stabbing downward.
This time, however, Chakra was faster. Predicting A's trajectory in advance, one of his tentacles grabbed Aniki back.
Just as he started to catch his breath, he saw Seiki relentlessly teleporting after them again.
Instinctively countering with Lightning Release: Lariat, Chakra was still sent flying by an overpowering fist.
Yet even while getting knocked back, he didn't forget to pull A away using his tentacles.
As the key factor determining this war's outcome, many people remained distractedly observing the central battlefield throughout their fights.
So when they saw Seiki easily taking on the AB duo alone, a chill ran down the spines of many Cloud ninja.
"Why is this happening? Last time we were the ones battering Leaf without giving them any chance to retaliate!"
"It's because of that monster called Seiki Shimaseki! He's too strong. Even A and B together can't beat him!"
The Jonin who had previously been inside the Meeting Room were also speechless with astonishment. They themselves found the AB pair extremely troublesome, yet Seiki was suppressing them so brutally!
Seeing this, they couldn't help but wonder, "Why does it feel like he's the Jonin while we're just Chunins?"
On the battlefield, Seiki pretended to be surprised, saying, "Even as a shadow clone, you sustained such heavy injuries without dispersing!"
Chakra caught his breath twice, "This isn't an ordinary clone, but my Eight-Tails Arm Clone!"
Seiki looked serious, "Truly worthy of being the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki. Even a mere clone proves this difficult to deal with. Seems I'll have to resort to sealing techniques to stop your movements after all!"
So saying, Seiki once more used Flying Thunder God to teleport toward them.
However, this time his positioning showed slight deviation.
"Hmm? What is this..."
"Don't underestimate me!"
Suddenly roaring beside his ear, A's Lightning Barrage landed squarely onto Seiki.
Puh!
Spitting out blood, Seiki was the one sent flying this time.
Fortunately, A was already reaching his limit, while Seiki remained in Sage Mode. The injury wasn't actually too severe. Pressing his right hand against the ground, he easily flipped himself upright with a back handspring.
Still, this surprised Seiki enough, coughing out, "Cough... Actually made my targeting mistake!"
Seiki fixed his gaze on the scene. Blood was gushing from A's left arm, the white bone faintly visible beneath — he had literally ripped off the flesh and muscle, taking with it the area marked by the Flying Thunder God Technique Form.
"Now I see how ruthless you really are!" Seiki sighed. This time he'd truly been careless. He'd forgotten this guy was reckless enough to slash through Amaterasu using nothing but his body.
"Aniki, are you okay?" Killer B asked, clearly worried.
"I'm fine. As long as my right arm is still intact, I can still coordinate with your Lightning Tackle!" A clenched his jaw in pain but responded firmly.
"Then let's do it one last time!" Killer B urged. "I'm already pushing my limit after continuously firing Tailed Beast Balls!"
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