Qingyuan first threw out all the lime powder, then followed it with a “Wind Release: Great Breakthrough” before finally shouting the name of the technique.
“Ah!”
A fierce wind carrying lime sprayed Oishi full in the face.
Although his reflexes were quick, he had been caught off guard, and lime powder still got into his eyes.
A searing sensation churned in them, blurring his vision.
He had never imagined Qingyuan could be so despicable.
One second, he had been willing to sacrifice himself for his comrades and fight Qingyuan alone.
The next, he had actually resorted to such a dirty trick!
“Damn brat, you!”
Oishi was furious beyond measure and was already about to use an Earth Release ninjutsu.
But just as he opened his mouth, Qingyuan threw another handful of quicklime, which landed right in his wide-open mouth.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Oishi choked violently, his eyes burning and his throat burning.
“Do you still have the spirit of a ninja?!”
Oishi demanded hoarsely.
“Sorry, I’m a traditional-school ninja.”
Qingyuan smiled.
Oishi was ridiculous—a ninja who liked turning invisible and specialized in underhanded tricks, yet he was lecturing Qingyuan about ninja spirit.
“All right, now I’m invisible too. Let’s begin a fair duel.”
Qingyuan spoke slowly.
Of course, his invisibility was physical.
As long as Oishi could not see him, didn’t that count as being invisible too?
Chapter 20: Come Out, My Stand!
He was a man who valued fairness.
Since the enemy’s invisibility was difficult to deal with, he would bring the enemy down to his own level.
Then he would defeat him with his wealth of experience!
Qingyuan closed his eyes, and the spirit body of Renegade Qingyuan materialized behind him.
Come out, my Stand!
If Qingyuan did not close his eyes, the lime scattered through the air would sting them too.
But Renegade Qingyuan could serve as his second pair of eyes!
“He’s on your left. He’s about to form hand seals and cast a ninjutsu, then conceal himself again.”
Renegade Qingyuan spoke.
The entire area was hazy now, making the outline of a human figure clearly visible.
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Hearing this, Qingyuan nodded.
He drew shuriken from his ninja tool pouch.
Swish!
Swish!
Qingyuan threw two shuriken.
They spun continuously through the air and, in an instant, pierced the gray dust cloud raised by the lime.
Hearing the shuriken whistle through the air, Oishi had no choice but to break off forming hand seals and dodge first.
But every time he dodged and tried to form hand seals again, Qingyuan interrupted him.
“Is this guy completely unaffected?”
Oishi clenched his fist.
He squeezed his eyes shut, tears streaming from them.
Without prompt treatment, he might even go blind.
Yet Qingyuan was not merely unaffected.
Oishi could also hear the soft thump of more lime dispersing—clearly, Qingyuan was continuing to add to the cloud.
“Can you really be considered a ninja?”
“Sorry. A ninja should be an assassin. You’re the one playing at being a warrior.”
Qingyuan shook his head.
Many of the missions ninjas carried out involved poisoning, espionage, assassination, and infiltration.
Yet in battle, they suddenly pretended to be paragons of righteousness?
Tell that to my shuriken.
Qingyuan gripped a shuriken and infused it with Wind Release chakra.
Wind curled around it, sharpening its edge.
Oishi was caught off guard, and the shuriken pierced his body, blood flowing steadily from the wound.
“Hikari!”
Oishi could no longer hold back and called out to his other teammate.
But what answered him was not a reassuring reply from his teammate, but a scream.
“Hikari can’t really be losing to those brats, can he?”
Oishi’s heart sank.
Unfortunately, he and Qingyuan were at the cave entrance, while Hikari and the others were deep inside the cave.
He had no idea what exactly was happening.
He could only hear intermittent sounds of fighting, followed by a scream.
“What happened?”
Qingyuan hurriedly asked Renegade Qingyuan what had happened. The source of this chapter is g.com.
Renegade Qingyuan looked over and saw that Kakashi had been slashed across the left eye while trying to save Obito.
Overcome with grief and fury, Obito leaped straight from ordinary eyes to the Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
“Obito awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan. The Iwagakure ninja’s arm was slashed.”
Renegade Qingyuan spoke.
“Is that so?”
Qingyuan nodded slightly.
So the same thing as in the original story had still happened: Kakashi went blind in his left eye, and Obito angrily awakened the Sharingan.
What a coincidence.
No, was it really a coincidence?
Qingyuan suddenly thought that there was such a thing as fate in the ninja world.
Naruto was the Child of Prophecy ordained by fate.
Jiraiya had spent his entire life traveling the ninja world, rushing from place to place because of this nebulous prophecy.
When the Sage of Six Paths emerged from Naruto’s mind, accompanied by the appearance of the nine tailed beasts’ chakra, the first words he spoke were:
“The promised hour has arrived; the time for the ‘Child of Prophecy’ to change the world is upon us.”
And the nine tailed beasts all wore expressions of understanding.
This meant that the Sage of Six Paths had told them about it a thousand years earlier.
“I have the Last Testament. The butterfly effect in the future will only grow larger. It’s just that I’m too weak right now—the wind I stir is still too small to change what is happening.”
Qingyuan shook his head again.
The Last Testament took him as its starting point and branched into countless possible futures.
By its very nature, it contained the greatest ‘variable’ of all.
“Hmph.”
Oishi gave a muffled grunt and pulled out the shuriken.
If something had happened to Hikari, he would not be able to escape alone.
“I’ll finish you quickly.”
Oishi’s left hand was already encased in thick rock, forming a huge fist.
He charged forward, and the rock fist smashed toward where Qingyuan stood with a sound that split the air.
Earth Release: Rock Fist Technique!
“He’s about to use the Rock Fist Technique.”
Renegade Qingyuan’s voice rang directly in Qingyuan’s mind, edged with disdain.
“Looks like he devoted all his skill to invisibility. His other techniques are nothing special.”
“Half a step to the left. Duck.”