"It's time to finish them off and join the team."
Seimei muttered to himself and focused his gaze on the remaining four samurai.
Each of them had chakra reserves as large as an average Special Jonin with no prominent bloodline, making them true experts among samurai, albeit weaker than the lead samurai Seimei had just dealt with.
He could also see (thanks to his Tenseigan) quite a few samurai and many ninjas preparing to come his way. The first group would arrive within the next thirty seconds.
So, he needed to finish the remaining four enemies in front of him fast before joining his team to launch the group attack.
"No time to waste."
As soon as Seimei's words fell, the four samurai launched several flying chakra slashes at him.
Each slash was sharp and powerful enough to tear the muscles and break the bones of even a full-fledged Jonin.
The flying chakra slashes flew fast. But Seimei was faster.
His dynamic vision and reflexes were off the charts, allowing him to read each slash's trajectory and dodge them with minimal effort.
In the end, the flying chakra slashes missed him and slammed onto the ground instead, tearing the earth apart with loud booming sounds.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Seeing Seimei dancing around their strikes, the samurai decided to change their plan.
One of them said, "Since the flying chakra slashes aren't working, we should fight him up close."
The others nodded.
Among them, the samurai with a muscular physique that radiated power chimed in, "Me, Ren, and Noritoshi will close the distance and keep him occupied. Zabaru, you need to strike him with flying chakra slashes while we are engaged in close combat."
Zabaru affirmed, "Understood."
Our advantage lies in our armor and our proficiency in close combat. We should have fought the kid with our leader in close instead of staying back. If we did, this monstrous kid wouldn't have had the leeway to grab our leader's hand and kill him.
The muscular samurai thought with a sigh before hardening his resolve.
A chilling, murderous intent surged from him as he stared at Seimei. If gazes could kill, the intensity of his stare would have burned Seimei into ashes by now.
Then, without wasting any more time, he nodded toward Ren and Noritoshi, his fellow samurai, and rushed toward Seimei together.
On the other side, Seimei dodged another attack while watching the three samurai charging at him.
He smiled. "Getting impatient, are we?"
His empty left hand hovered under the wrist of his right hand. He channeled chakra to the storage seal bracelet on his right hand, which immediately released three shurikens in the air.
Seimei grabbed those shurikens with his left hand and charged them with potent lightning chakra, making them crackle in thin purple lightning tendrils and sparks.
"Don't worry. I will send you to the Pure Land to meet your friend who has just departed as well. You will meet him soon," said Seimei as his smile widened.
And then, he threw them at the three samurai who were rushing toward him.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
At first, the three samurai tensed when they saw shurikens flying at them.
But they soon realized that the trajectory of the three shurikens was completely off.
Even if they didn't move, the shurikens would move past the gap between the muscular samurai and Noritoshi.
The samurai were confused, but they were also relieved.
And their relief turned into mental snickers.
They thought: He's a slightly more powerful, but somewhat inexperienced kid, after all. Just look at the shurikens he threw. Tch! He's getting nervous, huh?
With renewed confidence, they continue to rush toward Seimei.
But then…
Cling!
When the three shurikens were less than a meter away from the samurai, they suddenly collided with each other and changed their directions.
Lightning flashed as the shurikens moved toward the three samurai in the blink of an eye, targeting the parts of their bodies that weren't protected by the samurai armor.
"What?"
The samurai felt a chill run down their spine. Their eyes widened in disbelief.
They tried to move out of the way of the shurikens, but the projectiles were just too close.
Before they could even react, the shurikens hit them.
Oh no!!! X3
All three samurai screamed in their minds.
And then, the lightning chakra in the shuriken activated. Purple electricity sprang into action and flowed all over their bodies, completely paralyzing them, all while giving them slight burns.
But their bad luck didn't end here.
Seeing them paralyzed and in pain, Seimei instantly activated another Jutsu.
Earth Release: Earth-Flow Spear
Influenced by Seimei's Earth Release chakra, the ground around the three paralyzed samurai changed its form.
And before long, nine hard, deep brown, sharp spears of earth erupted from the ground and pierced the vitals, including the throats, of the three paralyzed samurai, ending their lives cleanly and efficiently.
They died without even getting a chance to scream.
Meanwhile, the Zabaru's pupils contracted as he was forced to watch his friends die.
Everything happened too quickly. From the shurikens hitting his friends to their deaths after being stabbed by deadly earth spears, all those events happened within a second, giving him no leeway to intervene.
The chakra Zabaru was channeling through his sword faltered for a moment before he regained control once more.
His gaze hardened.
There was no time to wallow in pity. He had to act decisively if he didn't want to end up like his squad members.
He channeled even more chakra into his sword and released several flying chakra slashes at Seimei.
And Seimei easily dodged them with a relaxed smile.
The moment the last flying chakra slash passed beside him, Seimei channeled chakra to his feet and activated the Body Flicker Technique.
He appeared on the left side of Zabaru and slashed his blade, targeting the samurai's neck.
Meanwhile, Zabaru barely tracked Seimei's figure, thanks to his superior visual prowess common to the close combat fighters like the samurai.
He managed to react in time and block Seimei's ninjato with his sword. However, the sheer force behind Seimei's strike almost made his knees buckle. He felt waves of pain in his arms.
Several calculations were running in his mind as he kept his eyes on Seimei. He knew he couldn't let himself be caught by him. This boy's physique was off the charts.
But Seimei didn't give him any time to make his next move.
Wind Release: Vacuum Bullet Technique
Seimei released six bullets with deadly vacuum cores from his mouth, catching the samurai off guard.
The bullets passed through his head, heart, throat, stomach, liver, and lungs, leaving gaping, bloody holes in them.
The samurai died while standing before his lifeless body fell on the ground with a thud. His blood surged out like a fountain and pooled around his corpse, staining the earth in crimson.
Seimei looked at the corpse and fell into deep thought.
"Performing Jutsu without hand seals can indeed make life easier."
"You can catch them off guard and end their life while giving them the shock of their lives."
"Easy. Too easy."
"I should perfect my chakra control further to cast and control the S-rank Ninjutsu without hand seals. I can still cast them without hand seals. But it wastes too much chakra, and my control over them is shaky."
Then, Seimei looked back, where his fellow Konoha ninjas were hiding and watching him deal with the samurai.
"Let's go back."
"Before the Shimada clan ninjas come out of their gates like a flood, we should surprise them with some fireworks."
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