Chapter 162: Retreat and Madara's Conspiracy
"Damn it! Do you really think I'm afraid of you?" Kyosuke said, his chakra anchoring his feet to the ground, preventing himself from being pulled in by the gravitational force.
At the same time, a surge of anger rose in his heart.
"Since you want a fight, I'll play with you for a bit."
Swish! Kyosuke took out his Kusanagi sword and, at the same time, threw a series of shuriken at Nagato, who was still casting his jutsu, trying to interrupt him.
However, his attack was quickly intercepted by Konan, who was on the side.
"Secret Technique: Paper Shuriken."
Clang! With a few crisp sounds of collision, Kyosuke's shuriken attack failed.
At the same time, Nagato increased the intensity of the gravitational pull again. This time, it was difficult for Kyosuke to maintain his footing.
And that wasn't all. Yahiko, on the side, also launched his own attack.
"Water Release: Water Severing Wave."
A blade formed by a high-pressure water column directly slashed at Kyosuke's body. From the looks of it, the furious Yahiko had no intention of holding back.
In less than a minute, Kyosuke was almost in a desperate situation.
"No choice," he sighed to himself. The cursed seal on the back of his neck suddenly released.
Instantly, a vast amount of sage art chakra filled Kyosuke's body.
"Sage Mode, activate!"
A transparent green snake shadow directly blocked Konan's paper. Then, the sage art chakra in his feet erupted, and with his greatly increased physical fitness, he leaped and broke free from the Universal Pull's restraint.
"This chakra... Yahiko, Konan, the enemy is not simple. We must be careful," Nagato said, frowning at the expressionless Kyosuke, while also warning his comrades of the enemy's danger.
"Understood," Yahiko replied, and then used his signature ninjutsu to attack again.
Konan, at this time, was holding her injured arm and looking at Nagato's grave expression, a hint of hesitation in her heart.
But it was too late to say anything now. For this, she could only grit her teeth and form another hand seal.
"Secret Technique: Dance of the Shikigami."
As she formed the hand seals, a large number of origami suddenly appeared in the surroundings and then madly spread toward Kyosuke.
"Hmph," Kyosuke snorted, and then his figure instantly vanished from the spot.
"Body Flicker Technique."
"Not good, Yahiko!" Nagato used his powerful dynamic vision to successfully capture Kyosuke's figure. For this, he directly used the Body Flicker Technique to block in front of his comrade.
Unfortunately, although the three of them had experienced many battles since they were young, in terms of combat experience, they were still a long way from the current Kyosuke.
So, knowing that the Rinnegan had far superior perception than the Sharingan, how could Kyosuke so easily let him guess his purpose?
Looking at Nagato, who was blocking in front of Yahiko, a cold smile appeared on Kyosuke's face.
"You've saved the wrong person."
The moment his words fell, a green snake shadow suddenly burst out from under Konan's feet in the distance, directly tying her up.
"Konan!!!" Nagato and the other cried out in terror.
While their attention was drawn away, a snake shadow behind Kyosuke's body suddenly opened its mouth, and then a bright flame spewed out from it.
"Sage Art: Scorch Release: Blazing Sun."
Just as Nagato had recovered and was preparing to go and absorb this ninjutsu, he was surprised to find that this powerful Fire Release ninjutsu was not aimed at the two of them, but was directly shot at the ground.
Boom!
An earth-shattering roar came, and Nagato and the other, no matter how unwilling they were, could only helplessly retreat to avoid the aftershock of the explosion.
"Damn it! Nagato, don't worry about me! Go and save Konan! Don't let him escape!" Yahiko keenly sensed Kyosuke's intention to leave. For this, he couldn't help but shout at his comrade.
But Nagato, who had been fooled once before, was very worried that this was another of the enemy's tricks. What if, as soon as he turned to leave, Yahiko fell into the enemy's hands?
Just as the conflicted Nagato had not yet made a decision, Konan's voice suddenly reached their ears.
"Yahiko, Nagato, I... I'm alright."
Seeing their comrade slowly walking over, the two of them couldn't help but go up to her with joyful expressions.
They looked her up and down. Besides the arm that had been injured by the enemy before, there were no new wounds on her body.
With a sigh of relief, Yahiko finally realized that something was wrong.
Before, when he was blinded by anger, he hadn't felt that anything was wrong. But now that he thought about it, after they had pursued him, the enemy, besides being forced to counterattack and hijack Konan, had barely taken the initiative to attack. Not to mention, Konan had now been safely released by him.
Yahiko, as the leader of an organization, although his ideas were a bit naive, was not stupid.
The enemy's actions were clearly not wanting to fight them. Then why had he suddenly appeared and attacked Konan before?
There was another, bigger doubt that he couldn't figure out. With the enemy's skill, how could he be a ninja who was trying to attack a small village?
None of these things made sense. For this, Yahiko directly voiced his doubts and asked Nagato again.
Hearing Yahiko's question, Nagato and Konan exchanged a look, and they both felt that this matter was full of strangeness.
But the person who had attacked before, his chakra was indeed the same as this person's. That was not a fake.
In the end, the three of them could only attribute it to the fact that the enemy had seen that their strength was more troublesome than expected, which was why he had helplessly retreated.
As for why he hadn't harmed Konan, it was probably because he didn't want to make an enemy of the Akatsuki.
After much thought, the three of them could only barely analyze the matter to this point. As for the things that didn't make sense, they could only ignore them.
Yahiko looked in the direction the enemy had left, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let's go back. But we must be on high alert lately. I have a feeling someone is targeting us."
The other two looked at each other with concern, and in the end, they also directly nodded in agreement.
Then, the three of them slowly left.
Not long after they had left, a white figure suddenly drilled out from the ground.
"I never thought that this brat's strength would have surged to this extent. Even Nagato, with his Rinnegan, couldn't take him down in a short period of time. It seems that Madara's worries were not wrong. He will definitely become a great threat to us in the future."
"But I need to be more cautious next time. Otherwise, it will be easy for him to notice something."
"Uchiha Kyosuke... I look forward to our next meeting."
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