Yujin felt like a leaf. A feather. A balloon drifting through the air.
Freddy's attack was wind.
No matter how fierce the wind blew, without any outside force, how could it truly harm a leaf, a feather, or a balloon?
All it could do was make Yujin's movements wider, his posture more graceful.
Even though his skin was torn open, his body covered in wounds, not a single inch of him was intact.
Even when the twisting of his body caused his left eyeball—barely hanging in its socket—to fly out, he still moved lightly, dodging Freddy's fierce assaults.
He rolled.
He leapt.
He stood still.
Every one of Freddy's attacks seemed as if it had been rehearsed with Yujin beforehand.
Yujin always moved just before Freddy struck, evading the exact spot where the attack would land. The sight was almost comical.
Among the members of the Central Continent team, everyone except the struggling Aunt and Ruan Wei could only stare in shock, minds blank.
What in the world was going on?
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"It's Observation Haki."
Under the waterfall, Uchiha Yujin easily dodged Killer Bee's flurry of six-sword attacks. His breathing remained calm, a faint smile in his eyes as he explained.
"To sense the presence, emotions, and intentions of those around you."
"To foresee the opponent's moves and position."
"That is Observation Haki."
Killer Bee scratched his head, forgetting to even rap. He looked at the boy before him, whose growth was almost terrifying, and gestured in disbelief.
"I've got six blades, and you can dodge nearly all of them with your eyes closed! That's insane! So what happens if you open your eyes?"
"If I open my eyes…"
Uchiha Yujin said, and three tomoe swirled inside his blood-red eyes.
"Then… only an attack with an extremely large range can catch me off guard."
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Hospital rooftop!
With a few furious roars, the nails on the rooftop door finally gave way under the pressure, and the townspeople, transformed into dream servants, pushed it open.
In the blink of an eye, the rooftop was like a floodgate opening. The entire Central Continent team was squeezed into a tiny corner.
Zhang Jie, Zheng Zha, Nova, Zhao Yingkong, and others swung knives and overturned tables chaotically, trying to carve out a safe zone to resist the dream servants.
But their efforts were in vain.
Too many "people" surged onto the rooftop.
As Nova's daughter was pushed off the edge, more family members of the Central Continent team were forced down as well.
"I don't care anymore! Just fight!!!"
Zhang Jie pushed the people in front of him with all his strength. He raised his AR-15 and fired frantically.
Thirty bullets emptied, creating a "vacuum zone."
But after shooting, he seemed to lose consciousness and fell backward.
Seeing Zhang Jie surrounded by dream servants, Zheng Zha rushed out from the crowd.
"Zhang Jie!"
He shouted and charged, swinging his knife. But before he could make two swings, his eyelids closed involuntarily.
He used all his strength to stay awake, even stabbing his shoulder with the knife to keep conscious.
But even then, he could only roll his eyes back, his face twisted, reluctantly succumbing to sleep.
In front of Yujin, Freddy's figure flickered in and out, creating a resonance between dream and reality, making it seem as though Freddy existed in both worlds simultaneously.
But this was no longer under Yujin's control.
His current state had reached its limit.
He had learned the Observation Haki, but only at a beginner level.
Before, without Observation Haki, he couldn't even sit at the table.
Now, with it, he could barely join, but he still couldn't confidently order or defend his dignity, let alone shove Freddy off the main seat.
With a wave of Freddy's massive hand, the townspeople who had been rushing toward the building collectively turned toward Yujin.
His right to sit at the table was snatched away.
As his living space shrank, sweat poured down Yujin's body.
With only one Sharingan, he was ironically fortunate. With two healthy eyes, his chakra wouldn't have been enough.
His pockets were empty, and he had no weapons on him.
After maintaining the Cursed Seal of Heaven and Gene Lock for so long, his body had reached its absolute limit. He could even hear the trembling of his own heart, as if one wrong move could make it explode.
The Central Continent team was just one step away from total annihilation.
More and more dream slaves blocked Yujin's dodges. In a moment of carelessness, his ankle was grabbed!
Looking down, he realized that it was none other than his own surrogate daughter holding him.
Seeing Diana's pained face, Yujin's composure nearly collapsed. In a daze, Freddy's claws slashed toward him!
"Gya!"
The massive claw carved a long line on the ground like a musical staff. Every dream slave caught within it was annihilated, reduced to lifeless shadows under the deadly strike.
And in the instant "Diana" was torn apart, her face shifted into one Yujin had never seen before. He let out a sigh of relief, only to feel excruciating pain shoot through his body.
His right arm, as if bidding farewell, fell to the ground with a loud smack, raising dust into the air.
Missing an eye, his Sharingan could still function.
Missing an arm, his ninjutsu was useless.
"Oh? Let's see, little one, what escape routes do you still have? Hide in the safe house Dad built? Or peek at the world from behind Mommy?"
"Oh, I forgot. They're all dead~ You didn't have many friends back then, and the coffins were paid for strangers to carry~ How pitiful~"
Freddy's words were sharp, tormenting Yujin both physically and mentally.
It had long had the chance to kill him, but it didn't.
Because in Freddy's eyes, Yujin's spirit had not yet broken.
It wanted to crush him completely, body and mind alike.
It savored the collapse of human will.
Sweet, yet lingering~
Freddy's fingers waved like waves, and under its control, hundreds of dream slaves pressed down on Yujin.
Some tore at him, some beat him, and others assaulted him with words alone.
Yujin's toes were gnawed, his ears ripped away.
Even his lips had been torn into several pieces by the bite of a woman who looked like a weather forecaster, revealing the gums beneath.
If he hadn't pressed his left hand against his chest, he could have been described as dismembered into five parts.
More and more dream servants joined in, forming a "human" little hill that pressed Yujin down tightly beneath it.
Freddy watched the scene with great delight. It even crouched on the ground, savoring the sensation of Yujin's weakening aura.
On the rooftop, Zhao Yingkong lay among the corpses of countless dream servants, herself trapped in the dream.
Blood flowed from her chest due to Freddy's attacks in the dream. The sheer amount of blood rendered her chest wrap useless, and her pale chest was exposed.
Except for Aunt.
All the other Central Continent team members had closed their eyes and entered Freddy's dream world.
Aunt still had her hands around Ruan Wei's neck, determined to kill him.
Unfortunately, her arm was dislocated and pressed down by the crowd, leaving her powerless.
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