Karatachi Makoto did not answer.
He wasn't a dim-witted villain who explained his moves to the protagonist.
Since he had decided to strike, he had to eliminate the opponent with thunderous momentum!
Casually tossing aside the broken kunai, Karatachi Makoto drew the ninja sword from his back. His figure disappeared again under Shisui's fearful gaze.
A speed invisible to the naked eye, a flash of cold light cut through the air!
"Splurt!"
In just the blink of an eye, Shisui's body was pierced through.
However, the anticipated scene of blood spurting out did not occur. The pierced Shisui turned into a log with a poof.
Substitution Jutsu!
Karatachi Makoto was not surprised. It would be strange if the top genius of the Uchiha clan were so easily dealt with.
At the same time the substitution log hit the ground, a scorching wave of fire pressed down from above Karatachi Makoto.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
A huge fireball, carrying the momentum to burn everything, completely covered the area where Karatachi Makoto was standing. Trees instantly withered and scorched, and the ground turned black.
The flames dissipated, but there was no one there.
"Behind!"
Relying on the Sharingan's dynamic vision and combat intuition, Shisui didn't even turn his head as he thrust his sword backward with a backhand grip.
"Clang!"
Two ninja swords collided. At the same time, the rotation speed of the three-tomoe in Shisui's eyes suddenly accelerated.
An invisible wave of Genjutsu instantly enveloped Karatachi Makoto.
Karatachi Makoto's eyes stagnated slightly, and his movements showed an extremely minute delay. But in just an instant, Karatachi Makoto's eyes regained their clarity, and his figure opened up the distance again.
Failed again!
Shisui was increasingly shocked.
His Genjutsu almost never failed; even Clan Leader Fugaku had praised it many times. Yet, it had been easily broken by the opponent twice in a row.
"In that case..."
Uchiha Shisui took a deep breath, and the Chakra aura on his body became increasingly condensed and sharp.
In the next moment, his figure actually split into three, attacking Karatachi Makoto from three different directions simultaneously!
Each figure was incredibly solid, their movements fluid, carrying fierce killing intent.
Karatachi Makoto frowned slightly.
He could feel that all three figures carried real Chakra reactions and threats.
"The so-called Phantom Body Flicker Technique, huh."
The name "Shisui of the Body Flicker" had gradually begun to resonate. Aside from Uchiha Shisui's own Body Flicker Technique reaching a certain level, it was also because of the existence of this Phantom Body Flicker Technique.
Using his own supreme Body Flicker Technique combined with the Sharingan's pupil power to form phantom instant kills.
Not only that.
With the appearance of the three Shisui figures, Karatachi Makoto keenly discovered that extremely thin wires had already been spread all around him!
Interesting.
Using wires to restrict movement, and the Phantom Body Flicker Technique to complete the kill.
This kid, even without unlocking the Mangekyō, his strength is definitely outstanding among Elite Jonin!
However.
"Since you are crowned with the name of Body Flicker, you should understand one principle."
Facing the attacks from three directions, Karatachi Makoto did not try to distinguish which one was the real body but gripped his ninja sword.
The incoming Shisui's heart skipped a beat.
In the next moment, the guy whose escape routes had been almost completely sealed off by him suddenly trembled, as if splitting into an identical figure.
No, not splitting.
It was a visual afterimage left behind by moving at extreme speed!
"Speed is power!"
The cold voice seemed to sound in the ears of all three Shisuis simultaneously.
Karatachi Makoto's figure seemed to turn into a gale. Not only did he avoid all the wires with incomparable precision, but he also traced a trajectory in the field that was difficult for the naked eye to distinguish.
His speed was fast to the extreme; even Shisui's three-tomoe Sharingan only sensed a blur.
Accompanied by the soft sound of a sharp blade entering flesh.
Shisui's two clones created by the Phantom Body Flicker Technique, which were realistic enough to pass for the real thing, were shattered and dissipated by Karatachi Makoto the moment they made contact.
And his real body felt a pain in his left shoulder. A bloody mark had appeared, and the ninja sword in his hand was nearly shaken out of his grip by a massive force!
"How is this possible!"
A stormy sea rose in Shisui's heart.
His Phantom Body Flicker Technique was actually broken so easily, and the opponent's speed was fast to this extent!
If he hadn't relied on the Sharingan's limit to capture the opponent's movement trajectory again and dodged this fatal blow by a hair's breadth, what would have been cut open right now wouldn't be as simple as an arm.
"You..."
"Water Mirror Technique: Phantom Body Flicker Technique!"
Uchiha Shisui, who had just survived the disaster, hadn't even caught his breath when a stream of water suddenly spewed from Karatachi Makoto's palm in front of him.
The water flow turned into a mirror, and the mirror actually reflected Uchiha Shisui's figure!
"What?!"
Shisui was greatly alarmed.
Before he could react, the Shisui in the mirror suddenly burst out, splitting into three, and came instantly killing with an absolutely chilling posture.
In just an instant, the short swords in the hands of the three mirror-Shisuis had already pierced into his body from three angles. Indescribable severe pain attacked from all over his body, instantly depriving him of all his strength and ability to think.
Splash.
The mirror-Shisuis shattered into water. At the same time, a section of a blood-stained ninja sword had already pierced through his chest from behind.
"This, this..."
"I said I didn't want to fight, but you insisted on fighting me."
"The battlefield is not a game; there are no chances to start over, great genius."
Shisui opened his mouth but couldn't make any complete sound; only bloody foam overflowed from the corner of his mouth.
Behind him, Karatachi Makoto slowly pulled out the ninja sword, bringing out a spray of warm blood.
Shisui's body went limp, and he finally fell weakly forward onto the ground. Those Sharingan that once shone with the light of a genius gradually lost their luster, becoming hollow and dull.
Karatachi Makoto looked at the corpse of the young man lying on the ground, snorted lightly, and raised his sword to strike.
One stab to the heart, one stab to the neck.
After doing all this, Karatachi Makoto then focused his target on Uchiha Shisui's eyes.
[The Absolute Dōjutsu that no power can compete with]
The Kotoamatsukami Mangekyō!
Karatachi Makoto didn't know if Uchiha Obito had unlocked the Mangekyō at this moment. If he had, then these eyes were definitely top-tier treasures in the Ninja World.
Even if not unlocked, a pair of three-tomoe Sharingan would be a good choice whether brought back to the village for research or sold in the black market.
But just as Karatachi Makoto made his move, he grabbed empty air.
The corpse of Shisui, which had clearly lost its aura of life, suddenly vanished, and even the bloodstains on the ground disappeared!
Karatachi Makoto's outstretched hand froze in mid-air.
He immediately scanned the surroundings.
The forest was silent. Apart from the rustling of the wind blowing through the leaves, there was no other movement.
There was no trace of the Substitution Jutsu used, nor any residual Chakra. If not for the remaining traces of battle on the ground, Karatachi Makoto would have even suspected whether everything he just experienced was within a Genjutsu.
But under these circumstances, a person whose heart was pierced and whose life aura had completely dissipated actually disappeared into thin air right before his eyes!
Wait, could it be...
"...Izanagi!"