This allowed his men to regain the initiative and the original intention of simply breaking through the enemy formation, thanks to the speed and defense of the technique, had to be abandoned, dodging ninjutsu and throwing iron with some number of attached kibakufuda.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, it proved to be of no importance at all in the next moment - the golden spears stuck into the ground in close proximity to the jinchuriki and exploded, hitting her. Even though it didn't do any serious damage, it was enough to knock the concentration of the young kunoichi.
The bijudama, which had just begun to form and had not yet reached its peak power, deformed and immediately exploded with a blinding flash, sending out a blast wave in all directions.
As I braked and poured more chakra into the technique I was supporting, I barely had time to prepare myself, and the next moment I was slammed into a stone wall, causing me to feel the sensation of being squeezed from both sides, and then a powerful blast wave threw me backwards, and if it hadn't been for the protection of Goriathe no Kouchikubutsu, with his strong body, I wouldn't have been able to get away with superficial wounds like last time.
After plowing a long furrow in the ground and knocking down trees, I jumped to my feet before the momentum had worn off and sprinted forward, leaving a deep indentation behind me.
Despite the chakra rage around me, I could feel my target - Yugito had been thrown several hundred meters away from the blast, but unlike the nephews who had been killed, the weakest of whom had been killed, she had only increased in strength as she began to release her second tail.
I didn't intend to give her time to fully unleash the two-tailed biju, even though I was being overtaken by the younger Ai, blazing with Killing Intent.
I could already see the halo of blazing fire that dispersed the night's darkness around the kunoichi standing on four limbs, looking a lot like a cat, and prepared to strike a decisive blow while she was busy trying to keep control of the power she was unleashing, but a loud roar sounded behind her, drawing her attention:
- Yugito, look out!
The girl woke up from her trance and turned her head to see me approaching. A quick movement and a golden flaming sword was met by needle-like claws that were released from her fingertips, which to my surprise, withstood the attack, despite the fact that it was an obvious feature of the biju given to the bearer.
I easily blocked the jinchuriki's quick retaliatory blows with my samurai shield, leaving deep grooves in the compressed chakra, but unfortunately for my opponent, my arsenal included attacks not only with goliath's limbs, and at the very moment when Nii again blocked the golem's sword, obeying my wave, four chains with sharpened tips and sharp blades on both sides of the links burst from its surface.
The kunoichi was able to fend off one of them and dodge two, but the last attack took her down, piercing the cover with some difficulty and cutting deeply into her side.
- Rrrraaaaah!
A frantic roar of pain along with a surge of biju chakra threw me back, but in the same way, the jinchuriki made it worse, deepening the wound and causing more pain.
A normal shinobi would have passed out from the pain shock of being one step away from death, but the jinchuriki remained conscious and even managed to rip the chain from her flesh, tails whipping away the rest of the chain, guided by my will. It was the perfect chance to incapacitate the two-tailed host, and I intended to take advantage of it, but someone else had other plans.
With a roar not inferior to the one he'd heard a little earlier, Ai blasted a chakra burst into my senses and accelerated even more, covering the few meters that remained. Jumping aside so I wouldn't have to take the full brunt of the blow that jonin's speed put into it, I slightly underestimated the blond's agility and took a tangential hit.
Wrapped in rayton chakra, the enemy's fist was nearly two-thirds of the way through the construct protecting me, causing me to experience a flash of anxiety and stop holding my grip on the ground.
The force of the blow threw me aside several meters. I landed on a fallen log and smiled broadly at the breathing dark-skinned big guy who was glaring at me, blocking the jinchuriki with his body. A real Raiton no Yoroi, used at full power by an S-ranked fighter, is a very deadly technique, but even a Goliath's basic defense can withstand it, even if it's not very effective.
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