Sprinting all the way down, snowflakes flew into the air. Roga Nadare looked at Jokichi charging toward them and could not help but laugh mockingly.
"Are all Konoha ninjas just brats? Why didn't Kakashi come?"
Saying this, he ordered the two people beside him.
"Fubuki, Mizore, you guys go deal with the others. I will finish off this brat."
"Understood."
Kakuyoku Fubuki smiled lightly, the wings on her back flapping as she turned and flew toward the other side. Fuyukuma Mizore did not reply, but he also turned his snowboard, preparing to flank Jokichi from the right.
Jokichi remained expressionless, but he was sneering internally.
What pathetic frogs at the bottom of a well.
Then, he raised both hands, and three oddly shaped kunai flew toward the three of them respectively.
"This kind of thing is useless against us!"
Roga Nadare smiled. While running, he merely tilted his head slightly and dodged it. The other two didn't say anything, but they also revealed expressions of contempt.
"Let me show you, we..."
Halfway through his words, Roga Nadare suddenly froze. Because Jokichi, who had been tens of meters away just a moment ago, vanished abruptly.
Suddenly, the airflow surged behind him, carrying a fiercely scorching heat. Roga Nadare looked back, only to see a ball of continuously high-speed spinning flames forming a vortex, smashing right toward his face.
"Fire Release: Exploding Flame Rasengan!"
Jokichi's voice reached his ears, and the ball of flames was blocked by a purple barrier in front of him. But in less than a second, that purple barrier was easily torn to shreds like thin paper.
As the energy core shattered, the ball of flames exploded on Roga Nadare's face. The scorching airwave spun and erupted, carrying an unmatched piercing impact. Roga Nadare's body was swallowed by the vortex of flames in an instant.
"What is going on!?"
Hearing the noise, Fubuki and Mizore looked back. They only saw the burning vortex of flames and the iceberg that had been mostly melted and evaporated.
"Splurt!"
Jokichi appeared behind Mizore. The Sword of Protection pierced through his neck, then was pulled out, and Jokichi vanished.
Fubuki heard the sound and turned her head to look.
Suddenly, a pain shot through her neck. She realized a bloodstained blade had pierced straight out from her throat.
Her eyes widened. From the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Mizore, whose neck was spurting blood and whose body was tottering but had not yet fallen. She suddenly realized something.
How could he be this fast!?
"Splurt!"
Jokichi withdrew his long sword and slowly sheathed it.
"Spiraling Flash: Triple Thrust!"
"Boom!"
The vortex of flames ruptured, and the person inside turned into an airwave, dissipating into the boundless void. Fubuki fell from the sky, and Mizore collapsed headfirst. The three were finished off almost simultaneously.
Aside from amplifying chakra, Yukigakure's chakra armor also came with an inherent ninjutsu defensive barrier. It could block ninjutsu attacks on the level of the Rasengan or Lightning Cutter. If struck by a ninjutsu attack that exceeded the defense's upper limit, the energy core of the chakra armor would shatter at the same time the defensive barrier was broken.
Jokichi was quite interested in the chakra armor and wanted to study it. Therefore, he used his sword when dealing with Fubuki and Mizore. However, Roga Nadare was an elite Jonin capable of exchanging blows with Kakashi. Merely using a sword might have allowed him to dodge or defend against it.
To ensure a fatal one-hit kill, Jokichi used a Rasengan infused with fire-natured chakra. As expected, it was as clean and decisive as he had anticipated.
Jokichi landed steadily on the ground. The cold wind blew, causing his black and white haori to flutter loudly. He looked toward Kazahana Doto and the others, who were stunned at the top of the mountain, and chuckled lightly.
"Do not run away now. I still want to witness Yukigakure's Ice Release!"
Hearing Jokichi's words, Doto snapped back to reality, looking at him in disbelief.
"It is impossible for such speed to exist in this world. That must have been spatial teleportation just now. It was that strange kunai, wasn't it! Has Konoha already developed ninja tools capable of spatial teleportation?"
Jokichi could not help but burst into laughter.
It had to be said, for Yukigakure, which was dedicated to the scientific research of chakra, to immediately imagine the Flying Thunder God Jutsu as an effect brought about by a ninja tool was not incomprehensible. After all, in this remote, small country far from the mainland, there were originally no formidable figures, making it difficult to possess any broad worldview.
But he still wanted to laugh. It was the same feeling a passing sea turtle would have upon hearing a frog in a well say that the sky was only as big as the mouth of the well.
Jokichi laughed for a good while before straightening up and looking at Doto once more.
"You have successfully amused me. I will let you die without any pain!"
"Arrogant!"
Doto's face turned somewhat ugly.
"As long as the secret to your spatial teleportation is known, there is nothing to fear."
Saying this, his body shuddered, and giant bat wings opened up behind his armor, much larger than the ones Fubuki had. Of course, they were also much faster. With a single flap of the wings, he crossed a distance of tens of meters.
"Everyone, attack him together!"
Doto ordered loudly. Then, his hands formed seals, gathering a massive amount of chakra into his right hand before thrusting a palm forward.
"Ice Release: Black Dragon Blizzard."
Ice and snow mixed with a hurricane formed a black tornado that surged and roared. Its residual power ravaged the earth, ruthlessly sweeping up everything.
Jokichi quietly watched the black tornado. His pupils had turned blood-red at some unknown point, with three tomoe slowly rotating inside. He wanted to see exactly what the Land of Snow's Ice Release was all about.
The Sharingan possessed the ability to copy ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu. But rather than calling it copying, it was more accurate to say it was learning by relying on powerful observational abilities.
By observing the opponent's hand seals and chakra manipulation, one could learn the opponent's ninjutsu on the spot. If one did not possess the inherent conditions to use that ninjutsu, it could not be learned.
Therefore, S-rank ninjutsu that were too difficult to learn, and jutsu like Kekkei Genkai that required specific physical conditions, could not be copied. But in the anime, Kakashi successfully copied the opponent's Ice Release. This meant that their Ice Release was not a Kekkei Genkai.
As the frost tornado howled toward him, Jokichi saw through the essence of this ninjutsu.
"I see. In essence, it is Water Release. It merely relies on the extreme cold environment and the amplification of the chakra armor to form a nature transformation. In that case—"
Looking at the tornado that was close at hand, Jokichi drew the Sword of Protection and swung it in front of him. A bone-chilling sword aura burst forth. The tornado formed by frost and hurricane was actually frozen into an ice sculpture in mid-air.
"With the help of the Sword of Protection, I can also use Ice Release!"
Jokichi smiled with self-satisfaction.
"Impossible! He actually froze my Ice Release!"
Doto looked at the scene below, furious. His hands formed seals once again, and he unleashed an even more violent and powerful ninjutsu.
"Twin Dragon Blizzard!"
Two giant black dragons intertwined and roared, forming a tornado that connected heaven and earth, just like a doomsday calamity.
"All of you, go die!" Doto laughed wildly.
"The one who should die is you!"
Jokichi looked completely indifferent. His left hand formed a seal, and his right hand gripped the sword, swinging it toward the tornado.
"Ice Release: Eternal Ice Tomb!"
A cold current erupted forward in a fan shape. Everything was frozen in an instant, including that tornado connecting heaven and earth.