NOVEL NEXT Chapter 30: Chapter 29
"Ladies and gentlemen, before the final elimination rounds, we will take a 20-minute break so that our contestants can rest for a while, of course, there will be a short intermediate battle round so as not to interrupt the excitement. This battle will be between the 2 students who advanced to the next round by lottery in the previous two rounds. Senju Yuta and Nara Ensui, please come to the stage in three minutes."
In three minutes? Yuta thought so, then turned his head to look at Ensui sitting next to him and smiled mischievously.
Ensui smiled awkwardly in response and mumbled "Probably three minutes for stage rebuilding". Immediately after his words, an anbu ninja appeared in each of the four corners of the nine arenas and slapped their hands on the ground at the same time.
With a slight earth tremor, the nine arenas sank into the ground and became flat earth, and immediately afterward, four slightly larger arenas emerged from the ground in the area where the nine arenas had been.
The chunins and genins, who had spent a long time building the nine arenas, muttered that life was unfair when they saw four anbu ninjas replacing the arenas they had built in an hour with much more robust arenas in a few seconds.
Fortunately, they got some relief when they returned to the Hokage to hear the anbu ninja being scolded by the Hokage about why they hadn't painted the emblem of the hidden leaf village on the arena.
Three minutes had already passed after the Anbu ninjas had quickly gone to the arena with the body flicker technique to draw the emblem.
In those 3 minutes, some of the people were talking about the battles that had just taken place, while the majority were complaining about the unfairness of the battles. The Hokage's arrangement had already made people forget about Tsunade.
Realizing this, Danzo pouted, but no one noticed because his face was ugly. Except Sarutobi Hiruzen, of course.
As one child each from the Nara and Senju clans entered the arena, some of the civilian Ninjas felt a little relieved that the children of the big clans were finally meeting, and others felt that a giant clan like the Senju was bullying a small clan like Nara, and a little more warmth appeared in their hearts for the Nara clan.
It is not known whether the Hokage had arranged it this way on purpose, as the Nara clan was a clan that did not have eyes for the Hokage's seat, but Ensui, looking at Yuta standing at one end of the Arena, was extremely uncomfortable with the situation.
Yuta had something he wanted to try with the Nara clan's techniques, so he didn't run at his opponent as soon as the competition started. Ensui, on the other hand, was watching Yuta's arm carefully.
During the previous battle, Yuta had finished the battle from a distance by waving his arm. With this in mind, Ensui watched Yuta carefully while thinking in his head about how to win this battle.
Like every Nara clansman, Ensui was familiar with fire and earth-type ninjutsu techniques other than shadow techniques. After thinking for a while, Ensui decided that he should first understand more about his opponent's abilities and then make a plan.
Ensui took a kunai out of his pocket and quickly threw it at Yuta, followed by another one, making sure that the two kunai were not at the same level.
Yuta waved his hand at the first kunai that came at him and sliced it in half in mid-air, at the same time he saw another kunai flying towards his feet, so he moved his foot slightly and dodged the kunai. Seeing this, Ensui made a few guesses about his technique; either Yuta's invisible slashing attack was created by making hand seals in advance and launched when he waved his hand, or he had some kind of unknown bloodline, but this ability had a cooldown.
Ensui realized that if he formulated a plan based on the estimates he had, there was an eighty percent chance that he would be defeated by his own plan, and after cursing his lack of knowledge, he decided to give it another try with a few kunai.
While Ensui was trying to find a way to win this battle by using all of his brain like in a life or death situation, Yuta was lazily looking at the sun and thinking about using the curtain technique, but if he used the curtain technique, he would not try what he wanted to try with the shadow abilities of the Nara clan.
After thinking for a while, Yuta turned a bit to dodge the kunai attacks coming at him, after all, even though Ensui came from the Nara clan, he was lazy and not skilled in anything other than clan techniques.
After Yuta came out of his thought process, he lazily raised his hands and told his opponent directly that there was something he wanted to try.
Ensui responded with surprise. "You really want me to catch you with my shadow technique?"
"Yes. I want to see if I can escape the shadow technique."
"If you cannot escape, I will show you no mercy."
Yuta chuckled loudly in response and raised his hands, waiting for Ensu to catch him.
Meanwhile, the people whose only entertainment before the next round began was this battle stopped making noise and focused on what was going to happen. No one really thought Yuta had given up, especially after what he had done to his opponent in the first round, which had marked him out as a bad boy in many people's minds.
Ensui clasped his hands together to use a technique he hadn't fully mastered, and his own shadow slowly began to stretch out and reach toward Yuta.
As Yuta looked at the shadow slowly approaching him, swaying around like a drunk, he sensed that if this went on much longer the crowd would be distracted and Ensui would become the joke of the village, so he took a few steps forward and approached the shadow.
By the time Ensui's shadow made contact with Yuta, Ensui was already drenched in sweat.