Chapter 583 - 581: Why Is There Such a Huge Difference?

Chapter 583: Chapter 581: Why Is There Such a Huge Difference?

Looking at Deidara’s face, twisted into an expression of madness, Kagami suddenly sensed that something was wrong.

Through his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, he could see the chakra within Deidara’s body rapidly swelling, like a bomb on the verge of detonation.

"This isn’t how the plot is supposed to go, is it?"

Kagami’s face darkened. That was the only thought that flashed through his mind.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

In an instant, a dazzling white light that seemed to tear away the entire curtain of night erupted, accompanied by a deafening explosion!

Immediately afterward, a violent shockwave swept outward in every direction. As the shockwave surged, the earth itself began trembling violently, as though the apocalypse had arrived!

Chiriku, who was on his way back to the Fire Temple, abruptly turned his head at the sound!

However, before he could react, the unexpected shockwave sent his entire body flying. Only after crashing into a large tree did he finally come to a stop.

Scrambling to his feet in a miserable state, he stared blankly at the flames in the distance.

"W-What happened?"

The explosion had occurred at the exact location where he had previously intercepted Deidara, the rogue shinobi from Iwagakure.

Yet no matter how hard he tried, he simply couldn’t imagine how a battle between two shinobi could produce such an enormous commotion. It was utterly beyond his comprehension.

At the same time, he secretly rejoiced that he hadn’t insisted on remaining on the battlefield.

Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

...

In the devastated forest.

"Cough, cough..."

As Kagami dispelled his golden Susanoo, he coughed lightly and rose from the ground.

At this moment, all that greeted his eyes were tiny ashes drifting through the air, still carrying faint sparks, and scattered flames flickering in the wind.

"The cell tissue!"

Kagami hurriedly looked toward the large tree where his kunai had been embedded earlier.

However, all that remained of the tree was a short, still-burning stump. The piece of Deidara’s flesh sliced off by the kunai had long since been reduced to ashes in the explosion.

Even the kunai itself, forged from refined steel, had melted into a small, blackened lump of iron under the intense heat of the blast.

Kagami immediately gritted his teeth.

"Deidara, you bastard! Are you deliberately targeting me!?"

They had both used genjutsu to suppress Deidara. Yet Itachi had completely subdued him with nothing more than a single glance and a few words.

But when it was Kagami’s turn, Deidara had actually blown himself up!

Kagami simply couldn’t understand why there was such an enormous difference between their experiences.

"As expected, a normal person like me can never comprehend the mind of a madman."

After silently cursing, Kagami surveyed the surrounding forest, which had been almost completely flattened by the explosion, and slowly furrowed his brows.

Although the explosion just now had been violent, the area it affected seemed considerably smaller than Kagami had imagined. Its destructive power also seemed to be somewhat lacking.

After activating his Susanoo, he had blocked it with ease.

"Something’s wrong!"

In the distant sky.

Sitting cross-legged atop his clay owl, Deidara rested his chin on one hand.

"Judging by that guy’s outfit, he must be a member of the Kamigami that’s been causing such a sensation throughout the shinobi world. His mask had a flame pattern on it, so was he one of their ’Homura’? I heard both Homura in the Kamigami are Uchiha with Mangekyo Sharingan. Heh, so this is all the Uchiha clan’s genjutsu amounts to, hmm!"

Back in his village, he had repeatedly heard about how formidable the Konoha Uchiha clan’s genjutsu was, how one should respond when encountering an Uchiha in a one-on-one battle, and just how powerful an Uchiha possessing the Mangekyo Sharingan could be.

But after today’s encounter, Deidara felt that the seniors in his village had greatly exaggerated everything.

There was nothing particularly impressive about Uchiha genjutsu at all!

Deidara couldn’t help feeling rather pleased with himself.

"Even an Uchiha with the Mangekyo Sharingan was taken down by me! Before my explosions, which can only be described as art, the Sharingan is utterly insignificant, hmm!"

Just as he was thinking this, Deidara suddenly noticed that the surrounding night sky seemed to have grown considerably brighter.

A warning immediately sounded in his heart!

Whoosh...

The instant Deidara sensed something amiss, a massive flaming sword came slashing down from above his head!

He barely managed to twist his body sideways, narrowly avoiding the flaming sword’s strike. However, the clay owl beneath him was cleaved cleanly in two!

Having lost his mount, Deidara found himself falling through the air. His eyes widened in disbelief as he stared blankly at the majestic, fully manifested Susanoo hovering in the sky.

From within the Susanoo, Kagami said coldly, "You were laughing just now, weren’t you? Don’t tell me you were naive enough to think that pathetic little trick of yours could actually kill me?"

Stunned by Kagami’s Susanoo, Deidara remained frozen for a moment before finally realizing that he was still falling.

He hurriedly thrust his hand into the ninja tool pouch at his waist and molded another clay bird, narrowly avoiding a fatal fall before landing safely on the ground.

At that moment, Kagami also descended before Deidara in his dazzling golden Susanoo.

With a backhand swing, he brought his sword slashing toward Deidara once more!

BOOM...

The enormous flaming sword came crashing down, carving a deep trench into the ground.

Deidara, who had barely managed to evade the strike with the Body Flicker Technique, wore an excited expression.

"So this is your Uchiha clan’s Susanoo? How fascinating! But my art is also—"

Whoosh...

Before Deidara could finish his boast, Kagami’s figure flickered. He immediately disengaged from his Susanoo and used the Body Flicker Technique to rush directly in front of Deidara, slashing down with the kunai in his hand!

At that moment, Deidara’s attention was entirely focused on the dazzling Susanoo opposite him. He had never expected Kagami to pull such a move, and could only hurriedly raise both arms to protect his face.

Swish...

A cold gleam flashed, and blood splattered!

The kunai in Kagami’s hand easily struck Deidara’s raised arm, slicing away a large chunk of flesh and skin.

Ignoring the injury to his arm, Deidara hastily retreated. As he fled, he continuously scattered tiny clay spiders behind him.

Watching Deidara flee in panic, Kagami was in no hurry to pursue him.

Instead, he silently slipped the piece of Deidara’s flesh he had just sliced off into his wide sleeve.

Then, with a flicker of his figure, he returned to his Susanoo.

At that moment, countless tiny clay spiders came hopping and bouncing toward Kagami’s Susanoo.

Seeing this as he fled, Deidara hurriedly formed a hand seal.

"Katsu!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

In an instant, every clay spider that had leaped toward Kagami erupted in a violent explosion!

However, the smoke quickly dispersed, and the completely unharmed Susanoo once again appeared before Deidara’s eyes, filling him with shock and fear.

Meanwhile, inside the Susanoo, the corners of Kagami’s mouth curled upward.

"As expected, clay clones really do have their own unique advantages!"

Just now, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan had detected a familiar chakra fluctuation frequency, almost identical to the one he had sensed earlier in the forest.

Therefore, he could confidently conclude that the ’Deidara’ standing before him was no longer the real Deidara.

Instead, it was a clay clone that Deidara had cleverly substituted for himself amid the explosions of the tiny clay spiders just moments ago...