"Hahaha…!"
Hanzo burst into laughter as he watched Yagami get wrapped up in the explosive tags.
"So you're still just a kid after all… too inexperienced."
In his eyes, the battle was already over.
At this moment, all he had to do was tug the wire around his finger.
And Yagami would be blown to pieces instantly.
"Hahaha!"
"As expected of Hanzo-sama! He won!"
"Of course! I've never seen anyone survive one of Hanzo-sama's techniques!"
The Rain shinobi immediately broke into excited cheers the moment they saw Yagami bound by the explosive tags.
The fear that had taken root in their hearts earlier was swept away in an instant.
"Don't you think you're celebrating a little too early?"
Yagami looked at the smug Hanzo and laughed as well.
If he had wanted to dodge just now, he easily could have moved before the explosive tags fully wrapped around him.
As for why he didn't?
Simple.
There was no need.
"What do you mean by that?"
Hanzo frowned at Yagami's reaction.
"You're already in this state, and you still won't admit defeat?"
As he spoke, Hanzo raised his hand slightly, deliberately showing the steel wire wrapped around his finger.
"Take a look at the people behind you."
"Then maybe you should look at the people behind me."
Yagami did not bother explaining. He only smiled at Hanzo with a meaningful look.
Hanzo's brows furrowed even deeper at those strange words, but he still turned his head to look behind him.
The Rain shinobi were all cheering.
…Wasn't that normal?
He had won. Of course his men would be happy.
Unable to understand what Yagami meant, Hanzo turned his head back again.
Then he looked toward the Konoha forces.
And what he saw made his expression change.
Not a single person looked panicked.
Not one of them looked worried.
They were all calm.
"…?"
Hanzo stared at them, confusion written all over his face.
"What is going on here?"
He turned back toward Yagami, suspicion filling his eyes.
"Have all of Konoha's shinobi just decided to let you die?"
"Let me show you," Yagami said with a snort.
Then, right in front of Hanzo's stunned gaze, he bent down and grabbed the steel wire connected to Hanzo's hand.
"H-Hey! What are you doing?!"
Hanzo was startled by Yagami's actions.
His eyelid twitched violently.
Even though he had trapped Yagami with this technique, he had never actually intended to kill him.
After all, Yagami was Konoha's frontline commander. If he died here by Hanzo's hand, it could very well ignite a full-scale war between the Rain and the Leaf.
But Yagami ignored the look on Hanzo's face.
He simply tore the steel wire loose from the explosive tags.
The moment it snapped free, it was as though the fuse had been lit.
A spark instantly flared across the explosive tags.
Yagami straightened up and looked at Hanzo, whose pupils had already shrunk, then smiled in a way Hanzo could not understand.
In the next instant—
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A violent chain of explosions erupted.
Flames and smoke swallowed Yagami completely under Hanzo's horrified gaze.
The explosions continued without pause for more than ten seconds.
At the center of it all, Yagami had vanished completely from sight.
The fire and smoke spread several meters in every direction, blocking everyone's vision.
The Rain shinobi immediately erupted into noise and confusion.
Everyone was stunned by Yagami's actions.
They could not understand why he had just set off the tags himself.
Some of them even started wondering—
Was this some kind of trap Konoha had arranged on purpose to start a war?
Hanzo kept his eyes fixed on the center of the explosion.
His brows had already twisted into a deep frown.
But for some reason…
He suddenly felt that Yagami was still alive.
Because that smile at the end—
It had been filled with confidence.
Not even the slightest sign of someone about to die.
Even after the explosions finally stopped, the battlefield remained hard to see.
The repeated detonations had filled the area with far too much smoke.
Then—
Tap. Tap. Tap.
As everyone held their breath and stared at the slowly thinning smoke, a golden light flickered within it.
And soon, the sound of footsteps began to echo from inside.
At that moment, a fierce gust of wind suddenly swept through the rain.
In an instant, the smoke was blown away completely.
And the scene at the center of the explosion was finally revealed.
Yagami stepped out of the crater slowly.
His body was spotless.
Not a single scratch or a burn.
He looked completely unharmed.
"Nani?!"
"Not a single injury?!"
"What the hell happened just now?!"
Shouts of shock and disbelief rang out one after another from the Rain shinobi.
Even Hanzo's eyes widened in horror.
At this point, he truly had no idea what had just happened.
But when he looked again toward the Konoha side, he saw that all of them wore expressions as if this was exactly what they had expected.
Clearly—
They already knew.
"Now do you understand why I said you were thinking too much?"
After stepping out of the crater, Yagami looked directly at Hanzo and spoke in a calm, almost lazy voice.
"This kind of attack doesn't work on me."
Hanzo's eyes were still trembling.
And seeing that made Yagami feel especially satisfied.
For all his arrogance, Hanzo really was getting old.
And yet he had still been shameless enough to say Yagami would not be able to endure twenty moves from him.
"Haa…"
Hanzo took a deep breath, then another, trying to steady himself.
"…What exactly is the trick here?"
He could not understand it at all.
No matter how much he thought about it, there was no way he could explain how Yagami had come out completely unharmed without even attempting to defend himself.
"Physical attacks don't work on me."
Yagami spread his hands and smiled slowly.
This time, he had no intention of hiding it.
There was no point anymore.
Once news of Sunagakure's defeat spread, information about him would spread with it.
By then, the fact that ordinary physical attacks were ineffective against him would no longer be a secret.
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