Chapter 8: 6. Tournament of Survival: Round One: Creepy Kid.
"So, it was not a fluke, Oni-chan," a black-haired girl said while giggling.
'My Earth Clone is even more useless than part one Sakura' No.13 internally grimaced.
'Well, she should not know about the guy present beneath the ground, well, killing children might not be what I want to do, but seeing them kill each other doesn't go against my principles.'
"Got you" A head peeked out of the ground and lances made of mud made their way towards the girl.
However, the girl easily dodged it by sidestepping, even without looking back. No, that is the wrong conclusion, she sidestepped, and then Earth Lance was shot from the ground where she was standing previously, seemingly she predicted it.
"Annoying," She said while making hand signs with one hand.
However, that guy has already entered the ground, and changing his location. However, his efforts were futile, as above the ground, she completed her jutsu.
"Wind Release: Piercing Great Breakthrough"
A thin beam of wind came out of her mouth and penetrated the ground and in turn, so did that guy's head.
"Well, now that pest is out of the way, how about we have a chat, Oni-chan?"
It was nighttime, so her expression really freaked out No.13, I mean he hadn't really seen such a creepy child before, so he didn't really know how to deal with her.
"Why are you calling me 'Oni-chan'? I don't recall a lost sister I left to go to buy milk?"
"Well, you are the only one who actually was able to escape my fully serious assassination attempt, that also twice!" She said with a big smile on her face.
'Well, such a program will cause a few screw looses in kids I guess'
She narrowed her eyes, "Hey! you are probably thinking that I am insane or something right?"
'What? Can she read my mind too? Is this also her ability? Let's think of something pervy then'
"No," She said with obliviousness to the latter part, so it was probably a predictable thing for people to assume that she was crazy when they talked to her.
"Ya, I can see" He smirked and she was confused at that but promptly considered him a weirdo internally
"So, do we throw hands?"
"Hmm, why do you want to be a cripple?"
"It's a way of asking whether you want to fight or not"
"Oh, sure, I don't mind," She said while weaving hand signs with one hand while throwing shuriken with the other. Those were coated with wind chakra.
No.13 released the chakra from his feet such that he reached the bottom prior to his position on the branch, similarly, he used a chakra explosive burst to increase his speed and close the gap between them.
But his opponent was not dilly-dallying, she released a beam of compressed wind at him, the same jutsu that she used earlier, however this time, the speed of the attack was faster than he could perceive, and his instincts yet again helped him dodge by tilting his body slightly.
However, after that successful dodge, he finally closed the gap, and she again started weaving hand signs, this time slightly different, 'another variation?'
However, he didn't dally around either and used his taijutsu to completely suppress her.
That was his intention, he was able to get the upper hand in the first exchange of blows due to his chakra enhancement, but things changed when she started using wind chakra to coat her Kunai, his Kunai was getting sliced similar to butter getting sliced.
Just as she finished waving hand signs, he dashed forward, missing the area of effect jutsu she used, "Gale Palm", however, the size of the palm was very big, if he had caught up in the jutsu, then not only his distance advantage would have been gone, but he also would have suffered injuries.
Now, the whole fight had started less than 10 seconds before and yet 2 jutsus had already been fired.
At this moment, No.13 was diagonally behind her, less than 10 meters away, his chakra dashed towards her, but she didn't give me a chance, as she threw the wind-coated kunai she was holding, this did delay him by one second but that time was what she wanted as she weaved hand-signs with both hands which somehow decreased the time to cast jutsu. That was not within his calculations.
"Piercing Great Breakthrough". Those words created a terror in his heart as the distance between them was less than 5m and this time tilting his head wouldn't work as he wouldn't be fast enough to do it.
However, even if his death was less than a second away, he didn't let it faze him as this was not the first time he was flirting with death.
At this moment his bare feet were touching the ground. Also, he can also use some earth jutsus seal-lessly just like these other upstarts. People may forget, but the whole ordeal he has passed through was him not going for the kill which makes it significantly hard to do but not impossible.
He raised the level of ground near her feet such that her position got elevated and just like that, that laser of compressed air beam went over his head, a few centimetres above his hair!
He didn't want to go bald during this ordeal as well, as that would have been embarrassing.
He could have also dodged it by changing the terrain beneath him such that he dodged by going a bit down, but this move helped him make his opponent lose their footing which he is going to capitalize on now.
However, that lady was far from done as she used a seal-less wind Flicker to create distance, but she was stalked by No.13 using a similar technique without the wind part.
She retrieved another kunai and tried to fend off No.13 with her kunai while using her other hand to cast jutsu, but this time No.13 grabbed her other hand while using his right hand to hold off the left wrist which carried wind-coated Kunai.
Now, they were in a deadlock, however, NO.13 wanted this to be the case.
He used his left hand which was holding the free hand of his opponent to mould his chakra and after forming 2 seals quickly, he crushed her right wrist which was followed by an Earth spear piercing her left and right foot, which was then followed by him crushing her right wrist, disarming her.
Now, she won't be able to seal-lessly flicker away which made this his victory.
"So, are you gonna kill me?" She asked
"You don't seem scared by the prospect of dying"
"I was prepared to die since I participated in this exam" She remained Unfazed when No.13 put a Kunai on her neck.
"Don't worry, it will be quick" She heard that and now could see her own body which then got replaced by the scene of the moon.
Her head was detached from her body.
Her last thought was "It was fun"
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