Chapter 279: Just a Clone
The Third Mizukage was injured, so Kaito would not miss the opportunity.
Kaito, who was out of the attack range of the water whip, dived down directly.
He flashed continuously in the air and turned into an afterimage, avoiding the water bullet attack of the Third Mizukage who tried to intercept Kaito.
At this moment, Kaito had already rushed in front of the Third Mizukage.
However, before Kaito could make any other moves, a large amount of water suddenly gushed out from the thin air beneath his body, instantly turning into a spiraling water column that enveloped Kaito.
"Water Style: Rapid Stream Formation!"
Naturally, the person who launched the attack was Yagura, who had been planning in the dark for a long time. He used the Third Mizukage to attract firepower and attempted to launch a fatal blow at the critical moment.
But who would have thought that the attack that Yagura thought was perfectly timed would actually miss.
The 'Kaito' in the sky-high spiral water column actually exploded into countless feathers burning with white flames. After the spiral water flow spread out, it froze the entire water column into ice.
At this moment, Kaito, who used the "One Life: Feather Dance" to dodge the attack, curled his lips in disdain.
"You want to do it again? Idiot!"
After landing, Kaito squatted down and kicked the Third Mizukage in the chest with an upper kick, causing him to spit blood and fly backwards. Large pieces of white ice crystals quickly condensed on his chest.
At the same time, Kaito also took advantage of the thick icicle that had already formed behind him to block the flow and quickly formed a seal with one hand.
"White Style: Ice Flame Clone!"
The white flame instantly separated from Kaito's body, and after falling to the ground, it quickly condensed into ice, turning into a clone that was exactly the same as Kaito.
Although the 'Ice Flame Clone' cannot inherit the properties and most of the exclusive 'abilities' brought by 'Acupressure', it consumes a lot of chakra.
However, because it has physical properties similar to the 'wood clone' and is enhanced by the White Style, when Kaito activates the doubling of chakra, the amount of chakra contained in each clone is still enough to maintain basic combat, and the combat power is still considerable.
From the perspective of Yagura, after his attack missed, the Third Mizukage behind the ice pillar flew backwards, and Kaito also rushed out to chase him.
But before Yagura could move around the icicle, two more 'Kaito' with white flames all over their bodies rushed out from the left and right behind the icicle.
"Ice clone?"
Before Yagura had time to think about which one was the real body of Kaito, the two Kaito had already rushed in front of him, and the two short swords, one above and one below, blocked all of Yagura's movements.
"Ding~"
Yagura held the iron hook in front of him and blocked the two attacks.
However, this is not the end. The two Kaito cooperated with each other tacitly and moved forward.
The short swords were swung continuously, forcing Yagura to retreat repeatedly.
As a last resort, Yagura could only throw the iron hook in his hand at the "two people", while quickly retreating and forming hand seals to release ninjutsu.
"Water Style: Waterfall Technique"
A huge spiral stream of water spit out from the mouth of Yagura, rushing straight towards the two Kaito, intending to force the 'two' to retreat.
However, this action also made Kaito's eyes light up.
A large amount of white flames erupted from under the feet of Kaito on the left. He jumped into the air to avoid the impact of the waves, and at the same time, white flames erupted from his back again and he leaned over and rushed towards Yagura.
And Kaito on the right simultaneously formed a seal with one hand, released "Powder Snow", and exhaled a ball of cold air that quickly froze the waves in front of him into ice.
As he swooped down, Kaito quickly formed seals with his hands. When he rushed in front of Yagura, a somewhat crazy smile appeared on his face.
"White Style: Absolute Zero"
Unlike in the past when Kaito's original body had to consider using the Shinsō as a medium to release absolute zero, the absolute zero of the clone 'Kaito' actually exploded directly around the body.
There was a loud "boom".
Countless pale flames exploded instantly and shot up into the sky.
The next moment, the white flames quickly dissipated, and a small iceberg with two pointed little hands stood above the ground, while the figure of Yagura was frozen in the center of the iceberg.
Kaito, who was on the right before, looked at the funny-looking iceberg and muttered with a weird expression.
"Art is Patrick?"
However, just as Kaito was looking up and sighing.
"Puff~"
A sharp spiral water blade pierced directly from behind Kaito. Although the water blade was instantly frozen into ice by the white flame, it still passed through Kaito's chest.
At this time, the sinister voice of Yagura came from behind Kaito.
"The one who can release a ninjutsu of the Great Waterfall level is not necessarily the real one."
Although the water blade in his hand had been frozen, and even his right hand holding the blade was covered with white frost, Yagura still declared his victory boldly.
"What a pity, you originally..."
However, before Yagura could finish his words.
"Puff~"
There was another sound of the blade tip entering flesh.
Yagura looked down at his chest in disbelief, where a snow-white blade tip with a cold glow was sticking out.
At this time, the voice of Kaito also came faintly from behind Yagura.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, Yagura-senpai."
As Kaito's words fell, pure white flames rose from the blade and quickly spread to Yagura's body. Wherever the flames passed, they were instantly frozen into ice.
After seeing how quickly the freezing spread on the body and confirming that this was the real body, Kaito's eyes were filled with indifference.
With the full output of chakra, the flames exploded again.
Without even having the chance to utter his last words, Yagura was completely turned into an ice sculpture.
He shook the blade lightly, pulled out the Shinsō and inserted it back behind his back, and Kaito just left a cold sentence.
"No one has stipulated that one of the two must be the real one."
After dealing with Yagura, Kaito no longer paid attention to the ice sculpture on the spot, but looked at the Third Mizukage who was fighting with another clone of his in the distance.
The sword and kick from Kaito just now had already caused serious injuries to the Third Mizukage. At this moment, he was fighting back and forth with Kaito's "Ice Flame Clone".
However, since the main means of the Third Mizukage are control-type ninjutsu, unless the 'Ice Flame Clone' can seize the opportunity and use absolute zero to kill the opponent together with him, there is no chance to take him down directly.
Of course, this result is not what Kaito wanted.
In the end, even though the Third Mizukage relied on his own strength, he really showed Kaito the diversity of water-style ninjutsu.
But after Kaito's real body joined the battle, the balance of victory still began to tilt uncontrollably.
After the clone once again used 'Ice Wall' to block the 'rain' of water bullets released by the Third Mizukage, Kaito found the right opportunity and appeared behind the Third Mizukage.
With a flick of his hand, the scabbard of the Shinso hit the back of the neck of the Third Mizukage directly.
This time, the Third Mizukage was very considerate and fainted directly.
After watching the Third Mizukage fall to the ground cleanly, Kaito finally breathed a sigh of relief.
'What a dreadful old fellow!'
(End of this chapter)