Hearing Kaoru say it like that, Shin also felt a little embarrassed to continue pressing for an answer, and instead directed his gaze towards the competition arena down below.
The third preliminary round of the Chunin Selection Exams, first match, first round.
All eyes in the entire venue were focused on the scene!
"Alright then, the match is now beginning!"
With Asuma's command given in a clear voice, he himself also immediately activated the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from where he was standing, reappearing off to the side, and now within the competition arena itself, only Uchiha Obito and Deidara were left facing each other.
"Now then, allow me to properly observe and see, just what kind of strength you possess as a Jōnin....."
Up on the viewing platform area, the Third Hokage wore an expression of solemn gravity, and without anyone knowing when it happened, Kakashi, wearing his trademark fox-faced mask, had also appeared right beside the Third Hokage.
"Just such a small and confined space like this, it truly restricts my artistic expression far too much, hmm."
Deidara coldly harrumphed, and although the competition arena was already considered quite large, even so, for him, it was still far too small, and he couldn't even fly around as he pleased.
"You should feel free to attack first." And the Uchiha Obito standing opposite to him wore a constant smile on his face, and spoke in a manner that was quite gentlemanly.
"Well then, I won't stand on ceremony or be polite!" Deidara coolly shouted, and then he proceeded to take several steps backwards in quick succession, placing both of his hands inside of his ninja tool pouch, and began to manufacture and create bombs.
"First off, a continuous barrage of C1 Little Birds!" After Deidara had finished manufacturing the bombs, he proceeded to hurl and launch three clay-based Little Birds towards Uchiha Obito in rapid succession.
"Cheep cheep!" The three kinds of Little Birds cried out loudly, and began to fly towards Uchiha Obito.
"Flying bombs, how very interesting indeed....." Uchiha Obito had already personally witnessed Deidara's means of causing explosions previously, and naturally knew that these Little Birds were capable of exploding.
He performed hand seals with both of his hands: "Fire Style, Fire Dragon Bullet!"
Uchiha Obito also proceeded to continuously spit out three fireballs, and each and every one of them collided directly with the clay birds that Deidara had thrown.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Very quickly, under the effects and influence of the fire, all of the C1 Little Birds detonated and exploded.
Instantly, the central area between Uchiha Obito and Deidara was completely surrounded by billowing and surging thick smoke.
"Detonating Clay Dolls!"
Suddenly, from within the thick smoke, a white-colored great sword burst forth and soared through the air, slashing towards Uchiha Obito.
"Hmm?" Uchiha Obito's facial expression remained unchanged, and he retreated his body backwards, dodging the great sword's slash.
"Bang!" After Uchiha Obito had successfully dodged it, this great sword directly stabbed into the surface of the ground.
This sword was completely snow white in color, and was manufactured and created out of clay, and the sword's hilt even had a string connected to it, leading towards the rear.
After the thick smoke had dissipated, everyone was finally able to discover that this string was connected to the mouth on the palm of Deidara's right hand.
From the looks of it, Deidara was capable of remotely controlling this sword made out of clay.
"That fellow's ninjutsu is so very strange, and so very powerful indeed....." The Genin who were observing the battle from the sidelines all turned their heads to look, and Deidara's ninjutsu was something that they had never seen before at all, and its power was also quite impressive.
"The good stuff is still yet to come!" Deidara chuckled softly, and then he proceeded to move his right hand, and that clay sword which had been stabbed into the ground instantly transformed into a ball-shaped mass, and began to slowly transform into other shapes.
Then, this round and rolling mass extended out four limbs, and transformed into two legs and two arms, and in the end, this lump of clay transformed into a human-shaped doll that was as tall as a fully grown adult.
"He actually created a doll!"
"This, can this even be considered ninjutsu?"
"Yeah, how amazing, to actually possess such a wondrous and mysterious ability!" All of the Genin began to praise and acclaim in admiration.
The surrounding people's hushed whispers and gazes of worship and admiration caused Deidara's mood to become extremely excited and exhilarated, and it seemed that his art had obtained their recognition, and in his happiness, he manipulated the human-shaped doll made of clay to begin dancing, and wore a look of smug satisfaction on his face: "Did you all see that, this is the masterpiece of my art, and all you fellows can do is be envious!"
"Becoming distracted in the middle of a battle, is a considerably dangerous thing, oh....." The Uchiha Obito who was far away chuckled, and casually shot a shuriken towards Deidara.
And Deidara also possessed quick eyes and nimble hands, and manipulated the clay doll to block in front of himself, and instantly, the shuriken that Uchiha Obito had shot was completely embedded within the clay doll's body.
A short moment later, the shuriken again emerged from this clay doll's soft and limp body, and fell onto the ground, and the wound that the shuriken had caused also very quickly returned to its original state as if nothing had happened.
After all, this doll was manufactured and created out of clay, and physical attacks probably wouldn't have much of an effect on it.
"You wanted to launch a sneak attack against me? You bandaged weirdo, you're thinking too prettily, now experience my doll art!" Deidara chuckled softly, and then he raised his hand, and commanded the clay doll to attack Uchiha Obito.
This clay doll walked towards Uchiha Obito in a limping and staggering manner, and its walking posture was just like a toddler who was learning to walk, and it seemed that it would fall down if it wasn't careful.
"Hmph." Uchiha Obito continued to maintain his smile, and he once again took out a kunai from his ninja tool pouch, aimed at the clay doll that was pouncing over, and with a downwards slash, he directly cut the pouncing clay doll into two halves with a single strike.
However, the clay doll which had been cut into two halves by Obito was still full of vitality, and they were continuously wriggling around on the surface of the ground.
"Haha, art cannot possibly be destroyed so simply, hmm!" Deidara laughed out loud, and once again continued to inject chakra clay into the clay dolls which had been cut apart through the white strings that he was using to manipulate them.
Instantly, these clay dolls which had been cut into two sections inflated and expanded once again, and each section once again transformed into a complete doll.
Instantly, two dolls appeared before Uchiha Obito's very eyes.
"It actually can split apart....." Uchiha Obito became even more interested in Deidara.
"Go!" Deidara lightly harrumphed, and the two clay dolls once again stumbled and staggered towards Uchiha Obito.
Before the first clay doll had even gotten close, it swung a punch towards Obito, and the length of its arm explosively increased by a factor of one, and the punch which originally wouldn't have been able to reach Obito was now able to easily reach him.
And Obito was also considerably calm and composed, and tilted his head to the side, lightly and effortlessly dodging it.
Immediately afterwards, the other doll pounced over, and kicked its leg to attack Obito's lower body, and the first one also swung a punch, striking towards Obito's shoulder.
Obito chuckled softly, and with a small jump of his body, and leaning backwards to fall down, he once again effortlessly dodged this attack from above and below.
"Its movements are pretty fast! Hmm!" Deidara frowned, and the speed at which he moved his hands up and down increased, and the attack speed of the two clay dolls also increased.
Their four limbs could freely twist, and become larger and smaller, and the position of their punches was always difficult to defend against, causing the surrounding Genin who were watching to become completely dazzled.
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