"You did well. Leave the rest to me."
Boom!
The ground shook violently as everyone looked at the seven-year-old boy who had suddenly appeared.
"Hiromi!" The ninjas' eyes widened.
Though they were startled, they all felt a sense of relief.
Hiromi's expression was cold. In his Flame Emperor Form, his gaze fell upon A with extreme pressure.
"So this is the Flame Emperor Form based on the Fire Release Chakra Mode?" A spoke without a smile, his lightning erupting and blowing his slicked-back hair straight up. In an instant, his entire body transformed.
Lightning Release Chakra Mode: Strongest Lightning Release Armor!
This was his full-power state. His Lightning Release power would be exerted to its maximum. In this state, he was so fast that even the Mangekyo Sharingan couldn't track him, allowing him to instantaneously dodge Sasuke's Amaterasu.
The high temperature of the flames and the lightning were locked in a head-on confrontation.
"Retreat now, and I might spare your life," Hiromi's voice carried immense authority.
A snorted, "Small in age, but quite the temper."
In an instant, he vanished.
A golden light emerged in Hiromi's eyes, masking the rapid spinning of the purple Rinnegan within.
A's pupils constricted.
This kid can keep up!
In this mode, many people couldn't even see how he moved. So, he was naturally surprised to find eyes that could keep up with his speed but that was all. Being able to keep up with one's eyes didn't mean the body could keep up.
He moved rapidly around Hiromi, resisting the terrifying high temperatures. At the same time, a golden flame cage fifteen meters in diameter appeared, surrounding him and Hiromi and quickly closing in.
A ignored it. Covered in Lightning Chakra, he could both insulate himself from the heat of the golden flames and forcibly break through the Golden Flame Cage. Doing so had only one drawback—high consumption. However, before he was drained, Hiromi would die first.
Killing Hiromi would surely drive the Uchiha clan mad, further reducing Konoha's combat strength.
He had already decided to retreat after killing Hiromi, leaving Sunagakure to continue wearing down Konoha's forces.
Suddenly, A charged forward.
One-Finger Nukite!
Hiromi ignored everything, seemingly concentrating on controlling the closure of the golden flame cage.
Squelch!
Fingers wrapped in lightning mercilessly pierced through Hiromi's heart.
Hiromi's pupils trembled, and his body twitched somewhat uncontrollably. He glared, forcing his expression into composure, looking relatively calm even as blood couldn't help but spill from the corner of his lips.
Kakashi's eyes widened, unable to understand what he was seeing.
Was Hiromi really risking his life against the Raikage for the sake of Konoha? So he was someone who loved the village this much?
Bullshit! Someone who casually casts their ultimate in the heart of the village—does he really love it?
'Believe it if you want, but I sure as hell don't.' Kakashi watched with his signature dead-fish eyes.
Meanwhile, the villagers and ninjas who saw this scene felt a sense of sorrow.
He's so young, why must he be so stubborn and risk his life against him?
While they felt a sense of desolation, they also felt they had misunderstood the Uchiha clan.
Look, an Uchiha is putting his life on the line for them. How could such a person be a bad guy?
"This is youth!" Guy's eyes filled with tears.
"Yeah. I didn't expect him to be such a good person." As a straightforward man, Yamato had already forgotten Hiromi's killing intent toward him from not long ago.
Hiromi didn't pay them any mind. Blood kept flowing from his mouth, yet he stared at A with a smile.
The golden cage was still rapidly closing in.
At the same time, he grabbed A's hand that had pierced his heart, preventing him from pulling it out, as the golden flames sizzled and rapidly eroded the blue lightning. The blue lightning refused to compromise, resisting fiercely, and A's Chakra was being rapidly consumed.
"Comparing Chakra volume with me?" A laughed.
Everyone knew that Chakra volume was Hiromi's greatest weakness. Even if he had to resist the high temperatures and his consumption was much higher than Hiromi's, his Chakra volume was not something a seven-year-old kid like Hiromi could compare to.
At the same time, he was disappointed. As expected, a fake is just a fake.
A was about to erupt and throw off Hiromi's hand, only to discover that Hiromi's hand was absorbing his Chakra.
His eyes glared, his expression turned fierce, and his muscles bulged as he tried to shake off Hiromi's hand, but he hadn't expected Hiromi's strength to be so great. Or rather, he hadn't expected the golden flames to possess such formidable power, faintly suppressing his Lightning Release.
"Hmph! Since you want to hold on, I'll let you hold on until you die!" A's face was ferocious.
Instead of retreating, he attacked, raising his right hand to form a hand blade. Blue Lightning Chakra condensed on his right hand in an instant, emitting a sharp and terrifying aura. In less than a second, his right hand blade became like a lightning sword, chopping toward Hiromi's neck.
Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!
This eruption in a moment of urgency only had seventy percent of its usual power, but for an attack capable of severing a horn of Eight-Tails, he didn't believe the golden flames could defend against it.
A was right. The golden flames indeed couldn't defend against it, because the characteristic of the golden flames was absolute high temperature and eruption, not defense.
Had it been the Lava Release Chakra Mode, Hiromi might have only needed to take a minor injury. But there was a way to avoid being injured at all.
Hiromi's expression remained unchanged, as if he were letting A chop off his head.
However, with a thought, a skeletal frame like a raging fire appeared out of thin air, protecting him within. At the same time, a golden flame shield quickly formed to protect his neck. Hiromi had set up a double layer of insurance.
In the next second, the blue hand blade descended, striking down with a crash.
Bang!
Lightning flashed and the sound was violent, yet it was filled with a dull thud.