Vice Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates

'That guy! His precognition ability is abnormally strong. It's even stronger than Uchiha's Sharingan, right?'

Temari gulped heavily as she took out the metal ammo and immediately bandaged her wounds.

At this moment, her heartbeat was soaring. She used one of her strongest attacks, but it almost did nothing.

Now, she could only rely on her own attacks.

'No matter what, I don't want to lose to this long nose. I have to give it my all.'

She thought to herself and spun her fan with so much force that it released a powerful gust of wind.

That gust of wind kept blowing and spinning until it started changing the weather around them, creating a massive green hurricane.

This hurricane was enough to raise the metal and rocks from the ground.

See this, Usopp panicked.

'This is too much.'

While panicking, he didn't hesitate to pull out several of his large metal pieces and turn them into sharp arrows.

He attached a lot of explosives to those arrows and used his Devil Fruit ability to throw them towards the tornado.

Boom! Boom!

The explosives caused massive flames to generate while colliding with the tornado. These flames got pulled into the tornado.

At this moment, Temari couldn't help but sneer.

'Not only does his counter not work, but it also made my attack stronger. Now, how is he planning on facing this, huh?'

Just when she thought Usopp had lost this battle because of his mistake, he suddenly took out an ammo and shot it towards the flaming tornado.

Before she could react, she saw the ammo hit the tornado, releasing a massive storm of ice.

In an instant, the flaming tornado froze into a block of ice.

'What? He froze my attack? But how does that make sense?'

Temari couldn't help but feel confused.

But Kamatari suddenly appeared in front of her and blocked a sharp arrow coming her way using his sickle.

Another of the arrow suddenly came from the other side, making it almost impossible to dodge.

She used her fan to block the arrow and did it successfully, while another arrow came from the other side.

Now, she was in a pinch.

Crack!

Before she could think of a solution, she found the arrow piercing her back. But the next moment, her body turned into a piece of rock.

"What?"

At this moment, Usopp's Observation Haki gave him a great sense of danger as he tried using Future Sight.

Since he wasn't calm enough, it didn't work immediately.

To use Future Sight, one must remain calm. Especially a new awakener of Future Sight like Usopp.

But he certainly wasn't calm when his strategy didn't work as he predicted.

Temari didn't know how his prediction worked, but she did what she could.

Using the ground as an ocean, she swam her way to Usopp before jumping out of the ground as she weaved her hand signs and swung her kunai.

[Wind Release- Wind Cutter Technique]

Although she couldn't use her fan since she had kept it behind to fool Usopp, her kunai still managed to release a sharp blast of wind.

Splash!

Usopp tried blocking it with his Armament Haki, but it cut through his weak Haki and slashed his chest.

Temari attacked again, but this time, Usopp was able to dodge thanks to his Observation Haki. Since she was in front of him, he didn't need foresight.

Just basic Observation Haki could show her next attack.

As he moved his fingers, several of his metal ammo started attacking Temari from all directions.

'Damn it! Wasn't that enough?'

Temari gritted her teeth. For that attack, she had used her strongest technique, but it didn't even kill him.

She was sure that Usopp wasn't some sort of monster with a powerful body. But even so, he was able to tank her attack.

'What kind of power was that?'

She thought to herself while she spun in mid-air and launched a powerful gust of wind to block all of those incoming attacks.

While she managed to block smaller bullets, the bigger arrows managed to pierce through the wind and attack her.

With just a kunai, she couldn't block all of them.

Before she could even launch another powerful attack, her body was riddled by those sharp metal arrows.

Thud!

As she took her last breath, her body fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Usopp released a heavy breath and fell to the ground.

"That was bad, seriously bad. If she had any powerful offensive jutsu, I would've been dead."

What Usopp didn't know was that Temari did have a powerful Jutsu. She hadn't mastered it for use in this battle.

But if she hadn't abandoned her fan to fool Usopp, she would've been able to use that Jutsu.

And, its power was more than enough to cut Usopp into pieces.

So, Usopp should really be thankful that he took down his opponent as fast as possible.

While Temari in the Kazekage Arc wasn't as strong as Temari in the War Arc, the difference wasn't that big.

It was just that her signature attack needed the fan to work, and she left it behind to fool Usopp.

And it didn't work as she expected.

She was smart, but she wasn't as much of a tactical genius as her future husband.

She didn't know Usopp had a powerful defensive ability, or rather, she didn't think about it at that moment.

She had seen wounds on Usopp's face and didn't think they were fake.

So, when she attacked using Wind Cutter Jutsu, she wanted to take him down with a single move.

That's why she left behind her fan.

"This makeup was worth it. If she knew I had something like Armament Haki, she wouldn't have left behind that fan, would she?"

Usopp muttered as he started cleaning his face.

"Man, why do I have to face a woman every single time?"

He slowly got up and continued.

"It doesn't matter, though. I need to go and save Luffy now."

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