Chapter 65: Ch.65 Growth
Uchiha Shinji slowly walked toward the Root shinobi's corpse, glancing down at it. He flicked his wrist, pulling back the spider silk, shaking off the blood clinging to it, and then wound it back around his wrist.
The situation had been too dangerous. If he didn't want to use his Mangekyō Sharingan, his only option was to resort to the spider silk as his trump card.
After deciding to counterattack, he discreetly attached the silk hidden around his wrist to a kunai. Then, when he threw the kunai, he quietly laid the silk along the path the Root shinobi would take to attack him.
In the dim forest light, the spider silk was nearly invisible. The Root shinobi, moving at high speed, didn't notice it until it was too late and collided headfirst into the trap.
Just then, the sound of footsteps approached. A few breaths later, Neji hurried over, his face filled with worry.
Seeing the decapitated fake "mysterious man" on the ground, Neji was shocked. "You... you killed him?"
Shinji nodded slightly. "He let his guard down and fell into my trap."
Remembering the impressive trap Shinji had set earlier during the day, Neji suddenly realized that this fake mysterious man's demise wasn't that surprising after all.
Squatting down to inspect the body, Neji asked, "Shinji, why do you think he was pretending to be the mysterious man and attacking us?"
Leaning against a tree, Shinji panted, "I don't know."
Even though the opponent was a fake, he was at least a special jonin. The brief exchange had left Shinji covered in wounds.