"Does it have to be like this?" Smoker's face was solemn.
He didn't want to fight because the reason for this fight was truly disgraceful, even a bit ridiculous.
At the same time, he also regretted not stopping Barton's foolish behavior in time, which had enraged Uchiha Chiga.
"You want to end this without even an apology? Who gave you the confidence? Is it the so-called Logia Smoke-Smoke Fruit?"
Chiga clearly wasn't going to let it go. Today, he was going to have a fight with Smoker, the strongest in the upper grades, which would save him a lot of trouble later.
Smoker, too, had his pride. Being repeatedly mocked by Chiga in public made him lose his temper.
"If that's the case, let's fight! Uchiha Chiga!" Smoker couldn't hold back anymore and challenged Chiga.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Chiga stretched his body, then crooked a finger at Smoker, signaling him to begin.
"Arrogant fool! White Smoke Launcher!" Smoker fully erupted, his lower body transforming into a thick cloud of white smoke as he charged towards Chiga.
"White Fist!"
Mid-charge, Smoker also turned his arms into smoke. His fists, utilizing the properties of smoke, rapidly extended, revealing their solid form and flying towards Chiga with powerful air currents.
Chiga's body swayed slightly, easily dodging Smoker's attack.
"It's not over yet!" Smoker didn't panic. The two empty fists, still emitting white smoke, quickly turned around in mid-air and flew back, heading straight for Chiga's back.
"Chiga! Watch out behind you!"
A cry of alarm. Ain, in the crowd, seeing how strangely Smoker's attack behaved, quickly called out a warning.
Her friend beside her gently tugged her sleeve, thinking, My dear friend, neither of these two is to be trifled with, don't get involved!
Chiga remained still, his Rinnegan slightly open.
Almighty Push!
Bang! Smoker's fists were shattered into scattered smoke by a sudden shockwave before they even touched Chiga's body.
After a moment, the wisps of smoke slowly converged at Smoker's wrists, solidifying and reforming into fists.
"A Paramecia Devil Fruit user?" Smoker found Uchiha Chigara increasingly troublesome. That shockwave just now clearly countered his Smoke-Smoke Fruit.
"Believe what you want." Chiga couldn't be bothered to explain. A black vortex appeared in his palm as he activated Universal Pull on Smoker.
Smoker's body jolted, and he was violently pulled towards Chiga.
"Damn it, what is this again?!"
This time, Smoker didn't suffer the same fate as others Chiga had pulled in before, because Chiga didn't grab his neck.
As Chiga reached out to grab him, he elementalized again, his head separating from his body, performing a literal "separate head action."
Chiga anticipated Smoker's elementalization and didn't panic. He formed a few hand signs with one hand.
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!
Chigara exhaled a blast of wind from his mouth. The cafeteria's facilities were immediately blown askew, and some people around couldn't stand firm and were blown over.
Smoker, as the direct target of the attack, had been blown into countless wisps of white smoke, scattered everywhere.
After a long while, the white smoke converged into a humanoid shape. The first thing to appear was Smoker's pale face. He stared intently at Chiga, demanding,
"This time it's wind? This is definitely not the same power as the shockwave from before. Did you eat more than one Devil Fruit?"
Smoker felt uncertain, slowly concentrating the white smoke to reform his body. The Great Breakthrough just now had a significant impact on him, a smoke man.
"You can think of that as ninjutsu." Chiga didn't take the opportunity to follow up with an attack, simply watching Smoker complete his body's reformation.
"Ninjutsu? Are you a ninja from Wano Country?"
"Wano Country? Heh, what kind of trash is that, daring to call itself a ninja?" Chiga scoffed disdainfully a few times, then his expression turned dangerous.
"I'm done playing. Next, I have a question for you."
"What?"
"Do Logia users… bleed?"
Hearing that, Smoker instinctively retreated wildly backward. However, Chiga was faster.
Without warning, Chiga appeared behind Smoker and grabbed at him.
"It's useless. Without Armament Haki, no matter how strong your attack power is, it's futile!"
Smoker saw that Chigara had no special movements this time, relaxed slightly, and scoffed.
"Is that so?" Chigara's hand touched Smoker's shoulder, and then a transparent circular barrier appeared, enclosing both Chigara and Smoker.
Rinnegan: Preta Path: Blocking Absorption Seal!
Smoker discovered with horror that his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability couldn't be used, like severed limbs lacking nerve connections.
"Let me go!" This illogical situation made Smoker completely panic. He could only shout loudly to alleviate the fear in his heart.
The Blocking Absorption Seal, as another usage of the Preta Path, differs from absorbing the opponent's stamina or chakra. It can absorb the opponent's techniques and has a certain sealing effect.
Chigara's Preta Path, without the cooperation of the Human Path to kill the ability user, cannot directly absorb the ability from the user. However, it can temporarily seal the opponent's ability through close contact using the Blocking Absorption Seal.
With one hand, he subdued Smoker, pinning him to the ground. In the palm of his other hand, a black rod appeared. Chiga aimed at Smoker's right shoulder and plunged it in.
Pfft! Smoker's right shoulder was pierced by the black rod. Blood gushed out, and the pain stimulated him to frantically activate his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability.
However, the result was despair. Even though Chiga had dispersed that damned barrier, he still couldn't use his ability normally.
To be precise, most of his body could elementalize, but his shoulder area was unresponsive, as if it weren't his own.
When he tried to pull it out with his other hand, a wave of weakness surged through him the moment he touched the black rod, let alone pulling out the black rod embedded in his shoulder.
The black rod, a product created by Rinnegan users through Yin-Yang Release in their palms, has the effect of sealing or disrupting the flow of energy within the opponent's body.
Rinnegan users can even use it to control corpses, just like Nagato created powerful Six Paths ability puppets.
"Behave yourself. If you keep struggling, the wound will only get bigger." Chiga looked at the miserable-looking Smoker on the ground and kindly reminded him.
"What's going on?! Everyone, stop it!"
A reprimand. Zephyr had arrived at the scene.
Seeing the dilapidated cafeteria, the standing Chiga, and the lying Smoker, Zephyr had a headache.
"Someone tell me, what happened?"
Ain shook off her roommate's hand, stepped forward, and said loudly,
"Teacher Zephyr! The upperclassmen provoked first, and Barton was the one who made the first move! Chiga only retaliated!"
Zephyr nodded, then looked at Smoker on the ground.
"Then what happened to Smoker?"
"Teacher, I'm fine. I was just having a normal sparring match with Chiga. I'm truly sorry for causing such extensive damage."
Smoker endured the severe pain and explained word by word.
Chiga looked at Smoker in surprise, his opinion of him changing significantly.
He retracted the black rod, helped Smoker up, and also explained to Zephyr,
"Yes, Teacher Zephyr, it's my fault. I didn't control my strength and hit too hard!"
Zephyr also breathed a slight sigh of relief. To be honest, both of them were his most prized disciples, and he was reluctant to punish either of them.
"You personally take Smoker to the infirmary! And you two will bear the cost of the damage caused this time yourselves!"
"Yes!" Chiga and Smoker quickly responded.
"Barton! For instigating this, you're to run a hundred laps around the track! If you don't finish today, get out of the training camp!"
Barton, who had been hiding in the crowd, his face falling, dared not say anything more. He dragged his terrified and exhausted body to run laps.
After glaring at Chiga and Smoker, Zephyr dispersed the crowd and left with a flick of his sleeve.
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