Lightning Bolt Straight.
The Blade of Extreme Speed.
Once, during a battle with Minato, A had nearly caught up to Minato's short-range teleportation using this very attack.
Now, empowered by the new golden lightning, A's speed was nearly equivalent to Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique!
In just a flash of lightning, A appeared right in front of Sora.
If one ignored A's rugged, fierce face, who the real 'Yellow Flash' was might actually be debatable!
However, to A's surprise, Sora still reacted to his incredibly fast punch.
The sharp Hyorinmaru thrust towards A's chest!
If A didn't dodge or block, the two would likely end up mutually wounded.
But, astonishingly, A really didn't dodge!
A flash of ruthlessness crossed his face as A pushed his fist even further forward: "I told you, I would sacrifice everything for Kumogakure!"
As if to prove his point, A let Sora's blade pierce his chest, the bloodied steel passing clean through his body.
At the same time, however, A also landed his fist squarely on Sora's chest!
Boom!
The collision of fist and chest produced a sound like a heavy cannon firing!
The Raikage's fist was not something a normal person could withstand.
Even Jugo in his Curse Mark Stage 2 was nearly killed by this punch!
Naturally, under the Raikage's fist, Sora's chest cracked like porcelain, sprouting a web of fine fissures!
'Wait, cracks...?' A suddenly froze!
'How could a person develop cracks?'
'Unless... it wasn't a person!'
"Damn, a Substitution Technique? When?"
A realized the trick and tried to pull back.
But then, Sora's voice rang out: "Not a substitution. An Ice Illusion."
"And also, Six-Point Ice Formation!"
As Sora spoke, six points glowing with icy blue light appeared around the Fourth Raikage's feet!
Immediately, the six points connected!
Roar-
A massive pillar of ice erupted beneath the Fourth Raikage!
In an instant, the previously triumphant A was transformed into a frozen specimen encased in amber!
"Raikage-sama!"
Witnessing this, the Kumogakure reinforcements who had arrived after A joined the battle cried out in worry.
Immediately, several Ninjas tried to rush out to rescue him.
But then, Mabui stopped them!
"Wait! Raikage-sama is fine!"
"Hmm?" Mabui's words made Sora look at her in surprise. He hadn't expected this young woman, who looked only in her teens but was already so... ambitious, to understand the Fourth Raikage so well.
And Mabui was right. The Fourth Raikage was indeed fine.
Because at that moment, a golden pattern resembling swirling flames lit up right in the center of the Fourth Raikage's chest!
Under the influence of this pattern, the Natural Energy in the surroundings frantically surged into the Fourth Raikage's body!
Then, a state extremely similar to, if not identical with, Sage Mode manifested on the Fourth Raikage!
Crack crack crack...
Dense cracks appeared all over the Six-Point Ice Formation.
The next second, the ice prison shattered.
The Fourth Raikage, his hair standing on end as if in a Super Saiyan transformation, appeared in the clearing before Kumogakure's main gate!
"Ho! Finally using that, are we?" A trace of excitement appeared on Sora's face.
The reason he had gone straight to Bankai was precisely to force out this hidden power within A!
Because he had managed to analyze A's golden lightning, but this particular power was something Sora had neither seen before nor knew about from the original work.
He had a premonition that the origin of this thing was significant!
"What is this?" Sora asked.
"This... is the foundation upon which our Kumogakure was built!" A hint of pride surfaced on A's face!
"The world says the Senju inherited the Sage of Six Paths' body, and the Uchiha inherited his eyes! That they are the true orthodox successors of Ninshu!"
"But no one knows that the place in the world with the most preserved Ninshu's ruins is actually our Kumogakure!"
"Long ago, one of the original developers of Ninshu's Jutsu had a brother. This brother possessed an incredibly powerful body. The developer, wanting such a powerful body for himself, initiated a research project to study how to enhance the physical form."
"Our Kumogakure's predecessors inherited the secrets of this lightning!"
"It's a pity that after years of great wars, too much was lost!"
"But Yuki Sora, your luck is good. Not long ago, an earthquake struck a secret place in Kumogakure, causing the most crucial ruins to surface!"
"And what I carry on my body is the wisdom from that Ninshu's predecessor! The Thunder Combat Sigil!"
"Yuki Sora, you are the first to taste the power of the Combat Sigil! And soon, many more will get to taste it!"
"Oh, really?" Sora was noncommittal about A's words.
"My assessment is: quite interesting. More interesting than Orochimaru's Cursed Seals. Yours doesn't look anything like an ancient inheritance."
"So, whether it's from the ancient era or just last week, let me peel it off and take a look!"
As he spoke, Sora suddenly flung a Kido spell at A.
"Bakudo #61: Rikujokoro!"