"Hmm for a rookie team, you guys sure know how to be annoying like mosquito's..."

"Better being a mosquito than an emotionless shitass who would probably bore his own mother to death..."

"..."

42 didn't know how to react to those witty insults, but he didn't need to, he just needed to kill him!

He started to prepare another charge.

But Eiji also used the time to get into an Iai-stance.

'In terms of speed I'm certainly faster, but I honestly don't want to be in close range against this guy. So I will use my other technique instead...'

Instead of accelerating and concentrating his chakra on his feet like for the "Spring Breeze", he used the sword instead.

He concentrated a huge amount of accelerated chakra, so much that the sword started to glow.

"Konoha Wind-Spirit Style: Summer wind..."

42 charged and disappeared.

But Eiji lifted his sword slightly out of the sheath right at this time.

The accumulated energy inside the sword escaped the sheath with explosive power.

But it was a directed power, which looked like a cutting wind with the appearance of a circle surrounding Eiji.

This comes, because Eiji used wind chakra as well.

The whole core of his technique wasn't that he just used his sheath like a bomb, but instead he used the accelerated wind chakra to form a phantom-blade around his blade inside the sheath.

He then draws fully this "phantom sword", which gives him control of the direction of his attack.

Of course the "phantom blade" instantly evaporates while drawing it.

In short, for the opponents, it looks like he just slightly moved his sword, which unleashes a powerful attack, but in reality, it was a sophisticated technique!

Because the attack had a huge radius, 42 was cut while charging.

Even his earth armor couldn't help him, he was cut in half.

His two halves still had the bullet-like power, but the trajectory was off and they didn't hit anything.

'Looks like this is it...'

Eiji was looking at the battlefield.

The other bandits escaped already at the begging of the battle, so they were nowhere to be seen.

Kotaru hit his head when he was tossed by Arina and was unconscious.

Hayate was unconscious as well.

When it comes to Arina, it looked like she finally listened to her body signals and was overwhelmed by the pain of her broken arm.

'So I'm the only one who can move around? I should probably rush to the village for help..."

Hayate woke up.

He was in a room which he believed he recognized, but overall he was confused and didn't understand the situation.

After some time images of the fight with 42 rushed into his brain.

Panic was written on his face and he tried to get up too suddenly, which resulted in him feeling huge pain.

"!"

"Calm down, with your injuries you shouldn't move around recklessly..."

Hayate recognized the voice and turned towards the source of it.

It was the village chief.

"Koff...please, can you tell me what happened? Where are my teammates?"

"Well, I believe you want the short answer so here you go. One of your teammates defeated this dangerous-looking bandit and since everyone was injured he rushed towards the village to ask for help. The other teammates were also treated and it looks like they will be fine..."

'Defeated this opponent?...it can only be one...'

"Can you tell me please, where the one with the sword currently is?"

"I wouldn't advise you to move around, but you won't listen probably anyway...I saw him near the bridge...the village has only one bridge, so you should find him easily."

"Koff, when it was my first time I couldn't sleep for weeks but it was war, so I couldn't be absent for too long..."

Eiji, who was sitting and leaning at a bridge arc, turned towards Hayate with a weak smile.

Traces of vomit could be seen around his mouth.

"Honestly sensei, I thought I wouldn't be a sissy, who would cry about killing his enemies....but my shitty body does whatever it wants..."

"Eiji, without you defeating him, we would have all died...so instead you should be proud..."

"I don't think I should be proud of stuff like that. If I didn't defeat him I would be dead and that's it. Isn't this how shinobi life is supposed to be?" - he said that with a mocking smile.

It was silent for a while.

Hayate thought about his shinobi life and experiences.

"Hey sensei, will it get easier with time?"

"No, you just learn to ignore it better."