In a desperate maneuver, Ittoki used his suit’s exhaust to create a smoke screen, not to escape, but to close the distance. He didn't strike with a blade. Instead, he used a palm strike to the chest, a move his mother had taught him—not to kill, but to disarm.
Ittoki looked down at his hands. They were trembling. "Is it always going to be like this? Just because our ancestors hated each other, we have to spend our lives trying to kill each other?" Shinobi no Ittoki (Dub) Episode 5
Kousetsu watched from the trees, a flicker of something—perhaps hope—crossing her features. The cycle hadn't broken yet, but for one night, in the heart of a simulated forest, the wheel had stopped turning. In a desperate maneuver, Ittoki used his suit’s
"The Iga heir," Haruka sneered, spinning a kunai between his fingers. "A boy playing dress-up. Do you think that suit makes you a ninja? You’re just a relic of a dying clan." Ittoki looked down at his hands
As if on cue, a flurry of shuriken whistled through the air. Ittoki reacted by instinct, his Iga-built suit whirring to life, enhancing his speed just enough to deflect the steel. Out of the darkness stepped Haruka, a Koga student whose eyes held a fanatical gleam.
