For all that their opponents were far from the level of even genin ninja, they were at least something other than mindless zombies and flying horses with magical powers. Alicorns. Whatever -- it meant fighting with focus and thought instead of just cleaving a path to the final destination, and Sasuke hadn't expected he'd miss even this level of intelligent combat as much as he had. Or maybe it was just the weight of his own sword in his hands again, for all that it had nearly bankrupted him to finally buy it back.

He hadn't thought their plan would have worked as effectively as expected, either, but the genjutsu covering their approach had held without an issue, and the surprise of stripping it away to reveal their boarding party abruptly on the deck had given them a strong initial advantage over the sailors. At this rate, Sakura would just be bored back on the Murderess.

It didn't take much deduction to tell one trail of bodies apart from another's, and he caught up to L-Elf by administering a stab and a slash at a pair of soldiers attacking on either side, tossing their bodies out of the way.

"Leave the captain alive if you find him," he said, voice pitched to be heard over the ruckus around them. Sasuke's own body count, even when he'd been rampaging toward Danzo, was deliberate rather than thorough: he killed whom he meant to kill. "I want him for information."