Aokawa froze in place, watching the Fūshin Puppet rush towards him, its spinning saw blade raised high.
He looked as if he was completely unable to react, stunned with fear.
"Aokawa! Dodge!" Kurenai Yuhi's scream was filled with despair.
Even the experienced Shinku Yuhi felt her heart leap to her throat, thinking that this powerful reinforcement would be splattered with blood in the next moment.
The Fūshin Puppet had already reached Aokawa, raising its saw blade, ready to strike down fiercely.
Kurenai Yuhi's mouth hung open, her face filled with terror and pain.
She struggled to get up, wanting to push Aokawa away.
In her opinion, Aokawa must have been accidentally poisoned during their earlier exchange.
The next moment!
The incredibly fierce Fūshin Puppet suddenly stopped all its movements, like a Puppet with its strings cut.
The raised saw blade fell limply, and its entire body collapsed to the ground with a thud, scattering into a pile of parts.
And in Aokawa's Byakugan vision.
Fūshin in the forest had already become a headless corpse, sprawled on the ground.
This was why he needed to appear in the enemy's line of sight.
From beginning to end, his goal had always been the Puppeteer hidden deep within.
Every step he took was to close the distance with the Puppeteer.
The experienced Shinku Yuhi next to him was the first to react.
His eyes widened, his heart greatly shaken.
"Is this the long-range attack Kekkei Genkai mentioned in the intel?"
He understood instantly.
These two Puppets from Sunagakure were clearly the type that shared vision.
Although this type's combat power was not as strong as ordinary Puppets, most people could only control one.
However, its biggest advantage was that it could be controlled beyond visual range.
The main body would usually hide, using the advantage of shared vision to conduct reconnaissance or battle in places beyond the Puppeteer's visual range.
Since it was beyond visual range, the main body must have been hidden several hundred meters away from them.
The instant collapse of this Puppet indicated that the Puppeteer had either been killed or severely injured.
In other words, Aokawa's arrow just now accurately hit the Puppeteer hundreds of meters away!
...Meanwhile, Fūga, who was sprinting through the dense forest, had just pushed aside the leaves and burst out, with two Guards Puppets floating beside him.
He subconsciously searched for Fūshin's figure, and the next moment, his pupils constricted sharply.
Fūshin's Puppet had actually collapsed to the ground like a Puppet with its strings cut!
It had collapsed to the ground!
This was even more terrifying than the Puppet being directly destroyed! This meant that Fūshin... was already dead.
And what made his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering even more was that the bow-wielding youth was steadily aiming that huge Spirit Bow at him!
Fūga felt a chill run down his spine instantly, a coldness rushing straight to his head.
With the fastest Puppet manipulation of his life, he overlapped two Puppets to block in front of him.
Almost simultaneously, the azure Chakra Arrow had already torn through the air!
Bang! Bang!
Two explosive sounds occurred almost simultaneously, and the two Puppets he had painstakingly crafted shattered before his eyes!
The residual power of the Chakra Arrow slammed him flying, sending him sprawling in a sorry state.
Fūga ignored the heartache, scrambling to his feet and diving back into the dense forest. From the moment he realized Fūshin was dead, all his Battle Intent had collapsed!
That was a Puppeteer who was in no way inferior to himself.
"Damn this temporary conscription, I just came to buy Materials, why do I have to get involved in this mess for no reason?"
He wished he could slap himself twice; at this moment, he only cared about fleeing for his life through the forest.
The feeling of being watched, like a shadow, made him quicken his pace even more.
Suddenly, a faint bowstring sound echoed behind him.
Immediately after, his left foot missed its footing, and he lost his balance, tumbling forward due to inertia.
He frantically tried to prop himself up, but his left foot again failed to provide strength, causing him to stumble.
He instinctively looked down.
"Ah!!!" A shrill scream pierced through the forest.
His calf had disappeared, and a crescent-shaped wound at the end of his thigh was continuously gushing blood.
A calf with a similarly shaped wound lay quietly on the ground behind him.
The brat holding the giant bow was in the distance, aiming his Spirit Bow at him with icy eyes.
Intense fear made him overcome the severe pain.
Fūga struggled to stand on his right leg, desperately hopping forward on one foot.
He hadn't run far.
His center of gravity was lost again.
This time, the Chakra Arrow completely severed his left thigh, tossing it into his view.
"Ah..." He wailed again, trying to get up in horror.
He suddenly realized: left calf, left thigh... this brat was retaliating for that girl!
If that's the case, the next arrow will be... the abdomen!
Pfft!
He stared blankly down, watching a blue arrow blade pierce through his abdomen.
His body could no longer support him, and he fell straight down.
A coolness from the ground spread through Fūga's ears, and the fresh scent of damp earth filled his nostrils.
He looked at the small blades of grass so close to him, his regret reaching its peak at this moment.
The higher-ups had just opened up Puppet manufacturing technology for Puppeteers like him.
The good days were still ahead.
He shouldn't have gotten involved in this mess, which brought him no benefit, just to show off his new Puppet.
He had senselessly sacrificed his life here.
A strong foot trampled the grass before his eyes. A blue light flashed, and Fūga's consciousness plunged into eternal darkness... At the forest path.
A blue light flashed, and Fūga's consciousness plunged into eternal darkness... At the forest path.
Aokawa darted out of the dense forest, returning to where Kurenai Yuhi and the other two were injured.
Before pursuing Fūga, he had already confirmed the injuries of the three.
Fortunately, the opponent had mostly used non-lethal paralyzing and hallucinogenic poisons to extract information.
He quickly went to Kurenai Yuhi's side, kneeling to check her condition.
"Aokawa..."
Kurenai Yuhi finally saw Aokawa again, feeling much more at ease, but her tears still wouldn't stop.
"Don't worry, I'm here!" Aokawa's voice was unusually gentle.
He activated his Byakugan, precisely sealing the blood vessels around Kurenai Yuhi's thigh wound.
With one hand gently pressing her thigh, his other hand swiftly pulled out the short blade.
Kurenai Yuhi let out a muffled groan, forcefully suppressing a cry of pain.
Aokawa constantly observed Kurenai Yuhi's condition and couldn't help but admire her resilience.
He then activated the Detoxification Technique, slowly forcing the toxins out from around the wound.
As for the rest that had already been carried away by the blood, there was nothing he could do for now.
Fortunately, it wasn't a fatal poison, and it would all be expelled after some time through the body's metabolism.
During the treatment, the wound felt intermittently numb and itchy.
Several times, Kurenai Yuhi couldn't resist trying to scratch, but Aokawa gently patted her hand away.
She could only pout in annoyance, enduring the sensation like ants crawling, letting him do as he pleased.
A moment later, the toxins in Kurenai Yuhi's wound were completely cleared.
Aokawa then activated the Healing Technique, and a soft green light enveloped the wound, beginning to promote tissue healing.
However, he did not completely heal the wound; he only stopped the Ninjutsu after ensuring the blood vessel walls were securely closed and no longer bleeding.
There were two others still bleeding; he needed to go and stop their bleeding first.
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