"Oh? Little girl, what are you trying to do?"
Seeing Fū move, Shinnō, who had already taken down the other Takigakure Ninja, suddenly showed a puzzled expression.
Attacking her own people—why couldn't he quite make sense of it?
But Shinnō did not pay it much mind. Instead, he looked deeply amused.
Who would have thought that Fū had no intention of paying Shinnō any attention either? She merely gave Shibuki, who was like both an older brother and a father to her, one last deep look. Her lips moved twice, as though she had said something.
Then she turned and ran!
And Fū was running toward the exit of Takigakure.
The sight left Shinnō utterly stunned, unable to react for quite a while.
Once Shinnō realized what Fū intended, he could not help smiling again.
Meanwhile, Fū took the opportunity to widen the gap between them.
"Interesting. You want to use yourself as bait and make me spare these Takigakure people? Fine. Killing them is meaningless anyway. I'd better chase the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki."
After casually glancing at Shibuki, who lay paralyzed on the ground and unable to move, then sweeping his gaze over the groaning Takigakure Ninja sprawled all around, Shinnō ignored them and went straight after Fū.
Just as Shinnō had said, killing Shibuki and the others held no meaning for him.
On the contrary, killing them would only waste time.
That would make it easy for him to lose the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.
At such a critical moment, Shinnō did not want to lose sight of the greater goal over a minor matter.
After learning from Orochimaru that the Akatsuki Organization was also after the tailed beasts, Shinnō knew that the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki was his easiest target.
If he missed this chance, creating the Zero-Tails Void would be nothing