Chiriku Iki's eyes flickered when he saw that Uchiha Homura was not only alive, but had also awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
"Chiriku Iki, you really don't take me seriously enough." Hatake Sakumo said, gripping the White Fang Short Sword in a reverse hold.
The instant Chiriku Iki moved to ambush Uchiha Homura, Hatake Sakumo not only destroyed Chiriku Iki's humanoid puppet, but also destroyed Chiriku Rokutsuki's two puppets in passing.
"Iki, what do we do now?" Chiriku Rokutsuki asked as she released another two puppets.
"There's no other way, Rokutsuki. Prepare that move." Faced with all this, Chiriku Iki was ready to use his trump card.
"But you still haven't mastered that move. Isn't it too dangerous?" Chiriku Rokutsuki said hesitantly after hearing her husband.
"I can't do it alone, but if we join forces, even Konoha's White Fang is nothing to fear!" Chiriku Iki spoke with absolute certainty.
"All right." Chiriku Rokutsuki had no choice but to agree to her husband's risky plan.
Then, each of them took out another two scrolls.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
After several loud bursts, a total of nine puppets appeared around Chiriku Iki and Chiriku Rokutsuki. Including the remaining tiger-shaped puppet, there were ten in all.
"Ninja Art—Ten Puppets Manipulation!"
Seeing the ten puppets instantly surround him, Hatake Sakumo could not help showing a grave expression.
The current situation was that the couple, Chiriku Iki and Chiriku Rokutsuki, were controlling all ten puppets together.
Normally, each of them should have used two fingers to control one puppet.
But thanks to the tacit coordination they had developed over many years, they could even control each other's puppets to attack or defend.
Thus, in actual combat, both could use two fingers to control the same puppet, achieving the effect of four fingers controlling a single puppet.