The setting sun hung overhead, and the clouds glowed blood-red.
The entire battlefield was deathly silent. Everyone was immersed in indescribable shock. The Two-Tails Jinchuriki, who had displayed overwhelming might just moments ago, had suddenly gone mad and begun attacking her own comrades. In the end, a single Tailed Beast Bomb had wiped out most of them, including their commanding general, Dodai.
Shin slowly descended to the ground. Forming a hand seal with one hand, he watched as crimson markings gradually crawled across Yugito's entire body, leaving her unable to move in the slightest.
Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal.
The remaining Cloud Ninja around them erupted into panic. This was already a certain death situation. Konoha's ninja surged forward in a mass; those who resisted were cut down on the spot, while even more were captured alive.
Yugito stared blankly ahead. She could not accept that she had killed countless comrades, and her mind was on the verge of collapse.
"Shin!"
Shikaku, Fugaku, Jiraiya, and the others hurried over. Looking at the captured Two-Tails Jinchuriki before them, all of them were deeply astonished.
"Shin-kun, was that Genjutsu you used just now?" Fugaku could not help asking. He had never heard of any Genjutsu capable of affecting a Jinchuriki.
"It had roughly the same effect," Shin said.
By manipulating Natural Energy, he could alter the density of the air and adjust the direction in which light traveled. When people looked at flames, they could see the air around them twisting. That was because air at high temperatures had lower density, and changes in the transmission medium also changed light's refractive index. It was the same principle behind a mirage.
This was not Genjutsu. It was merely a physical phenomenon.
He changed the movement of Natural Energy through the vibrations of his own