"Don't use that move again!" Seeing this, Ao shouted at the little girl some distance away.
"Okay!"
Mei Terumi answered with a pout.
The pale blue orb of light dispersed, revealing a middle-aged man gasping for breath inside.
"Stop struggling! In my opinion, you should just come back to Kirigakure with us!" Ao slowly advanced while wearing down his opponent's fighting spirit with words.
"Go back with you? How could that be possible?" The Hyuga Main Family shook his head as he glanced at the three people surrounding him once again.
"You should understand that my position absolutely doesn't allow me to be captured alive!"
With that, he once again assumed the starting stance of Gentle Fist.
In the dense forest, many Kirigakure and Konoha shinobi encountered each other by chance. Without exchanging a word, both sides engaged in battle once more.
The rumble of explosions gradually drew closer to Ao's team.
The two sides were fighting as they struggled forward.
"Looks like I can only take your corpse back with me!" Ao said gravely to the middle-aged man, sensing the increasingly near fluctuations of battle.
As the number of people on both sides increased, the situation behind them would only grow more chaotic.
Ao could easily foresee that they would never be able to take the Hyuga Main Family away alive.
Hearing this, the Hyuga Main Family deliberately glanced toward the direction from which the battle fluctuations came and said mockingly, "Perhaps you won't even be able to take my corpse away!"
As he spoke, a trace of derision appeared on his face.
"Water Release: Iron Cannonball."
Ao immediately cast a ninjutsu, opening his mouth and spitting a high-pressure water projectile the size of a washbasin at his opponent.
Crack!
With a crisp sound, the Hyuga Main Family barely