What followed was a bone-chilling killing intent, amplified to its utmost, surging in like a tide. It was as heavy as thick syrup, pressing down entirely on Suikazan Fuguki.
Suikazan Fuguki curled his lips into a grin and thought, No wonder he earned the name "Fugaku the Evil-Eyed."
So it's true: you can give someone the wrong name, but never the wrong nickname. "Fugaku the Evil-Eyed" is a title he earned through battle. Those eyes are like amplifiers, magnifying that vicious killing intent... No, that's not right. It isn't magnifying it!
It's increasing the frequency... He suddenly sensed it and realized that Fugaku's killing intent wasn't being amplified. Rather, it was being released more frequently within each unit of time. The signal of that killing intent was transmitted through chakra, allowing him to sense it.
This was a genjutsu!
The repeated signals stacked and accumulated, creating a strange effect, like adding straw after straw, until the weight on a person's mind became enough to make them collapse.
Fugaku's right hand swept over his ninja tool pouch, and he drew three kunai. He threw the first at Suikazan Fuguki's throat. The second followed a moment later, attached to a fine wire, and flew past its target, its trajectory curving. Suddenly, an Explosive Tag appeared on the ring at the end of the third kunai.
His hands moved fast—
The second kunai had its wire attached and was already chasing after the first before the first had traveled a third of the way.
The first and second kunai quickly drew level in midair. Just as the second was about to overtake the first, Fugaku had finished attaching the Explosive Tag to the third kunai, which pursued them at a speed faster than the first but slower than the second.
The movements were