707th Style: Dokugaku

The three approached Uchiha Mai from behind with cold smiles, each controlling a puppet.

The puppets were the size of ordinary people. Chakra Threads as fine as hair ran from their torsos and joints to the three men's fingers.

The biggest difference between those puppets and ordinary people was probably their fingers: every fingertip had been replaced by a blade more than ten centimeters long.

Edward Scissorhands, Ninja World edition.

The three worked together seamlessly. One glance settled their roles: two sent their puppets after Uchiha Mai, while the third attacked Uchiha Tekka.

Closer. Closer still.

Two puppets, four hands, twenty fingers, twenty blades. They closed in on Uchiha Mai, on the verge of stabbing into his back.

Yet Uchiha Mai still did not move, as though he had noticed nothing.

I'm so damn fired up!!!

Sato Daisuke trembled with excitement and nearly burst out laughing.

So the mighty Uchiha Mai isn't much after all. A simple Clone Technique and a little misdirection fooled him.

The blades on my puppet's fingers are coated in deadly poison. One scratch could kill him.

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Clack, clack, clack...

Just as the blades on the two puppets' fingers were about to strike Uchiha Mai, something stopped them. They could not advance another inch.

"It's just a Clone Technique and a puppet. You didn't really think childish tricks like those could fool me, did you?

"In Konoha, even four- and five-year-olds know better than to try such useless tricks in front of a Sharingan."

Uchiha Mai spoke coldly without looking back.

Damn it!

With their attack thwarted, Sato Daisuke and the others immediately pulled their Chakra Threads to retrieve their puppets and flee. But no matter how they tugged, the puppets that normally obeyed their every move did not respond.

Worse, cracking sounds came from