Two specially made senbon instantly appeared in his hand.
As the deputy director of the Konoha Research Institute of Science, and a cautious man by nature, he never lacked an assortment of concealed weapons.
These two senbon were coated with a neurotoxin extracted from a rare species of deep-sea jellyfish.
A mere scratch was enough to instantly block the transmission of signals through the body's motor nerves, turning the victim into a living statue that could think but could not move.
"And that Kirigakure ninja needs some 'special attention.'"
A cold glint flashed in Nishikawa Tetsu's eyes, and he snapped his wrist.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two faint whistles through the air were masked by the enormous sea hare's shrieks as it struggled. Neither of the two men, lost in their arrogant fantasies, noticed a thing.
Thup! Thup!
Like the fangs of a venomous snake, the two senbon pierced pressure points on the backs of the middle-aged man's and the Kirigakure ninja's necks with unerring precision.
"Ugh..."
The middle-aged man was just about to inject the purplish-black poison into the sea hare when he suddenly felt a chill at the back of his neck. An irresistible wave of paralysis swept through his entire body like an electric current. The syringe slipped from his limp hand and struck the stone floor with a clatter.
As though every bone had been removed from his body, he toppled straight backward and hit the ground hard.
Although the Kirigakure ninja reacted faster than an ordinary person and tried to muster his chakra to counterattack the instant the senbon struck, the senbon Nishikawa Tetsu had reserved for his special attention carried three times the normal dose!
Not only did he fail to muster any chakra, he did not even have time to widen his eyes before