Although drowning the girl directly in the Water Prison and then summoning her Mysterious Clone would have had the same effect for Wu Yu—and even been more convenient to command—he had not yet become so ruthless that he could kill without batting an eye.
Besides, as a Chinese person, he naturally had a +1 favorability toward white-haired characters.
When the white-haired girl began rolling her eyes and blowing bubbles in the Water Prison, Wu Yu withdrew the Chakra sustaining the giant sphere of water. With a splash, clear water scattered and flooded over the iron bars of the cells lining both sides of the corridor.
"Cough, cough—" The drenched white-haired girl dropped to her knees, coughing violently and gasping for air. The instant her fingers twitched, an icy Kunai pressed against the soft back of her neck.
"Don't do anything rash," Karin said.
"—" Watching Karin's reflection in the puddle, the white-haired girl blankly asked, "You—you're from the Uzumaki Clan too?"
"Too?" Karin found that strange.
"What do you mean by that?"
Before long, Wu Yu was sitting on the sofa in the outpost guards' break room. With a stack of files in one hand and one leg crossed over the other, he looked the white-haired girl named Yinglian up and down. "You're from the Uzumaki Clan too? Then why isn't your hair red?"
With her hands behind her back, Karin wandered around the room while pricking up her ears to listen.
At that, the white-haired girl actually flushed with rage. "It's not like only redheads can be members of the Uzumaki Clan!
"I hate it most when people hear 'Uzumaki Clan' and immediately think red hair, as if anyone without red hair isn't worthy of calling themselves an Uzumaki! Isn't that annoying?! The overwhelming majority of the Uzumaki Clan