Hide-and-Seek

The piercing sound waves nearly shattered their eardrums. The six ninjas guarding this outpost clutched their ears in agony, trying to block the enemy's attack that way.

"Enemy attack!"

"Stop her!"

Compared to those Genin, the Chunin leading the rotation remained relatively calm.

Enduring the excruciating pain in his ears, he pulled several Kunai from his ninja tool pouch and hurled them at the enemy with all his strength.

Xianai beat her wings, but the Kunai still struck her body.

A perfectly timed hint of panic appeared on her face, and the piercing screech stopped.

Yes, it worked!

The ninjas below all looked exhilarated. They had thought they were facing a powerful enemy, but she had been dealt with so easily.

Then Xianai, who should have been falling, suddenly revealed a mocking smile. "Sorry, I tricked you."

At once, her entire body seemed to split apart from where the Kunai had struck, scattering into countless birds that swooped rapidly toward the ninjas below.

The two Chunin's faces darkened.

"Damn it, when did this happen?"

They had clearly fallen under Genjutsu.

"Damn it, was it that birdcall just now?"

The two Chunin were experienced fighters. They swiftly formed hand seals and disrupted the Chakra within their bodies, throwing off the enemy's Genjutsu Chakra that had infiltrated them and breaking the illusion.

But the four ordinary Genin from the small ninja village clearly could not do that.

By the time the two Chunin broke free of the Genjutsu and quickly retreated, trying to escape the battlefield, the other four Genin had already been wrapped up by red tentacles that seemed to have appeared from nowhere, unable to move.

"Who are you people?"

The Yunin stared fixedly at the three enemies before him and demanded harshly.

No, calling them three people did not