Minato and Mirai leaped down from the rooftop and joined Yagura.
"Should the enemy be killed?" Yagura asked.
Minato pressed his fingers to the ground, sensing the surroundings. His brows suddenly furrowed. "He's still here..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a series of creaking sounds began again.
Mirai listened, and his hair and eyes seemed ready to explode. "He's still alive? What kind of person is he? Even after being hit by Minato's and my Spiral Pills, he can still control the puppets!"
Yagura wore a bitter expression as well, secretly alarmed. If Minato and Mirai had not been beside him, he probably would not have survived...
Creak, creak...
The sounds of wood joining together grew louder and louder. In the distance, the shattered puppet body was being connected by thin chakra threads. Some of the other fragments could still be used, while the rest had been completely ruined. Yet as long as they were usable, they were gathered together by chakra threads and reassembled.
Mirai was puzzled. Puppets were always controlled by a puppet master using threads. For the controller to hide inside a puppet was even more difficult. After being struck by my fire-release technique, it was only natural that he would emerge from his true body. But after being hit by the twin Spiral Pills, he should have been unable to fight back. Even if he was not dead, he must have been seriously injured. Why could the enemy still control the puppets and rapidly gather them in such a condition? It was truly strange.
"Minato, Yagura, be careful. This isn't an ordinary enemy..." Mirai warned.
"The enemy's chakra is very strange," Minato said. "It's like a collection of chakra threads. It doesn't have the structure of human chakra!"
"What does that mean?" Yagura asked.
"It