"You're saying this thing that looks like a tourist souvenir can actually be useful?"
Sarutobi Mirai hesitated.
However, seeing Hyuga Hanabi nod despite her own hesitation, she could not help but doubt it as well.
"Hmph, you two little girls, stop struggling. We came prepared today. We're not here to completely destroy Konoha's ninja village—we only intend to harvest as many of you young ones as possible."
The enormous spider puppet at the front spoke again.
In the brief delay, dozens of puppets had already surrounded them, sealing off every possible route of escape.
Watching the puppets steadily close in, Hyuga Hanabi once again assumed the opening stance of the Gentle Fist. "Mirai, in a situation like this, we have no idea when reinforcements will arrive, let alone whether we can escape with Wasabi and the others."
"Besides, these puppets can reassemble themselves. We don't possess any ninjutsu powerful enough to destroy them in an instant, so we can only give it a try."
These black Hunters had already launched a surprise attack on Konoha's ninja village a year and a half ago.
However, compared to before, both the strength and number of puppets this time far surpassed what they had faced previously.
Most importantly, these puppets were also capable of automatically reassembling themselves.
They were practically like indestructible cockroaches.
In the end, those puppets would only grow stronger and stronger.
Back then, the Seventh had been stationed in Konoha's ninja village.
After smashing apart five or six hundred puppets, the puppet that ultimately reassembled was as enormous as a small mountain.
Its attack methods were even more endless.
Most importantly, unless seventy or eighty percent of these puppets were destroyed in a single instant, they would continue regenerating without end.
This was precisely what made them so troublesome.
Because