After that.
Sakura Haruno became Uchiha Tenshu's next target.
"Y-You, what are you doing?!" Sakura Haruno's face filled with terror as she backed away again and again like a startled deer. "Wait, let's talk this over. I'm willing to serve you too, so can you spare me these methods, please?!" She waved her hands like willow branches swaying in the wind, trying to ward off Uchiha Tenshu's sinister means of control, as venomous as a snake.
Unfortunately, Uchiha Tenshu ignored her pleas entirely. Without the slightest hesitation, he extended a finger like a sharp sword and pointed it straight at Sakura Haruno's forehead.
Beside them, Sai clenched his teeth and helplessly turned his gaze away, unwilling to watch the scene.
"Ah! What are you doing?!" Sakura Haruno's eyes widened in terror as she watched that finger draw closer, yet she could not move at all. She could only watch his slender finger lightly press against her forehead as though drawn there by a magnet.
The instant Uchiha Tenshu's finger touched Sakura Haruno's forehead, she felt a powerful surge of chakra burst from his fingertip like raging waves. Like a starving tiger pouncing on its prey, it instantly devoured the Chakra Seed that had originally been inside her.
The entire process was extraordinarily swift and utterly domineering. Before Sakura Haruno even had time to resist, Uchiha Tenshu's chakra had completely suppressed her.
"You! What did you do?!" Sakura Haruno's face turned deathly pale as she screamed in panic, her body retreating involuntarily again and again as though enveloped by overwhelming fear.
What had happened to her chakra?!
"Hm? You could actually sense it. Your chakra control truly is exceptional—far better than most people's!" Uchiha Tenshu looked at her in surprise, then curled his lips into a teasing smile. Deliberately glancing at