Meanwhile.
At the agreed meeting spot in the woods, Yuhi Shinku and his daughter Yuhi Kurenai lay in wait.
Suddenly, they saw Uchiha Tetsuka running toward them from afar in a miserable state.
Two agile Sunagakure ninja wearing masks were hot on his heels.
Both of them tensed at once and swiftly ducked behind the large trees lining the road.
Yuhi Shinku's expression darkened, and he felt both anxious and furious.
When Uchiha Tetsuka had been exposed, he had happened to be nearby.
That brat had used no finesse whatsoever when gathering intelligence, openly asking about prices.
That alone would have been one thing, but when the patrol questioned him afterward, he could have simply run if he couldn't bluff his way through.
Instead, the brat had actually tried to use genjutsu to control them.
Wasn't that practically announcing that ninja from another country had infiltrated?
Though he hadn't used the Sharingan to cast genjutsu, he had still stirred up a hornet's nest. The entire city's Sunagakure ninja had gone mad searching for them.
Fortunately, he and Kurenai had reacted quickly and hadn't been implicated.
They had successfully escaped through the city gates.
He just didn't know how Hyuga Seisen was doing.
His gaze swept over his daughter's tense little face behind the tree opposite him. He made a simple hand sign and said softly,
"Wait for my signal. Once they're close enough, we'll use genjutsu together to control them."
Yuhi Kurenai nodded gravely to show that she understood.
The ultimate effectiveness of genjutsu depended on Yin Release—or, put another way, spiritual energy.
Father and daughter used the same style of genjutsu, and they were connected by blood.
Launching it together would stack the concentration of spiritual energy they could wield, producing an effect greater than the sum of its