The daimyo standing farther back had long since been scared witless. Battles between ninja were nothing like he had imagined, and the status that had always served him so well could not stop his opponent's advance.
"Y-you! Hurry up and stop this bastard! Don't let him get near me!"
The puppeteer suppressed his astonishment and sent strands of Chakra Threads toward Uchiha Yuu, trying to bind his body. But when the threads reached him, some inexplicable force interfered with them, causing them to collapse.
"What kind of technique is interfering with my abilities...?"
The puppeteer realized how troublesome this was. With no other choice, he abandoned the attempt and wrapped layer upon layer of threads around his puppet to keep that strange power from invading it.
"With your current abilities, you can't stop me!"
The only thing Uchiha Yuu found troublesome was how fragile the daimyo behind the puppeteer was. His body was a hollow shell ravaged by drink and debauchery. Even a slight increase in power would be more than he could withstand, and the radiation might kill him outright.
Nor could Yuu let anyone realize he was the one releasing the radiation. After all, he needed to treat the daimyo's poisoning in the guise of a doctor. Yuu preferred using violence to put him under psychological strain, making his physical decline look like a reaction to the shock. That way, everything would seem perfectly natural.
"This is bad! Lord Daimyo, get out of here!"
Bang!
The puppet blocked the space between them. Some terrifying power radiated from Yuu, and the instant it touched the puppet, it tore through its outer protection, brutally destroying the puppeteer's prized possession.
The puppeteer to its left could only ache inwardly. Losing a puppet was a truly crippling blow!
But right now, he