"Go outside. I need to speak with Utakata alone!"
As he spoke, Uchiha Yin never took his eyes off Utakata.
Mei Terumi found it strange, but she obediently asked no questions and went outside.
She trusted that whatever decision Uchiha Yin made, he had her best interests at heart.
Once he sensed that Mei Terumi had gone well out of earshot, Uchiha Yin stood over Utakata.
"You know your master wasn't trying to kill you!"
Utakata flinched as though he had been pricked by a needle.
"That's not for you to judge!"
Utakata remained seated, but the mockery in his eyes vanished, replaced by a cold stare.
Leaving aside the question of strength, that fierce expression alone delighted Uchiha Yin.
He ignored Utakata's warning. "Come on. You know what I said is true!"
Utakata looked down at his now-empty waist. His hand rested on his stomach, curling into an ever-tighter fist.
Uchiha Yin watched as Chakra began to surge wildly through Utakata.
It was not Utakata's own Chakra, but that of Six-Tails Saiken. The moment it appeared,
Uchiha Yin even caught its corrosive, acidic smell and could not help frowning.
Uchiha Yin had no fear of the Six-Tails, but if Utakata completed his Tailed Beast Transformation,
he would likely destroy a good number of the houses Kirigakure had worked so hard to rebuild.
That was not something Uchiha Yin wanted to see.
So he raised a hand, and countless vines sprang forth.
They bound Utakata tight.
At first, Utakata paid the vines no mind. He thought he could snap something like that off his body in an instant.
But once the vines tightened around him, he realized there was something different about them.
No matter how hard he strained, he could not break them. They even seemed to suppress the