"What? Give what back to you?" Sara asked, confused.
"Give them back! Give them back, or we don't know what we might do!" The crowd went on shouting as though they hadn't heard Sara.
Chapter 201: Puppet Attack
Seeing that anger had overwhelmed them, Uchiha Yin frowned and let a trace of his killing intent slip out.
The air seemed to turn several degrees colder. The crowd felt as though a raging flood had swallowed them whole, and they fell instantly silent.
Their bodies trembled. A terrifying chill wrapped around them, as if they had been plunged into the frozen wastes of the Land of Snow.
Their hearts seemed to stop for a beat, then hammered wildly to make up for it.
Fortunately, the killing intent vanished as quickly as it had appeared. Otherwise, they doubted they could have remained conscious.
"D-don't kill me!" one of them cried in fear.
Uchiha Yin glanced at Sara and gave her a signal.
"Who are you? Are you the people who used puppets to try to assassinate us?" Sara asked, pointing at the crowd.
"No! We weren't the assassins. We're villagers from Rōran," they protested in unison.
"How can that be? Then what is this about? And what do you want me to give back?" Sara asked, unconvinced.
"We really are villagers from Rōran."
"What we want you to give back, Queen Sara, is our families!"
They spoke up one after another.
"Your families? When did I ever take them?" Sara asked. They sounded certain, but she remained skeptical.
"You took our families away to build some kind of war weapon," they said.
"Please don't lie. I've never given an order like that," Queen Sara insisted.
"It's true! That morning, our fathers and brothers were taken away! Minister Anrokuzan said it was your