Especially when Sara was grieving her mother's death, Anrokuzan had always been the one to comfort her.
Inexperienced as she was, Sara never imagined it was all part of Anrokuzan's scheme.
Sara led the group along a passage lined with pipes carrying Ryūmyaku energy.
Uchiha Yin opened his Mind's Eye of the Kagura as he followed her.
Yin was a little surprised. He had assumed Sara wouldn't know where Anrokuzan was and that he would have to lead them there himself.
Instead, Sara was heading straight for Anrokuzan's location.
Anrokuzan clearly trusted Sara. He must have been so certain she would never discover his scheme that he hadn't even bothered to hide where he was.
He had even told her where he made his puppets.
But as Sara and the others approached, Anrokuzan sensed them through the Ryūmyaku pipes.
"Damn it! I'm so close—just a little more!"
Anrokuzan's face darkened when he sensed that Uchiha Yin and Konan were nearly there.
"I'll send someone to hold them off first."
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
A series of roars suddenly shook the street. Then puppets rushed out from every direction, one after another.
"Puppets? The puppets that assassinated my mother!" Sara cried out at the sight of them.
The puppets' faces were expressionless. The Ryūmyaku flowing through the pipes controlled them, while Anrokuzan controlled the Ryūmyaku inside those pipes.
Countless kunai shot from the puppets' bodies toward the people of Rōran.
"Ahhh! Help! Don't kill me!"
The people of Rōran recoiled in terror as the puppets closed in.
Dance of the Shikigami.
Countless sheets of paper poured from Konan's body, forming shields in front of the people of Rōran.
The kunai struck the shields with a clatter but failed to leave even a scratch.
Chidori Sharp Spear.
Fierce electrical currents gathered at