After the Wood Release Clone and the Spore Parasitic Clone at the Daimyo's Residence accomplished their objective, the Wood Release Clone left without hesitation.
Deep in the dense undergrowth, the Wood Release Clone began losing its luster, gradually turning into a wooden statue.
At that moment, Naruto's original body, dozens of miles away, received word that his clones had taken control of the Daimyo's Residence.
Although the Wood Release Clone had used Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs to slaughter the Roving Samurai Band at the Daimyo's Residence, Naruto paid it no mind.
Had his original body been there tonight, he would have done the same.
Why?
The Daimyo had made it sound nice, calling those men a samurai band from the Land of Grass's border, but Naruto knew exactly what bands of samurai wandering between countries really were.
It was no exaggeration to call them bandits who plagued border villages in No-Man’s Land. Judging by the scene there, most of the geishas and girls in the Daimyo's Residence had probably been abducted by those samurai as well.
That Daimyo weighed at least five hundred jin and even struggled to use the toilet. His enormous belly and the thick flesh between his thighs completely buried his dick, leaving it no room to exist. Calling someone like that a lecher was hardly reasonable.
He was basically incapable of it anymore.
Thus, the Wood Release Clone had concluded that all those girls kept for people's pleasure must have been obtained through the samurai band's coercion and plunder.
That was why the Wood Release Clone had used a wide-area slaughter Ninjutsu to wipe them out, eliminating a menace while taking the opportunity to intimidate the Daimyo.
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