Some inexplicable fear drove the minister to summon his ambitious son home.
After receiving the message, Syura, who possessed a spatial Teigu, took only a day to return... Having spatial transportation sure was nice! -courtesy of a very envious Uzumaki Gamu!
Once he returned, Syura went to report to his old man!
"Old man! I'm back!" Syura greeted the minister.
The minister answered cheerfully, "Oh~~ My dear boy is back! Come, let your father see how his precious son has grown!"
At those words, Syura froze for 0.1 seconds, then immediately resumed moving. He calmly walked up to the minister and drove a knife-hand through his body.
Looking at the minister's stunned expression, Syura said disdainfully, "Idiot. My old man would never talk to me like that!" -How could these two possibly have a heartwarming father-and-son reunion? Syura had immediately realized the minister before him was an impostor!
"Dumbass. You knew it was a trap and still came closer?" the "minister" cursed back. "I said that precisely to lure you over!" -As he spoke, the impaled minister turned into wood.
This was Wood Release: Wood Clone Technique!
"It's a trap!" Syura immediately tried to activate his Teigu-Shangri-La-and teleport away.
But he discovered that he couldn't move!
Black curse markings appeared on his body-the same Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal as before.
Dimensional Formation could instantly transport targets to predetermined marked locations. Its abilities were essentially the same as Flying Thunder God, but it performed better in certain respects—for instance, as long as a target was within range, it could forcibly teleport them against their will. It could also exile enemies to another dimension and leave them to starve to death! It was Uzumaki Gamu's dream Teigu!
In short, this Teigu activated extremely quickly. Unless he restrained Syura first, there was a