Granny Chiyo had never imagined that Mujo, the lord of Hozuki Castle, did not need to laboriously form hand seals to trigger the "restrictions" he had planted.
He simply stuck the thumb of his remaining hand into his mouth and bit down hard, leaving it drenched in blood.
Mujo, the lord of Hozuki Castle, pulled his thumb from his bloodstained mouth.
Pointing his bleeding thumb at the group of youths, he shouted almost hysterically:
"Burn! You old hag, you'll regret this!"
Strangely enough, Mujo, the lord of Hozuki Castle, had merely put his thumb in his mouth and bitten a wound into it.
Without making any other move, he had actually triggered the restrictions.
In the direction his thumb pointed, Kankuro suddenly let out a scream among the youths.
"Ah! ..."
Boom!
The scream had barely begun when roaring flames engulfed Kankuro's entire body.
His agonized howls mingled with the other youths' anxious, helpless cries.
Granny Chiyo instantly turned pale. It was true that she had been wholly focused on finding Gaara.
But seeing Kankuro, whom she had once painstakingly taught, turn into a "fireball" like this, she could hardly restrain her shock and anger.
Granny Chiyo's eyes instantly reddened. Like a wounded beast, she growled:
"You damned beast. I'll tear you to pieces."
Seeing Granny Chiyo's deathly pale face, Mujo, the lord of Hozuki Castle, laughed excitedly:
"I told you that you would regret this."
"This is what your stubbornness gets you. Well? Doesn't it hurt?"
"There's worse to come! Don't believe me? Watch!"
In her fury, Granny Chiyo threw all concern for appearances aside and charged at Mujo, the lord of Hozuki Castle.
As Mujo, the lord of Hozuki Castle, fled in a thoroughly sorry state, he kept his thumb raised, pointing here and there.
In an instant,