The girl looked as though she should have been very pretty... probably.
Because Shinji's punch had landed squarely on her face.
He had truly put that saying into practice: if you punched such a pretty girl hard enough, she would probably cry for ages~
"Let Bright Moon go. I can go back with you. All I ask is that you don't hurt me."
The girl's voice was lovely, as clear as an oriole's song. Combined with her delicate, pitiful expression, it really could stir many people's protective instincts.
Hidan nodded. "All right, I'll let... huh?"
After Shinji elbowed him in the kidney, Hidan instantly snapped out of it, then gave the woman a hostile look.
"Genjutsu again? You're asking to die!"
Furious, Hidan was about to hack the woman to death on the spot.
Seeing that her last resort had failed too, despair filled the woman's eyes. She stumbled straight onto the white fox, ready to close her eyes and await death.
But the next instant, a dozen or so shuriken and kunai shot toward Hidan.
Hidan swung the Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe and casually knocked them aside, but that also kept him from killing the woman.
When they looked again, three Blackie ninjas wearing Kumogakure forehead protectors had leaped out, placing themselves between Shinji's group and the woman.
Shinji couldn't help raising an eyebrow, thinking, This woman is from Kumogakure?
"Kumogakure business. Anyone not involved, leave!"
After seeing Shinji and the others, Blackie Number One was the first to bark impatiently at them.
The other two simply ignored Shinji's group. One grabbed the woman, while the other took out a rope and tied up the white fox that had been knocked unconscious.
Shinji narrowed his eyes slightly. "Kumogakure?"
"That was just a warning. You nearly ruined something important. Now get