Late at night.
The desert shed the scorching heat of the day, and the temperature plummeted.
In the temporary shelter Rōran had arranged for Takahashi Yū and his group, Takahashi Yū and the Kaguya brutes drank the fresh water Rōran had provided, ate their food, and went to sleep early.
Only a few remained on watch. Takahashi Yū had discovered that these brutes shared one striking similarity with him.
They could fall into a deep sleep anytime, anywhere. They were nothing like ninja in that respect, but their bodies' instincts would send any would-be ambushers packing.
The bone whip originally looped around Rasa's neck had now become "shackles" wrapped around his body. These Kaguya brutes did not care at all whether the spinal whip cut his skin.
They had bound him tightly and tossed him carelessly into a corner.
Rasa narrowed the chakra inside his body into fine threads and kept feeding it into the ground. Fortunately, the gold dust content beneath Rōran was fairly high.
Rasa controlled the gold dust infused with his chakra, gathering it into the shape of an awl and silently drilling deeper underground.
If the village's analysis was correct, the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran had no sealing mechanism. Only the power in the Queen of Roran's bloodline could restrain that endless chakra.
As long as he flooded the Dragon Vein with large quantities of gold dust mixed with his chakra, it would naturally trigger a disturbance.
And it was late at night. Even the Queen of Roran would need time to get there and suppress the disturbed Dragon Vein!
Although a rampaging Dragon Vein did not suit Sunagakure's needs, its future Kazekage was about to lose his life. Surely his teacher and the elders would understand this action.
That would be his chance. As for