"A bunch of uncultured brutes with no sense of art! Die in agony within my Demonic Sound!"
Tayuya's voice, full of venom and arrogance, echoed across the open grassland. Without another wasted word, she raised the wooden flute to her lips, her ten slender fingers dancing rapidly over its holes.
"Whooo-dooo-"
An eerie, mournful flute melody that seemed capable of piercing the depths of a person's soul instantly spread through the air. It followed no discernible pattern, sometimes shrill and piercing like the howls of ghosts, sometimes low and lilting like a resentful woman's tearful lament. Every note carried a terrifying power that could disrupt the flow of chakra within the body.
"Summoning Technique: Three Oni!"
As the flute played, three enormous clouds of white smoke suddenly rose from the clearing behind Tayuya. Immediately afterward, three massive Oni, each over five meters tall, with bulging muscles and hideously terrifying faces, roared and charged out of the smoke! Some wielded enormous wooden clubs, while others held sharp bone spikes. Under the control of Tayuya's flute, they charged toward Shengu Xuan and the others with heavy strides, like three emotionless killing machines.
"Everyone, be careful! Cover your ears! There's something wrong with that flute!" Shikamaru reacted fastest, immediately shouting and clamping both hands over his ears.
Yet how could Tayuya's genjutsu-Demon Flute: Dream Sound Chains-be defended against simply by covering one's ears? Through vibrations in the air, the sound acted directly on the enemy's auditory nerves and brain!
"Ah! My head's spinning... my body... I can't move!" Naruto, who was charging at the front, suddenly screamed and dropped to his knees with a thud, as though all his strength had been drained away. To his horror, he discovered that his limbs seemed tightly bound by countless thick, invisible ropes. Even when he