"..."
Kakashi rolled his eyes again at Naruto's words.
He and Yeruashi can't handle it? If Yeruashi can't, then I'm afraid no one in the world can't do it.
Kakashi looked at Naruto and asked, "What's your rank?"
"Ah... well... this."
Naruto started to hesitate and then said, "Well, how to say it.... The Chuunin exam was abruptly interrupted, and then something else happened, and I continued to train hard..."
Kakashi's face darkened, "So you're just a Genin?"
"Cough!"
Naruto coughed in embarrassment and exclaimed, "It doesn't mean anything! I'm very strong, even a Jounin is no match for me! In short, you must listen to me now. Yeruashi, you will be responsible for Sara's protection, and Kakashi-sensei will help me deal with Mukade!"
"...."
Kakashi said nothing.
Then he turned to Yeruashi and asked, "Big brother, what are we going to do now?"
He decided to simply ignore Naruto.
Yeruashi also ignored Naruto and said, "Just find Mukade and finish him off. Sara, you know where Mukade is, right? Oh right, he's called Anrokuzan now."
Yeruashi said as he turned to Sara.
Sara was confused while listening to Naruto and Kakashi's conversation, hearing Yeruashi's question, she didn't react for a while and then exclaimed in disbelief, "Anrokuzan? No, he can't be the ninja Mukade, please don't say that!"
Kakashi looked at Sara and said "Just because you believe that doesn't mean it's true."
Sara said confidently, "He's a prominent Rōran minister who appeared here about six years ago. Now he's inherited my late mother's will and is leading the kingdom to a brighter future! It's the sudden appearance of you that's more suspicious!"
When Sara's gaze met Yeruashi's, she turned sharply and her voice became less determined, "Even if you saved me, it doesn't give you the right to say nasty things about Rōran's minister!"
Yeruashi looked silently at Sara.
A silence ensued.
He advanced two steps forward, put his hand on Sara's shoulder and said softly, "Stop kidding yourself... you're not stupid at all. Haven't you noticed strange things lately?"
"..."
Sara gritted her teeth.
With just one sentence, her resolve abruptly weakened. After her mother's death, Sara really began to notice some strange things, including the fact that her mother's own death was suspicious. But because after losing her mother, Sara could only trust Anrokuzan, she unconsciously did not want to think in that direction.
Yeruashi looked at Sara and pointed at the puppets, welcoming her Queen cheerfully, "Do you want to take a closer look at your subjects?"
"What?"
Sara looked over, showing a hint of confusion.
Yeruashi picked Sara up and jumped off the tower straight to the puppets, which she considered her "people".
Kakashi, who had been watching Sara closely all this time, shook his head.
"This queen..."
"What happened?"
Naruto asked, curious.
Kakashi grumbled, "Isn't it obvious? I guess you haven't been in love before?"
Whoosh!!!
The sound of an arrow mercilessly piercing Naruto's heart could be heard.
After receiving a critical hit, Naruto was petrified and feeling like he was breaking into a million pieces.
Kakashi ignored Naruto and jumped off the tower.
On the ground.
When Yeruashi grabbed Sara and jumped off the tower, she was scared, and unconsciously hugged Yeruashi. After landing, she hurried away and wanted to say something like "there is still nothing between us", but suddenly she felt a sense of horror.
He realized that the people waving their hands and cheerfully shouting his name were actually mere puppets!
"How..."
Shock crossed Sara's face.
She pushed aside some of the puppets and discovered that there were even more of the same puppets behind them, unable to find a single living person.
"See."
Yeruashi looked at Sara, "According to my research, the Mukade ninja using the alias Anrokuzan arrived in the Rōran Kingdom to take over the Dragon Vein, and the citizens of his kingdom are being used as free labor to create an army of puppets."
"How could... something like that happen..."
Sara shuddered and backed up a couple of steps.
Just then, the puppets around them abruptly froze.
They separated and gathered into a huge puppet with a huge scythe in its hand, the puppet ran towards Sara and Yeruashi.
Whoosh!
Yeruashi calmly stepped forward, his right palm wrapped in arcs of lightning, he waved his hand towards the sickle, in the next instant, the puppet shattered.
"It should be clear to you now."
Yeruashi looked at Sara, who was hiding behind him.
Sara bit her lip, though she still didn't want to believe it, but the scene she saw was impossible to refute, and uncertainty and helplessness burst in her heart.
Yeruashi put his hand on her shoulder, saying, "Show me where the Dragon vein is, I will help you."
Sara's body shuddered and looked at Yeruashi, the trembling in her gaze gradually calmed down and a ray of light emerged again.
"...Yes!"
Sarah took a deep breath, finally regained her composure, then took off her crown, removed the lush royal robe and clenched her fists resolutely, "I'll take you!"
Kakashi, who was watching from the side, sighed helplessly and shook his head, "Ah, big brother has another fan, this time also a queen... what a disgrace, what a disgrace... huh"
At the moment Kakashi sighed helplessly.
Click-click!!!
Suddenly there was a click-click-click coming from underground, and then they saw that the earth suddenly broke and a large number of puppets came out of the ground.
Kakashi's face changed slightly and he immediately backed up a few steps.
Upon closer inspection, he noticed a human figure standing on the back of one of the puppets in the distance, "Konoha, as always, is alert and dangerous.... But my plan is now complete, I have obtained the power of the Dragon Vein! Now no one can stop me, ha ha ha ha!!!"
Yeruashi sighed and said, "Ah, I hate to disappoint you, but villains of your kind don't usually survive more than two episodes!"
Anrokuzan frowned, not understanding what Yeruashi was talking about. Just as he was about to respond, Sara stepped forward and exclaimed, "Anrokuzan! Stop now! Why are you doing this?"
Anrokuzan averted his gaze to Sara and smiled mischievously, "I thank you for your help, Queen... but you are useless now, so you can go to your mother!"
Hearing these words, Sara shuddered, she had always considered her mother's death suspicious, and Anrokuzan's words confirmed a theory she had never dared to think about.
She took a step back and said with a tremor in her voice, "You can't be, you..."
"You've finally figured it out."
Anrokuzan smiled, "Your mother was..."
Whoosh!!!
He didn't have time to finish the sentence.
A silver slash flashed, wrapped in arcs of lightning, shattering Anrokuzan to pieces.
"I'm tired of listening to nonsense!"
Yeruashi slowly lowered his hand.
Kacha! Kacha!!!
In the next instant, the fragments of Anrokuzan's body, shattered into pieces by Yeruashi's Moon Flash, flashed with purple chakra and came together.
Anrokuzan spread his hands and arrogantly sneered, "With the power of the Dragon Vein, I have unlimited power.... I am immortal!"
Whoosh!!!
Accompanied by Anrokuzan's words.
A large number of puppets came out of the ground and surrounding buildings, filling the vast square like a legion of puppets. The number of puppets far surpassed Chiyo's White Secret Jutsu: Ten Chikamatsu Puppets of Chiyo and even the performance of one hundred Sasori puppets. Relying on the energy of the Dragon's Vein, Anrokuzan far surpassed the limits of any puppeteer who relies on his own strength.
"Such numbers..."
Kakashi's gaze turned heavy.
Naruto, who was standing next to Yeruashi, exclaimed in a daze, "Such numbers.... How do we deal with this? Besides, this guy can't be killed, we're in trouble..."
The best way to deal with a puppeteer is to kill the puppeteer himself, then all his puppets will become useless trash, but this puppeteer seems to be impossible to kill. Naruto simply didn't know what to do in such a situation!
Sara turned very pale.
Unexpectedly, Anrokuzan has already created so many puppets and controls them with the help of the Dragon vein, not only that, he even merged with himself, becoming almost immortal!
Sara involuntarily looked at Yeruashi.
"It's really a bit troublesome."
Yeruashi briefly glanced at the legion of puppets and looked at Anrokuzan, at the same time unsheathing the Kusanagi Sword and addressing Sara seriously, "Quickly show me where the Dragon Vein is, Sara."
"Otherwise... I can't guarantee that I won't destroy everything around me."