Grind is My Ninja Wa Chapter 97: Explosion

"Alright, let's end this!"

In the forest, Chiya, who was fleeing, suddenly heard this sentence. His expression changed abruptly, and he stopped, staring intently at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him.

This person was none other than Seii.

"It's you! You discovered

long ago?"

Looking at the familiar face and those familiar eyes, Chiya gritted his teeth.

"Hehe~"

Seii chuckled softly and said, "If I couldn't even discover your traces like this, then these eyes of mine would be useless."

Hiding in place to conceal one's whereabouts and moving without being detected were two entirely different concepts.

Seii had only chased for a short while before discovering the traces left by Chiya's main body through the Sharingan's powerful perception.

He hadn't stopped him imdiately only to ensure the battlefield was as far away from the previous location as possible.

Now...

It was about ti!

Any further delay, and the other teams might encircle them. He had to finish the battle quickly.

Moreover, there was another reason for choosing this location as the battlefield: there was a hidden spot nearby suitable for confinent.

It was an underground space, seemingly created by soone using Earth Style ninjutsu during the last Great Ninja War. Seii had accidentally discovered it while patrolling two days ago.

He hadn't paid much attention to it at the ti, but now it could be used to imprison this puppeteer.

However, before that, he still had to capture the opponent first.

With this thought, Seii abruptly threw several shuriken.

"Hmph!"

Seeing this, Chiya didn't dodge or evade. He snorted coldly, and with a slight flick of his fingers, two dark shadows darted out from the forest behind him, directly blocking his front.

These shadows were none other than the spider puppet, missing three legs, and the humanoid puppet, left with only its head, torso, and one leg.

Thump, thump, thump~

The shuriken hit the puppets, producing a series of dull sounds, failing to cause any damage to them.

Imdiately afterward, Chiya's counterattack ca.

His ten fingers moved rapidly, controlling the spider puppet to release a large number of hidden weapons while also manipulating the humanoid puppet to engage in close combat with Seii, attempting to disrupt his movents.

But Seii wasn't easily disturbed. He dodged the incoming hidden weapons while wielding his short sword, blocking the attacks from the humanoid puppet.

Then, he even took advantage of a gap in the spider puppet's attack to rush towards Chiya.

Yes, Seii had only been targeting the puppets before, but that was because he hadn't discovered Chiya's main body!

Now that the opponent had appeared before him, he naturally wouldn't stubbornly fight the puppets. Instead, like others, he chose to attack the puppeteer himself.

Unfortunately, although Chiya lacked combat experience, he had received formal puppeteer training and knew that he himself was the biggest weakness, so he had always been on guard.

Therefore, Seii's assault was unsuccessful, and his sword strike was blocked by the spider puppet.

Not only that, but two tubes extended from the spider puppet's abdon, spraying two streams of yellow-green poisonous mist towards Seii.

Fortunately, Seii possessed the Sharingan and had already retreated vigilantly the mont those tubes appeared.

Before the poisonous mist could spread, Seii, relying on his mory, threw three kunai towards where Chiya was standing.

The kunai pierced through the poisonous mist and attacked Chiya, but once again, they were blocked by the spider puppet.

However, before Chiya could breathe a sigh of relief, a "sizzling" sound suddenly ca. He looked closely and saw three explosive tags fiercely burning behind the three deflected kunai.

"Not good!"

Chiya was terrified. He retreated while controlling the spider puppet to shield him.

Boom~ Boom~ Boom~

A blinding flash of light appeared, followed by deafening explosions. Three crimson fireballs rose, instantly engulfing the spider puppet.

However, to Seii's surprise, even after being hit by three explosive tags, the spider puppet didn't seem to have any major problems.

"As expected, there's sothing special about it!"

Mumbling to himself, Seii leaped forward again, charging towards Chiya.

Seeing this, Chiya imdiately controlled the two puppets to intercept him.

Seii used the sa tactic, once again starting to dismantle the two puppets.

In just a mont, the severely damaged humanoid puppet was disassembled into parts, completely immobilized.

Additionally, the spider puppet had another leg removed by Seii.

During this ti, Chiya naturally tried to resist, but it was futile.

Even when hiding in the shadows earlier, he couldn't stop Seii from dismantling the puppets.

Now, with his main body exposed and such a big weakness, he naturally couldn't stop him even more.

Seeing that the spider puppet, in order to protect him, was already in tatters.

Finally, Chiya, in desperation, resorted to his last resort.

The spider puppet, which was grappling with Seii, suddenly froze.

Then, accompanied by a "click, clack, clack" sound, it abruptly scattered into parts all over the ground.

Wait!

They weren't parts, but rather spider puppets of varying sizes.

Chiya's ten fingers moved slightly, and the chakra threads he shot out split into two, then four, then eight...

In an instant, they connected to all the puppets.

If Seii couldn't observe the chakra threads before because they were too thin, now he could faintly see them even without activating his Sharingan.

But...

'So many chakra threads, can he, a re Chunin, really control them all?'

One had to know that Chiyo was already hailed as a top-notch puppeteer for controlling one puppet with a single finger. This...

Seii roughly counted the number of spider puppets. There were at least a hundred of them.

Controlling such a scale of puppets in battle, perhaps only Sasori, after transforming himself into a human puppet, could achieve that.

Seii didn't believe this "unknown person" could do it.

'There must be sothing fishy going on here.'

Seii pondered inwardly, unconsciously taking half a step back.

However, as soon as he retreated, it was like poking a hornet's nest. The spider puppets on the ground jumped up one after another, pouncing towards him.

With a flash of cold light, Seii swung his short sword, instantly splitting the spider puppet at the forefront in half.

However, at that mont, alarm bells rang in his heart. His Sharingan spun rapidly, and everything in front of him seed to slow down.

Finally, within the spider puppet that had been split in two, he saw a familiar piece of paper. It was undoubtedly an explosive tag, and it was still burning.

"Damn it!"

Seii cursed, his figure abruptly retreating.

If it were just one explosive tag, it wouldn't be a big deal. But he was afraid that all those spider puppets contained explosive tags.

Once surrounded by them, with hundreds of explosive tags detonating simultaneously, Seii didn't know how to defend against that without Susanoo.

So, to be safe, it was better to retreat first.

Facts proved that his decision was correct. As soon as he left, two spider puppets jumped to the spot where he had just stood.

Then, along with the spider puppet he had split, three explosions sounded almost simultaneously. Raging flas instantly engulfed an area of several ters around them.

(End of Chapter)