"How… How could this happen?!" muttered a puppet in fear as it looked at the surrounding forest. The woods were filled with countless broken puppets. Undoubtedly, all of them were broken by Kuroto. Even the state of this puppet wasn't very good.
After real combat, the master of these puppets finally realized how strong Hyuga Kuroto actually is. His close combat skills are on another level.
In the face of Kuroto's fast and fierce attacks, he didn't have time to make proper attacks, before he could make any attack, the puppet was already destroyed by Kuroto, there was simply no chance to fight back!
Although this is surprising, what actually shocked him is that, unlike Fugaku's case, he is not able to draw out Kuroto's chakra by using the Tenseigan!
It's a pity that the master of the puppets doesn't know that the method of drawing out other's chakra by using Giant Tenseigan doesn't work on the descendants of Hamura who have Byakugan.
So, let alone Kuroto, he can't draw out the Chakra of anyone from the Hyuga Clan, regardless of whether that person is an ordinary member of the Branch Family or the heir of the Hyuga Clan.
What's more, Kuroto even has the Tenseigan, all the more reason why the Giant Tenseigan wouldn't be able to draw his Chakra.
Kuroto neither knew the cause of the other party's surprise nor did he have any intention of finding the reason as he raised his Kusanagi no Tsuraugi to put an end to defeating the last puppet on the battlefield.
Looking at Kuroto's indifferent expression, and the cold blade in his hand, the puppet said angrily, "Hyuga Kuroto… just because you are good at combat doesn't mean a thing, you don't even understand what real power is! I am going to teach you!"
Kuroto chuckled, "You have been speaking the very same sentence for a while now, I have started to wonder whether you are capable of accomplishing anything, or are you just talking?"
"Don't think this is over!" these were the puppet's last words as Kuroto made the slash and destroyed the puppet.
"What an annoyance!" muttered Kuroto as he sheathed his sword and put it inside the seal on his wrist.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At this moment, shinobi started to arrive at the sight of the battle. They were a dozen in total consisting of Konoha Chunin, members of the Konoha Military Police Force, and Konoha Anbu.
"This is…?" muttered one of the Konoha Chunin as he saw countless broken puppets and Kuroto standing in the center of this mess.
Fugaku was also in the crowd and his expression changed a little as he noticed all the broken puppets, obviously, he recognized the puppets they were similar to the ones he had met a while ago. Thinking of the talk he had with the puppet, he couldn't help but think, 'I just hope the Uchiha Clan doesn't get involved in this mess.'
At the same time, he was surprised that Kuroto was able to defeat so many of these puppets and wondered, 'Either his strength is really outstanding, or he knows the puppet's abilities and has a countermeasure against it.'
Fugaku's doubts were natural, otherwise, it wouldn't have been possible to defeat so many puppets for Kuroto on his own.
One of the Anbu approached Kuroto, and asked, "Hyuga Kuroto-sama, what happened here?"
Kuroto shook his head and answered, "It was an enemy I was chasing, the immediate threat has been resolved. Although this matter is not that serious, I still can't give out the details, I will inform Hokage-sama. I am sorry to have caused such a disturbance this late at night, but you can all return to your posts."
There was no human or animals among the remains of enemies, so everyone could see that there was no wounded. Additionally, Kuroto is one of the top authorities of Konoha, so although everyone was a little doubtful and puzzled, they still followed his instructions and left one after another.
When everyone dispersed, Itachi came out of the shadows and asked Kuroto, "Kuroto-san, what's going on?"
Kuroto explained the ins and outs of the matter to Itachi. Of course, he didn't explain things like Giant Tenseigan and other core secrets of the Hyuga Clan, he just gave the details about the existence of a traitor in the Hyuga Clan and what the traitor is doing.
"I see… so this traitor has been causing a lot of problems." Muttered Itachi with a thoughtful expression.
"I can no longer tolerate his existence. I must eliminate him as soon as possible because he has also started to target the Uchiha Clan. Seems he is planning something big." Explained Kuroto, and added, "Therefore, I have another task for you."
Considering that the other party can probably use the 'Spirit Transformation Technique' there is no meaning in trying to identify him from the list of people who went in and out of Konoha in the past week. He could have gone out as a puppet and probably found the Giant Tenseigan.
This realization has brought Kuroto back to square one and he no longer has any clues. But knowing that the traitor is planning something, Kuroto understands that he doesn't have much time, therefore, he has no choice but to check each and every member of the branch family.
With Shisui and Itachi, this shouldn't be too difficult.
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Underground Dungeon Prison, Hyuga Clan
Bang!
"Damn it!" shouted Aoki with a distorted expression and banged his hand on the armrest of his wheelchair.
Being slapped twice in the face by Kuroto has brought him great shame. If it was earlier, Aoki might have been able to ignore this humiliation, however, ever since he became the master of Tenseigan, his mentality has changed. Aoki feels that he is the chosen one, a god superior to other mortals. He can no longer tolerate being humiliated in such a way by Hyuga Kuroto.
Although extremely angry, Aoki restrained his emotions and thought, 'The movement just now was too big, they must have definitely noticed me. It's not yet time to fight them, I am afraid I can no longer stay in Konoha.'
With such a thought in his mind, Aoki called out to the guard of the Dungeon Prison.
Since the guard is also a member of the branch family, and because Aoki is disabled, the guard doesn't have any vigilance towards Aoki and walks inside, as he asks, "Aoki-san, is something wrong?"
Aoki remained silent as he activated the Tenseigan's ability to extract Chakra, however, there was no effect, unexpectedly, even this genin-level guard of the branch family was also able to resist that ability just like Hyuga Kuroto.
'It turns out that this ability of Tenseigan doesn't work on the people of the Hyuga Clan!' – Aoki reached such a conclusion.
"Aoki-san?!" the guard called out again, this time a little serious.
Aoki didn't answer as a snake suddenly bit the guard, knocking him unconscious.
Having dealt with the member of the branch family, Aoki didn't waste any time and quickly escaped from the Underground Dungeon Prison and soon left Konoha Village through a secret passage only he knew.
Looking back at the distant shadow of the village, Aoki gritted his teeth in anger, "Hyuga Kuroto!" and swore, "I will definitely get back at you!"
If not for Hyuga Kuroto, everything was going according to his plan. He could continue to hide behind the scene and control everything as per his whims.
But Kuroto ruined all his plans, and he had to flee in panic from Konoha like a bereaved dog.
Now Aoki hates Kuroto more than anyone in the world. And he has sworn to take his revenge for all the humiliation and suffering that Kuroto has brought him.
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