My body... Can't move...
Caught off guard, his entire person was frozen inside the enormous Ice Sealing Sphere that appeared from within Kaio's dimensional space. En Oyashiro's shocked expression was frozen in place.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you, because keeping you alive is still useful to me."
In the blink of an eye, while En Oyashiro was frozen in ice, Yu's figure appeared before him like a ghost. In his abruptly contracting pupils, a wooden clog, blackened by Armament Haki, expanded infinitely!
Dragon Fang!!
Yu instantly arrived in front of En Oyashiro and kicked out into the air, compressing the air to form a roaring Air Cannon resembling the roar of an evil dragon.
All around, everyone heard a deafening roar echoing in their ears. The enormous Ice Sealing Sphere with a diameter of ten meters shattered instantly, and En Oyashiro, frozen inside, spurted blood from his mouth recklessly. He was sent flying like a kite with a broken string!
Bang! Bang! Bang... Crash!!
Amid the astonished gazes of Haku, Kimimaro, Chino, and Fushin, En Oyashiro, sent flying by Yu's kick, rolled dozens of times on the ground before finally crashing into a massive rock, spitting out a mouthful of blood and coming to a stop.
Hiss!!
Following a dazzling flash of lightning in the air, Yu, using Lightning Body Flicker, had just been twenty meters away moments ago. In the blink of an eye, he appeared standing before the battered En Oyashiro.
"No need to struggle..."
"All the vital points and meridians in your body have been sealed by my threads."
Seeing En Oyashiro, leaning against the massive rock in a sorry state, seemingly attempting to stand up again, Yu immediately activated Rabbit Hair Needle. Several sharp threads, infused with Chakra and Armament Haki, pierced through the air and accurately sealed all the vital points and meridians in his body, instantly immobilizing him.
"Success begets power, failure leads to ruin... What exactly do you want?"
Seeing that Yu seemingly had no intention of killing him and feeling his severely injured body immobilized by Yu's threads sealing his vital points and meridians, En Oyashiro sensibly gave up struggling, his blood-red and eerie Ketsuryugan fixed on him.
Strictly speaking, En Oyashiro, possessing the Chinoike Clan Kekkei Genkai Ketsuryugan, was not weak in strength. Even among the Kage-level ninjas, he was a formidable presence. Coupled with his vast wealth and influence, as well as the numerous ninjas with Kekkei Genkai under his command, he could control the currency exchange and share the entire Underground Black Market behind the scenes.
Although he had long imagined the strength of Scarlet Yu, he never expected that a fourteen-year-old boy would be so powerful that even an experienced Kage-level ninja like himself had no chance to escape.
"If you can release me... the conditions are up to you. After all, you also know that there's hardly anything in this world that I can't offer."
However, En Oyashiro had been a major figure controlling the ninja world from behind the scenes for many years, so seeing himself now in Yu's hands, he quickly calmed down.
"I can set any condition? That's quite generous of you..."
Facing the conditions put forward by En Oyashiro, Yu simply smiled ambiguously, a strange glint in his amber eyes. "But I don't think it's necessary... because soon, everything you have will be mine..."
What?!
Sensing the eerie light in Yu's eyes, En Oyashiro instinctively felt something was amiss. But before he could react or struggle, Yu had already used the power of Thread Fruit to release a thread as thin as a needle, gently piercing into his brain.
"This... this is..."
En Oyashiro, unable to move due to the threads binding him, felt horror as Yu inserted the needle-like thread into his brain. His blood-red and terrifying Ketsuryugan widened in shock as he felt his mind go blank, all memories of the past gradually erased by Yu.
"You remember this: from today onwards, I'm your boss..."
After erasing and reconstructing En Oyashiro's memories, Yu looked at the Kage Ninja and major weapon dealer before him, who seemed a bit dazed. His lips curled slightly upwards. "When you return, you can continue being a weapon dealer, continue collecting and nurturing Kekkei Genkai ninjas, but when I need you, I will summon you. Do you understand?"
"I understand, Boss."
Upon hearing Yu's words, En Oyashiro nodded blankly. But after Yu removed the seal on his body, his eyes gradually regained clarity, as if nothing had happened.
Memory-Concealing Manipulative Sand - a technique that involves piercing the memory center of the opponent's brain with a needle of extremely small size, thereby sealing or even modifying the target's memories. After the technique is lifted, the needle disappears, and the memories can be restored.
If this technique is used on subordinates' brains, it allows them to infiltrate enemy camps and conduct long-term espionage activities more securely. In the anime, Sasori of the Red Sand once used this technique on Kabuto and the Jonin from the Hidden Sand Village, Yura.
"Yu-sama, this guy..."
At this moment, the two teenagers, Haku and Kimimaro, had already run up to Yu's side, their eyes somewhat wary as they looked at En Oyashiro, who was obedient to Yu's every command. After all, just a moment ago, they were enemies.
"It's okay, I've got him under control."
However, Yu dispelled the concerns of Haku and Kimimaro with his words, his gaze profound as he stared at En Oyashiro before him, murmuring to himself thoughtfully, "For the next plan, perhaps we'll still need this guy."
To be fair, in terms of setup, the Kekkei Genkai Ketsuryugan of the Chinoike Clan is on par with the ordinary Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan, and the Ketsuryugan can even turn humans into 'human bombs', showing high potential for development.
In terms of rarity, the Ketsuryugan is far rarer than the Sharingan, considering there are still plenty of Sharingan around, but the Kekkei Genkai of the Ketsuryugan in this world is now only possessed by En Oyashiro and the still dormant Chino beside him.
Thinking about this, Yu subconsciously glanced at Chino and Fushin beside him, who looked bewildered and unclear about the situation.
These two individuals, one possessing the Kekkei Genkai of Ketsuryugan and the other of Typhoon Release, are both talented ninjas. Yu thought there would definitely be opportunities to use them in the future, so he decided to let En Oyashiro take them back and continue to train them.
"All right, let's go, Haku, Kimimaro."
After turning the influential weapons merchant En Oyashiro into his puppet by buying him as a chess piece, Yu had no intention of lingering in this devastated battlefield. He directly called Haku and Kimimaro to leave.
"Did... did he just let us go like that?"
Looking somewhat dazed as Yu and the others left, Chino and Fushin remained in place, staring at each other in confusion. Clearly, they didn't understand why Yu had let them go so easily.
Only En Oyashiro, standing silently nearby, occasionally flashed mysterious light in his blood-red, eerie Ketsuryugan.
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