Chapter 75: Sasori's Poison
Seeing Hiruko retreat into the distance again, a frustrated Hyuga Yōmyō had no choice but to continue his pursuit.
But just then, Hiruko's left hand suddenly raised.
Is he going to shoot more poisoned needles? Seeing this, Hyuga Yōmyō's figure couldn't help but pause for a moment.
But then, he noticed that there didn't seem to be any strange projectiles in the puppet's palm.
Just as he was feeling puzzled, a cloud of green smoke suddenly shot out from the puppet's left arm and rushed toward him.
Green smoke... is it poison? Hyuga Yōmyō's heart sank, and he quickly leaped to the side.
But before he could escape the range of the poison, he found a dense cloud of poisoned needles shooting at him again.
With no other choice, Hyuga Yōmyō had to stop and quickly spin his entire body.
"Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven."
With the release of this signature Hyuga clan ninjutsu, all the poisoned needles were completely blocked.
Let's see how many more poisoned needles you have, Hyuga Yōmyō sneered inwardly.
Just then, when he refocused his attention on Sasori's Hiruko, he suddenly noticed that something seemed to be wrong with its tail.
Puzzled, Hyuga Yōmyō pushed his Byakugan to its maximum.
Finally, he discovered the truth.
It turned out that while he was dodging earlier, the tail had secretly burrowed into the ground, just waiting for him to stop before launching a fatal blow.
Having seen through this, he once again leaped to the side, successfully avoiding the tail that had shot out from the ground.
However, Sasori, with the title of "of the Red Sand," was not an opponent whose attacks could be so easily dodged.
The tail, after missing its target, suddenly disintegrated in mid-air, splitting into countless fragments.
Hyuga Yōmyō could clearly sense that each fragment was wrapped in Sasori's chakra threads.
In other words, this unexpected split was also part of Sasori's offensive.
Seeing this, Hyuga Yōmyō, with no time to dodge, could only prepare to take this move head-on again.
Huu...
He let out a shallow breath, his body slightly bent, his palms open in a straight line.
Instantly, an Eight Trigrams pattern, imperceptible to the ordinary person, appeared beneath his feet.
"Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms."
A flurry of palm afterimages suddenly appeared in the center of the arena.
Even Kyosuke, without his Sharingan activated, couldn't guarantee that he could see every single palm strike.
Under these circumstances, the second stage of Hiruko's tail attack was naturally unsuccessful.
Even the third stage of the attack, where the tail fragments exploded again, was completely blocked by Hyuga Yōmyō.
It had to be said that the Hyuga clan's Gentle Fist truly had its strengths.
"Kyosuke."
Just as Kyosuke was watching the match with rapt attention, a soft voice suddenly came from behind him.
Looking back, he saw a ninja in Anbu attire, who had quietly come up behind him and called out to him.
In the entire Anbu, besides Hyuga Saori, there was probably no one else who would do this.
Seeing her arrival, Torune Aburame's eyes narrowed slightly. He then proactively moved to the side, leaving some space for the two of them to talk alone.
"What brings you here?" Kyosuke asked curiously, looking at her.
"Psst~" Hyuga Saori lifted her head and gestured toward Hyuga Yōmyō in the arena.
"Oh, are you here to watch his match?" Kyosuke nodded in understanding.
"Hmph," hearing this, Saori suddenly snorted coldly. "I'm here to see how he dies."
"Uh..." Kyosuke was stunned for a moment, then asked tentatively, "Yōmyō is..."
"That's right. His twin brother," Hyuga Saori confirmed.
"Alright, you win," Kyosuke said, shrugging helplessly.
At the same time, he had a whole new understanding of the relationship between Rei and the Hyuga clan.
This discovery made the corner of his mouth curl up slightly.
However, this expression was fleeting and was not noticed by the resentful Hyuga Saori.
"Didn't you say before that this Sand ninja isn't weak? Then he..." after a moment of silence, Hyuga Saori suddenly spoke again.
Kyosuke knew what she wanted to ask. It was about the final outcome of this match.
"Hyuga Yōmyō is probably no match for Sasori. Don't worry," Kyosuke said in a slightly strange tone.
As soon as he finished speaking, the situation on the field changed dramatically.
It turned out that after seeing Hiruko's attack fail, Sasori had released another puppet called "Crow," using it to attack in coordination with Hiruko.
Now, Hyuga Yōmyō could only defend passively.
Although Hiruko was strong, its main purpose was not to attack, but to protect Sasori's relatively fragile real body.
As for the purpose of Crow, it was completely different.
Its sole purpose was to kill enemies.
Its attack methods were also much more varied than Hiruko's.
So, for a time, Hyuga Yōmyō could only desperately defend himself, completely unable to launch an attack on Sasori.
Just as Hyuga Yōmyō was struggling to find a way to break the stalemate, the unexpected happened.
As he was forced back to his original position by Crow, the tail fragments that everyone had thought were already broken suddenly exploded without any warning.
However, this time, what exploded was not poisoned needles, but the same poisonous smoke that Sasori had used before.
Caught off guard, Hyuga Yōmyō was directly enveloped in the poisonous smoke.
Instantly, he felt a numbing and itching sensation all over his body.
Damn it! I didn't see him controlling those fragments! Why did they explode?!!! Hyuga Yōmyō roared in his heart. He used a technique to seal his own chakra points, tapping several of them on his body, hoping to slow down the spread of the poison.
On the other side, after seeing that he had been hit, Sasori did not continue his attack.
He looked at his puzzled and slightly terrified eyes, and as if he knew what he was thinking, he said quietly, "It's strange, isn't it? Why did it suddenly explode on its own?"
Hearing this, Hyuga Yōmyō couldn't help but look up at him, hoping for a satisfactory answer.
But to his surprise, Sasori did not satisfy his wish. Instead, he said in a voice filled with hatred, "You can die in confusion and bewilderment, you damn Konoha ninja."
Hearing this, the Anbu referee could no longer stand by.
He glanced at Hyuga Yōmyō's condition from above and then announced the end of the match.
He then turned to Sasori and said coldly, "Hand over your antidote."
"I'm sorry, the poison I make has no cure," Sasori said, then controlled Hiruko to leap back to his own stands.
"You!!!" Just as the Anbu was about to say more, the fallen Hyuga Yōmyō on the side suddenly began to convulse violently.
Then, a large amount of green, bloody fluid began to pour out from his five orifices, and his body began to shrivel at a visible rate.
In the end, he dissolved into a pool of pus.
Hyuga Yōmyō, dead.
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