Chapter 987

"Ara ara, I was just wondering why the prey stopped running, turns out it was tied down in place." After the aura of Tsukuyomi Xiaomeng's group had completely faded, Xiao Jue unhurriedly walked out from the shadows deep within the forest.

At this time, the ninja beasts in the sky originally used to observe everything happening on the ground had long since lost control and fled due to the tailed beast energy Gaara had erupted earlier, so Xiao Jue's appearance was not detected by anyone except Kankuro and Temari.

"So the one Gaara was hiding from is you? Damn, of all times you had to come and loot a burning house."

No matter how much they had distanced themselves from Gaara out of fear of the tailed beast, Kankuro and Temari, unwilling to abandon their duty, resolutely stepped in front of Gaara, both immediately assuming attacking stances.

Regarding the wariness of these two siblings, Xiao Jue acted as if she hadn't seen it at all; her pace didn't slow down in the slightest. In fact, at this moment her eyes were only on the wretched Gaara lying unconscious on the ground.

"Hand over that vessel to me, and perhaps I can consider sparing your insignificant lives."

If she could avoid using force, that would of course be for the best. Xiao Jue considered herself to hate violence very much — she was determined to be a good girl.

If these two had any self-awareness and didn't force her to act, she wasn't unwilling to let them off with their lives.

Especially when she was in a particularly good mood.

"W-what kind of joke is this! How could I possibly hand Gaara over to someone like you!" Kankuro finally snapped. From the moment he had engaged Tsukuyomi Xiaomeng's group in an encounter battle, to being ambushed by Xiaomeng and the others resulting in Gaara's unconsciousness, his pride as the new generation puppeteer of the Sand Village had been ground into the dirt countless times over.

And now, a little girl who looked only seven or eight years old was speaking to him in a tone that completely disregarded him.

"Puppet Technique: Crow!"

"Black Secret Technique: Poison Needle!"

Manipulating the humanoid puppet "Crow" to charge at Xiao Jue, Kankuro slightly curled his fingers. Pulled by the chakra strings, Crow's mouth opened, a row of blowpipes extended out, and fired senbon coated in poison at Xiao Jue.

Since the other party had answered her with action, there was nothing more to say. Xiao Jue, whose eyes were only on the One-Tail, finally spared a sliver of attention for the lethal poisoned senbon already within arm's reach. The poison that killed on contact even masked the metallic glint of the needles themselves under the sunlight.

But it was only a sliver of attention.

"Hey hey hey, could you please make your attacks a little more presentable? Just with this kind of…" Xiao Jue directly reached out and grabbed the incoming poisoned needles. Her seemingly delicate little hand gently squeezed them into a pile of fragments on the ground, her gaze still fixed on Gaara, and her tone utterly relaxed and carefree.

"How could this kind of petty trick possibly hurt me?"

"Uwaaaah!"

"Black Secret Technique: Blade Body!"

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