Yeah, a puppet master of the imps, who is a puppet for another puppet master. A pawn using pawns.

Kurama was going to capture the last one remaining and it was going to explode before it could rat its master out. We can work it out so Kurama destroys the first two, they explode, and that's enough to distract both of them for the moment so one flanked and leaped towards Botan, pressuring her into action.