In the Land of Water, the moonlight looked especially hazy in the thick fog.
Inside Kirigakure, the heavy night made every shop close early, and the lights along the streets had quietly gone out.
Only a faint wind stirred through the village. Everything seemed especially quiet.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
But just then, one shadow after another suddenly appeared on the originally silent streets.
Like ghosts, those shadows moved soundlessly through the dense fog, and the direction they were gathering in was none other than the Mizukage Building!
Woo—
Before long, waves of alarms suddenly rang out across all of Kirigakure.
The alarm that pierced the quiet night seemed like the beginning of chaos!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"They've rebelled! Protect Lord Mizukage!"
"Idiot, the Mizukage is the scourge of Kirigakure!"
At that moment, waves of roars and curses, along with Exploding Tags and ninjutsu thundering everywhere, intertwined with that sharp, piercing alarm throughout Kirigakure.
"This really is terrifying."
Inside Kirigakure, Jiraiya hid in the shadows and looked at the frenzied Mist Ninja, unable to help swallowing.
He had already known from their intel that Kirigakure was on the verge of eruption, so he was not surprised this had happened, but the brutality before him still left him somewhat speechless.
He had seen war, but this was truly the first time he had seen such turmoil erupt inside a village!
It was not just him. Even Kakashi, who had once been forced into an "assassination of the Hokage," was seeing a scene like this for the first time.
These Kirigakure ninja seemed to have gone mad, not treating the other side as former comrades at all.
And the scale of the fighting at this point was already no less than a war!
"Hmph, if they'd been like this back then, would